[QUOTE=andrewwynn;1184563]Incorrect
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The U.S. did not use COVID-19 diagnostic tests produced by the World Health Organization (WHO) in favor of producing its own.
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The U.S. did not turn down an offer to use those tests (as no such offer was extended), nor was it unusual for the United States to design and produce its own diagnostic tests in lieu of those made elsewhere.
That's from Snopes which drips with liberal koolaid.
The travel ban extended to Europe about two weeks after China. True that plenty of Europe travel happend from the time it first reported cv19 butt the damage was already done. Are you trying to tell me more than 500,000 people came from Europe between say 1 Jan and the travel ban 6 weeks later ? Impossible.
The only people that ever called the virus a democratic hoax were the talking heads in the Legacy media.
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Despite creating some confusion with his remarks, Trump did not call the coronavirus itself a hoax.
What he said which is clearly true is that democrats would make everything trump did in regards to covid 19 a "sky is falling" story. They would be mostly fabricated starting with instantly reporting that he called CV a democratic hoax.
If the world didn't shut down costing USA $6T and countless jobs and future suicides etc we would be about where we are now with cases and deaths there is zero substantial evidence to the contrary.
I did not say that. I said that people using the phrase "coronavirus" are being ignorant or lazy. Coronavirus is a type of virus of which are maybe 1000s. The virus we are dealing with that causes covid-19 disease is the sars-cov-2 viruses alias Wuhan Virus.
I have no idea if a speech crossed out the incorrect term and use an alias for the correct term but why would that matter? When ebola was tearing apart Africa it would be no big deal to call it the Africa virus at the time. Ebola is a literal place the virus is named after, the logical name for the Wuhan virus is Wuhan virus. They gave it a different name but pahlenty of people call the Willis tower the Sears tower. sars-cov-2 is the name of the virus that causes covid-19 the disease.
Wuhan virus is lot easier to say than sars-cov-2 and makes more sense. It's not a disparaging term about the city. They would be proud to have a cure for cancer named after them. Being the place where a disease is discovered doesn't mean you made it and the phrase china virus and Wuhan virus is exactly descriptive of what it is and were the terms used by the legacy media 100s of times a day until trump used it in a speech which made it a radioactive phrase from this point on.
It matters because he is trying to shift the blame for his inept response to the problem. Maybe since you are not Asian American you don't give a shit but the violence against Asian Americans has increased because of Trump rhetoric.