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What’s in a name?

During a press briefing at the White House, President Trump wrote down "Chinese" virus instead of "Corona"virus. This is an important action and here's why: In the notes, Coronavirus had already been typed out, but he had made the effort to change it to "Chinese". This change brings to light a relationship between China and the Coronavirus (or COVID-19 as I like to call it). There are multiple scientific and layman's terms for this specific virus, but when leaders or media correspondents decide to use terminology that focuses on a specific region/country/group of people, it in turn leads to people focusing their negative energy and feelings around this virus towards those people. Harvey Dong, a lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley states that "'It's racist and it creates xenophobia'" (The Washington Post, 2020). But WHY is it racist? Well, this virus has impacted everyone. The entire world has been touched by the virus and its terror. Calling it the Chinese virus may implicate that only Chinese people are catching this virus or that Chinese people around the world are to blame for this virus. THIS IS NOT TRUE!!! Firstly, to blame an entire country's people, ethnicity, or race for this virus IS racist. You cannot blame an entire community of people for a PANDEMIC.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/03/20/coronavirus-trump-chinese-virus/