That was some very successful bait tbh.

Calling it the China Virus never stopped sounding weird to me, like you’re trying to make a bad label stick. Wuhan Virus works, so does COVID-19 and Coronavirus (although that’s technically more ambiguous). I don’t get why the people insist on calling it China Virus when they could just call it Wuhan Virus instead. :-/

The spanish flu was not from spain.

I am glad someone got the joke besides me 🙂

“Spanish flu” is so called because Spain wasn’t at war and so had a free press. Members of the royal family got ill and it therefore made news. Yes, it originated in what we Amis call “the Midwest” … or New Orleans … possibly the Carribean.
I still don’t see why we defer to WHO’s nomenclaute when the Republic of China identifies it the traditional way and, UNLIKE even the official numbers from Red China, actually controlled the outbreak very effectively … and didn’t even weld people into their apartments or purge outspoken physicians to control it.
Red China’s official party organs spent months trying to say the virus was an American plot, spread during the military games that took place near Wuhan a few months before the outbreak was noticed.
Changing language doesn’t change reality, ladies and gents.
This is a free-wheelingly offensive comic. I cannot believe so many people got exercised by the registry of official names, as though they’re Europeans.

FZ, if “collage” was intentional, I salute you.