/sci/ - Science & Math

[Anonymous No.11473191]

They decided to name the disease COVID-19 so they wouldn't offend Chinese people. But isn't Ebola named after a region in Africa?

[Anonymous No.11473195]

mexicans crying so hard rn because corona extra exports are tanking

[Anonymous No.11473197]

Named after the Ebola River but last I checked nobody lives inside a river

[Anonymous No.11473330]

>>11473191
>>11473197
It was not unusual:
Margburg disease
Middle East Respiratory Syndrom (MERS)
West Nile Virus
Lassa Fever
Spanish flu
etc

[Anonymous No.11473345]

>>11473191
>But isn't Ebola named after a region in Africa?
yes but Ebola isn't in a country that could destroy the us if it decided to cash in 3% of the money owed to them.

[Anonymous No.11473352]

>>11473191
hey has anyone found any toilet paper yet?

[Anonymous No.11473428]

>>11473345
>if it decided to cash in 3% of the money owed to them.
that's not how it works, bonds (including t-bills) have maturation dates.

[Anonymous No.11473648]

>>11473330
>Spanish flu
>Spanish
this will never not trigger me

[Anonymous No.11475030]

>>11473191
Retard.

Ebola was first named in 1976 when nobody gave a fuck about political correctness

[Anonymous No.11475058]

>>11473345
>China doesn't owe the US any debt at all
China fucks with their currency so often, and has such little faith in it, that China converts currency to USD when their government wants to hold onto it.

[Anonymous No.11475070]

nobody cares about africa unless it can be used for biased and nitpicked political discussions on the internet

[Anonymous No.11475104]

>>11473330
>Spanish flu
you are not this retarded right? YOU KNOW why it's called the Spanish flu?

[Anonymous No.11475456]

>>11473191
>But isn't Ebola named after a region in Africa?

Hundreds of pathogens are named after the geographic area they were first discovered or strongly associated with.

>http://outbreaknewstoday.com/infectious-diseases-named-by-location-78215/

This guy names 30 and that in itself is a mere handful of what has been named.

[Anonymous No.11475470]

>>11473191
They should name it the WIVID: Wuhan Institute of Virology Infectious Disease:
>https://jvi.asm.org/content/82/4/1899
>In this study, a human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-based pseudovirus system was employed to address these issues. Our results indicated that the SL-CoV S protein is unable to use ACE2 proteins of different species for cell entry and that SARS-CoV S protein also failed to bind the ACE2 molecule of the horseshoe bat, Rhinolophus pearsonii. However, when the RBD of SL-CoV S was replaced with that from the SARS-CoV S, the hybrid S protein was able to use the huACE2 for cell entry, implying that the SL-CoV S proteins are structurally and functionally very similar to the SARS-CoV S. These results suggest that although the SL-CoVs discovered in bats so far are unlikely to infect humans using ACE2 as a receptor, it remains to be seen whether they are able to use other surface molecules of certain human cell types to gain entry. It is also conceivable that these viruses may become infectious to humans if they undergo N-terminal sequence variation, for example, through recombination with other CoVs, which in turn might lead to a productive interaction with ACE2 or other surface proteins on human cells.

[Anonymous No.11475479]

>>11475470
I think SARS-CoV19-2 is accurate enough.

[Anonymous No.11475510]

>>11475104
because origami is spanish for goose

[Anonymous No.11475563]

>>11473191
>They decided to name the disease COVID-19 so they wouldn't offend Chinese people.

The technical name for the disease is COVID-19 because its a COrona VIrus Disease that was first discovered in 2019. You don't really get to be creative with those. They follow a set scheme.

The virus itself btw. is SARS-CoV-2. The 2nd known strain of the species of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome related Corona Viruses aka SARSr-CoV.

You may also come across SARS-CoV19-2, which is a mixup that makes absolutely no sense and is used by idiot journalists.

[Anonymous No.11475565]

>>11475470
did you even fully read this study? do you know why they did it?
1. they failed at making it transmit to humans
2. they already saw the potential of the "stronger" corona viruses spreading to humans so they did this experiment to research and see if it has the potential to become what it became today. experiments like this are done all the time but you don't hear about them because /pol/ is a bunch of Luddites that watch shitty popular media just to respond to it in their shitty way.

[Anonymous No.11475583]

>>11475470
you don't fucking need a conspiracy theory for COVID-19 when the truth is much stranger than the conspiracy. you don't have to create a new disease when bats and other animals will create new diseases for you. bats are like petri dishes for viruses and are virus reservoirs.
the real conspiracy is why shit like this was legal in Chinese authoritarian state:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0Y4SFz_A-c

[Anonymous No.11475599]

>>11475104
Cause every other western nation affected by it were duking it out in the trenches and focusing on that.

[Anonymous No.11475755]

>>11473191
ASTRO Farm Tv series

[Anonymous No.11475763]

>>11475583
Nature warns us as a species and we alllow fuckery

[Anonymous No.11475778]

>>11475583
>it was released intentionally or not from the Wuhan Institute of Virology
>or it came from their filthy wet markets
Either way, fuck China.

[Anonymous No.11476730]

>>11475583
70 billion dollars market for the CCP

[Anonymous No.11476739]

>>11473191

They named something "The Spanish Flu" when that disease is also a virus that likely originated in china, according to Wikipedia.

[Anonymous No.11478171]

>>11476739
China is an festering open air petri dish for exotic viruses.

[Anonymous No.11478189]

>swine flu
>bird flu

why no bat flu?

[Anonymous No.11478348]

>>11478189
Bats don't get the flu.

[Anonymous No.11478352]

>>11478348
what do you mean? bat flu into my window the other day

[Anonymous No.11478360]

>>11473330
Didn't most of those originate from China?

[Anonymous No.11478361]

>>11478352
I lol'd

[Anonymous No.11478370]

>>11478352

[Anonymous No.11478613]

>>11473191
Ebola is named for a pretty anime girl

Do you like animes?

[Anonymous No.11478627]

>>11473191
OP, do your fucking research. The desease was found in a group of people but they didn't want to stignatize them. Whatever the fuck that means. Instead, they named the virus after a near by river.

[Anonymous No.11478642]

>>11478627
Thoughts on ebolachan?
(>>11478613)

[Anonymous No.11478651]

The problem is not that calling the disease Chinese is offensive. The problem is that /pol/tards will use it as offensive.

[Anonymous No.11478689]

>>11473330
They stopped doing that counter people's misconception that every disease has one permanent epicenter.

[Anonymous No.11478891]

>>11478651
>we need to name diseases according to how or how not it'll be shitposted about on /pol/
That's a great idea, fuck geography and obvious shorthand, this should've been called the Sinophobia Exploiting Respiratory Disease or SERS.

I hope people understand how the CCP is abusing shit like this to pretend it's somehow defending the dignity of "China" when it itself represents the biggest stain on "China" by merely still existing. They don't actually give a fuck what anyone calls it, just so long as they can pretend to be seen as "defending" the Chinese people when actually what they're doing is sacrificing their hopes and dreams and labor and pain in exchange for adding 0s to their offshore bank accounts. The CCP has long cultivated a perception in Chinese (traditional and social) media that the rest of the world is 'out to get them' and that nobody but the CCP stands between the people of China and malevolent foreign forces. Most people by now know well enough to see through all the bullshit, maybe even more so inside China than abroad these days, seeing as how this thread is still up.

SARSCoV-2 was named because it is closely related to SARS. CoVID-19 disease was named such not to have people freaking out too much about another virulent form of SARS now rapidly spreading.

If /pol/ actually wasn't 50% CCP astroturfing disguised by posters pretending they're not 50 cents through continually attacking "China" and hurling insults at Chinese people (most if not all "bug people" and "nuke China" etc. posts are CCP-produce in case you hadn't figured that out yet) thereby creating a narrative where Chinese people are conditioned to feel like they're being "attacked" by "foreign forces" and the CCP supposedly "standing up" for them and "China", KEK, then it would be calling it Winnie the Flu or C-virus or some such.

[Anonymous No.11479533]

Actually it was named after a river to avoid putting negative association on any one region/group.

[Anonymous No.11479542]

>>11478689

[Anonymous No.11479549]

>>11473197
What's wrong with naming it the Wuhan virus then?

[Anonymous No.11479550]

To nazwa rzeki wnAfryce

[Anonymous No.11479818]

>>11478891
tl'dr

[Anonymous No.11479892]

>>11473191
I'm calling it "chinese plague" whenever I talk about it

[Anonymous No.11480038]

>Experts back 'Wuhan virus' tag, slam wild meat trade

>Two top Hong Kong University microbiologists on Wednesday said it is easier for people to remember the coronavirus as the "Wuhan virus" and slammed the culture of wild meat consumption on the mainland, saying mainlanders have forgotten the bitter lessons of the 2003 Sars outbreak. In an article in the Chinese-language newspaper Ming Pao co-written by Yuen Kwok-yung and his colleague David Lung, the microbiologists said that the current coronavirus pandemic originated from the mainland city of Wuhan
>They called on people to stop forwarding rumours that the virus originated in the US, saying this is baseless and a joke. On a controversy over names for the virus, the experts wrote they think it is “simple and direct” to call it "Wuhan coronavirus" or "Wuhan pneumonia"
>They said the disease was named Covid-19 because the World Health Organisation stopped using names of people or places from 2015. “While scientists should use Covid-19 during academic exchanges, it is easy for communication for ordinary people and the media to call it Wuhan virus or Wuhan pneumonia,” they wrote
>They also warned there would be "Sars 3.0" if people on the mainland do not stop eating wild animals.
>“It’s a serious mistake that tough measures were not taken and game meat markets were not closed after the Sars outbreak. One must face the truth and avoid the same mistake again to fight the pandemic. Don’t blame it on others,” they wrote
>“It’s been seventeen years. Markets selling game meat are not banned. The problem has become more serious. Mainland people have completely forgotten the lesson from the Sars outbreak. It is eyebrow-raising that there are game meat markets in the middle of developed cities, and people openly sell, cook and eat them,” the article said
>It said mainland people's disrespect for animals was the source of this virus outbreak
https://news.rthk.hk/rthk/en/component/k2/1515264-20200318.htm