Opposition to naming/calling it the Chinese/Wuhan Virus came directly from Chinese influences, exactly what you are calling "purely political purposes." Then you have an American reaction to that pushiness, which again you may call "purely political purposes."
More and more people around the world are starting to call this the American virus. This because on one side there is increasing scientific evidence that the first exposure was not in China (and certainly not in a market in Wuhan) and on the other side you have assertions from the likes of Trump and Pompeo with no evidence whatsoever. Kinda like the Assad's '
chemical weapons attacks' which are clearly non-existant, or Saddam's '
weapons of mass destruction' which was similarly a lie.
I don't think you'll probably have a problem with (educated) people around the world calling this the American virus, right? How about the 'Spanish Flu' which had nothing to do with Spain and got it's name because of war time censorship and propaganda (and, parenthetically, looks like it wasn't a flu but a nasty concoction cooked up the the Rockefeller Institute while they were (reportedly) trying to make vaccines from horse puss.)
Would you be OK with calling it 'the Israeli Virus' if it (or some strains of it) ended up being associated with Israel who are not signatories to the
biological weapons convention? Or has '
virus', '
parasite', '
infection', etc been put on the ADL's (and thus the U.S.'s) list of antisemitic words by now?
