The problem is that it was being referred to as the Spanish Flu up until some people in the media took offense to Trump's coining of the phrase "Chinese Flu", so Spanish Flu needs to go if we're not wanting to look like hypocrites.
One hypothesis of its origin was the UK or USA. Maybe you should instead be calling it British flu or American flu.
You can't move the goal posts without the media being on board with it.
This is just false, most pandemics are named for where they had their greatest effects, or for really old ones, who wrote about it / was king at the time.
Before modern history, we had no idea where pandemics originated.
You know 100% why he is calling it the chinese flu. Don't try to be so naive that he is trying to "properly" name it, even though every other person on the planet calls it the scientific name. You know he calls it the chinese flu to distance himself AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE from any responsibility for the effects of it. He blames someone else 100% of the time no matter what. 3+ years into his presidency have you seen how much he blames the obama administration for trumps lack of initial response?
Related aside, 'Ebola' might have been 'Yambuku' instead, named for the village where the disease was first noticed, but Peter Piot decided to name it after the nearby Ebola River instead, to avoid damning the small village's name.
> say Trump's insistence on "China Flu" is anything but an attempt to generate an adversary
Trump is just calling it what everyone called it before WHO decided to call it COVID 19 or nCov-SARS2, or whatever the virus is called according to them. The rest of the media was using Wuhan coronavirus or Chinese coronavirus since December.
https://www.axios.com/wuhan-virus-pompeo-g7-statement-corona...