It's nice they're trying, but naming won't solve bigotry. COVID's cultural path was locked in stone as soon as news outlets first reported that it came from a Wuhan wet market. It didn't take an unfortunate name for
monkeypox for people to get it in their minds that straight people cannot catch the disease, either.
Wet markets were a known public health-threatening factor, and I don't see how it's not rightful to attribute the outbreak of a disease that crippled the whole planet to the repeated and continuous malpractice of a well-defined group of people.
I was not making a comment on wet markets or even the appropriateness of usage of geographical names in virus naming conventions, merely about the boarder goal of fighting bigotry through neutral naming.
Gee that's nice. Now how about telling people how to avoid infection? How about distributing the existing vaccines to people at risk? How about doing things that are effective and not performative?
> Now how about telling people how to avoid infection?
Isn't that information readily available?
Political correctness isn't the same thing as ethics.