It’s easy to say this until you’ve had someone yell this at you on the street in order to harass you.
Just call it something else. It’s not that hard. There are lots of diseases from lots of other places that we somehow manage to refer to without tying it to the place from which it originated, or from which people think it originated.
Because had the Chinese government acknowledged the Wuhan outbreak early, and done a local lockdown instead of trying to shove it under the rug, there would be no pandemic. Quite a reason to be pissed off at it (mind you, specific government and not an abstract "race").
You will notice that most of those names don't come from people living in that place and frequently those diseases were actively named to denigrate the locals.
Or they're not named in recent times, but instead in times when using slurs was a leisure activity.
Plus the egregious case of the "Spanish" flu that might have originated in the US but Spain was unlucky to be talking openly about it.
It’s easy to say this until you’ve had someone yell this at you on the street in order to harass you.
Just call it something else. It’s not that hard. There are lots of diseases from lots of other places that we somehow manage to refer to without tying it to the place from which it originated, or from which people think it originated.