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by mrzimmerman 1954 days ago
The big difference being that no one is trying to score cheap political points when they call it “the UK variant”.
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What if the people who call out the names they don't like are the ones trying to score cheap political points? That seems more likely to me.

We could have controlled this virus a lot better in the beginning if it wasn't for cheap political point scoring of the form "the real problem isn't the virus, the real problem is anti-Asian racism"

https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/20/us/coronavirus-racist-attacks...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/02/25/shen-yun-co...

Almost half a million Americans have died from the virus. To my knowledge, 0 have died from anti-Asian racism from the virus.