Sadiq Khan in thinly veiled swipe at President Trump over Coronavirus which originated in China
Friday, 20 March 2020
You'd reckon Sadiq Khan might have more important things to worry about than this.
The coronavirus is not ‘Chinese’.
— Mayor of London (@MayorofLondon) March 19, 2020
Viruses do not have nationalities.
We will defeat this disease not by demonising a whole country, but by reaffirming our commitment to working together to eradicate it for good. Thank you to Unmesh Desai for raising this vital question. pic.twitter.com/4iC7545AUm
Just quietly, the WHO is very clear about where the disease came from.
And there's a longstanding convention of referring to new diseases by the place name where they originated or were first identified.