The PC Push Against 'Wuhan Coronavirus' And Similar Terms Is On

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Look. 'Wuhan virus' and 'Wuhan coronavirus' are perfectly fine terms for the thing. 'China virus' is an awkward Trumpism--but 'Chinese coronavirus' is fine. Not as good, it seems to me, as the natural and initially-accepted 'Wuhan (corona)virus. The arguments that these are somehow racist terms are all laughable. One I saw was "the virus has no ethnicity." The argument thus being something like:

The term 'Wuhan coronavirus' (or 'Chinese coronavirus' etc.') entails (or indicates? or suggests? or presupposes?) that the virus has an ethnicity.
Viruses don't have ethnicities
Therefore
The term is racist

Now that's some bullshit. Though it's probably no dumber than average for such stuff, I'd say. It's a straw man, and not even a particularly good one. Viruses and the illnesses they cause have long been named for their places of origin, or the places they were discovered. 'Wuhan virus' means, roughly:
The (or a) virus we found in Wuhan and think first afflicted humans there.
It doesn't mean Virus that is ethnically Wuhannish. 'Chinese coronavirus' does not mean Coronavirus that is ethnically Chinese.
No one, anywhere, is saying that the virus has a race. That's as strawman.
   There's nothing even remotely racist about such a naming convention. We've done it this way for, what, 100 years?  As many have noted, 'Wuhan coronavirus' is no more racist than 'Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever' or 'Spanish Flu.'
   This is just another spastic case of progressives flinging the charge of racism around impressionistically at anything/anyone they dislike. To they extent that they have a thought in there somewhere, it's some barely coherent one like This thing is bad so if you acknowledge that it comes from place p, and the people at p are nonwhite, then racism!
   As goes without saying, the U.S. population contains its share of psychos and morons. So there are going to be stupid, crazy, and violent acts. That's just the way it is. Needless to say, we don't want to provide additional fodder for such people unnecessarily.
   But what--if anything--is causing such people to do such things is almost certainly the fact that the virus came from China. Not the fact that some people are informally using an older scientific convention for naming it. It's not the name. It's the fact. Of course political correctness is happy to subordinate facts and evidence to dogma, and so there is an obvious PC argument for suppressing facts about the virus by deeming them unPC / racist / whatever. As I've argued, slippery-slope arguments tend to be pretty strong when deployed against the PC left because it has a proven tendency to move toward crazier and crazier positions--consider the trajectory of transgender ideology, which moved rapidly from enforcing leftist terminology to outright denying facts.
   In the news story linked-to above, the attacker is obviously a psycho. The people he attacked were Burmese. And bystanders intervened to save them. The thing to do is prevent harassment and attacks in the ordinary ways, not PC-ify language to conceal facts.
   There's nothing wrong with the new WHO terminological conventions, so far as I can tell, though for informal use, terms like 'COVID-19' are probably inferior to 'Wuhan virus.' Even a tiny bit of terminological inefficiency is probably worse than a few additional acts of harassment or violence, given the consequences of a small amount of inefficiency in a gigantic number of acts of communication. But if there are enough such crimes, and communication isn't impeded too much, that would provide some kind of argument against using the older convention. But we know that we're not getting the straight dope about the incidence of such cases, and that most of the arguments against the old/informal convention are bogus. Of course the whole issue is clouded by the bogus claims about the older names being racist--in fact, the typically leftist insistence on it--and by the fact that these arguments are largely yet another part of the vast anti-Trump "resistance." But if all that nonsense were wiped off the table, as were questions about the honesty and efficiency of the terminology, we'd still have to recognize that it's the fact of the viruses Chinese origin that's going to drive the crazies, not the name so much. Obsession with words per se is part of PC pathology.
   Then there's the fact that that PC left may be helping out the CCP by helping it conceal the Chinese origin of the virus. But I think that's a less-important consideration. In fact, I suspect that's just basically the flip side of the arguments above.