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After Promising to Go Hard on China, Biden Takes a Soft Stance
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<blockquote data-quote="SimplyMe" data-source="post: 77003020" data-attributes="member: 9588"><p>This could make an interesting but likely outside a COVID discussion.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>No, it is false propaganda some were claiming that viruses are named for where they are from. Instead, <a href="https://www.who.int/news/item/08-05-2015-who-issues-best-practices-for-naming-new-human-infectious-diseases" target="_blank">the WHO developed the current naming convention</a> in 2015 -- before, there was no common naming convention, you'd get names based on location it was first seen (MERS, Spanish Flu, etc.), animal species it came from (swine flu, bird flu, etc), or it would be named for people (Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, Chagas disease, etc.). It is also worth noting that the Spanish Flu did not originate in Spain; it was the media that "named" it because the Spanish -- who remained neutral -- reported on the disease where as other countries did not report on it due to wartime secrecy. Regardless, the naming conventions had changed several years before and had zero to do with China.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I do believe there are some laws to encourage energy production -- though much of the issue does seem to be that we are in the middle of a 'transitional' period, where we are switching from fossil fuel based power generation (gas, natural gas, coal, etc) to more sustainable types of power generation. Additionally, the Inflation Reduction act also included money to encourage mining of "rare Earth" needed and that are currently largely sourced from China.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SimplyMe, post: 77003020, member: 9588"] This could make an interesting but likely outside a COVID discussion. No, it is false propaganda some were claiming that viruses are named for where they are from. Instead, [URL='https://www.who.int/news/item/08-05-2015-who-issues-best-practices-for-naming-new-human-infectious-diseases']the WHO developed the current naming convention[/URL] in 2015 -- before, there was no common naming convention, you'd get names based on location it was first seen (MERS, Spanish Flu, etc.), animal species it came from (swine flu, bird flu, etc), or it would be named for people (Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, Chagas disease, etc.). It is also worth noting that the Spanish Flu did not originate in Spain; it was the media that "named" it because the Spanish -- who remained neutral -- reported on the disease where as other countries did not report on it due to wartime secrecy. Regardless, the naming conventions had changed several years before and had zero to do with China. I do believe there are some laws to encourage energy production -- though much of the issue does seem to be that we are in the middle of a 'transitional' period, where we are switching from fossil fuel based power generation (gas, natural gas, coal, etc) to more sustainable types of power generation. Additionally, the Inflation Reduction act also included money to encourage mining of "rare Earth" needed and that are currently largely sourced from China. [/QUOTE]
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