i mean how do you explain the reality that 17 or 18 years ago
( depending on which article brought up by google search that you read )
that is in either
2002 i.e 2020 - 2002 = 18 years ago
or
2003 i.e 2020 - 2003 = 17 years ago
when the
RESPIRATORY ILLNESS / DISEASE caused by the CORONA VIRUS
was discovered for
THE FIRST TIME IN THE HISTORY OF THE WHOLE WORLD
in CHINA ( GUADONG PROVINCE, CHINA )
the WORLD HEALTH ORGANISATION ( W.H.O )
didn't call it GUADONG FEVER after the name of the place where it was first discovered like it had called EBOLA FEVER which was named after the EBOLA RIVER in AFRICA
and like it had called LASSA FEVER which was named after LASSA AREA in AFRICA
and yet
9 or 10 YEARS AFTER THE DISCOVERY OF A NEW RESPIRATORY ILLNESS IN CHINA
when
ANOTHER NEW RESPIRATORY ILLNESS WAS DISCOVERED IN THE SAUDI ARABIA AREA
IN 2012
i.e 2012 - 2002 = 10 YEARS
or 2012 - 2003 = 9 YEARS
the WORLD HEALTH ORGANISATION WASTED NO TIME AT ALL
IN NAMING / CALLING / IDENTIFYING THAT NEW RESPIRATORY ILLNESS AS
MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME ( MERS )
AFTER THE MIDDLE EAST AREA OF THE WORLD
it's really not fair in anyway at all.
if some consideration had been given by the W.H.O to CHINA and by extension to ASIA
in 2002 / 2003
NOT TO USE A PLACE / AREA NAME WHEN NAMING THE NEW DISEASE
SO AS NOT TO CREATE A BAD IMAGE AROUND THE WORLD FOR THAT PLACE / AREA
by for example
calling it either
GUADONG RESPIRATORY SYNDROME ( GRS )
[ remember EBOLA FEVER and the EBOLA RIVER in AFRICA ? ]
or
CHINA RESPIRATORY SYNDROME ( CRS )
[ remember LASSA FEVER and the LASSA AREA in AFRICA ? ]
or
EAST ASIA RESPIRATORY SYNDROME ( EARS ) since CHINA is in EAST ASIA
[ remember MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME ( MERS ) in the MIDDLE EAST ? ]
then in all fairness and integrity of purpose / intent
the RESPIRATORY ILLNESS seen in JEDDAH, SAUDI ARABIA, MIDDLE EAST
9 / 10 years AFTER
the RESPIRATORY ILLNESS seen in GUADONG, CHINA, EAST ASIA
should NOT have been named MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME
and should have been given another name, for example,
SARS TYPE 2 i.e SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME TYPE 2
and since
the MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME is also caused by a CORONA VIRUS
just like
the CHINA 2002/2003 RESPIRATORY SYNDROME is also caused by a CORONA VIRUS
then maybe for reasons of being EQUALLY FAIR to
CHINA / EAST ASIA
and
SAUDI ARABIA / MIDDLE EAST
the W.H.O should have given the JEDDAH, SAUDI ARABIA seen RESPIRATORY ILLNESS
a name like SARS TYPE 2 ( COV )
SO AS NOT TO CREATE A BAD IMAGE AROUND THE WORLD FOR THAT PLACE / AREA
as it had done for GUADONG, CHINA in 2002 / 2003
when it named a RESPIRATORY ILLNESS first seen there SARS ( COV )
SO AS NOT TO CREATE A BAD IMAGE AROUND THE WORLD FOR EITHER
GUADONG or
CHINA or
EAST ASIA
perhaps the W.H.O and it's operatives have either forgotten or never heard of
that old-time advisory idiomatic expression
WHAT IS GOOD FOR THE GOOSE IS ALSO EQUALLY GOOD FOR THE GANDER
by the way, wasn't there an outbreak of a virus? disease in BIRDS IN CHINA in 1996
WHICH SPREAD AROUND THE WORLD LIKE THE 2019 CHINA CORONA VIRUS COV-2
AND KILLED THOUSANDS OF BIRDS
JUST LIKE THE 2019 CHINA CORONA VIRUS COV-2 / COVID-19
HAS KILLED AND HAS BEEN KILLING HUMAN BEINGS AROUND THE WORLD
THUS FAR SEPTEMBER 2020
and which
the WORLD HEALTH ORGANISATION ( W.H.O ) and
the WORLD ORGANISATION FOR ANIMAL HEALTH ( O.I.E ? ) and
the FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANISATION ( F.A.O ) of the UNITED NATIONS ( U.N ) and
the INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES ( I.C.D ) managed by the W.H.O
all individually? and collectively?
in their wisdom or favouritism for CHINA if you will
declined to include the PLACE NAMES CHINA and GUADONG
WHERE THE DISEASE WAS FIRST SEEN IN
and also by the way,
WHY ALL THIS SPECIAL TREATMENT OF CHINA and EAST ASIA
IN GIVING NAMES TO DISEASES ?
and
WHY HASN'T THIS SAME SORT OF SPECIAL TREATMENT BEEN GIVEN
SINCE THEN TO OTHER PLACES e.g SAUDI ARABIA and the MIDDLE EAST
WHEN GIVING NAMES TO DISEASES ?