Bill Maher Defends Calling COVID-19 “Chinese” Virus As A Product Of Wet Markets, Draws Online Outrage
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deadline.comBy Bruce Haring pmc-editorial-manager Bill Maher has stirred the social media pot with a simple question: “Why should China get a pass?” Maher posed that question Friday to point out the hypocrisy of ignoring the Wuhan, China wet market origin of the coronavirus when so many diseases are named after places. “There are people who would rather die from the virus than call it by the wrong name,” Maher said, reeling off a list of diseases that were named after spots, including MERS (Middle East Respiratory Syndrome,) Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, and the Spanish flu. “It’s not racist to point out that eating bats is batshit crazy,” he said, adding, “We should blame China.
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