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		neonate on March 11, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Covid-19 is now officially a pandemic, WHO says I don't know if it's racism but I also am sure that if it had started in London we wouldn't be hearing about "the British virus" and so on.

kaiabwpdjqn on March 12, 2020 [–]

Spanish Flu disagrees with you

neonate on March 12, 2020 | [–]

Interesting point, but the Spanish-American War was only 20 years before that. Attitudes in the US toward Spain were probably much different then than they are now.

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