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WINNING: Majority Of Americans Agree With Trump Calling COVID-19 ‘Chinese Virus’: Poll

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A majority of American adults agree with using the term “Chinese virus” to describe the coronavirus, despite media members pillorying President Donald Trump for using that term.

Three consecutive national surveys by The Harris Poll found that more than 50% of Americans said they somewhat or strongly agree with Trump using the term “Chinese virus.”

The poll results make for a stark contrast with the national media’s reaction to the term “Chinese virus.”

MSNBC anchor John Heilemann said on air last month that Trump’s use of the term “Chinese virus” is “nakedly racist and obviously racist and blatantly racist.”

CNN opinion writer Jill Filipovic similarly argued that using the term “Chinese virus” was “xenophobic racism,” and compared it to scapegoating European Jews for the Black Death.

Other journalists, from Vox writers to the New York Times editorial board, have denounced the president’s use of the term.

But the American public seems to disagree.

The three Harris polls, all of which are from late March or early April, showed 52%, 54% and 52% of Americans agreeing with Trump.

The most recent Harris poll, which surveyed 1,993 adults between April 3-5, also found that an overwhelming majority of Americans hold the Chinese government responsible for the virus’s spread. That’s in line with scientific research on the subject.

One study found that up to 95% of COVID-19’s spread could have been prevented if the Chinese government had acted three weeks sooner than they did.

A majority of Americans, 58%, agree that China should “be required to pay other countries for the spread of the virus,” the most recent Harris poll found.

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  2. Why not label it the China or CCP virus? It was manufactured in a P4 biologic research lab in Wuhan China and got out via substandard safety protocols or was intentionally released by the Chinese government.

    This is not a naturally derived or occurring organism / virus and the CCP has been attemping to develops these type of strains for over 10 years.

    Not only should CCP shoulder the name and all responsibility, they should pay all the affected countries for their economic and physical losses, along with criminal sanctions for the intentional development and release of a deadly biologic.

  3. The media’s reason for labeling “Chinese virus” racist is bogus. No normal person is going to start discriminating against ethnic Chinese because of it. It’s not their fault, and every normal American knows it. It’s insulting to suggest that we don’t.

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