Newsweek: Norovirus surge is worst in a decade.
This is slanderous. Why do we put up with such chicanery?
The norovirus is stomach flu. It causes intestinal distress for a couple of days.
The “noro” prefix refers to Norwalk, Ohio.
From Wikipedia:
In the United States, it is the cause of about half of all foodborne disease outbreaks. The virus is named after the city of Norwalk, Ohio, US, where an outbreak occurred in 1968.
Now come on, stomach flu wasn’t invented in Norwalk. That outbreak wasn’t noteworthy in any way, but some wag decided to denigrate a small Ohio town, and nobody did anything about it.
Covid started in Wuhan, China. It killed millions of people, but can’t call it the China flu because that would be racist. Norovirus is fine.
The fact that a bio-lab in Wuhan, China did just that kind of virus research, the lab protocols were known to be sloppy, everyone was called a conspiracy theorist for asking the question, and now, nobody cares where the virus originated, suggests it came from the Wuhan Lab. Why not call it the Wuhan flu?
Recall that initially, it was called a corona virus because it resembled a corona. Everyone thought that sounded sciencey, but the Corona beer people weren’t happy. We settled on Covid-19.
Norwalk should be known for it’s raceway, not for a common stomach flu.
