Nicholas Stix, an old friend from National Assn. of Scholars days, picks over the behavior of a reporter who said a “White House official” (whom she refuses to identify) referred to the currently notorious virus as “Kung flu.”
Summing up:
But even if she weren’t lying, who cares? For over 1000 years, we have referred to epidemics and pandemics by their point of origin.
In any event, Weijia Jiang [the reporter] is a fraud. It is not the place of reporters to act as jailer, intimidating people out of speaking their minds.
Right.
And then:
Besides, “Kung Flu” is funny! And you don’t boss around a free people about how they may speak about a foreign plague that is killing them.
Kung Flu, can you imagine?
Blithe Spirit 