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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMrs. Betty Bowers for the win:
If Trump is going to call COVID-19 the "Chinese Virus," I was going to call it after him. But "Swine Flu" had already been taken.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers for the win: (Original Post)
klook
Mar 2020
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Siwsan
(27,891 posts)1. How about 'The Orange Plague'
klook
(13,655 posts)2. Ha! Good one...
Successor to the Black Plague.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)16. Orange is the new black
Dem2theMax
(11,005 posts)11. I'm giving you my vote.
Every Democrat would know what it meant!
erronis
(24,533 posts)3. Reminds me of that totally un-PC version about Mad Cow Disease
because PMS was already taken.
Karadeniz
(24,763 posts)4. Ding ding!❤
calimary
(90,796 posts)5. BOOM! Love it!!!
lame54
(40,099 posts)6. Covid-45
lastlib
(28,612 posts)7. Swine might find that offensive,,,
but I'm hard-pressed to come up with an alternative.
COVFEFE-19 Virus, anyone?
Talitha
(8,152 posts)9. Bazinga!!!
Brother Mythos
(1,442 posts)10. It deserves to be called "The Trump Virus."
MontanaMama
(24,751 posts)12. Is Pus Gut taken?
NBachers
(19,572 posts)13. Captain Trumps

calimary
(90,796 posts)17. Love this, too!
NNadir
(38,541 posts)15. FABULOUS!!!!!
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