Unable to identify the causative agent, officials at the Minnesota Department of Health’s Public Health Laboratory sent the patients’ clinical specimens to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), where scientists confirmed that the patients did not have influenza. One CDC scientist recalled reading a recent ProMed dispatch describing the emergence of a novel coronavirus in Southeast Asia, and ran a pancoronavirus RT-PCR test. A week later, the CDC team confirmed that the three patients were, in fact, infected with a novel coronavirus, which was dubbed the St. Paul Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (SPARS-CoV, or SPARS), after the city where the first cluster of cases had been identified.
I seem to have missed the part in all of this where they said you can't call it that (St. Paul Acute Respiratory Syndrome) because it's racist against Irish people.
Time for some education. They use "hypotheticals" to war game real plans. They've been doing this for years. That's what you're missing.
Okay bud. Time for some education for you...fiction is fiction. Literally give me one exactly identical part of the story.
Origin of virus:
I seem to have missed the part in all of this where they said you can't call it that (St. Paul Acute Respiratory Syndrome) because it's racist against Irish people.