The real issue here is that we still haven't come up with a good name for the virus.

[Burney]

Covid-19 and Coronavirus just won't do. I like 'Wuhan Flu' or 'Wu-Flu', but think my favourite is 'Slant-Eyed Death Bug'.

[Sir C]

Covid-19 and Coronavirus just won't do. I like 'Wuhan Flu' or 'Wu-Flu', but think my favourite is 'Slant-Eyed Death Bug'.

The name will come when people around us start dropping like flies.

How about resurrecting an oldie but goody: The Yellowjack.

[Burney]

The name will come when people around us start dropping like flies.

How about resurrecting an oldie but goody: The Yellowjack.

They called the flu pandemic 'Spanish Lady', didn't they? That was quite poetic. Given that it predominantly kills older men, perhaps 'The Widowmaker' is appropriate?

[Pat Vegas]

Covid-19 and Coronavirus just won't do. I like 'Wuhan Flu' or 'Wu-Flu', but think my favourite is 'Slant-Eyed Death Bug'.

I thought they go from one name to another so you don't get used to hearing it.

A bit like when Isis became Isil, etc

[Burney]

I thought they go from one name to another so you don't get used to hearing it.

A bit like when Isis became Isil, etc

I just hope we use this opportunity to make spitting in the street an offence punishable by immediate, extra-judicial execution.

[barrybueno]

Covid-19 and Coronavirus just won't do. I like 'Wuhan Flu' or 'Wu-Flu', but think my favourite is 'Slant-Eyed Death Bug'.

The Yellow Peril? Or was that the episode when Delboy painted the local Chinky a luminous yellow?

[Luis Anaconda]

Covid-19 and Coronavirus just won't do. I like 'Wuhan Flu' or 'Wu-Flu', but think my favourite is 'Slant-Eyed Death Bug'.

Wu-Flu makes me think of Song 2

[Herbert Augustus Chapman]

Covid-19 and Coronavirus just won't do. I like 'Wuhan Flu' or 'Wu-Flu', but think my favourite is 'Slant-Eyed Death Bug'.

Hong Kong Fluey

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[barrybueno]

Hong Kong Fluey

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:clap: We have a winner!

[Ganpati's Goonerz--AFC's Aboriginal Fertility Cult]

Covid-19 and Coronavirus just won't do. I like 'Wuhan Flu' or 'Wu-Flu', but think my favourite is 'Slant-Eyed Death Bug'.

Tibet Invading Karma Plague.

[Herbert Augustus Chapman]

:clap: We have a winner!

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[Ganpati's Goonerz--AFC's Aboriginal Fertility Cult]

Hong Kong Fluey

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That's tops.

[Burney]

Hong Kong Fluey

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Would it be terribly pedantic to point out that it didn't come from Hong Kong?

[Herbert Augustus Chapman]

Would it be terribly pedantic to point out that it didn't come from Hong Kong?

Hong Kong's chinese enough you miserable w@nker - learn to lose :-D

[Ganpati's Goonerz--AFC's Aboriginal Fertility Cult]

Hong Kong's chinese enough you miserable w@nker - learn to lose :-D

It also works as it's clearly their karma for oppressing Hong Kong as well as for invading Tibet. Hong Kong Fluey it is.

[Pat Vegas]

Would it be terribly pedantic to point out that it didn't come from Hong Kong?

I think it's better to say someone has joined the Wuhan Clan

[Burney]

Hong Kong's chinese enough you miserable w@nker - learn to lose :-D

Hmm. I think we should call it 'The Chinky Choker'.

[Herbert Augustus Chapman]

Hmm. I think we should call it 'The Chinky Choker'.

When I were a nipper in Singapore, the favoured pejorative for a chinee was chogey. Chogey Choker or Chogey Bogey I reckon

[Tony C]

Covid-19 and Coronavirus just won't do. I like 'Wuhan Flu' or 'Wu-Flu', but think my favourite is 'Slant-Eyed Death Bug'.

Looooooooool

[Tony C]

I’ve created a cocktail for it...

The Wuhan Temptress

40ml of Tanqueray
10ml Bat Juice Syrup
1 Snake Eggwhite
Dash of Peach Bitters
Garnish with a couple of smoked frog legs