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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPompeo insists G7 joint statement refer to #coronavirus as the "Wuhan virus."
ProtectivelyAndLovinglyHat RetweetedAccording to Der Spiegel, the G7 foreign ministers haven't been able to agree on a joint statement because of Pompeo's insistence it refer to #coronavirus as the "Wuhan virus". Pompeo did not deny that this morning - said G7 don't agree on everything
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Pompeo insists G7 joint statement refer to #coronavirus as the "Wuhan virus." (Original Post)
mahatmakanejeeves
Mar 2020
OP
I have a vial of COVID-19, I called it the "Wuhan virus", none of the virus was destroyed
ck4829
Mar 2020
#1
The US will soon have more cases/deaths than China. Will Pompeo support G7 calling it the "US virus"
RockRaven
Mar 2020
#6
ck4829
(35,069 posts)1. I have a vial of COVID-19, I called it the "Wuhan virus", none of the virus was destroyed
Research continues...
spanone
(135,830 posts)2. He insists on telling the world we're a racist nation.
FUCK HIM
empedocles
(15,751 posts)3. traitortrump yanking on the pompeo puppet
struggle4progress
(118,282 posts)4. Sounds like another victim of Trump Dickhead Syndrome
scarletlib
(3,411 posts)5. F him.
Make it the G-6 and put the statement out.
RockRaven
(14,966 posts)6. The US will soon have more cases/deaths than China. Will Pompeo support G7 calling it the "US virus"
when that happens, or nah?
Vinca
(50,269 posts)7. Trump and his moronic appointees don't seem to realize the next deadly virus might originate
on the 9th hole at Doral. Can we assume we'll call it the Trump virus if it does?
blm
(113,052 posts)8. In Florida and Brazil it's the Mar a Lago virus, right?
Isnt that where so many were exposed?