Citations:Wu flu

English citations of Wu flu, Wu Flu, Wu-flu, WuFlu, and Wuflu

2020 January 24, Giles Coren, “I’ve got nice clean hands for the flu apocalypse”, in The Times‎^[1]:
“Wu flu?” jokes a BA steward. “No,” I say. “It's just the end of a cold I had in England before I left.” And it's true, it is. But wait.
2020 February 2, Tim Hamlett, “Hong Kong fights the coronavirus by… scrapping domestic workers’ day off?”, in Hong Kong Free Press‎^[2]:
It is nice to see that official ingenuity is spreading the load of opposing the Wuflu around the community. Last week the Labour Department suggested that employers of Hong Kong domestic workers should encourage the helper to stay in their employer’s home on their days off.
2020 February 3, Chris Nuttall, “How the WorldCom con helped Huawei”, in Financial Times‎^[3]:
3. Tech catches dose of WuFlu
Tech companies such as Apple, Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi and local electronic components maker BOE Technology rely on factories in Wuhan, says Lex.
[2020 February 12, Lily Kuo, “Infection numbers fall in China but coronavirus experts remain cautious”, in The Guardian‎^[4]:
Authorities have named the pathogen Covid-19 […] . Ghebreyesus said the goal of the name was to avoid stigma. For weeks some have called the outbreak the “China virus” or “'Wu flu”, for Wuhan where the virus was first detected.]
2020 February 14, Fleet Street Fox, “Boris Johnson is more likely to kill you than the coronavirus”, in Daily Mirror‎^[5]:
We all love a panic. Whether it's a No Deal Brexit, petrol prices or Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction, it provides people with an excuse to do our favourite things: stockpile, stress-queue, and invade other countries. ¶ But when it comes to the Wu flu, you're more likely to be killed by a cow.
2020 February 29, Richard and Judy, “Where’s our Blitz spirit? ‘It’s just the flu’, says JUDY FINNIGAN”, in Daily Express‎^[6]:
Yes, coronavirus or the Wu-flu as I call it in an attempt to dilute its menacing aura (the bug started in Wuhan) keeps hanging over us every day like a tidal wave in a nightmare – a towering, overpowering event that never quite delivers in its mission to drown the world.
2020 March 11, Fleet Street Fox, “Coronavirus is going to make the Chancellor's Budget sums completely irrelevant”, in Daily Mirror‎^[7]:
The wet winter added a few more billions of flood defences, grants and clean-up operations to the national wish-list, and now the Wu Flu is going to mop up all the billions he didn't have in the first place.
2020 March 18, “New York’s coronavirus budget challenge: balance the books without doing more harm”, in New York Post‎^[8]:
For all the budgeteers, DiNapoli had vital advice: “Spending decisions should reflect economic and fiscal realities.” That is: It’s no time for new initiatives or program expansions, except those for the WuFlu crisis.
2020 March 18, Mark Krikorian, “Economic Meltdown? Mass Unemployment? Solution: More Immigration!”, in National Review‎^[9]:
Another example: Two Hill sources report that there’s a push to slip into the WuFlu stimulus bill a big increase in the EB-5 investor-visa program. That program effectively sells U.S. citizenship, giving green cards to foreigners in exchange for an investment, […]
2020 April 13, Michael Shannon, “Celebrate unsung heroes of pandemic panic”, in The Korea Times‎^[10]:
Then the cloth bandana eventually gets wet and you start to wonder if the bacteria you're breeding next to your face are worse than the germs that produce the WuFlu.
2020 April 18, “Your View: Letters with Love”, in Ashburton Guardian‎^[11], page 14:
So the nice travel agent Jacinda, has rung and offered us a one-time special to another island it's called Corona Island, that's an island just north of where we are, but your mothere isn't too sure about going there as she has heard they once had a bad outbreak of Wu Flu and she doesn't want to risk catching anything. nasty.
2020 April 19, “Congress needs to send the MTA another $4B in aid during coronavirus”, in New York Post‎^[12]:
Even as the WuFlu recedes, concerns about a second wave of outbreaks may leave commuters wary about returning to the subways and buses. MTA senior executive Janno Lieber hinted at such when he unveiled new financial projections last week, […]
2020 May 7, Deborah Kruse Guebert, “Reasons to be skeptical of virus data”, in The Delaware Gazette‎^[13]:
Four very convincing cases of WuFlu right here in small town Delaware, two dating back at least to mid-January, had been handed to me on a silver platter — as my southern mother would have said.