A plaque remaining from the Big Apple Night Club at West 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem.

Above, a 1934 plaque from the Big Apple Night Club at West 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem. Discarded as trash in 2006. Now a Popeyes fast food restaurant on Google Maps.

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Entry from March 22, 2020
Flu Manchu (flu + Fu Manchu)

Dr. Fu Manchu is a fictional villain character in novels by English author Sax Rohmer (1883-1959). “Flu Manchu” (flu + Fu Manchu) has been a popular portmanteau.
   
“A noted physician reports ‘the flu is a mystery ill, with the spirit of the case, prevailing in its cure.’ A sort of a Dr. Flu Manchu” was printed in the Medford (OR) Mail Tribune on December 19, 1939. “Flu Manchu” was printed in the Daily News (New York, NY) on August 16, 1957 and August 27, 1957.
   
The 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic was sometimes called “Flu Manchu.” “Current WHO designations for future #coronavirus #kungflu mutations : Flu Jitsu, Flu Manchu, Chop Fluey #coronachan #CoronaOutbreak” was posted on Twitter by Covida Mucus 19 on January 29, 2020.
 
     
Wikipedia: Fu Manchu 
Dr. Fu Manchu is a fictional villain character who was introduced in a series of novels by the English author Sax Rohmer during the first half of the 20th century. The character was also extensively featured in cinema, television, radio, comic strips and comic books for over 90 years and he has also become an archetype of the evil criminal genius and mad scientist, while lending the name to the Fu Manchu moustache.
 
Wikipedia: 2019-20 coronavirus outbreak
The 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic is an ongoing global pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The outbreak was first identified in Wuhan, Hubei, China, in December 2019, and was recognised as a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO) on 11 March 2020.
           
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19 December 1939, Medford (OR) Mail Tribune, “Ye Smudge Pot” by Arthur Perry, pg. 4, col. 1:
A noted physician reports “the flu is a mystery ill, with the spirit of the case, prevailing in its cure.” A sort of a Dr. Flu Manchu. 
   
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21 January 1941, Yazoo City (MS) Herald, “Local Squints” by Polly Pry, pg. 3, col. 4:
Old Man “Flu Manchu”
 
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16 August 1957, Daily News (New York, NY), “Dream Street” by Robert Sylvester, pg. 32, col. 1:
Why don’t they hire Flu Manchu to solve this Asiatic flu mystery?
 
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27 August 1957, Daily News (New York, NY), “Voice of the People,” pg. 25, col. 4:
WHO’S AFRAID
Manhattan: Lets ave some common sense, reality and sanity about the supposed epidemic of Oriental influenza. Hysteria is mounting about this Asiatic flu from far-off places. If that’s the way it is to be, let’s go all the way and call it Flu Manchu.
ARDIE RETTOP.
 
Twitter
Covida Mucus 19
@carolinemucas
Current WHO designations for future #coronavirus #kungflu mutations :
Flu Jitsu
Flu Manchu
Chop Fluey
#coronachan #CoronaOutbreak
11:41 PM · Jan 29, 2020·Tweetian for Sailfish OS
   
Twitter
Civil Disobedience
@SergeantBusbee
Replying to @davidgura
Fine, then we can call it:
Flu Manchu
Kung Flu
10:18 AM · Mar 9, 2020·Twitter Web App
 
Twitter
Shitposting Savant
@SquidSqueezer
>Wu Flu
>WHO Flu
>Wumonia
>Kung Flu
>Gook Flu
>WuHu Flu
>Chinkpox
>Chinobyl
>Justa Flu
>Coofit-19
>Holocough
>Boomerpox
>Poohmonia
>Flu Manchu
>Chop Fluey
>Coronachan
>Red Plague
>Chinkenpox
>Commie Cold
>Ow-Chi Lung
>Wu-Tang Flu
>Flu Man Chu
>Yellow Fever
>Xi Jinplague
1/3
3:07 PM · Mar 21, 2020·Twitter Web App
 
Twitter
Maybe Next Time
@besellers
Replying to @bighatguy
Kung Flu
Flujitsu
Mu flu gai pan
Flu manchu
Chop fluie
Chinese pandademic
Kung pao sicken
 
F them
4:15 PM · Mar 21, 2020·Twitter for iPhone
 
Twitter
Red Robot: The Host with the Almost
@redrobotgt
NEWS FLASH!!
The Architect of the Global Pandemic has been revealed!
The Mysterious Dr Flu Manchu!
#KungFlu
#FluManchu
#CronaVirus
11:28 PM · Mar 22, 2020·Twitter Web App

Posted by Barry Popik
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