Post Reply - the Dutch language

Does the spread of a lunguage influence pandemics ? 

A "story" is China did publish quite a lot of info on CoViD allready in 2019-however in Mandarin/Chinese...A lot of "westerners" expected ALL science to be published in English...

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAUVbUl24eM  or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAUVbUl24eM A song in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afrikaans or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afrikaans ; Although Afrikaans has adopted words from other languages, including German and the Khoisan languages, an estimated 90 to 95% of the vocabulary of Afrikaans is of Dutch origin.^{[n 1]} Differences between Afrikaans and Dutch often lie in the more analytic morphology and grammar of Afrikaans, and different spellings.^{[n 2]} There is a large degree of mutual intelligibility between the two languages, especially in written form.^[10]

DJ, Afrikaans is spoken by 10 million+ people...The https://taalunie.org/over-de-taalunie-/wie-wij-zijn or https://taalunie.org/over-de-taalunie-/wie-wij-zijn however is active in Dutch in NL, Flanders-Belgium and Surinam(e)....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low_German or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low_German ;Low German^[b] is a West Germanic language^[12][13] spoken mainly in Northern Germany and the northeastern Netherlands. The dialect of Plautdietsch is also spoken in the Russian Mennonite diaspora worldwide.

Another 5-10 million people speak "Low German"...

Can one see Flemish, Low-German, Afrikaans etc. as "variants" of "Dutch"? (Like a lot of diseases have variants/mutations...is there a common mechanism behind it ? )...