> The downside to this kind of stigmatization is that people start to abuse it as soft cultural power

Humans have been enforcing social norms for at least as long as we have written history. And people have probably been abusing that habit for just as long.

Some social norms are good; others are bad. Some ways of enforcing social norms are polite, others are annoying, others (Twitter mobs) can be horrifying.

I would consider "Let's call this the coronavirus, or CORVID-19, out of consideration for Wuhan 10 years from now" as at least a reasonable one; and a polite request on Hackernews is hardly going to give you PTSD or ruin your life.

In other words: I understand where you're coming from, but "My right to call this the Wuhan virus" is a funny hill to choose to die on. :-)