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You said to check Wikipedia. I checked Wikipedia. Where did I lie?

nickthemagicman 6y ago
You purposefully misrepresented your argument by ignoring information that would prove you wrong. One piece of information for example is THE NAME OF THE DISEASE STATING THAT ITS A RESPIRATORY ILLNESS. You do you. Believe what you want to believe. Science will carry on despite your immense ignorance.
- tom_mellior 6y ago
  The name of the disease comes from the similarity of the virus to another one that caused a respiratory illness. And from it initially seeming to be mainly a respiratory illness as well. Now more data has come in, and it looks to medical professionals like it's not purely respiratory. Looks like science in action to me.
  - nickthemagicman 6y ago
    No. That's so false it's shocking. The name of the virus comes from the fact that it is genetically a corona virus. There are 7 known corona viruses that affect humans and every single one of them are respiratory. What ever data 'sources' you're reading are wrong.
    - tom_mellior 6y ago
      Looks like I need to start quoting your posts since they tend to get flagged into oblivion. > The name of the virus comes from the fact that it is genetically a corona virus. This is a weird claim, since in the post above you specifically pointed out that its name contains "Severe Acute RESPIRATORY Syndrome", which yes, is a hint that it was thought to be respiratory. But four other human coronaviruses don't have "respiratory" in their name. It's not like coronaviruses automatically get that name. > There are 7 known corona viruses that affect humans and every single one of them are respiratory. This is true, but I don't think that means that they are "not allowed" to have symptoms that are outside the lungs. The table in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronavirus#Infection_in_humans https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronavirus#Infection_in_human... lists diarrhea as a fairly frequent symptom of MERS (26%) and SARS-1 (20-25%). As a molecular biologist you will know more about this than I do, but it looks to me like these respiratory viruses can affect different parts of the body. That is also how it looks to medical professionals in the field, as discussed in the featured article. > What ever data 'sources' you're reading are wrong. You had plenty of opportunities in this thread to post your own sources. I think the only time you even referred to a source was to the Wikipedia page which I quoted back at you, which made you sad.

You purposefully misrepresented your argument by ignoring information that would prove you wrong. One piece of information for example is THE NAME OF THE DISEASE STATING THAT ITS A RESPIRATORY ILLNESS. You do you. Believe what you want to believe. Science will carry on despite your immense ignorance.

tom_mellior 6y ago
The name of the disease comes from the similarity of the virus to another one that caused a respiratory illness. And from it initially seeming to be mainly a respiratory illness as well. Now more data has come in, and it looks to medical professionals like it's not purely respiratory. Looks like science in action to me.
- nickthemagicman 6y ago
  No. That's so false it's shocking. The name of the virus comes from the fact that it is genetically a corona virus. There are 7 known corona viruses that affect humans and every single one of them are respiratory. What ever data 'sources' you're reading are wrong.
  - tom_mellior 6y ago
    Looks like I need to start quoting your posts since they tend to get flagged into oblivion. > The name of the virus comes from the fact that it is genetically a corona virus. This is a weird claim, since in the post above you specifically pointed out that its name contains "Severe Acute RESPIRATORY Syndrome", which yes, is a hint that it was thought to be respiratory. But four other human coronaviruses don't have "respiratory" in their name. It's not like coronaviruses automatically get that name. > There are 7 known corona viruses that affect humans and every single one of them are respiratory. This is true, but I don't think that means that they are "not allowed" to have symptoms that are outside the lungs. The table in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronavirus#Infection_in_humans https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronavirus#Infection_in_human... lists diarrhea as a fairly frequent symptom of MERS (26%) and SARS-1 (20-25%). As a molecular biologist you will know more about this than I do, but it looks to me like these respiratory viruses can affect different parts of the body. That is also how it looks to medical professionals in the field, as discussed in the featured article. > What ever data 'sources' you're reading are wrong. You had plenty of opportunities in this thread to post your own sources. I think the only time you even referred to a source was to the Wikipedia page which I quoted back at you, which made you sad.