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Follow-up: why the down-votes in response? I'm very confused given that my prior comment wasn't.
by collegeburner 6y ago
Follow-up: why the down-votes in response? I'm very confused given that my prior comment wasn't.
- Doxin 6y agoI imagine it's due to calling it "wuhan coronavirus" instead of simply "coronavirus" or "covid-19".
- collegeburner 6y agoCoronavirus isn't descriptive. SARS-CoV-2 is unbearably clunky. Covid refers to the disease caused by the virus (it's short for "coronavirus disease"); people don't communicate a disease, they communicate a virus. This is like the HIV/AIDS distinction: you can't "catch AIDS". Hence my terminology. Talk about petty, though. It's from wuhan, so calling it "wuhan coronavirus" or "chinese coronavirus" strikes me as more than reasonable.