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Yeah, I personally just don’t get it. Your whole life you are told once you get the chicken pox, you won’t get it again. Once you get this year’s flu variant, y
by runawaybottle 5y ago
Yeah, I personally just don’t get it. Your whole life you are told once you get the chicken pox, you won’t get it again. Once you get this year’s flu variant, you won’t get it again.
What is different about Coronavirus?
- anyfoo 5y agoThat sounds a bit simplistic. The common cold is also a viral disease, and people get it relatively frequently. AIDS is a viral disease with famously peculiar properties, constantly mutating and masquerading. Not all viral diseases are the same.
- runawaybottle 5y agoSo, again, theme of the day, have we not figured out the difference between aids, the flu, the cold, and the coronavirus? It feels like everyone is running from the truth here.
- anyfoo 5y agoI'm not sure what you mean. Biology is incredibly complex. It would be hard/impossible to compress the "differences" into simple statements, I imagine.
- runawaybottle 5y agoIs that true? We’ve classified a lot of things in life. The entire taxonomy of animals for example. No, I’m sorry, this is not beyond us. Where does Coronavirus fall? It’s not HIV, that’s for sure. Is it closer to the flu, or not? I think we’re done playing this game as a society.
- anyfoo 5y agoCoronavirus is a kind of virus. Some of the many strains of the common cold are coronaviruses, so are COVID-19 and MERS. Flus are their own kind of virus, “influenza viruses”, but I only know what I know from quick conversations with actual biologists, so take it with a grain of salt. I don’t know whether taxonomy is necessarily helpful here. Some frogs are poisonous, some are delicacies, and they come in all sorts of colors, abilities, and sizes.