We owe the 90,000 Americans dead & 1.5 million sick, the decency of using the right names. I will explain why this is important at the bottom of this thread.
They died of the disease COVID-19. It can be shorthanded as COVID. You dont call "measles" by the name of the virus../1
They died of the disease COVID-19. It can be shorthanded as COVID. You dont call "measles" by the name of the virus../1
...second, it is not "the coronavirus." That is close to calling a rabid dog "the animal" or poison ivy "the plant." A coronavirus is part of a large family of viruses. They each fall into different categories and have different names, like 229E, NL63, OC43 and HKU1....
...this is why you don't call a disease by the viral name. There is a second problem: Calling it "the coronavirus" encourages stupidity. When the second dumbest man in the world proclaimed that the coronavirus was "the common cold" he was a little right, though not why he.../3
...he thought. A coronavirus does cause the common cold, just not THIS coronavirus. That is the problem with using a general name in a population that is incredibly stupid: They will google something, think they are smarter than experts, and put us all at risk because they.../4
...don't know what a coronavirus is, and why this is called "a coronavirus."
Next, the name people use in trying to be jerks. Viral names, tmeaning. Calling it "the China virus" or the "Wuhan virus" - which was the temporary name - is like saying "Democrat Party".../5
Next, the name people use in trying to be jerks. Viral names, tmeaning. Calling it "the China virus" or the "Wuhan virus" - which was the temporary name - is like saying "Democrat Party".../5
...it's just assholes trying to take jabs at people because they care less about 90,000 dead Americans than they do about smug self-satisfaction while showing themselves to be morons.
Will we start calling H1N1 "the America virus"?.../6
Will we start calling H1N1 "the America virus"?.../6
...what about the 1918 Spanish flu, which actually had its major outbreak in the United States and was thought for decades to have originated here, but now that is not certain anymore. But, once we knew that, should we have called it "the United States flu"? .../7
...the other problem here is that Trump Administration, in its desperate need to prove itself both the stupidest and most ass-holish govenment in the world, is refusing to sign on to global initiatives and resolutions because they want to use the false name of "China flu".../8
...and slam China in these global resolutions. so they have Fox News talking points. Other countries won't use "China flu" because they are not led by fucking morons like Trumpers who apparently dont know the name of the virus, cant be bothered to learn, and despite 90,000.../9
...dead want to run around sniggling and laughing like fifth grade bullies, worrying about sticking it to people while celebrating mass death as "essential" because they are also too stupid to figure out - even NOW - how a viral infection works..../10
...so, what is the virus called? There is a complex name, and an easier name, both correct.
One is SARS-CoV-2, which stands for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 . The easier one, which is not the scientific name but is corect, is "novel coronavirus 2019".../11
One is SARS-CoV-2, which stands for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 . The easier one, which is not the scientific name but is corect, is "novel coronavirus 2019".../11
...but using the name of the virus is stupid unless you plan to go into research. Like I said, we call it measles, not rubeola virus. We call it mumps, not paramyxovirus. We call it chicken pox, not varicella zoster virus. We call it a cold, not respiratory syncytial virus.../12
...or rhinovirus or coronavirus.
Why does this matter? Because people are dying. Because we owe them the decency of not calling it the wrong name (coronavirus, china virus). We owe them the decency of caring enough about this outbreak to know what we are facing.../13
Why does this matter? Because people are dying. Because we owe them the decency of not calling it the wrong name (coronavirus, china virus). We owe them the decency of caring enough about this outbreak to know what we are facing.../13
...and finally, history is already going to look at us as some of the dumbest people to walk the earth. Our progeny will look back in amazement that so many of us were so selfish, so narcissistic and so stupid we spread this more than any country in the world. And when they.../14
...see that we were too lazy to even know what any of this was CALLED, they will shake their heads in amazement at us as the worst generation. Which they already will anyway.../15
...90,000 people have died of COVID-19. Or COVID. And thank you, @JoeBiden, for honoring the suffering of these people by always - as least as far as I have seen - using the correct name. This is not a time for snickering while being a jerk, Trumpers. Treat the dead with respect.
