For me the weirdest thing about covid has been realizing that the common cold is a ragtag museum of coronavirus pandemics past, all eventually tamed by becoming ubiquitous in early childhood, which we should have paid so much more attention to.
It was kind of like a "birds are dinosaurs" moment in terms of putting things into perspective. Early on I thought covid was a cold that tried to rise above its station, but now I realize it's where colds come from to begin with.
Nice brief article about trying to map the origin of "common cold" coronaviruses we all get onto past pandemics ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…
Anyway, where my novel rhinoviruses at? You just going to let yourself get punked like this?
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