The full name is “severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2”.
It is not mild, nor has it ever been. They don’t call it MARS-CoV-2. It would be a very confusing name anyways because we live on Earth, not Mars, btw. And I don’t think the Martians would appreciate being unluckily associated with this virus.
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This is a bad argument because things have to be named extremely early to be able to talk about them, and early naming is based on early information, which has a high likelihood of becoming incorrect as the situation evolves.
Yes I think the world should be doing more to stop the virus! And it’s good to talk and think rationally about the reason why I/you/we think that, rather than compressing one’s reasoning into a tweet length.
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