[ExI] social distancing, was: RE: > Taiwan is standing strong

[William Flynn Wallace]

SR Ballard - I think the way it goes is that is something (Auto Immune
Deficiency Syndrome) is called a syndrome (a group of symptoms) then the
cause or causes is unknown.  Then when the causes are discovered it is
no longer called a syndrome - HIV infection.  bill w

On Fri, Mar 20, 2020 at 11:32 AM SR Ballard via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> SARS-CoV-2 is the name of the little virus.
> COVID-19 is the name of the big illness it causes.
>
> Just like how HIV causes AIDS.
>
> SR Ballard
>
> On Mar 20, 2020, at 7:51 AM, John Clark via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Mar 20, 2020 at 1:46 AM Stuart LaForge via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
> *> there is nothing ordinary about flu viruses. Their ability to recreate
>> themselves year after year to get past your immune system is ingenious. In
>> any case, SARS-CoV-2 has no such ability.*
>
>
> That is indeed encouraging, it makes me think developing a vaccine *might*
> not be too difficult, although we'd have to be very lucky to have one in
> less than a year. Let's just hope it's like the flu and goes dormant during
> the summer months.
>
> By the way, I wish scientists would decide what to call this damn thing,
> whatever happened to COVID-19? And "SARS-CoV-2" is quite a mouthful.
>
>  John K Clark
>
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