<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">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</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Mar 20, 2020 at 11:32 AM SR Ballard via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">SARS-CoV-2 is the name of the little virus.<div>COVID-19 is the name of the big illness it causes.</div><div><br></div><div>Just like how HIV causes AIDS.<br><br><div dir="ltr">SR Ballard</div><div dir="ltr"><br>On Mar 20, 2020, at 7:51 AM, John Clark via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">On Fri, Mar 20, 2020 at 1:46 AM Stuart LaForge via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:</span><br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>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.</i></blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">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.</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">By the way, I wish scientists would decide what to call this damn thing, whatever happened to COVID-19? And "<span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">SARS-CoV-2" is quite a mouthful. </span></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> John K Clark</span></font></div></div></div>
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