The Covid-19 Info thread (keep politics out please)

[dawgday166]

That's not what people have been calling it from the beginning.

But ignoring that, coronavirus is fine for now; people assume you are talking about Wuhan coronavirus and not corona viruses in general, but of course it's either inaccurate or at best imprecise. Doesn't matter now but it won't be a good term when it's not front and center unless we make coronavirus no longer a useful term for it's technical meaning.

Covid 19 is fine. People know what you are talking about. It's specific enough that it will continue to be correct. Maybe we never have another novel corona virus become and issue and people generally remember what Covid 19 is referencing 20 and 30 years down the road. Certainly wouldn't think other people should be obligated to use something other than Covid 19. But there's not really a good reason to break with convention, and certainly only somebody being made dumb by partisanship would try to insist that other people break with convention.

SARS-Cov-2 is just idiotic outside of a scientific paper, or maybe as an aside in a lay article before reverting to a more useful naming convention. Other than blind partisanship and being jerked around like a puppet, what would ever make you think it's reasonable to expect people to forego normal naming conventions that are easily understandable and easy to use, to replace it with SARS-CoV-2?

I'm sorta partial to Wuhan virus myself. That informs me of which coronavirus or covid virus we're talking about and ... It can produce deaths at a higher rate than the others.