why do they keep calling it 'the novel coronavirus'?

[rae121452]

i mean, at this point, it's hardly novel anymore. they should change the name to 'the pedestrian coronavirus'.

 

[thør]

The media likes to cut and paste.....

 

[Mal_Huevo]

It's too big to be just a short story.

 

[RobDownSouth]

A Tricksy Question!

<AJ mode>
It's called the "novel coronavirus" because a novel is fiction.
A hoax is also fiction.
Ergo, science has create a hoax virus!
Connect the dots, sheeple!
</AJ mode>

 

[rae121452]

<AJ mode>
It's called the "novel coronavirus" because a novel is fiction.
A hoax is also fiction.
Ergo, science has create a hoax virus!
Connect the dots, sheeple!
</AJ mode>

all is illuminated! inform the troops.

 

[Ramone45]

Assuming this is serious. The use of the word "novel" refers to the fact that this is a "new" type of coronavirus. This is similar to a corona virus that caused an epidemic in 2002-2003. That was designated SARS-cov. This one is the novel coronavirus SARS-cov2. Both viruses cause Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome. I hope this helps.

 

[fac401]

That’s exactly right. Novel meaning new. Or a new strain of the very old coronavirus. And believe me, it is very real and very serious.

 

[Ramone45]

That’s exactly right. Novel meaning new. Or a new strain of the very old coronavirus. And believe me, it is very real and very serious.

It is serious. I was using "serious" in reference to the question.

 

[Wings]

That’s exactly right. Novel meaning new. Or a new strain of the very old coronavirus. And believe me, it is very real and very serious.

It is serious. I was using "serious" in reference to the question.

This has some real “And don’t call me Shirley” vibes to it.

 

[Saint_Ann]

In a media frenzy driven world of 15 second soundbites, novelty wears pretty thin in a matter on nanoseconds.

 

[OldJourno]

<AJ mode>
It's called the "novel coronavirus" because a novel is fiction.
A hoax is also fiction.
Ergo, science has create a hoax virus!
Connect the dots, sheeple!
</AJ mode>

Hey, Sheeple, read this about the "Global False Alarm" and really connect the dots
The scientists take the German government to task on several points. Among them:
The danger posed by COVID-19 was overestimated and did not cross a threshold that went beyond normal levels for a new virus.
People who died from COVID-19 were statistically more likely to die this year anyway due to poor health and ancillary conditions.
The (now 400,000) deaths worldwide due to COVID-19 is eclipsed by the 1.5 million deaths caused by influenza in 2017-18.
The COVID-focused German healthcare system has postponed life-saving surgeries and treatments, making the overall health picture in the country worse, not better.

https://www.strategic-culture.org/n...port-denouncing-corona-as-global-false-alarm/

 

[IrezumiKiss]

Hey, Sheeple, read this about the "Global False Alarm" and really connect the dots
The scientists take the German government to task on several points. Among them:
The danger posed by COVID-19 was overestimated and did not cross a threshold that went beyond normal levels for a new virus.
People who died from COVID-19 were statistically more likely to die this year anyway due to poor health and ancillary conditions.
The (now 400,000) deaths worldwide due to COVID-19 is eclipsed by the 1.5 million deaths caused by influenza in 2017-18.
The COVID-focused German healthcare system has postponed life-saving surgeries and treatments, making the overall health picture in the country worse, not better.

https://www.strategic-culture.org/n...port-denouncing-corona-as-global-false-alarm/

Instead of putting this here where it's a safe space to do so and won't do anything, you should go to a person who lost someone directly due to COVID-19 and tell them this.

And shouldn't you be substituting COVID-19 with "Wuhan Flu?" What, did you suddenly get pussy over being soft-serve vanilla xenophobic?

 

[OldJourno]

Instead of putting this here where it's a safe space to do so and won't do anything, you should go to a person who lost someone directly due to COVID-19 and tell them this.

And shouldn't you be substituting COVID-19 with "Wuhan Flu?" What, did you suddenly get pussy over being soft-serve vanilla xenophobic?

I'm xenophobic for calling a virus that originated in China the China virus?
I'm not apologizing for telling the truth.

 

[akatrex]

The RCV - RED CHINA Virus.

Chinese Bio-Weapons Lab released the Virus!

If you believe the Chinese much like Adam Shiff you're an IDIOT!

 

[IrezumiKiss]

I'm xenophobic for calling a virus that originated in China the China virus?

Yep. It already has a proper name, my guy. Which you used.

I'm not apologizing for telling the truth.

Nobody asked you to apologize for being what you are, my dude. Keep on being a proud xenophobe! You've earned the age mileage in your life to not give a fuck about these things anyway. What's anybody gonna do, clock your timeout ticket a little earlier than scheduled or something?

I was just wondering why you called the COVID-19 virus COVID-19 in that post instead of what you usually call it.

https://media1.tenor.com/images/4986ceae87c1a06b665ee259d1cb16af/tenor.gif?itemid=12183065

 

[Conager]

The media likes to cut and paste.....

It is where the term "hackneyed" comes from. Hack writers would hack off bits of old copy and glue it to the story they were working on. "Shots rang out in the night."

 

[jaF0]

I'm guessing somebody was making book on it.

 

[Mal_Huevo]

It is where the term "hackneyed" comes from. Hack writers would hack off bits of old copy and glue it to the story they were working on. "Shots rang out in the night."

hackneyed, adj. [hak-need, hāk-nēd]
-Meaning 'banal or trite due to overuse; stale,' hackneyed has been used as an adjective since the mid-18th century C.E. It was created out of earlier English hackeney, which (at least by 1325) was the name of a type of horse used for pulling carts or trotting. This rather regular horse was so named because they were bred in Hackney, Middlesex, England. There is evidence of earlier forms of the word, however, such as hakensho 'a horseshoe for a hackney' which was recorded in 1205. Eventually, because the horses were so often rented out for carriages and riding, hackney came to mean 'hireling, lent out for hire' and applied to more than just a horse. This is first recorded in 1546, and by 1664 it had become the name of a carriage available for hire (a hackney coach.). Hackney - and ultimately its second adjective form, hackneyed - came to mean 'trite due to overuse, common' because of this association with being rented or hired out over and over again.

 

[rae121452]

i mean, at this point, it's hardly novel anymore. they should change the name to 'the pedestrian coronavirus'.

mea culpa. i thought it was funny. i didn't realize there were so many people here who can't take a joke.