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Reflections on the name
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Dan Bloom <[log in to unmask]>
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Sat, 9 May 2020 10:55:14 -0400
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Names matter.

Coronavirus
Novel coronavirus
Covid
COVID
Covid-19
COVID-19

Those are the ways I’ve read “it” referred to? Are there different connotations, meanings, semantic situations expressed or implied in these words?

I’ve used “Covid.”

 “Coronavirus” seems too generic.  The common cold and seasonal flue are coronaviruses.  So why not add “-19”? That specifies it. But it makes it more scientific. 

"Covid” is short and sounds like a dagger to me. It is sharp and vicious. That name, to me, carries with it the global disaster that extends beyond the disease per se.

Yet it looks like “coronavirus” is more and more the name.  I just hope it isn’t medicalizing our suffering that goes beyond medicine.

Dan
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