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    Will there be a Covid 20?

    Covid 19 has gone viral. Will it come back again next season as Covid 20?


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    I did read somewhere today that it might become a annual thing like standard Flu.

    Here: Coronavirus may become ‘new flu’ but China ‘can weather’ economic storm

    https://www.scmp.com/news/china/soci...irmed-thursday

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pauljoecoe:
    I did read somewhere today that it might become a annual thing like standard Flu.

    Here: Coronavirus may become ‘new flu’ but China ‘can weather’ economic storm

    https://www.scmp.com/news/china/soci...irmed-thursday
    If I were to start a conspiracy theory I would suggest that the Pension companies bribed the scientists at China's biological weapons centre in Wuhan to create a new disease that targets old men.
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    It has already been proven that this is not an artificially engineered virus.

    https://www.ft.com/content/a6392ee6-...0-43d18ec715f5

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    Quote Originally Posted by SirNotAppearing:
    It has already been proven that this is not an artificially engineered virus.

    https://www.ft.com/content/a6392ee6-...0-43d18ec715f5
    I think EC was joking.
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    Quote Originally Posted by East_coast:
    Covid 19 has gone viral. Will it come back again next season as Covid 20?
    I assume it will forever keep the name covid 19?

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    It's the WHO who renamed it, it's noted that ebola was named after a long river as the town of origin didn't want to be associated with this deadly disease

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    you sound like victor meldrew from UK sitcom one foot in the grave , moan about china, previously moan about HK, moaned about grotty uk as well, lighten up, life is short enough already

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    Quote Originally Posted by imparanoic:
    It's the WHO who renamed it, it's noted that ebola was named after a long river as the town of origin didn't want to be associated with this deadly disease
    https://twitter.com/alvinllum...32033674133505

    https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020...eate-confusion

    You are right, but there is also a long history of doing what the WHO claim now to be avoiding, which is associating the virus with the geographic point of origin.

    What I read previously suggests also that they rushed out the name to preempt SARS-2 (SARS-CoV-2) becoming how it was referred to. I think it’s quite obvious that with the death of Li Wenliang, that aren’t keen to remind people that he had to confess to spreading rumours and their lame defence was that “it was not SARS”.

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    Quote Originally Posted by East_coast:
    Covid 19 has gone viral. Will it come back again next season as Covid 20?



    I honestly don't think I can handle another season of city-wide paranoia and mask-wearing zombies. It needs to be over NOW.

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