<html><head></head><body><br class=""/><div><br class=""/><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Mar 22, 2020, at 2:28 PM, Texx <<a href="mailto:texxgadget@gmail.com" class="">texxgadget@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"/><div class="">
<div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="">Heres what I know about Covid19:<br class=""/><br class=""/>I have adopted the Japanese bow as my preferred greeting and dont see dropping it anytime this year.<br class=""/>Perhaps if this country learned to bow, the country might be a better place.<br class=""/><br class=""/>Elbow bumps still get you too close.<br class=""/><br class=""/>When we had the SARS scare, I attended a number of seminars about how it would play out, what to expect etc.<br class=""/>Its playing out as they predicted then, but fortunately, this thing is less lethal than SARS.<br class=""/><br class=""/>It is important to distinguish between "Corona Virus" vs: "Novel Corona Virus 2019 (AKA: COVID19)"<br class=""/>Please note that I will use the proper name of this virus (and its 20 variants)<br class=""/></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""/></div><div><br class=""/></div><div>According to this source… <a href="https://www.vox.com/2020/2/14/21135208/coronavirus-wuhan-china-covid-19-name-sars-cov-" class="">https://www.vox.com/2020/2/14/21135208/coronavirus-wuhan-china-covid-19-name-sars-cov-</a>2</div><div>The disease is Covid-19 and the virus causing the disease is SARS-CoV-2.</div><div>The article explains there were many considerations that went into the naming.</div><br class=""/><div>…snip...</div><div><br class=""/></div><br class=""/><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><br class=""/>Corona Virus is a family of viruses that includes the common cold.<br class=""/>While we still get colds, we have a "herd immunity" which eases its severity.<br class=""/><br class=""/>We get a couple Flu-A and a couple Flu-B each year.<br class=""/>We often get them, but again "Herd Immunity" softens their effects.<br class=""/><br class=""/>Covid19 is a "Novel" corona virus, your body hasnt seen anything even remotely similar to it, <br class=""/>so there is zero herd immunity, therefore it hits with maximum impact.<br class=""/></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""/><div class="">
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