Somehow i think i missed this bit of knowledge:
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How do all these terms fit together? "Coronavirus" is a generic term that includes a large family of viruses, similar to saying someone has the flu. SARS-CoV-2 is a specific virus that can cause COVID-19, a disease. As WHO explains, this is similar to differentiating HIV and AIDS — HIV is a virus that causes AIDS. Outlined on their website, "People often know the name of a disease, such as measles, but not the name of the virus that causes it (rubeola)."
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Not sure how i missed the HIV/AIDS comparison that is far easier to understand than Explorer/Ford.
AIDS is to Covid-19 as
HIV is to sars-cov-2 (the virus that causes the disease)
Coronavirus is to sars-cov-2 as
Cornoavirus is to 'the cold'
Coronavirus is NEITHER the agent that causes the disease NOR the infection caused by the disease.
So do you see why it bugs the crap out of me that Coronavirus is used as a synonym for: covid-19, sars-cov-2, wuhan virus, novel coronavirus 2019?
it's exactly NONE of those things. Yet it's entrenched into society by the mindless non-news talking heads that don't understand the difference of an adjective and a noun. I usually refer to wuhan originated virus as 'the virus' ; in 2020 it's pretty clear what virus you're talking about; you can also use 'the thing' or 'it'. they all work. but coronavirus ; still wrong. always wrong.
The closest analog would be 'the flu' and if people would say 'the coronavirus' that picks it out as 'the important one worth discussing' that could be ok grammatically.
Spread the word maybe it'll 'go viral' and people can use the correct terms (it would be maybe kinder and gentler to make a "PC" version of the alias 'Wuhan virus' ) but it's really stupid. Just like Ebola and 16 others, it was common sense to name a virus after the origin. 'they' decided somehow that's 'evil' so we 'can't' do that anymore.. "they" are morons, yup said it just plain stupid. It's caving to PC nonsense that has led to the epidemic of thin-skinned people that get so upset about a phrase a person uses that they go out and harm an entirely unrelated person that is unrelated to the phrase? it's asinine.
There is a great example i can't recall the exact details but an absolutely idiotic 'talking head' made a very stupid suggestion on the air of his non-news program and it literally encouraged some people to go cause harm and in that harm a person was killed. it was a very direct A to B to C, no other way to look at it. Yet since it was 'the media' that did it the guy got a complete pass. He was literally accessory to murder. *that* is a case like the 'democrat hoax' that the president was *actually* referring to. *absolutely not* that sars-cov-2 or covid-19 are a hoax.