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Re:Coronavirus: 'Baffling' observations from the front line by JoeAltmaier on Sunday May 24, 2020 @11:42AM (#23292289)
https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20200423/the-great-invader-h...

There you go, 'son'. So, still obviously wrong and argumentative. Is this even a real account? Or just an insult-bot?

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Re:Coronavirus: 'Baffling' observations from the front line by castis on Sunday May 24, 2020 @01:58PM (#23293255)
> The fact that people with your arrogance and your ignorance exist actually distresses me.

Weird, your account says you joined in 2012 but it seems like today might be your first day on the internet?

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Re:Coronavirus: 'Baffling' observations from the front line by DanBC on Sunday May 24, 2020 @11:14AM (#23292056)
> There's hundreds of coronavirus and they're all respiratory viruses.

How many coronaviruses can infect humans?

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Re:Coronavirus: 'Baffling' observations from the front line by DanBC on Sunday May 24, 2020 @11:19AM (#23292094)
There are seven coronaviruses that infect humans.

229E, NL63, OC43, HKU1, MERS-CoV, SARS-CoV, and SARS-CoV-2.

You said "hundreds". What did you mean when you said hundreds?

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Re:Coronavirus: 'Baffling' observations from the front line by Supermancho on Sunday May 24, 2020 @02:14PM (#23293378)
When talking about viruses, it's a little more complicated than a label. Viruses naturally differentiate in a measurable way from host to host as part of their function (hijacking the host's cells). Scientifically, viruses are lumped into common behavior and generic similarities. Many individual variations do not propagate enough to be noticed, but some do. There was quite a bit of talk from some people about the 112 strains of coronavirus, which was not constructive, but technically correct (re: https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/is-there-more-than...? etc) awhile back.
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Re:Coronavirus: 'Baffling' observations from the front line by nickthemagicman on Sunday May 24, 2020 @02:32PM (#23293518)
I've been rate limited by the site until now.

Of the 7 strains of Coronavirus that you just listed..which of those cause respiratory illness?

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Re:Coronavirus: 'Baffling' observations from the front line by DanBC on Sunday May 24, 2020 @07:36PM (#23295945)
They're all respiratory illnesses, but that doesn't mean the only affect the lungs.

MERS caused kidney failure in some patients.

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Re:Coronavirus: 'Baffling' observations from the front line by dang on Monday May 25, 2020 @04:54AM (#23299305)
We ban accounts that do personal attacks and flamewar, so please don't do those things on HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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