The percentage of Americans who are employed has fallen from 61 to 51

Re:The percentage of Americans who are employed has fallen f... by collegeburner on Thursday July 02, 2020 @11:27PM (#23720774)

Follow-up: why the down-votes in response? I'm very confused given that my prior comment wasn't.

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Re:The percentage of Americans who are employed has fallen f... by Doxin on Friday July 03, 2020 @09:53AM (#23724028)

I imagine it's due to calling it "wuhan coronavirus" instead of simply "coronavirus" or "covid-19".

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Re:The percentage of Americans who are employed has fallen f... by collegeburner on Friday July 03, 2020 @12:03PM (#23725131)

Coronavirus isn't descriptive. SARS-CoV-2 is unbearably clunky. Covid refers to the disease caused by the virus (it's short for "coronavirus disease"); people don't communicate a disease, they communicate a virus. This is like the HIV/AIDS distinction: you can't "catch AIDS". Hence my terminology. Talk about petty, though. It's from wuhan, so calling it "wuhan coronavirus" or "chinese coronavirus" strikes me as more than reasonable.

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