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Re:Vaccines and our return to office plans by runawaybottle on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @09:30PM (#27991811)
Is that true? We’ve classified a lot of things in life. The entire taxonomy of animals for example. No, I’m sorry, this is not beyond us. Where does Coronavirus fall? It’s not HIV, that’s for sure. Is it closer to the flu, or not?

I think we’re done playing this game as a society.

Re:Vaccines and our return to office plans by anyfoo on Thursday July 29, 2021 @12:15AM (#27992717)
Coronavirus is a kind of virus. Some of the many strains of the common cold are coronaviruses, so are COVID-19 and MERS. Flus are their own kind of virus, “influenza viruses”, but I only know what I know from quick conversations with actual biologists, so take it with a grain of salt. I don’t know whether taxonomy is necessarily helpful here. Some frogs are poisonous, some are delicacies, and they come in all sorts of colors, abilities, and sizes.