better_names

Re:Google recommends all North America employees work from home on Tuesday March 10, 2020 @06:47PM (#22540706)

I guess we wait for IBM?

Re:MIT moves all classes online for the rest of the semester on Tuesday March 10, 2020 @06:44PM (#22540676)

> to slow a spreading virus like COVID-19

The naming of this thing is such a disaster, even MIT can't get it right.

- the virus is called SARS-CoV-2 (like HIV)

- the disease it causes is named COVID-19 (like AIDS)

- pretty much everyone calls both the virus and the disease coronavirus