[Ads-l] origin of the term "coronavirus"

[Mark Mandel]

Bene dictum, Ionatane!

Grammaticis speculativis scripsit Marcus Mandelensis

On Wed, Mar 18, 2020, 10:59 AM Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
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> Iuventus loquitur:
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> BRADY SLUDER, SPRING-BREAKER FROM OHIO, SAYING:
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> "If I get corona, I get corona. At the end of the day, I'm not going to let
> it stop me from partying."
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> (Morbus, non cervisia.)
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> JL
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> On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 6:02 PM Arnold M. Zwicky <zwicky at stanford.edu>
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> > > On Mar 17, 2020, at 1:33 PM, Peter Reitan <pjreitan at HOTMAIL.COM>
> wrote:
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> > > A more conspiratorial "theory" based on two coincidences sees "corona"
> > as an anagram of "racoon," which connects it to some video game which
> > feature racoon conbected to a logo similar to the logo of the bio lab in
> > Wuhan.  Jump down the rabbit hole here:
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> https://freegametips.com/resident-evil-fans-connect-coronavirus-racoon-city/amp/
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> > oh, this scarcely scratches the surface of dark conspiracies.  a Facebook
> > posting of mine an hour or so ago:
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> > ...
> > Look to the numbers. The numerical value of CORONA is 66, which is of
> > course Satanic. Meanwhile, the value of COVID is 53, the atomic number of
> > iodine, and 19 is the atomic number of potassium, so that COVID-19 is
> > potassium iodide, which protects the thyroid gland from the baleful
> effects
> > of radioactive iodine. So it all hangs together: the virus will bring
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> > it great Satanic blasts of radiation, scouring the earth of human life.
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> > is all foretold.
> > ...
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> > arnold
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