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Weeks when decades happen (lemmy.ml)

submitted 4 days ago by cm0002 to c/memes

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

Because you can't just use up the easy to remember names like that. We've had bird flu, SARS, MERS, swine flu, COVID... We might need cow flu to name a different coronavirus in a few years