• DeeEmCeeTooBestGaem [she/her]
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    30 days ago

    In Japanese the official name is 新型コロナウィルス肺炎 (shingata koronawirusu haien) which is more or less equivalent to the Chinese, “new-type coronavirus lung inflammation”, but it hasn’t really been called that by anything other than government since 2020. Most of the time it’s just 新型コロナ (shingata korona), “new corona”. コロナ禍 (koronaka), literally “corona catastrophe” is the common term for the pandemic.