D&D and the rising pandemic

[Ryujin]

Meanwhile in 1918.Sound familiar?

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The "obey cheerefully the rules..." part tends to get the backs up of certain people.

 

[Cadence]

Ogden, Utah Standard on 6 Dec1918

San Francisco Chronicle on 22 Oct 1918

 

[Garthanos]

Yup and such a simple thing... my country is full of primitives faking modernity, that would be right at home a hundred years ago

 

[FitzTheRuke]

You won't find me saying bad things about the vaccines, but sometimes I just gotta laugh.

Here's a line from a news article in Canada under the headline "Pfizer, Moderna COVID-19 vaccines get full Health Canada approval — and new names!"

"Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine will now be known as “Comirnaty,” Health Canada wrote. Moderna’s, meanwhile, has been dubbed “Spikevax” and AstraZeneca’s will be called “Vaxzevria.”"

WTH? ... Vaxzevria? Is that a planet in an old Sci-Fi pulp? LOL.

 

[J.Quondam]

Medicine names

Medicine name generator. 10,000's of names are available, you're bound to find one you like.

www.fantasynamegenerators.com

 

[Umbran]

Meanwhile in 1918.Sound familiar?

Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.

 

[Umbran]

Yup and such a simple thing... my country is full of primitives faking modernity, that would be right at home a hundred years ago

We are apes with smartphones.

 

[Umbran]

"Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine will now be known as “Comirnaty,”

And, this at least has an origin: Comirnaty is an agglomeration of the words “Covid-19 immunity” and “mRNA,” the latter indicating the technology that makes the vaccine work. As a whole, the word is intended to evoke “community.”

 

[FitzTheRuke]

And, this at least has an origin: Comirnaty is an agglomeration of the words “Covid-19 immunity” and “mRNA,” the latter indicating the technology that makes the vaccine work. As a whole, the word is intended to evoke “community.”

Sure, that's how they came up with it. Still looks like gibberish on the page. Of course, nearly ALL medicines are named like this. I find it mildly silly, is all. YMMV.

 

[Thomas Shey]

And there genuinely is a problem with trademark-capable names being, well, heavily used up. Its why so many drugs sound like SF names now.