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54-Year-Old Facebook User Wins Nobel Prize For Own Extensive Internet Research Into Dangers Of Covid Vaccine (www.theonion.com)

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's not really an acronym, just an abbreviation. "Coronavirus disease" is only two words. You could write CoviD I guess, but that looks dumb.

I'd think that it isn't a proper noun and shouldn't be capitalized at all, but maybe that's why they're the professionals and I'm just some guy on the internet.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago

Somehow an attempt to be correct ends up looking like mockery

"I have Covid"

SpongeBob with hands on hips: "I hAvE CoViD"