Please tell me you mean this ironically. Here’s why I give a shit:

One thing I did this year was to develop, nurture, and refine three new pet peeves:

1: Using the words “the coronavirus” to refer to the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

Why it sucks: SARS-CoV-2 is one of many coronaviruses. Most of them infect bats. Of the 7 or so that infect humans, most cause colds or do nothing, but one causes SARS (now called SARS-CoV-1, formerly SARS-CoV) and another causes MERS, both deadly diseases, deadlier than COVID-19 in fact, which is why they didn’t come to rule the world the way SARS-CoV-2 has.

Why I give up: Everybody does it, so everybody knows what you mean by “the coronavirus.”

2: Saying, “infected with COVID-19,” or “sick with the coronavirus.”

Why it sucks: The coronavirus aka SARS-CoV-2 is a virus so it’s what you get infected with, COVID-19 is a disease so that’s what you get sick with.

Why I give up: it is natural for people to confuse shit. Once confused people cling the their confusions as to teddy bears.

3: Panicky headlines about SARS-CoV-2 mutating.

Why it sucks: It’s a virus. It mutates. That’s what viruses do. All. The. Time.

Why I give up: Science education has failed in this benighted country. No getting around it.