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@UserAccount  
@UserAccount
 
I’d need a trusted person with expertise in Common English (better several). I see examples that may be read both as “Virus is Disease” and “Virus implies Disease”, but to tell for sure I’d have to analyze much more phrases and contexts. So, as I’ve said, I’m leaving it to mods (as if I really could act differently, lol).
 
Hope I’m not flooding the thread, it was nice to have this conversation j

@Blackie Wiremane  
Well, what I did was in-keeping with the current rules, it was just something that nobody had done yet. Anyway, a virus in common English usage refers both to the microscopic organism and to the disease that’s caused from the organism. You’ll have to make a new tag for what you want, something like “Coronavirus (microbiology)”.

@UserAccount  
No, it’s all about sense! x) In strict terms, COVID-19 is a disease caused by a coronavirus, specifically SARS-CoV-2; a coronavirus is a dead microscopic organic ball with spikes, a virus itself. Tho as can be observed on Internet, the terms are used interchangeably due to the pandemic context.
 
My way into this discussion is partially due to my search for the virus’ ponifications, so for future generations and myself I’d like to see images with the virus itself easily distinguishable from the rest. Workarounds I have atm are: searching by known oc tags; and theoretically it may be ponified+virus search (tags to be tagged, then). Implications to the oc tags may be added.
 

Let the tag war begin!
 
I think I have explained my opinion clearly enough, so I can simply rely on mods’ experience and wisdom now. Especially native speakers’. The language evolves, and so do tags.

@Blackie Wiremane  

 
Corn implies food, even though it’s just a plant and not inherently something eaten. Because the website is run by humans and is about anthropomorphic ponies. So the tags account for what things are to us and to the characters. The microscopic organisms that give us the disease are the disease for all intents and purposes.

@Blackie Wiremane  
That makes absolutely no sense at all. COVID-19 is coronavirus. The first example being distinct from the third is nonsense. There is also no reason to distinguish something just because it takes place in Equestria.
 
Anyway, since every single coronavirus image on this site is about COVID-19, I went ahead and added the tag to all of them. If someone makes an image about an older version of corona or if a new version comes around, then those images can be tagged separately.

@Derpy Whooves  
Seems I have to check my dictionary. I’m advocating for the tags NOT to be merged. Even NOT to have the implication.  
this is covid-19 / “coronavirus hype/hysteria”  
this is (I believe) povid-19 (imply covid-19 ? also pony ? hm, no, not pony, it might be in an Equestrian location, but w/o ponies onscreen)  
Observation: povid-19 is seemingly used atm as “ponified coronavirus/pathogen”.  
this is coronavirus. Can be implied for oc:porona and oc:corona chan.
 
@Litrojia  
I believe social distancing must not be implied, and only tagged explicitly when displayed in the image.

Should social distancing be implied into either tag?

@Blackie Wiremane  

 
What are you trying to accomplish here?
 
If you honestly feel that what you have just said is true, then why are you advocating for them to be merged?

@Derpy Whooves  

Covid is a disease, and a coronavirus is a pathogen. You’re saying Magic implies Horn. Wait…  

Sometimes it looks that way))

@UserAccount  
I agree. There will probably be other events in the future like this one.
 
Why do you think the art made for COVID-9999b should be sorted and filtered with COVID-19? Are people enduring the COVID-9999b pandemic really worried about the COVID-19 such that a search for COVID-9999b should ALSO return all of the COVID-19 images?
 
In the same way that “Messy Diaper” and “Wet Diaper” are both “Diaper Fetishes”, we don’t merge them all into a single “Diaper Fetish” tag.
 
And in the same way that the 2019 Community Collaboration is effectively the same kind of event as the 2020 Community Collaboration, we don’t merge them all into the “Community Collaboration” because oh my god there might ALSO be a 2021 Community Collaboration!
 
Relax. If in 2037 we have “too many” Covid events for the database or the users to be able to manage, then we can solve that problem then.

@Derpy Whooves  
The other coronaviruses that we’ll have to deal with after this are going to be huge events too, some scientists say. Pandemics like this might become a yearly event, so it makes sense to just merge all the mutations of this disease into one tag. Are you gonna have tags for COVID-20 through COVID-9999b?

@Blackie Wiremane  
Covid-19 is a Coronavirus. Having Covid-19 imply Coronavirus is entirely appropriate.
 
@UserAccount  
No.
 
Coronaviruses have happened before and will happen again.
 
People creating images about this current and specific global pandemic are not creating images about 229E, NL63, OC43, MERS, or SARS.
 
They are creating images about what is commonly known as “Covid-19”.
 
Covid-19 is a specific event that is fucking up our social and professional lives, about which people are creating a great deal of art, and it is worthy of it’s own tag to differentiate it from other coronaviruses that have happened in the past, and will happen in the future.
 
@Blackie Wiremane  
This isn’t a medical encoding database.

@Background Pony #9A30  
Also, this thread seems to be what’s entangled the two tags even more.

@Background Pony #9A30  

I double. Should use correct terms.
 
Maybe spawn/rename “covid-19/coronavirus hype/hysteria” tag family, and imply/alias with them )

@Background Pony #AC60  
I’ve admittedly been adding the tags to tangentially-related images (like advocating hand-washing or characters wearing masks) for this exact reason. If mods have a problem with adding the tags like this based only on context, we could do an “implied coronavirus” tag or something.  
Also, “coronavirus” is definitely the most intuitive tag name. “covid-19” only seems like a fitting tag if there were other coronavirus outbreaks that warranted a tag.

@Background Pony #9A30  
The tag(s) already are used for images neither depicting anyone exhibiting the disease (COVID-19) nor the virus itself (SARS-CoV-2). Even pictures that could stand on their own, such as anything advocating “wash hands to avoid disease”, are getting the tag simply because of the context of the moment in time they were created. And that’s fine, because people understandably might want to avoid seeing things even loosely related.
 
My point is, pedantry is already a lost cause, might as well roll with what people will recognize and understand.
 
FWIW I’d submit that “2019 Coronavirus outbreak” is the most akchually correct phrase if there will be a single tag, but “coronavirus” is probably the most useful.

Seconding merging these tags

@UserAccount  
So? If we’re narrowing this down to a single tag, then we should narrow it to the correct term. It wouldn’t be the first time pedantry won out over volume for tags.

@Background Pony #9A30  
The terms are used interchangeably in common usage. This isn’t WebMD.

It’s also inaccurate. COVID-19 is the name of the disease, coronavirus is just it’s classification and it’s only one of many coronaviri.

The tag “Covid-19” should be merged with “Coronavirus”.
 
“Coronavirus” should be the one that’s displayed in the tags list, because it’s the more popular name.