We have been told more than once that

comparing the virus to a war

is an inappropriate and even distasteful exercise.

War is an understandably unpopular reality, and for many, so are those who have the duty of doing it by profession if necessary, an antipathy that they extend to any word of military origin that can serve as a metaphor.

In a certain sense, it is clear that abusing the simile is equivalent to blurring the effort that a pandemic requires:

it is not a matter of killing anyone

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