[Robert Urbanek]

The 1984 presidential campaign of Ronald Reagan proclaimed, “It’s morning again in America.” Times have changed. Instead of the “shining city on a hill” envisioned by Reagan, our nation has become a tarnished, corrupt slum. It is now afternoon in America. The falling sun is harsh and unforgiving and will burn away the filth and wretched excess. When the sun touches the earth, America as we know it shall cease to exist.

Culture predicts reality. The 1996 blockbuster movie, Independence Day, in which fire covered everything, was followed the next year by the movie Titanic, in which water covered everything: an omen of global warming to be followed by global flooding.

Fire consumes all. Water cleanses. It separates the foul from the pure. The wicked from the innocent. And that which sinks from that which rises. He destroys all, but only to start again. — Russell Crowe as the title character, Noah (2014)

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The 1984 presidential campaign of Ronald Reagan proclaimed, “It’s morning again in America.” Times have changed. Instead of the “shining city on a hill” envisioned by Reagan, our nation has become a tarnished, corrupt slum. It is now afternoon in America. The falling sun is harsh and unforgiving and will burn away the filth and wretched excess. When the sun touches the earth, America as we know it shall cease to exist.

Culture predicts reality. The 1996 blockbuster movie, Independence Day, in which fire covered everything, was followed the next year by the movie Titanic, in which water covered everything: an omen of global warming to be followed by global flooding.

Fire consumes all. Water cleanses. It separates the foul from the pure. The wicked from the innocent. And that which sinks from that which rises. He destroys all, but only to start again. — Russell Crowe as the title character, Noah (2014)

If we are taking movies seriously, we should get ready for invaders from Mars.

[Robert Urbanek]

If we are taking movies seriously, we should get ready for invaders from Mars.

Mars "attacked" earth on October 31, 1938 when the radio broadcast of War of the Worlds caused a panic when many listeners thought we were really being invaded by aliens from Mars. Some considered the Mars "attack" a symbolic prelude to World War II.

Steven Spielberg's 2005 remake of War of the Worlds may herald the approach of another conflict. In Spielberg’s version, the alien craft laid dormant for eons beneath the earth’s surface before emerging to attack the planet. Similarly, humans may need to fear the ancient demons buried deep in their own subconscious.

Spielberg’s War of the Worlds also signaled an end to the Age of Khepera (ushered in by the Beatles, the incarnation of the scarab god) and our adoration of youth. In the film, the Tom Cruise character begins as an irresponsible father, obsessed with his adolescent love for sports and muscle cars. The war forces him to grow up. America is now in a virtual civil war that will force all of us to grown up.

[Robert Urbanek]

The corona is the plasma “crown” of the falling sun. The coronavirus is the curse of the falling sun god.

[Verv]

I do not think there is a strong indicator that the name has a connection to the sun.

Here is something with the history of coronaviruses:

SUPPLEMENT ARTICLE
History and Recent Advances in Coronavirus Discovery
Kahn, Jeffrey S. MD, PhD*; McIntosh, Kenneth MD†Author Information
The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal: November 2005 - Volume 24 - Issue 11 - p S223-S227
doi: 10.1097/01.inf.0000188166.17324.60
In the late 1960s, Tyrrell was leading a group of virologists working with the human strains and a number of animal viruses. These included infectious bronchitis virus, mouse hepatitis virus and transmissible gastroenteritis virus of swine, all of which had been demonstrated to be morphologically the same as seen through electron microscopy.5,6 This new group of viruses was named coronavirus (corona denoting the crown-like appearance of the surface projections) and was later officially accepted as a new genus of viruses.7

The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal

But I wonder...

What is a virus, really?

They're some kind of non-bacterial "pathogen" (agent that causes disease). They can be described as...

Any of various submicroscopic agents that infect living organisms, often causing disease, and that consist of a single or double strand of RNA or DNA surrounded by a protein coat. Unable to replicate without a host cell, viruses are typically not considered living organisms.

The Free Richardtionary

Look at that: they are not considered to be alive. It is worth noting that they are not that is "killed," but are rendered "inactive." They also apparently are not dead in the sense that they are moving about, acting in reality, performing a task, replicating through invading a cell.

An individual, fully contained virus is called a virion:

A complete viral particle, consisting of RNA or DNA surrounded by a protein shell and constituting the infective form of a virus

The Free Richardtionary

What is this, really?

It's not mechanical. It's made up of submicroscopic biomatter. Yet, it is described as dead, as if it were a machine, a machine that acts on us negatively.

Maybe a lot of the dead matter affecting us on submicroscopic levels will never be understood in our terms because they do not exist on our terms.