The “Pneu” & “”monia roots of the word, out of ancient Green and into Latin, literally mean ‘inflammation of the lungs”. So maybe a little bit of truth is revealed in a word so familiar that we ignore its meaning without understanding its message. Inflammation. That’s the message. If we could keep the inflammation under control, and if our coughing could keep up with the mucous being generated as our immune system fights the virus in our lungs, would as many of us die? Not from the virus, but from the consequences of its choice of human lungs as an optimal place to replicate like crazy.