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posted ago by trumpsbluetie ago by trumpsbluetie +15 / -1

My theory is that "Comirnaty" is not an anagram, as some have proposed as soon as the name was released, but a portmanteau-- that is, a conglomeration of other words or parts of words. In this theory there is of course what I'll call the "public reading" of the portmanteau, and also a secret, "occult reading." (Keep in mind here that "occult" means "concealed", not necessarily magical, although such things are subjective.)

I took this paragraph from an article on Quartz:

(https://qz.com/2051321/why-pfizers-covid-19-vaccine-comirnaty-has-a-weird-name/)

BioNTech filed to register “Comirnaty” as a trademark in June 2020, well before anyone even knew if there would even be a vaccine to use. Around the same time, BioNTech filed to trademark other alternative names, all of them just as cryptic at first glance: Covuity, presumably a mash up of Covid and immunity; Kovimerna, which sounds like it cannibalizes the name of the other vaccine company Moderna; or RnaxCovi, which might be a blend of “RNA,” “vaccine” and “Covid.”

So the above paragraph would be the "public reading" of the portmanteau. But I want to draw attention to the central portion of the word, "mirna."

"Mirna" refers not to "RNA" or "mRNA," but a third class of molecule called "microRNA" or "miRNA."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MicroRNA

From the above article:

"A microRNA (abbreviated miRNA) is a small single-stranded non-coding RNA molecule (containing about 22 nucleotides) found in plants, animals and some viruses, that functions in RNA silencing and post-transcriptional regulation of gene expression."

"[S]ilencing and ... regulation of gene expression."

That is the key to the occult reading of Comirnaty. Now, do what you do, internet.