Posted on 06/01/2021 9:15:56 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
As evidence mounts and even former naysayers begin to take more seriously the possibility (probability) that COVID-19 was intentionally created a the Wuhan Institute of Virology, the World Health Organization has announced it has created a new naming system for “the most troubling” COVID “variants of concern,” as well as the second-level “variants of interest” — to “avoid stigmatizing nations where they were first detected.”
What’s in a name? WHO revising naming system for COVID variants to avoid stigmatizing nations where they were first spotted https://t.co/XLCr0zFD7w
— CBS News (@CBSNews) June 1, 2021
The WHO announced on Monday, as reported by CBS News, COVID variants will now be designated by letters of the Greek alphabet.
“They will not replace existing scientific names,” said Maria Van Kerkhove, the WHO’s COVID-19 technical lead, “but are aimed to help in public discussion.”
OK, stop the tape. A couple of glaring questions beg to be asked.
First, is it purely a coincidence that as Wuhan-origin evidence has continued to mount, the WHO — totally unrelated — decided to help “public discussion” focus more accurately on coronavirus variants, or is this a barely-veiled attempt to turn attention away from China?
Second, do WHO officials truly believe “public discussion” correctly focused on China and Wuhan will capitulate and begin referring to the Wuhan virus as a letter of the Greek alphabet?
(Correct answers: “b,” and “LOL if so.”)
Here are several examples, as noted by CBS.
Under the new system, the variants of concern take on the following names: the previously so-called British variant B.1.1.7 becomes Alpha; the B.1.351 first discovered in South Africa becomes Beta, while the Brazilian P.1 becomes Gamma.
The so-called Indian variant B.1.617 is split into sub-lineages, of which the B.1.617.2 variant of concern becomes Delta.
The B.1.617.1 variant of interest is called Kappa.
Besides those names, there are two other scientific names in use for each mutation, while different geographic names have been used to describe the same variant.
For example, within Britain, what other countries have been referring to as the British variant is often called the Kent variant — the county in southeast England where it was first discovered.
The lineage names such as B.1.1.7.2 will still be used in scientific circles, for the mutation information that their names convey.
Eyes glazed over? Mine, too.
And the WHO knows it, as it suggested in its statement:
While they have their advantages, these scientific names can be difficult to say and recall, and are prone to misreporting.
As a result, people often resort to calling variants by the places where they are detected, which is stigmatizing and discriminatory.
To avoid this and to simplify public communications, WHO encourages national authorities, media outlets and others to adopt these new labels.
No, history is not replete with hundreds of diseases, plagues, viruses, etc. with names based on relevant locations of occurrence because “scientific names can be difficult to say and recall”; they were named for areas based on points of reference and common sense.
Oh, and not for “racist” purposes of “stigmatization,” my lefty friends.
Bottom line? Mike Pompeo said it best on Tuesday morning.
“Every piece of evidence suggests the Wuhan virus leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
“Communist China owes the world answers.”
BINGO.
Every piece of evidence suggests the Wuhan virus leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
Communist China owes the world answers.
— Mike Pompeo (@mikepompeo) June 1, 2021
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Wow. So glad they are focused on what is important. Doing the bidding of their CCP masters. Trump was right to drop funding for the WHO. I wish he had done the same for the UN also.
I am done with this. My kids are going to grow up as unwitting debt slaves to these know nothings we send to DC and all their puppet masters and we are sending their money to these massive globalist bureaucracies that hate us. That’s right. They hate us.
It’s the Wuhanic Plague regardless of what the WHO tries to call it.
“Every piece of evidence suggests the Wuhan virus leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
“Communist China owes the world answers.”
^^ THAT ^^
Viruses are not sororities.
Origins and areas of prevalence matter.
The WHO is a tool of the CCP.
Mike must be new to this planet. The correct answer is yes. If he's not new to this planet then he has forgotten how quickly the public took to calling this virus Covid after initially calling it Novel Coronavirus. People started inconveniently figuring out that "novel" is some foreign word meaning "new"and, even more inconveniently aksing, "Wait. If this is a new version of something then there must be an old version of it. How did we deal with that?"
Answering this question truthfully would only serve to get in the way of the pre-determined goal of getting people to voluntarily reduce the population of the earth by injecting themselves with a dangerous gene-altering agent.
So no more Brazilian variant or African variant, which the Left had no problem with up until now when the clueless are finding out what many have known, that COVID is the China Virus because it came from China and not some stupid wet market?
Dang, us deplorables sure is smart. So smart, they have to keep changin’ language so we don’t catch on, yet we still do.
“It came from Chinaa!”
The whole disaster should be called The Fauci Pandemic.
This Orwellian lunacy is just mind-boggling. It’s absolutely everywhere. We’re doomed. Nothing can stop it. It has too much momentum. It’s a freaking black hole.
“It’s a freaking black hole.”
Sure feels that way.
They are very deliberately trying to muddy the waters.
It wasn’t hard to see this coming.
Lots of International/World ‘juggling’ going on between Organizational Powers/Entities these days..... Keep watch as these are indicators of dictating to Nation States by Global Leadership.
no refular people will refer to things this way
WHO is part of the UN. We need to ignore anything they say and get out of both organizations.
So does Fauzi. He owes us all.
RE: So no more Brazilian variant or African variant,
While we’re at it, did Mr. Alzheimer really have Alzheimer’s?
Did Mr. Parkinson really have Parkinson’s?
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