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Who Nu?
American Thinker ^ | 28 Nov, 2021 | Clarice Feldman

Posted on 11/28/2021 4:02:58 AM PST by MtnClimber

They’re now trying to shut down everything again and make the world safe again for private jet-flying elites to escape from voters. This time they claim there’s a super-spreading, super-scary new variant of the Wuhan (pardon me, COVID-19) virus from Africa. As far as I’m able to discover there is no test for it, it has actually been around since July and it doesn’t seem particularly fatal. So far it has produced only mild cases. But the taste of totalitarian control has only whetted the desire for more, with the thought of destroying those “deplorable” productive citizens of the middle class an added bonus.

How it got its name (Omicron) is another sign of the political nature of the thing.

Paul Nuki, the senior editor for Global Health Security and Campaigns at the UK Telegraph tweets the answer:

A WHO source confirmed the letters Nu and Xi of the Greek alphabet had been deliberately avoided. Nu had been skipped to avoid confusion with the word “new” and Xi [the name of the Chinese Communist boss] had been slipped to avoid stigmatising a region,” they said .

The NY Sun’s editors had fun with that excuse:

As for Xi, the World Health Organization explains the omission as a move meant to avoid offending a whole “region.” That, to the uninitiated, implies that it feels an entire region would feel slighted were a virus given the same name as the surname of the Communist Chinese party boss, Xi Jinping. On that the sardonic Leo Rosten would probably mutter nu nu -- as in “oh, come on.”

In the meantime, President Biden has sharply restricted travel to the U.S. from Africa which reminded people of how he accused President Trump of racism when he restricted travel from China and later from Africa

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Health/Medicine; Science
KEYWORDS: communism

1 posted on 11/28/2021 4:02:58 AM PST by MtnClimber
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To: upchuck

Clarice ping for you.


2 posted on 11/28/2021 4:03:35 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

Name the new strain “Mid-Term Covid”.


3 posted on 11/28/2021 4:11:32 AM PST by KC Burke (If all the world is a stage, I would like to request my lighting be adjusted.)
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To: KC Burke

I like the Xi-it variant.


4 posted on 11/28/2021 4:27:17 AM PST by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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To: MtnClimber

On Futurama wasn’t omicron the home planet of Lrr the Destroyer


5 posted on 11/28/2021 5:06:04 AM PST by Cowman
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Who omicron?

Fixed.

ff

6 posted on 11/28/2021 5:09:01 AM PST by foreverfree
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To: MtnClimber
Already frightened residents of my condo community are walking their poodles outside with masks again and petitioning the board to shut down the clubhouse and make masks mandatory everywhere in the community.

Super-super scary stuff! That big, bad "virus" is making a comeback. This time it means business, apparently.

7 posted on 11/28/2021 5:12:25 AM PST by SamAdams76 (I am 3 days away from outliving Holly Dunn)
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To: MtnClimber

It’s Yiddish.


8 posted on 11/28/2021 5:15:33 AM PST by Lisbon1940 (No full-term Governors (at the time of election))
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To: MtnClimber; 5th MEB; Albion Wilde; American in Israel; bitt; BlackAdderess; bobfeland; burghguy; ...
Thx for the ping MtnClimber.


Clarice Feldman ping.

If you'd like to be on or off the Clarice Feldman ping list, usually issued only on Sunday morning, please click Private Reply below and drop me a FReepmail.

9 posted on 11/28/2021 6:09:36 AM PST by upchuck (The longer I remain unjabbed with the clot-shot, the more evidence I see supporting my decision.)
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To: MtnClimber
(from the article) "Germany has announced you will not be eligible for euthanasia unless you are vaccinated.

I'm confused, so lemee get this straight; ... Germany won't allow their medical community to legally kill you unless you have a "vaccine" that has a good chance to legally kill you first before the medical community does it "officially"?

Did I get that about right?

10 posted on 11/28/2021 7:45:40 AM PST by Gritty (We're never gonna know how safe the vaccine is (for kids) until we start giving it-DrRuben,FDA Panel)
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To: Gritty
I think you got it right. We live in

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11 posted on 11/28/2021 7:54:55 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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