Posted on 05/23/2021 11:25:00 PM PDT by blueplum
All social media platforms have been asked by the Indian government to take down any content that refers to an "Indian variant" of coronavirus, according to a letter published over the weekend.
In the letter, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) said the World Health Organization has not associated the term "Indian Variant" with the B.1.617 variant of the coronavirus in any of its reports.
The B.1.617 variant of the coronavirus gained the "Indian variant" label when online content claimed it was originated from there. Last month, the UK Science Media Centre said usage of the "India variant" label should be avoided as it is difficult to confirm definitively where the variant first arose....
(Excerpt) Read more at zdnet.com ...
Hey, India, was there not an Indian VARIANT of COVID19?
It’s always been amusing to watch the people at the WHO or the Biden administration try to explain why calling a virus that originated in China, became an epidemic in China and was spread around the world by Chinese tourists visiting overseas relatives during the Chines New Year break the Chinese Flu, Wuhan flu or whatever is racist and demeaning but naming all of the variants by country of origin isn’t.
Does that mean you can’t use the ‘UK variant’ or the ‘South African variant’ or the ‘Brazilian variant’ or the ‘China variant’... Oh... That’s right... We can’t use the ‘China’ variant... Okay... No more ‘Indian variant’, after all it is insensitive to indigenous American’s
This world has completely lost its collective mind.
Indians and Communist Chinese are two of the three most arrogant butt-hurt ethnicities on the planet (the third is not an ethnicity, but a religion - Islam)
No more ‘Indian variant’, after all it is insensitive to indigenous Americans
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Dot Indians, not feather.
Actually... DOT or no DOT, they are both indigenous. BTW... I realized they were referring to DOT Indians... I was attempting humour.
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