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WHO names new COVID variant ‘Omicron’
Nypost ^ | 11/26/2021 | Emily Crane

Posted on 11/26/2021 10:59:03 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27

The new COVID-19 variant first detected in South Africa was given the name Omicron by the World Health Organization on Friday.

An advisory panel classified Omicron as a highly transmissible virus of concern and gave it its name under its Greek-letter system.

It marks the first time in months that WHO has classified a COVID-19 variant with such a name – and is only the fifth variant to be given the designation amid the pandemic.

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


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: 2; botswana; chinavirus; covid; names; omicron; omicronomicronomicro; variant; who
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To: afchief

You are the “STUPID LYING” one. The variants are straightforwardly identifiable with sequencing procedures.


41 posted on 11/26/2021 12:24:37 PM PST by steve86 (Prophecies of Maelmhaedhoc O'Morgair (Latin form: Malachy))
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Does this at least mean that the Delta strain didn’t get me, like my personal physician said it would if I didn’t submit to the jab?


42 posted on 11/26/2021 12:25:47 PM PST by OKSooner ("AFTER THE FAIR TRIAL!" Always say "After the Fair Trial.". )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

So Nu Om. Not real catchy.


43 posted on 11/26/2021 12:39:20 PM PST by Boomer (Leftism is a mental illness wrapped in a perverse ideology resulting in insanity. FJB)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I still call it the Wuhan Flu, but Omicron will really scare people with that name. If it wasn’t obvious two years ago, it must be obvious now that this thing is total political bullshit.

We’ll see this Omicron in the news for weeks now, because it sounds really dangerous like a science fiction movie or novel scary name.


44 posted on 11/26/2021 12:48:38 PM PST by lefty-lie-spy (Stay Metal)
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To: steve86

More PROOF ALL Liberals are IDIOTS.......How do hospitals test for ANY covid variant?

Let me help the STUPID Liberal......THE PCR TEST which has proven to be fraudulent

WAKE UP and stop being a Liberal IDIOT!!


45 posted on 11/26/2021 12:53:13 PM PST by afchief
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To: Phinneous; SJackson
God must be a big fan of Abbott and Costello.

"I AM WHO I AM"

David's magnum opus was the building plans for the Temple --- *the* Temple for the name of the Lord God of Israel.

"DARE MIGHTY THINGS"

Along with NIGHT and DAY, I found this route on the Mars decoder ring, because the coordinates are in CA, for JPL:

Route information
Defined by Streets and Highways Code § 358

RT 58 [חן]

There's always a song that says the same thing. It even starts out with a dog barking..

Dwight Yoakam & Buck Owens ~ "Streets of Bakersfield"

I came here in looking for somethin'
I couldn't find anywhere else
Well, I don't want to be nobody,
Just want a chance to be myself.

I've done a thousand miles of thumbin',
Yes, I've worn blisters on my heels
Trying to find me something better
On the streets of Bakersfield.


You don't know me but you don't like me,
You say you care less how I feel

How many of you that sit and judge me
Ever walked the streets of Bakersfield?

David envisioned quite a line up of musicians and singers.

What a place, where

God's peeps can just be who they will be. Take yer shoes off.

"Oh jealous me and careless you, the odds were just too great."

Wanna.. bet? ;)

The key's in the mailbox. Come on in.

46 posted on 11/26/2021 1:15:57 PM PST by Ezekiel ("Come fly with US". Ingenuity -- because the Son of David begins with Mars.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

noticeably skipping over “Xi” in the greek alphabet


47 posted on 11/26/2021 1:30:20 PM PST by Jet Jaguar (Fascists never think they’re the fascists.)
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To: rightwingcrazy
I was voting for it to be called The Variant Formely Known as Prince. This shall be its symbol.


48 posted on 11/26/2021 1:42:28 PM PST by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s^2 )
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To: rightwingcrazy

No, next is Cuneiform...


49 posted on 11/26/2021 3:15:38 PM PST by EEGator
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To: faithhopecharity

The “N” word is racist...


50 posted on 11/26/2021 3:17:25 PM PST by EEGator
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Just name the variant after a cartoon:

https://youtu.be/itIl8yTBgY0


51 posted on 11/26/2021 3:18:37 PM PST by bobcat62
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To: Fido969

Who’s who in China Bat Flu?


52 posted on 11/26/2021 3:23:26 PM PST by Leep (Save America. Lock down pres. Brandon!)
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To: Texas_Guy
Unicron!

I'd guess that they were GONNA call it that, but Hasbro would sue their pants off.
53 posted on 11/26/2021 3:25:51 PM PST by RandallFlagg ("Okay. As long as the paperwork is clean, you boys can do what you like out there." -Fifi)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

OMG we are all going to die - again.


54 posted on 11/26/2021 3:35:51 PM PST by Sam Gamgee
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To: EEGator

Smiles 🤡


55 posted on 11/26/2021 5:17:18 PM PST by faithhopecharity (“Politicians are not born. They’re excreted.” Marcus Tillius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: Sam Gamgee

Just another OMIGOD! variant…


56 posted on 11/26/2021 5:27:47 PM PST by mikrofon (God Bless America)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Somebody pointed out that in Greek the letter between Nu and Omicron is Xi, but of course, it would be racist to call a variant of the China virus that.


57 posted on 11/26/2021 7:36:57 PM PST by x
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To: All

covid politicians: first abusing science, then English, and now Greek.


58 posted on 11/28/2021 3:47:20 PM PST by SteveH (.)
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