Posted on 11/27/2021 9:56:21 AM PST by WeaslesRippedMyFlesh
A logo is pictured on the World Health Organization (WHO) headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, November 22, 2017. The World Health Organization dubbed the next coronavirus variant rising in South Africa as Omicron.
The emergence of the Omicron variant of COVID-19 has international health experts worried, financial markets roiled and the Internet confused over how the new name was chosen.
The World Health Organization appeared to skip two letters in the Greek alphabet when it announced Friday the name for the latest coronavirus variant, which was first identified in South Africa.
Nu and Xi were apparently the next letters in the Greek alphabet that have yet to be used for a variant, according to data on their website.
Internet pundits and politicians speculated that the group skipped Nu to avoid confusion with the word “new” and passed on Xi because of its written similarity to the name of Chinese leader Xi Jinping.
“If the WHO is this scared of the Chinese Communist Party, how can they be trusted to call them out next time they’re trying to cover up a catastrophic global pandemic?” Cruz sniped in a criticism of the country’s role in the outbreak.
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So, Omicron it is.
It was urgent that they have an anagram for MORONIC.
Would Panda variant work?
And, as another Freeper wrote last night, Omicron sounds scarier.
...or “Poo Bear” variant
It should be required that the letters Nu and Xi be immediately removed from all digital text and from newly printed hard copy and replaced by spaces. We owe that to the Chinese. /sarc
agree, omicron is the scariest sounding
I wonder if there’s a Foucci lab in South Africa.
Whinny the Flu
Comic con= an event where people dress up in masks and funny clothes and pretend to be superheroes.
Covid con= an event where people put on masks and take drugs, then pretend they’re invincible like superheroes.
Way to go Brandon!
Bamboo flu
Whinny the Flu
/thread
well played
Probably did not want one named Xi as in Xi Jinping.
I guess we know who rules us now. Thank you New World Order.
When I was in a fraternity I could recite the Greek alphabet three times on a match
That is exactly how I learned it as part of pledging.
I can still do it under ~5 sec.
Thanks for bringing back all those great memories.
Just go with Andromeda
Back then I was hazed then after initiation I hazed other pledges nothing serious more of a humiliating type thing than a mean type of thing
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