Originally published at: National Covid variants given official names to avoid confusion | Boing Boing
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Which one is “Fred”?
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Covid Delta makes me think of Comrade Delta, which isn’t helpful
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You have to click through to the existing naming schemes: https://cov-lineages.org/
They have stuff like:
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Is it a positive sign that WHO decided to use the 24 letter Greek Alphabet, rather than the 26 letter Phonetic Alphabet?
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But aren’t there more than twenty-four variants already?
“yeah, but omega is being reserved for the final act”
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Somewhere, as we speak, a frat bro is coming up with a new pledge week hazing ritual.
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Protocol Omega: The Director will no longer be intervening in this timeline
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So… Gamma and Delta are scary ones, but what about Zeta and Kappa?
Given how many variants they have already, it seems like optimism to use either. I would have played it safe and gone with Chinese characters. Lots of room for expansion, there - you can start out with the 3000-4000 most common modern hanzi, then expand out to traditional and lesser used ones, for at least 100,000 options…
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… and there’s a non-zero change all five of them (original and the four named) are running around the US, because idiocracy.
Beam me up scotty, I don’t want to live here anymore.
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Good to get the country names out of the mix… ammo for the nutcases to further dump hate on folks.
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“Easy to say”, but I have still heard someone pronounce theta three different ways in the same lecture.
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When do we get a golden release COVID 1.0?
(furthermore) if i know virologists (and i do) we may rest assured of:
- Covid-alpha-2
- Covid-alpha-2r7
- Covid-alpha-2r7B
- Covid-alpha-2r7B_Göttingen
- …and so forth
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