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By *lay 4 u OP   Man
over a year ago

bolton

Just a quickie why has the Indian variant been renamed delta ?

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By *hatawasteMan
over a year ago

stafford


"Just a quickie why has the Indian variant been renamed delta ? "

probably got the same reason Trump was ticked off for calling covid the 'Chinese virus I should think..

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By *allySlinkyWoman
over a year ago

Leeds

Because it is the fourth variant. They will all be called consecutive letters of the Greek alphabet from now on.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

So it doesn't offend people from India I suppose

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Just a quickie why has the Indian variant been renamed delta ? "

Because the world is full of stupid racist people

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By *heBirminghamWeekendMan
over a year ago

here

World Health Organisation was concerned that labelling variants by their locations could fuel hate crimes.

They also suggested the scientific names are too complicated to remember

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

To stop the blame being attributed to countries and blaming them. The virus will always mutate the same way that all viruses do. There is too much hate and blame in this world already

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By *etcplCouple
over a year ago

Gapping Fanny

Searching can be your friend:

“Global health chiefs renamed coronavirus variants in an effort to remove any stigma associated with the countries they are associated with.

Under the new system devised by the World Health Organisation, variants are no longer identified by the area or country of their discovery, such as the Indian, South African or Kent strains.

Greek letters have instead been assigned to the strains in the order they were designated variants of concern, starting at Alpha, for the strain first detected in the UK last year.”

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By *lay 4 u OP   Man
over a year ago

bolton

Yet still Kent and South African variant on news coverage ?

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By *lay 4 u OP   Man
over a year ago

bolton

Yet still Kent and South African variant on news coverage ?. Why only change one and not Kent etc ?.

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By *andare63Man
over a year ago

oldham


"Just a quickie why has the Indian variant been renamed delta ? "

Why do you think?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Because it's all a load of utter bollocks. There have been virus variants since the dawn of time. This is why we have an immune system.

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By *naswingdressWoman
over a year ago

Manchester (she/her)


"Searching can be your friend:

“Global health chiefs renamed coronavirus variants in an effort to remove any stigma associated with the countries they are associated with.

Under the new system devised by the World Health Organisation, variants are no longer identified by the area or country of their discovery, such as the Indian, South African or Kent strains.

Greek letters have instead been assigned to the strains in the order they were designated variants of concern, starting at Alpha, for the strain first detected in the UK last year.”

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By *etcplCouple
over a year ago

Gapping Fanny


"Yet still Kent and South African variant on news coverage ?. Why only change one and not Kent etc ?."

They have. Why the news coverage you watch doesn’t use them I can only guess at..

Variants of concern:

Delta - Indian variant/B1617.2

Gamma - Brazil variant/P1

Beta - South Africa variant/B1351

Alpha - Kent variant/B117

Variants of interest:

Epsilon - B.1.427/B.1.429

Zeta - P2

Eta - B.1.525

Theta - P.3

Iota - B.1.526

Kappa - B.1.617

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By *naswingdressWoman
over a year ago

Manchester (she/her)


"Yet still Kent and South African variant on news coverage ?. Why only change one and not Kent etc ?.

They have. Why the news coverage you watch doesn’t use them I can only guess at..

Variants of concern:

Delta - Indian variant/B1617.2

Gamma - Brazil variant/P1

Beta - South Africa variant/B1351

Alpha - Kent variant/B117

Variants of interest:

Epsilon - B.1.427/B.1.429

Zeta - P2

Eta - B.1.525

Theta - P.3

Iota - B.1.526

Kappa - B.1.617

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It's a fairly recent change that people will take awhile to catch up with

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By *allySlinkyWoman
over a year ago

Leeds


"Yet still Kent and South African variant on news coverage ?. Why only change one and not Kent etc ?."

They are changed too.

Kent - Alpha

South Africa - Beta

Brazil - Gamma

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By *ty31Man
over a year ago

NW London

Wot happens when we run out of Greek Alphabet characters to use?

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By *olly_chromaticTV/TS
over a year ago

Stockport


"Yet still Kent and South African variant on news coverage ?. Why only change one and not Kent etc ?.

They have. Why the news coverage you watch doesn’t use them I can only guess at..

Variants of concern:

Delta - Indian variant/B1617.2

Gamma - Brazil variant/P1

Beta - South Africa variant/B1351

Alpha - Kent variant/B117

Variants of interest:

Epsilon - B.1.427/B.1.429

Zeta - P2

Eta - B.1.525

Theta - P.3

Iota - B.1.526

Kappa - B.1.617

"

There are however two problems with the new system:

1. (Minor) The greek alphabet is not that familiar to a lot of people, I can easily see confusion arising between eta and iota, phi and psi etc.

2. (Major) It only has 24 letters and nearly half of them have been assigned to variants already. Cue running out of letters by about August and having to find a new system...

Or perhaps when we get to the Omega virus the show will be over, the curtain will come down...

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By *naswingdressWoman
over a year ago

Manchester (she/her)


"Yet still Kent and South African variant on news coverage ?. Why only change one and not Kent etc ?.

They have. Why the news coverage you watch doesn’t use them I can only guess at..

Variants of concern:

Delta - Indian variant/B1617.2

Gamma - Brazil variant/P1

Beta - South Africa variant/B1351

Alpha - Kent variant/B117

Variants of interest:

Epsilon - B.1.427/B.1.429

Zeta - P2

Eta - B.1.525

Theta - P.3

Iota - B.1.526

Kappa - B.1.617

There are however two problems with the new system:

1. (Minor) The greek alphabet is not that familiar to a lot of people, I can easily see confusion arising between eta and iota, phi and psi etc.

2. (Major) It only has 24 letters and nearly half of them have been assigned to variants already. Cue running out of letters by about August and having to find a new system...

Or perhaps when we get to the Omega virus the show will be over, the curtain will come down..."

I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.

*Curtain closes on humanity*

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By *naswingdressWoman
over a year ago

Manchester (she/her)

The idea of people being confused by eta versus iota baffles me

*Wanders off mumbling*

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By *igNick1381Man
over a year ago

BRIDGEND

The big problem is when the variants start mixing and it'll sound like the world is under threat from American fraternities

Oh no, it's Phi Kappa Delta (enter frat boys drinking and coughing everywhere)

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"The idea of people being confused by eta versus iota baffles me

*Wanders off mumbling*"

Exactly that!

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By *lay 4 u OP   Man
over a year ago

bolton


"Yet still Kent and South African variant on news coverage ?. Why only change one and not Kent etc ?.

They are changed too.

Kent - Alpha

South Africa - Beta

Brazil - Gamma"
breakfast news this morning Kent version was used hence the reason for my original question why only change one .I realize now from replys others renamed but not used all the time .also heard delta version follows by Indian version BBC news.

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By *hatawasteMan
over a year ago

stafford


"Because it's all a load of utter bollocks. There have been virus variants since the dawn of time. This is why we have an immune system. "

your replies are showing a huge amount of paranoia do you know that ?

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By *offee and KinksCouple
over a year ago

Notts/Derby


"The big problem is when the variants start mixing and it'll sound like the world is under threat from American fraternities

Oh no, it's Phi Kappa Delta (enter frat boys drinking and coughing everywhere)"

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By *ophieslutTV/TS
over a year ago

Central

It's IKEA furniture names afterwards

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By *naswingdressWoman
over a year ago

Manchester (she/her)


"It's IKEA furniture names afterwards "

Furstlïg-Alpha

(Furstlig is apparently Swedish for regal - crown, corona, like, I amuse myself. I have no idea if IKEA add diacritics randomly, but I do *shrug*)

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By *otsossieMan
over a year ago

Chesterfield

The idea of reducing regional stigma through naming the variants is sound.

Problem is there is such a delay in getting them named, and so much confusion, that they’re just using both names. So it’s no better.

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By *olly_chromaticTV/TS
over a year ago

Stockport


"It's IKEA furniture names afterwards "

If we get to the Billy Bookcase variant, I'm well and truly fucked, those buggers took over my home years ago

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Searching can be your friend:

“Global health chiefs renamed coronavirus variants in an effort to remove any stigma associated with the countries they are associated with.

Under the new system devised by the World Health Organisation, variants are no longer identified by the area or country of their discovery, such as the Indian, South African or Kent strains.

Greek letters have instead been assigned to the strains in the order they were designated variants of concern, starting at Alpha, for the strain first detected in the UK last year.”

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Wake up people there are No Varients its to keep everyone scared and controled please wake up to whats going on

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By *bi_AstrayTV/TS
over a year ago

Plymouth

For the same reason the British people rapidly renamed the British variant the Kent variant I would imagine...

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By *eedslad69Man
over a year ago

leeds


"Searching can be your friend:

“Global health chiefs renamed coronavirus variants in an effort to remove any stigma associated with the countries they are associated with.

Under the new system devised by the World Health Organisation, variants are no longer identified by the area or country of their discovery, such as the Indian, South African or Kent strains.

Greek letters have instead been assigned to the strains in the order they were designated variants of concern, starting at Alpha, for the strain first detected in the UK last year.”

Wake up people there are No Varients its to keep everyone scared and controled please wake up to whats going on"

We live in a day and age where people are brainwashed beyond the point of no return. Sadly there's no hope for them and they will never wake up from the coma state they are in. There's a load of them on here too.

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By *matoMan
over a year ago

Around here


"Because it's all a load of utter bollocks. There have been virus variants since the dawn of time. This is why we have an immune system.

your replies are showing a huge amount of paranoia do you know that ? "

Your reply is showing a huge amount of ignorance about basic biology and physiology - one day you might be aware of that.

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