Ben Verret
Soon, they will need a new alphabet.

https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1467002/Gamma-variant-covid-vaccine-efficiency-Dominic-cummings-Boris-johnson-contingency-plan
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Peter Todd

@verretor

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Ben Verret
@pete I still haven't heard of the alpha and beta variants.
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Peter Todd

@verretor That's a retroactive name for the original main strains.

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Ben Verret
@pete Why one is beta?
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Peter Todd
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@verretor IIRC Alpha is what was detected in china, while Beta is (roughly) what spread around the world. Not sure how gamma and delta are time wise. Likely they _are_ in order, and conditions for gamma have only been recently advantageous.

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Ben Verret
@pete Ok so which one is the South African variant?
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Peter Todd

@verretor Fuck if I know. 😂 Like the Indian variant media stopped calling it that when cases fell without vaccination...

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Ben Verret

@pete

Fuck if I know. 😂 Like the Indian variant media stopped calling it that when cases fell without vaccination…

Remember the videos of people dying in the streets?

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flexbit

@verretor @pete

At least an opportunity to learn the Greek alphabet for many people.

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Ben Verret
@flexbit @pete Don't worry. There are like 100,000 Chinese characters.
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Labrador en El Salvador 🇸🇻 🇳🇱

@pete @verretor I think they just called the original 'Covid-19'. When they started coming up with variants, they started labeling them. IIRC the "british variant" was alpha.

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