@pete I still haven't heard of the alpha and beta variants.
@verretor That's a retroactive name for the original main strains.
@pete Why one is beta?
@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.
@pete Ok so which one is the South African variant?
@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?