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Covid: UK has ‘let our guard down’ as concern over new ‘Pirola’ variant grows (www.independent.co.uk)

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Meanwhile MPs -

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Boats. Mash them. Boil them. Put immigrants in them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

"Sink the boats, hang the paedos, simple as!"

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Did we run out of greek letters for variants?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Astronomical names of stars and planets have started to be used. I don't know if it's an official thing or just a media thing.

There was another variant a few days ago called Eris, which seemed to be tempting fate a bit considering Eris is also the Greek goddess of strife!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

No, the WHO only assigns greek letters to Variants of Concern which this isn't (yet). It was named by a scientist on twitter after an asteroid that sounds close to pi and rho (which would be the next Greek letters if it becomes a VoC)