Variant of the Month: Top 10 Names for the Next COVID Strain

[rangerrebew]

Variant of the Month: Top 10 Names for the Next COVID Strain
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By Eric Miller | December 21, 2021

There’s a lot of fearmongering in the news regarding COVID-19 these days. This article will be no different.

It seems like we’re getting hit with a new variant of COVID-19 every month, and strangely enough, people don’t seem to be flipping the hell out about it like they used to. Where’s the paranoia? Where’s the fear? Why aren’t people panic-buying toilet paper?

We believe the growing lack of concern for the virus and its variants is due to several factors, the least of which being their names, which suck. At this time there are 12 variants of COVID being monitored, and every last one of them have names that sound like software companies or Daft Punk albums.

Delta, Epsilon, Omicron. None of those sound like something you should be concerned about. If you want people to really be afraid when a world-altering virus that has killed millions of people mutates into something new, you gotta give it a scary name.

https://coffeeordie.com/variant-names-covid-strain/

[mountaineer]

I say leave the Greeks out of this. No more alphabet names. Let's name the next several variants Anthony, Deborah, Barack and Hillary.

[jmyrlefuller]

I say leave the Greeks out of this. No more alphabet names. Let's name the next several variants Anthony, Deborah, Barack and Hillary.

...and Brandon.

[catfish1957]

Faucci Variant....   in honor of who help start it.

[mountaineer]

...and Brandon.

[The_Reader_David]

I propose "newest cold virus" as the name for the next variant.  Evolutionary theory tells us that greater contagion and lower virulence are both adaptive for pathogens, and if it beats omicron on both counts, it will be a cold virus.

[mountaineer]

A doctor friend (general practitioner/family practice) told us last year that the virus essentially pooped out by July. He actually treated Covid patients and had a heck of a lot more first-hand knowledge than Tony Fauxci.

 July of 2020, that is. I cannot be convinced that anything dangerous is left of it a year and a half later.