11-27-2021, 08:12 PM
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Coronavirus spreads. But don't panic! (topical thread)
Coronavirus spreads. But don't panic! (topical thread)
(11-27-2021, 01:36 AM)SYZ Wrote:(11-26-2021, 08:30 PM)mordant Wrote: WHO has officially dubbed the new variant 'Omicron' and placed it in the same class of 'variant of concern' as Delta.
Cases in Belgium and Israel are confirmed. The US has announced travel restrictions on flights from South Africa and
adjacent nations beginning Monday.
Why has the WHO jumped to omicron? Why not epsilon (Ε, ε)... where's the logic? Or is there
none?
Quote:The Greek alphabetical script derived from a Semitic alphabet by way of the Phoenicians, used
from about the 8th century BCE for the writing of Greek, and forming the basis of many other
scripts, including Latin and Cyrillic. The letters of the Greek alphabet are: alpha, beta, gamma,
delta, epsilon, zeta, eta, theta, iota, kappa, lambda, mu, nu, xi, omicron, pi, rho, sigma, tau,
upsilon, phi, chi, psi, omega.
I know. What happened to epsilon, zeta and the others? We seemed go from Delta to Omicron which is 10 up the alphabet. I wonder if they name each variant they see in a labratory situation but those variants didn't get out into the public but Omicron did so that's where Covid is now. I keep pronouncing Omicron incorrectly.
