Covid: UK has ‘let our guard down’ as concern over new ‘Pirola’ variant grows

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• Mr_Blott@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Meanwhile MPs - Image

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  • lasagna@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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    • lemonflavoured@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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• RobotToaster@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Did we run out of greek letters for variants?

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  • gnutrino@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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)

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  • thehatfox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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!

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