"The coronavirus variant of concern first detected in India"

BoroFur

BoroFur

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It's not called the 'Indian variant' anymore for some reason.

It runs off the tongue like 'The artist formerly known as Prince'.

Still waiting for those Pakistan and Bangladesh variants to pop up somewhere 🤔
 
I can understand that governments don't like the convention it sounds like blame. We have a Netherland dwarf rabbit. She is small but was born in Milton Keynes.
 
Yet we seem more than happy for the rest of the world to pin it on us... Kent variant even a Yorkshire one.
 
There def seems a reluctance from certain nations to have this put on them ( hence my where is the us variant), India have gone public with their legal action but I doubt they are alone.
 
We know from the orange buffon that phrases can be used to create dog whistles.
Personally, I've no issues with calling variants by a countries name as I'm not daft enough to think it means that they've created it and I should blame them for it. Kent and Yorkshire are areas of a quite cosmopolitan nation so in my opinion it's much less likely to be co-opted as a racial weapon than if it were China or India.
 
It’s def used as a dog whistle by the us and the eu though hence why the Uk variant became a byword for exclusion.

so it shouldnt be used to castigate others but it has and it is.
 
And here


But these arguments miss the larger stakes of disease nomenclature. As the World Health Organization cautioned in 2015, including geographic locations in disease names has various problematic implications. Not least among them: Those eager to avoid having diseases named for their countries might cover up the appearance of new ones, as many are suggesting China did in the early days of this pandemic.

Geographic naming of pathogens and diseases can also foster a false sense of security. Labeling a virus as “foreign” may lead to the sense that it can be avoided by simply cutting off travel from the country in question, though public health authorities caution against disease management approaches that attribute contagious illnesses to a particular location.

Early in the pandemic, President Donald Trump was quick to ban travel to countries that had large Covid-19 outbreaks, such as Italy, South Korea, and China. But as America’s Covid-19 numbers demonstrate, cordoning approaches to pandemic management are grossly insufficient, given the density and interconnectedness of the human population.

www.statnews.com

It's not the 'British variant.' It's B.1.1.7

The tendency to name pathogens and diseases by where they seemingly emerged seems almost as contagious as the organisms themselves. But it's wrong.
www.statnews.com www.statnews.com
 
Viruses mutate. Variants happen. They may be more transmissible but are invariably weaker and less damaging as a result. So far there’s not been one that has been outside the range of the vaccines.

I’m bored of this, I’m going for a twix.
 
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