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AudibleNod t1_iy53mhl wrote

Here's my solution for all this renaming, which doesn't help with public awareness. We do what the World Meteorological Organization does for hurricanes and name diseases in advance. That way places like China, or Ebola or Spain aren't unnecessarily maligned. The WHO can classify flus, respiratory viruses, poxes and other maladies then draw up a list of names not based off of geography and that are vetted so no appearance of stigma is apparent from the name.

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TuesdayShuffle t1_iy5593t wrote

Orrrr, let's let a Twitter Poll decide!!!! Who can't wait for Pelosi-Pox, Trump-Tremors, Chungurrhea, or the Taki-Shits?

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WhoBurped t1_iy5c8m3 wrote

the winner would always be Poxy-McPoxFace

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thefugue t1_iy543ec wrote

We tried that with COVID variants. Idiots turned it into jokes that showed they didn’t know how the Greek alphabet works

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AudibleNod t1_iy54cyh wrote

Lets move away from Greek letters. Just come up with a variant standard Like COVID-19-1122A for the first Covid variant discovered in Nov 2022. And so on.

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thefugue t1_iy54vkq wrote

I think ease of recall is also a factor in making these decisions- if people can’t remember what something is called they’re not going to develop behaviors to mitigate the threat of it.

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