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thefugue t1_iy543ec wrote

Reply to comment by AudibleNod in World Health Organization to rename monkeypox as mpox -CNBC by wander9077

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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