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[Starver]

And that's why you don't [see?] anyone making a big deal out of the names of the three new strains being place names.

...well, I do, it appears. But overwhelmingly for grammatical reasons than for vague/misleading toponymity. Opinions as to which is the greater crime are likely quite varied, and polarised. 

[Starver]

Sad, but maybe not entirely unexpected news, that Captain Sir Tom Moore has died with Covid.

(Last year, for those who don't know/forgot, he was inspirational in that he decided to do 100 zimmer-frame/walker-assisted 'lockdown laps' of the garden to raise money for charity, in the run-up to turning 100 himself. He aimed at a few thousand pounds but it ended up at tens of millions raised, and inspired others. He was knighted (in an almost unique individual outdoor ceremony with the Queen), granted military honours atop his original veteran status and generally lauded.)

He'd developed pneumonia in the last few weeks, which had prevented him from being vaccinated, and it seems coronavirus somehow reached him while he was ill. No further details given (none looked for).

Last night I saw that his family were with him at his hospital bed, which didn't bode well as an exception to current no-visitor rules. And so here we are, for those who would wish to know and haven't picked it up already.

[Caz]

:/

[feelotraveller]

Opinions as to which is the greater crime are likely quite varied, and polarised. 

You sir, are courting the great northern polarization. 

Down here we just call them sunnies. 

[Bumber]

Spanish flu didn't started on Spain either. It's just naming convention I guess? Wuhan for better or worse was were all started, at least publicly and awareness was raised.

Interestingly, it looks like the Spanish flu may have originated in... China:
https://www.history.com/news/china-epicenter-of-1918-flu-pandemic-historian-says

[TD1]

Bubonic plague, Spanish influenza, Wuhan virus, Sars,

What's next, I tell you?

WHAT'S NEXT?

[martinuzz]

Let's not forget mers, the middle east respiratory syndrome.

[ChairmanPoo]

Bubonic plague, Spanish influenza, Wuhan virus, Sars,

What's next, I tell you?

WHAT'S NEXT?

British supergonorrhea

[TD1]

There ain't nothing super about that, it's just plain ol' gonorrhea of the sort found in your neighbours' house. 

[martinuzz]

Meh at our current rate of 250000 vaccinations per week, it is going to take 70 weeks until everyone has been vaccinated.

[Caz]

Meh at our current rate of 250000 vaccinations per week, it is going to take 70 weeks until everyone has been vaccinated.

Doesn't the protection only last a year? It's like painting the Forth Bridge

[LordBaal]

Is true 20 million vaccines are lost in USA?

[martinuzz]

AstraZeneca supplying less is really a problem for us. We had ordered 4,5 million doses but we are only getting about 1,5 million now.
That's pretty significant on a population of 18 million. We now ordered 8 million doses extra of the Moderna vaccin, but those will only arrive in Q3 of 2021.  Before our government hadn't ordered more from Moderna, because they said it wouldn't be available until Q4 of 2021. Apparently Q3 was acceptable.  Still way too late.

[Loud Whispers]

Sorry, it's important to the continuity of US government that it be called the English Virus now.

WuFlu -> Sneeze Paolo -> Anglovid-19 -> Cape to Coof

British supergonorrhea

It'll die out now that Ibiza's closed to travel

People are just oversensitive these days. The spanish flu has been called the spanish flu now for 102 years, and as far as I can tell there never has been anyone in Spain who took offense.

It's kinda hard to tread lightly when the ground is covered in eggshells

On the one hand, it's silly. On the other hand, people are easily induced to group violence. On the other hand, not calling it the wuflu or some variant thereof also did not stop anti-Chinese violence across the world from occurring. Pretty fucking appalling hearing how so many people even in London I know were getting abused just for being Chinese, but fortunately people in the public still stood up for them

Bubonic plague, Spanish influenza, Wuhan virus, Sars,

What's next, I tell you?

WHAT'S NEXT?

Antibiotic resistant plague?

[Rolan7]

Sorry, it's important to the continuity of US government that it be called the English Virus now.

WuFlu -> Sneeze Paolo -> Anglovid-19 -> Cape to Coof

Considering how much our own mismanagement has probably contributed to the duration of this, I would also accepted Yankee Fever.