mkhammer wrote: ↑Fri Jun 25, 2021 12:13 pm
BlackDiamond wrote: ↑Thu Jun 24, 2021 1:39 pm
Apparently we now have before us, the new Indian PLus variant. Think of Nurofen and then think of Nurofen Plus. It's clever marketing - but will it fly off the shelves.
I think the Indian variant has had enough news space now and anyway if we call a spade a spade,it's the Hounslow variant or 4B Acacia Drive,Hounslow, but that's a bit of a mouthful plus some people will get all pedantic and say, it's 4C not 4B.
Of course we could just say it's the Middlesx variant but Middlesex no longer exists (it's boundaries have been rubbed out) so geographically using Google maps it's not helpful.
So going further and widening our outlooks, the Police could say there is zero crime in Middlesex and they would be right. Which is probably why Twickenham is such a nice place to live these days...however it's only 3 miles to 4B Acacia Drive...
It's not Marketing BD...it's an identified new Variant...TBH not sure why it has the Plus tag....I spose some variants are
more closely linked....
It's popping up in Europe and other parts of world now...I'd guess the same new Variant can form independently...
You Can make the same cake in France as you can here with the same ingredients....you wouldn't need the same packet
of flour etc if you get my drift.
But however it got here and passed around...it's here and we take the usual precautions...
Middlesex no longer Exists......
way the cricket team are at moment,you might be right...
I was being (unusually for moi) truculently faecetious, basically riffing off the absurdity of rebranding virus location names with greek alphabet names.
So the idea of a Delta Plus variant, means it's the sister/brother of the bog standard Delta variant. Which itself is the sister/brother of the UK Kent variant, strangely named 'Alpha'. And we will come to that.
It's not that confusing if we keep to the location names but does become bollocks when we fuss about worrying, that certain words might be unacceptable or controversial to peculiar types who actively seek to be offended.
So having made the claim it's bollocks,can we back it up. Well just take the 'Alpha' named variant which is the Kent, Uk variant. Alpha is the first letter, so can we assume that was the first. Certainly not, because we have memories and the first reported C19 identification was in the city of Wuhan in China.
Therefore using logic and I think we should here, the UK (Kent) variant being the second identified and named virus variant should be named 'Beta', because the Chinese one (unnamed unless we want to go with SARS-COV-2) should be named 'Alpha'.
Hence we can see that the naming conventions follow a selective process which is more akin to marketing than just calling a spade a spade.
Now I like a laugh as much as the next man and unlike the next man, I would not be adverse to naming viruses after serial killers - the Rose West mutation has quite a ominous take care,watch out,deterrent feel about it - whereas plain old dreary 'Alpha' conjures up a snooze at the back of the maths class.
In the end it's all greek to me...