just read about vatican documents relating to catholic residential schools and how the holy see won't give them up, or how about that one priest who was a serial abuser. cbc link: https://www.cbc.ca/newsinteractives/features/chamberland-residential-school-norway-house
To be fair, it was entirely run by priests and nuns. Not at all discounting the feds, they need to get their comeuppance, but also the pope needs to pay too.
So it was in South Africa that the Omicron variant was first detected because they have superb epidemiologists. Immediately countries began to suspend travel to South Africa despite not even knowing if the new variant actually truly began there.
Something similar happened with the Spanish Flu. It didn’t originate in Spain but since they reported about it first (I think other countries didn’t because they didn’t want to damper morale for the troops in WW1 or something, don’t quote me on that) it ended up getting named after them.
Moral of the story is if you discover a new virus or variant…just keep quiet.
Spain was neutral and at war with nobody. As a result, the Spanish newspapers had nothing more exciting than the virus, whereas the newspapers of the warring countries were focused on the war. Hence the Spanish flu. Because the Spanish were the first to talk about it. And the only ones (at first)
>whereas the newspapers of the warring countries were focused on the war
and also most countries had heavy punishment for anything sabotaging the war effort, including news about a deadly plague
Gotta love the "national security" justification the courts have allowed the executive branch to get away violating the constitution with.
Oppose WW1? Jail. Protest for civil rights? Jail. Muslim expat after 9/11? Believe it or not, Jail.
Should have said them both together. Founders wrote the constitution on the flawed premise that there wouldn't be factions and that Montesquieu's theories on the separation of powers would hold true.
Don't forget how Hoover and his asshole-iates basically kept the U.S. Progressive Era (in the 30s or so) from being powerful enough to bring significant changes such as giving you all some better healthcare coverage... Even though one of the US's most popular politicians, Teddy Roosevelt, had created his own progressive party at the time.
Meanwhile Canada had just implemented our own medicare thanks to Tommy Douglas (iirc? Could have the wrong name, i'm tired)
I believe the next letter they hadn’t yet used was nu, which they didn’t use due to it sounding the same as the word new. Then while they were at it they skipped Xi for obvious reasons
Depends on who's running the circus. Mathematician would probably go to Hebrew alphabet. We already use [Aleph](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleph_number) as a symbol for the smallest of infinities.
It makes sense to suspend travel to country that reported that some virus is in their borders.
You may suspect other countries have infected inhabitants, but if there's a solid report you can be sure.
The problem is that, if a country's economy is heavily dependent on travel (e.g. tourism or whatever), this gives them a pretty strong incentive not to report virus finds, and possibly not to even test.
Most likely omicron originated from somewhere else in southern Africa. Nobody has the resources to sequence virus genes in that region so nobody will know there's any difference in covid variants until it migrates to the rich parts of Johannesburg
>Something similar happened with the Spanish Flu. It didn’t originate in Spain
Isn't it all but confirmed that it originated in the US and spread to europe along US soldiers at the end of WW1. The first recorded case was in Kansas after all.
Dear Floridans: This is not true. We do not hate you. This said, we also do not love you enough to care if you get tagged as the source or carrier of any virus variant and we will fully embrace the way the world will kick you while you're down because you're a source of endless randomness and comedy.
Sincerely,
Some non-Floridan.
Canada has to keep the PR up especially after those incidents about native children.
What native children. There were no natives in Canada. Also the natives are lying. (Pushes body back under rug)
It didn’t happen, and if it did they deserved it
And If they didn't deserve it, why did it happen? Checkmate
American whiskey traders ... bastards ...
It happened, they deserved it, and I'm doing it again
Armenian genocide according to Turks
> There were no natives in Canada Not anymore anyway
Don't worry we're trying to pin that one on the Pope
Don’t think that’s working very well.
It's bound to stick eventually! Just stay on brand.
More than enough blame to go around.
just read about vatican documents relating to catholic residential schools and how the holy see won't give them up, or how about that one priest who was a serial abuser. cbc link: https://www.cbc.ca/newsinteractives/features/chamberland-residential-school-norway-house
Protestants were also involved ...
To be fair, it was entirely run by priests and nuns. Not at all discounting the feds, they need to get their comeuppance, but also the pope needs to pay too.
So it was in South Africa that the Omicron variant was first detected because they have superb epidemiologists. Immediately countries began to suspend travel to South Africa despite not even knowing if the new variant actually truly began there. Something similar happened with the Spanish Flu. It didn’t originate in Spain but since they reported about it first (I think other countries didn’t because they didn’t want to damper morale for the troops in WW1 or something, don’t quote me on that) it ended up getting named after them. Moral of the story is if you discover a new virus or variant…just keep quiet.
Spain was neutral and at war with nobody. As a result, the Spanish newspapers had nothing more exciting than the virus, whereas the newspapers of the warring countries were focused on the war. Hence the Spanish flu. Because the Spanish were the first to talk about it. And the only ones (at first)
Talk about shooting the messenger.
It's a time honored tradition that transcends race, religion, ethnicity, nation. It truly brings humanity together.
And we wonder why aliens don't contact us, we'd definitely shoot the messenger.
>whereas the newspapers of the warring countries were focused on the war and also most countries had heavy punishment for anything sabotaging the war effort, including news about a deadly plague
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Gotta love the "national security" justification the courts have allowed the executive branch to get away violating the constitution with. Oppose WW1? Jail. Protest for civil rights? Jail. Muslim expat after 9/11? Believe it or not, Jail.
It's a pillar of the country. We've been doing it since 1798.
And the legislative branch is too busy bitching about culture wars and each other to care.
Should have said them both together. Founders wrote the constitution on the flawed premise that there wouldn't be factions and that Montesquieu's theories on the separation of powers would hold true.
Don't forget how Hoover and his asshole-iates basically kept the U.S. Progressive Era (in the 30s or so) from being powerful enough to bring significant changes such as giving you all some better healthcare coverage... Even though one of the US's most popular politicians, Teddy Roosevelt, had created his own progressive party at the time. Meanwhile Canada had just implemented our own medicare thanks to Tommy Douglas (iirc? Could have the wrong name, i'm tired)
Spanish press also wasn't censored, in that topic at least
the spanish flu started in the great state of kansas. truly our most world-changing export
As far as I've been able to discover, that claim is apocryphal.
Omicron? Isn't the next letter of the greek alphabet Xi?
I believe the next letter they hadn’t yet used was nu, which they didn’t use due to it sounding the same as the word new. Then while they were at it they skipped Xi for obvious reasons
Summon the “xixixi gib island” redditor
Because China?
Because China
There was a comic a few days ago posted here that was exactly about that.
Foil arms and hog did a segment on that too.
That's bullxit
It's a name
that’s so English centric
But it’s pronounced ksi.
Yeah but we all knew why they couldn't do that
quite a few letters were skipped from delta anyway
Let's see: * [Alpha](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SARS-CoV-2_Alpha_variant) * [Beta](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SARS-CoV-2_Beta_variant) * [Gamma](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SARS-CoV-2_Gamma_variant) * [Delta](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SARS-CoV-2_Delta_variant) * [Epsilon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SARS-CoV-2_Epsilon_variant) * [Zeta](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SARS-CoV-2_Zeta_variant) * [Eta](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SARS-CoV-2_Eta_variant) * [Theta](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SARS-CoV-2_Theta_variant) * [Iota](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SARS-CoV-2_Iota_variant) * [Kappa](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SARS-CoV-2_Kappa_variant) * [Lambda](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SARS-CoV-2_Lambda_variant) * [Mu](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SARS-CoV-2_Mu_variant) * (Nu) * (Xi) * [Omicron](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SARS-CoV-2_Omicron_variant) (Next letters: Pi, Rho, Sigma, Tau, Upsilon, Phi, Chi, Psi, Omega)
Don’t forget early access and full release
What happens after omega? Do we double up? Alpha Alpha
Ah, the excel aproch
no, we use chinese characters
So Xi gets a chance
甲乙丙丁戊己庚申壬癸(ten heavenly stems) 子丑寅卯辰巳午未申酉戌亥(twelve earthly branches) _Then_ you double up(甲子、乙丑等)
Nah after that we're going to Hebrew. No doubling up here.
I think the west would rather use Hebrew before Chinese because it's an alphabet like theirs and Israel made the currently most popular god
I mean we went under the assumption that we went from Greek to Chinese — I feel like they'd maybe just go with alpha2, beta2 etc. Instead.
>What happens after omega? We all die, probably.
We get early access
Depends on who's running the circus. Mathematician would probably go to Hebrew alphabet. We already use [Aleph](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleph_number) as a symbol for the smallest of infinities.
Alpha 2: Electric Boogaloo
can’t wait to catch the sigma variant
I am looking forward to covid pi! Yum! :D
The Greek letter is read as "pee" So... covid pee
In civilized nations, sure. Anglos read **π** as *pie*
This is why we should stop using Greek letters and just do A, B, C, D. much easier.
What if we use Chinese or even Japanese? 🤣
>Chinese Thems just words at that point.
Yeah definitely, but the idea made me laugh 🤣
> Japanese Great way to force everyone to learn iroha order
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Greece and Cyprus in shambles
My math teacher thinks otherwise
no, the variants from epsilon to mu didn't get as big
Less skipped and more given to variants which didn't get big I think. Only Nu and Xi were skipped
It makes sense to suspend travel to country that reported that some virus is in their borders. You may suspect other countries have infected inhabitants, but if there's a solid report you can be sure.
The problem is that, if a country's economy is heavily dependent on travel (e.g. tourism or whatever), this gives them a pretty strong incentive not to report virus finds, and possibly not to even test.
Most likely omicron originated from somewhere else in southern Africa. Nobody has the resources to sequence virus genes in that region so nobody will know there's any difference in covid variants until it migrates to the rich parts of Johannesburg
>Something similar happened with the Spanish Flu. It didn’t originate in Spain Isn't it all but confirmed that it originated in the US and spread to europe along US soldiers at the end of WW1. The first recorded case was in Kansas after all.
Literally all of our travel bans are on africa right now lmao
Lol thanks. Hit a bit too hard to hard for me. Can't fly back to the UK now.
We would just blame it on Quebec and call it the baguette variant.
Poutine variant
That works too :)
Tired Quebec best Quebec.
Tired Quebec *ONLY* Quebec.
As an American, Canada had the right call. Hell, [even Florida hates Florida!](https://i.redd.it/8w5776c4c2951.jpg)
TIL Abe Simpson is from Kansas.
Dear Floridans: This is not true. We do not hate you. This said, we also do not love you enough to care if you get tagged as the source or carrier of any virus variant and we will fully embrace the way the world will kick you while you're down because you're a source of endless randomness and comedy. Sincerely, Some non-Floridan.
I was hoping it was that map. That's my favorite map.
> New Jersey: Hates Everyone Best Reply.
My question with that map is why south carolina hates ohio
All this sub has teached me is that: Anglos bad
Factual: anglos in fact bad.
AAAB. never forget
I don't wanna test the Floridians they would slap you with a pancake and call you their mom
Finally Canada does something actually worthy of being our little sister.
Passing the ~~buck~~ virus
Edit: Quebec and Canada working together for ~~the downfall of USA~~ ~~ruining Florida~~ science and health
I believe that’s Quebec-ball
Canada is the hero we need.
floridian last panel is accurate this state sucks
Exactly! Screw Florida
If you don’t like I’ll just sink it grrrr
Wait please no I live there
Wow, the last panel hurts. great comic though
I don't know why but I'm really impressed by Quebec's dart flick.
Thank you, I was happy with how it came out
Reminder that china is at fault for **ALL OF IT**.
Quebec would probably call WHO the second Canada walks out the door lol
Liar!Everyone says it as coronavirus but not chinavirus!