I'll never see Star Trek technobabble about "omicron particles" the same way again...
Omicron Theta was the planet where Data was created by Dr Noonian Soong and then the crystalline entity destroyed it after Lore called it there. There have been lots of Omicron Star Trek references mentioned in our house since the name was announced.
That’s a good point, but almost every country where a variant has been first discovered has been treated in a similarly unfair fashion. The UK itself probably bore the most of this type of treatment simply because (as SA has correctly noted about itself) its scientists do so much sequencing of the virus. If you’re a country which either doesn’t bother or doesn’t have the necessary industry, you’re probably not going to be the first detecting many variants.
That’s a good point, but almost every country where a variant has been first discovered has been treated in a similarly unfair fashion. The UK itself probably bore the most of this type of treatment simply because (as SA has correctly noted about itself) its scientists do so much sequencing of the virus. If you’re a country which either doesn’t bother or doesn’t have the necessary industry, you’re probably not going to be the first detecting many variants.
Thank you that was the most informative post in this topic!
I’ve never noticed the micro vs mega thing before.
We have six omicron cases in Scotland now.
The fucking BBC leading with THIRD OMICRON FOUND IN U.K. in the headlines
Hun, there’s clearly already hundreds of cases and there’s no evidence that it’s dangerous. Stop acting like people are finding Willy Wonka’s hidden golden tickets
Nowadays there isn't any difference phonetically, but in ancient times people were stressing them differently. Their names being o micron (small o) and o mega (big o) are self explanatory of the original pronunciation. But grammatically and for the words to make sense both are used as originally meant in written.
My god this is superior knowledge, can't wait to bust this fact out and act SMUG.
Americans don’t give a fuck about COVID generally and we’ve had masks on public transportation the whole timeLiterally agog at all the countries that dropped masks in pubic transport!
Literally agog at all the countries that dropped masks in pubic transport!
Literally agog at all the countries that dropped masks in pubic transport!
lols we only had them for like two hours and they weren’t even mandatory and most people didn’t use them.
How is it out your end at the moment?
Boosters after 3 months for all over 18s.