Monkeypox naming schema

[EndtheMadnessNow]

The WHO announced this past Friday that after three months – they’ve finally come up with new names for the variants/clades of monkeypox.

The old geographical names “Congo Basin” and “West African” were deemed potentially stigmatizing and racist, so after 12 weeks of consulting the experts...they’ve decided to number them instead.

They will henceforth be known as clade I and clade II.

Yes, seriously.

The proper naming structure will be represented by a Roman numeral for the clade and a lower-case alphanumeric character for the subclades. Thus, the new naming convention comprises Clade I, Clade IIa and Clade IIb, with the latter referring primarily to the group of variants largely circulating in the 2022 global outbreak. The naming of lineages will be as proposed by scientists as the outbreak evolves. Experts will be reconvened as needed.

The good news is they still haven’t come up with a new name for monkeypox itself, but they are rather foolishly throwing that open to suggestions. Anyone interested in contributing can click here, go to “add proposal” and sign in.

And the UK “running out of Monkeypox vaccines” - another hot crisis.

[BIAD]

The power of the media never fails to amaze me. Coming off the back of a supposed global plague that is no longer
news-worthy, a war in a country that supposedly supplies the world with everything and the sky falling in because of
weather, we're now asked to come up with a name that doesn't have any racial connotations for a skin rash from eating
rat-tainted chimp-meat.

And they say comedy is dead.

[ABNARTY]

I thought it was officially called Schlong Covid now?