Delta Air Lines doesn’t want to call delta variant the ‘delta variant’

I agree that in this case, they should play it light.

Companies spend a lot of money to associate their brand with a good feeling, I can't imagine that the people who bought it as a joke outweighed the negative association.

That said, NYT did a fantastic job visualizing how air circulates on planes and it made me feel safer about flying:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/04/17/travel/flying...

You’re probably the one who should take an English lesson to realize they’re joking

I would temporarily abandon the word by itself and instead use the phrases “Delta Airlines” and “Delta virus variant”. Clarity at the risk of wordiness.

I haven't thought, or cared about Delta Airlines, forever.

Despite the name, [the Mississippi Delta] region is not the delta of the Mississippi River. The shifting river delta at the mouth of the Mississippi on the Gulf Coast lies some 300 miles south of this area, and is referred to as the Mississippi River Delta. Rather, the Mississippi Delta is part of an alluvial plain, created by regular flooding of the Mississippi and Yazoo rivers over thousands of years. [1]

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Delta_Air_Lines

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippi_Delta

In the end, the virus is just doing it's thing and humanity is doing the same; both trying to survive not necessarily through any malicious intent but just because it's what we do.

Too bad we can't come to some sort of truce, alas that's where the fantasy ends.

> The rise of the internet, with systems designed to filter out sexually explicit material, repeatedly blocked access to the college's website. Research conducted by the institution found that, because of its name, the institution appealed to 30% fewer prospective students. In June 2001, trustees voted to apply for university status and to change the name. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcadia_University

Their new Twitter handle is @TheGoodISIS

I had thought they were both named for a Greek goddess, but it seems that's Iris.

https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-isis-app-changes-name...

I just call them all the "ν-variant" (pronounced in the classical way) and people seem to go along with it.

(Depending on your font the "\nu" may look a lot like the Latin letter 'v'.)

1. Year of the Whopper

2. Year of the Tucks Medicated Pad

3. Year of the Trial-Size Dove Bar

4. Year of the Perdue Wonderchicken

5. Year of the Whisper-Quiet Maytag Dishmaster

6. Year of the Yushityu 2007 Mimetic-Resolution-Cartridge-View-Motherboard-Easy-To-Install-Upgrade For Infernatron/InterLace TP Systems For Home, Office Or Mobile (sic)

7. Year of Dairy Products from the American Heartland

8. Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment

9. Year of Glad

https://infinitejest.wallacewiki.com/david-foster-wallace/in...

The newspaper story makes little sense if read exactly as written since any jet has ample performance to climb away from a balked landing prior to touchdown, so I assume the realization happened after touchdown given the agreement upon review that stopping was the right call.

There’s an image of this on the wall of the “new” (2019, maybe?) terminal building at OSU and I think a few sentences on the lightening they did to fly it out.

To ignore this context is extremely distorting.

> It was initially called the Indian Variant, due to being first detected there in April this year. But it was later renamed the April 02 Variant by the Scottish Government to avoid stigma in associating the variant with people from India.

There is a reason why they did that, fortunately third world countries didn’t attack people from UK. But first world people can’t understand that variants name has nothing to do with the uninfected people from that country. I heard dozens of cases where Asians were attacked.