I know their explanation is a weak one but 810K is a lot of people.
In China it's not.
I agree. But you can't deny it is still a lot of people who use Xi as their last name. There are nearly a million in China alone. But I agree that is a weak argument. If a surname is a problem, someone can use that logic to claim the name Corona virus was damaging to the Corona beer brand or the delta variant was damaging to Delta Airlines.
You make great points for the other Greek letters.
I meant it as a joke but it is a potentially slippery slope. However, I personally believe there is a simpler explanation: they wish to disassociate the virus from the country China and as a consequence, the racism Chinese immigrants have faced all over the world. This should not be okay irrespective of whether one believes the lab leak theory or not.
The Chinese last name Mu ranks 98 by population. We didn’t see WHO do anything about it. They simply knelt to dictator and found a stupid excuse