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These UTF-8 special characters are symbols that don’t appear on a standard keyboard but are recognized by most devices, websites, and applications. They started using these names to not stigmatize places they're found and they want to avoid confusion or the name being a bigger story than the deadly variants so they skipped names like Nu as well.Looking to spice up your conversations? Twitter, Facebook, and Gmail all support UTF-8 Unicode special characters. They're trying to avoid any association with politics. UJ4xMwg52i- Martin Kulldorff November 26, 2021Ī user responded: “No, exactly the opposite. News of new Nu variant, but WHO is jumping the alphabet to call it Omicron, so they can avoid Xi. “News of new Nu variant, but WHO is jumping the alphabet to call it Omicron, so they can avoid Xi,” posted Martin Kulldorff, whose Twitter bio describes him as an epidemiologist. Some even called the variant “Nu” but later corrected themselves, noted that WHO had jumped two alphabets. So they named it Omicron.- Jonathan Turley November 26, 2021 is again avoiding any discomfort for the Chinese government. has skipped the next Greek letter after Nu to name the new variant. Nu had been skipped to avoid confusion with the word "new" and Xi had been skipped to "avoid stigmatising a region", they said.Īll pandemics inherently political!- Paul Nuki November 26, 2021 All pandemics inherently political!”Ī WHO source confirmed the letters Nu and Xi of the Greek alphabet had been deliberately avoided. Nu had been skipped to avoid confusion with the word "new" and Xi had been skipped to "avoid stigmatising a region", they said. “A WHO source confirmed the letters Nu and Xi of the Greek alphabet had been deliberately avoided.