No Chairman Xi virus allowed

 Instapundit:

ARE WE SKIPPING SOMETHING?: The last COVID strain was called “Nu.” Going down the Greek alphabet, today’s new variant is called “Omicron.”

The W.H.O. wouldn’t want to offend China, now, would they?

The media had no trouble calling it a South African variant before tagging it as Omicron.

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