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I would like to compliment the moderation in this thread.
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Do we have any idea/guesses on the succuss rate of our vaccines right now on omgcron?
Somewhere between 20 percent and 95 percent based upon the range of articles posted in this thread.
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Almost certainly worse against Omicron than Delta. How much worse is anyoneâs guess at this point.
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Counterpoint: if you have problems with passing out from shots, tensing actually helps.
Letâs get this thread back on important stuff.
How do you pronounce âomicronâ?
- Long O - oh-mi-cron
- Short O - ah-mi-cron
- Other
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The same way as the ruler of Omicron Persei 8 does, of course.
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This is in line with a study CN posted earlier that I thought was almost too good to be true. Really nice to see it backed up. I would not have hypothesized 6 months ago that boosters of the originals would make such a big difference against the current variants.
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Iâm in the Oh-Mike-Ron camp.
Like most such things. It doesnât matter how you choose to pronounce it. Just do it confidently AF, and everyone will believe you as long as itâs plausible (so omni-cron isnât gonna fly no matter how much bluster youâve got).
For some reason one of the things we were made to do while pledging my fraternity was recite the Greek alphabet as many times as possible with a lit match in your hand. I think my record was seven times. I pronounce it oh-mick-ron.
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Looking forward to the oops-ilon vs. up-silon conversation in, what, 6 months?
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Epsilon did not kill himself
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Defintely the latter.
Short âoâ is not pronounced âahâ, itâs pronounced âaweâ, so awm-ick-ron.
Seems like second syllable should be muh like Omaha. Long O-muh-cron
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Youâre neglecting the Germansâ Ăźpsilon!
i so wish for english to adopt lots of diacritic modifiers.
my fraternity, which was the most fun thing I ever quit, and donât get me wrong Iâm not claiming any moral high ground about quitting now, nah I fully suspected in the moment how retrograde it all was but was just going along to get along to the point where it took me nearly two full years of blackouts and keg stands and I assume chronic asymptomatic chlamydia to snap out of itâfucked up my greek alphabet forever. We also had to say it fast except we had to say our dumbass three fraternity letters at the beginning and then leave them out of the rest of the alphabet, shudder
Later in college I even studied greek, but to this day I still have to think twice to make sure Iâm getting the alphabet right. Just a classic gutless case of white privilege PTSD. Frats should burn like the topless towers of ilium
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