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		sbmassey on July 27, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: ‘Zoe’ becomes the world’s first named heat wave They should give the Covid variants relatable human names too

abduhl on July 27, 2022 [–]

We tried but the WHO didn’t like calling it the Xi variant for some reason.

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