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Cause the 14th "Xi" would be way too funny.

[–] 5 pts

Because Megatron was already taken.

[–] 3 pts

To scare sheeps. I wouldn't be surprised if they had some sort of testing of public response, like they do with movies (test screenings).

The first thing that comes into my mind after hearing "Omicron" is Necronomicon.

It has some sinister sounding to it.

[–] 3 pts

It sounds intimidating to sophisticated people.

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And it sounds like a cool Transformers name to dumb people.

[–] 2 pts

I believe it's to confuse and misdirect people. The same reason they put a lot of numbers and dots like omicron 666.88.14.0.123. Doing this makes it look scary. Using symbols not familiar to people mystifies it. It's all theater.

Nah. Because they didn't want to confuse the sheep with Nu variant (new variant). They'll skip Xi, too, I'm sure.

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fear, it comes off like there's more variants than there really are (which is zero as they cant test for them) they've been skipping letters all along avoiding the conventional naming system. The first """variant""" was delta

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It's an anagram for ..................Moronic.

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At this point, we're being forced to follow the whims of the moronic. If they're scared shitless unless you're wearing fluffy pink slippers for a moron's 'protection' then you're going to be required to wear fluffy pink slippers to get food or work.

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A couple of reasons I think they landed on the new one.

They skipped Xi because of the Chinese president. Can't upset big China.

Also Omicron sounds scarier.

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I don't watch that show.

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Closest they could come to "OMG".

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