New Covid variant named IHU

[AaronM]

I wonder how long before it arrives on the Big Island.

[eightfingers2.0]

Supposedly started in Cameroon then on to France.

So maybe couple weeks?

[Durian Fiend]

For real? A better name would be IH8U.

[malahini]

I hope it's as dope as Omicron and I catch it too.

I already missed out on Alpha and Delta, hopefully I can catch the rest of them though!

Gotta catch 'em all!

If it is even more contagious than Omicron we're all getting it too.

Your masks aren't going to help. I wanted to go walking around in all those stores without a mask but they wouldn't let me!

[Puna Grace]

Odd name. I heard somewhere that when they run out of Greek alphabet letters, they are going to use names of Muppets.

[tawyna]

If it is not one thing then it is another .

[kalianna]

ihu — Pukui-Elbert, Haw to Eng,
1. n., Nose, snout, beak, bill, trunk of air elephant, toe of a shoe; a kiss.

Let's hope it's a kiss and not the trunk of an elephant. And is there really a Hawaiian name for the trunk of an elephant????