Omicron has nothing to do with a heart disease, a Greek god devouring his children, or a computer command. It is not a code for a command from Satan to give you a heart attack at a specific time.
As if the uncertainty of the characteristics of the Omicron variant isn't bad enough, conspiracy theorists have come up with a doomsday-like scenario based on what they believe to be the etymology of omicron.
They claim that omicron comes from the root words OMI and CRON. OMI is supposed to mean in this case Old Myocardial Infarction, heart tissue damage due to a previous heart attack. CRON is supposed to refer to Cronos, a Greek god who devoured his own children. Cronos is also claimed to be one of the many names of Satan.
They can't seem to decide which is which because they also refer to CRON as the Unix-like computer operating system related to a list of tasks scheduled to run at regular time intervals in the system.
Put them together and they get this "meaning" of Omicron: "An Old Myocardial Infarction/Old Heart Attack, that is a computer operating system COMMAND, ordered by the Greek/Roman god Cronos/Saturn, to be EXECUTED at his specific TIME."
Omicron is none of those.
The etymology of "omicron," relating to the new variant, is NOT "OMI + CRON." It's "O + MICRON." It has nothing to do with a heart disease, a Greek god devouring his children, or a computer command.
OMICRON is from Ancient Greek "ὂ μικρόν" (ò mikrón). It literally means small O and refers the O with a short sound. O-micron.
The O with a long sound, the big O, is OMEGA. Ω /ὦ μέγα (ὦ mega). O-mega.
The World Health Organization (WHO) names the variants with Greek letters in alphabetical order. Variant B.1.1.529 was supposed to have been named "Nu" after the last variant "Mu." But "Nu variant" sounds like "new variant" and was deemed to be potentially confusing. Nu was skipped. The next was "Xi" but this was also skipped since Xi is a common family name. The next letter was used, Omicron.
So if you come across this supposed etymology of omicron, you'd know better.
I wonder what else they will come up with for the remaining letters of the Greek alphabet...?
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