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The big difference being that no one is trying to score cheap political points when they call it “the UK variant”.

What if the people who call out the names they don't like are the ones trying to score cheap political points? That seems more likely to me.

We could have controlled this virus a lot better in the beginning if it wasn't for cheap political point scoring of the form "the real problem isn't the virus, the real problem is anti-Asian racism"

https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/20/us/coronavirus-racist-attacks...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/02/25/shen-yun-co...

Almost half a million Americans have died from the virus. To my knowledge, 0 have died from anti-Asian racism from the virus.

For what it's worth, in the UK it's called the UK variant or Kent variant.

This is well understood to be a matter of naming convenience. The UK variant was first detected in the UK but may have first appeared elsewhere. Some suspect based on spread that the UK variant may have first appeared in the US.