It's funny how people were completely fine calling it by countries (e.g. "UK variant") but when it came to India (or China/Wuhan) - Discrimination! - it's OK do discriminate against the first world though.
(I agree though that eventually a new naming system was needed, countries cannot be reused twice...)
> It was initially called the Indian Variant, due to being first detected there in April this year. But it was later renamed the April 02 Variant by the Scottish Government to avoid stigma in associating the variant with people from India.
There is a reason why they did that, fortunately third world countries didn’t attack people from UK. But first world people can’t understand that variants name has nothing to do with the uninfected people from that country. I heard dozens of cases where Asians were attacked.
They didn't need to, because their governments acted responsibly and locked out the people from the UK.
https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/uk-travel-ban-coronav...
India, Argentina, Brazil, China, Mauritius, Turkey, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, ...
Renaming the virus variants won't solve the root problem. Nor will racist attacks, of course, but that's just people's desperation showing, because their governments refused to implement good solutions that could solve the root problem.
IMO the more likely consequence is that the populace continues to lose the respect and trust for their governments. This started with banning plastic straws (now you get a paper straw wrapped in plastic!) and it’s accelerated since the start of the pandemic.
To ignore this context is extremely distorting.