# New Android/Google Phone **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 1, 2021, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-android-google-phone/931990 "2021-02-01T12:52:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 36
**Author:** ![FigNorton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fignorton/32/5619_2.png) [@FigNorton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FigNorton)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2021, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-android-google-phone/931990/36 "2021-02-02T17:02:18Z")
Ok, now I see. You’re some boomer jackass that thinks they’re progressive but PC-ness has run amok. > [@Regional Virus names bad. So what do we call the new variants?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regional-virus-names-bad-so-what-do-we-call-the-new-variants/931715/): > > You may remember early reports of the “China Virus”, but the World Health Organization did not recognize that – the decision to refrain from geographic titles for viruses was made long before. So what are the proper names for “the UK Variant” or the “South African Variant” that keep popping up in the news? Hopefully something that is concise. See, in that thread Paul defends the old method of naming epidemics after locations because, relax people, “racists gonna race”. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-android-google-phone/931990)._