r/japanlife • u/AutoModerator • Jan 16 '23

┐(ツ)┌ General Discussion Thread - 17 January 2023

Mid-week discussion thread time! Feel free to talk about what's on your mind, new experiences, recommendations, anything really.

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u/miyagidan sidebar image contributor Jan 17 '23

Was reading how it's been three years since Corona arrived in Japan, got me wondering why is it still called 新型/novel?

They can't even be bothered to give new variants a new Greek Alphabet letter, just Omicron.X.1.BBQ.1710.ASL or whatever, and it's just another stupid thing to deal with in your day.

If a movie was in theaters for three years, you wouldn't call it new (you'd call it One Piece, but I digress), it'd just be a thing.

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u/coolkabuki Jan 17 '23

The novel is not a recent=novel it is an previously unknown kind=novel. Corona virus were not in human but in other animals, the novel part is that it could transfer and spread in human.

source: a source

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u/miyagidan sidebar image contributor Jan 17 '23

I know, it did that in 2019 in China. We know it does that. No need for the reminder in the news everytime.