Day 666 Retrospective: Nu Omicron

Saturday was day 666 of COVID-19 in Massachusetts. We're getting close to two years since an infected grad student from Wuhan touched down at Logan and became our first official case. To celebrate, we're freaking out on cue about a variant out of Africa that has killed no one that we know of to date. You may have heard the variant referred to as Nu early on, as that was next in the Greek alphabet, but the WHO decided Nu sounded too much like "new" and Xi sounded too much like Xi, so skipped ahead to Omicron.

You'd think people would be begging to let Omicrons into the country to push out our deadly Deltas the way Alpha banished the flu (however temporarily). But no, New York State announced a state of emergency over a probably harmless variant that isn't even in the country, never mind in the state.