Day 691: The Omicron and the Omega

Things are looking apocalyptic with heavily-vaccinated Britain posting an all-time daily high of 106,122 cases, Israel moving on to a fourth shot (because it worked so well the first three times), and Omicron sweeping the land.

But on the bright side, the army thinks it has cured all SARS, and the mainstream media are now admitting that cloth masks do nothing and it's pointless and dangerous to boost teens:

The last vote by FDA advisers, in September, rejected the proposal 16-2. FDA leaders revisited the proposal in November and simply bypassed the experts. So did the CDC, whose advisers had rejected boosters for people not at high risk. Two top FDA scientists, including the head of the agency’s vaccine efforts, quit around the time of the September vote over White House pressure to authorize boosters for all. They wrote in detail about their concerns.

A study by Oxford researchers, published last week in Nature Medicine, validated those concerns. It found young people suffered myocarditis, pericarditis and arrhythmias more frequently from vaccines than from Covid itself. And the long-term cardiac effects of boosters in young people are unknown.

Not to mention the unknown long-term side effects of COVID vaccines at any age...

Lastly but not leastly, after a long hiatus covering antifa and foot-shooting Republicans, David Cole takes another whack at the pandemic:

The “politician/scientist alliance” (typified by the Democrats and Fauci) has done much to encourage both extremes, exhorting the left to lionize lab-coaters (Fauci literally declaring, “I am science”), and taunting the right with a stubborn refusal to admit errors and uncertainties.

Also, the personal behavior of the alliance members has engendered bad-faith skepticism to a huge degree. The people who tell us we’re gonna die if we (and our children) are maskless have no problem constantly violating their own mask rules. In their personal behavior, they don’t act like there’s an emergency. Ordinary folks pick up on that.

Worse still, some in the alliance seem to be enjoying the pandemic a bit too much. When I see the wide toothy smile on the bony-ass Skeletor face of the New Zealand prime minister every time she announces new lockdowns and mandates, I think, “Jesus, that psychopath’s getting a kick out of this shit.”

Massachusetts cases were up five sixths of a percentage point today.