Data from South Africa seem to indicate it is very contagious and nearly harmless. Yet world leaders and the media went into another round of elevated mass hysteria.

Anyone with a brain knows WuFlu is not going away, so since a strain or another will be circulating anyway, you'd want that strain to be Omicron : mild symptoms, few and shorter hospital stays, very few deaths.

All mesure of testing, vax mandates and quarantines pathetically failed at stopping whatever "variant du jour" from getting in a country. Yet there is a persistent narrative about preventing the spread of any new variant with the same mesures that failed 3 times already everywhere, as if it ever worked.

Data from South Africa seem to indicate it is very contagious and nearly harmless. Yet world leaders and the media went into another round of elevated mass hysteria.

Anyone with a brain knows WuFlu is not going away, so since a strain or another will be circulating anyway, you'd want that strain to be Omicron : mild symptoms, few and shorter hospital stays, very few deaths.

All mesure of testing, vax mandates and quarantines pathetically failed at stopping whatever "variant du jour" from getting in a country. Yet there is a persistent narrative about preventing the spread of any new variant wity the same mesures that failed 3 times already everywhere, as if it ever worked.