Covid-2019 - 2021-12-08

Almost two weeks ago when we highlighted the predictable cycle of fear-peddling, with the media fretting that "officials worry" that Omicron "might be more transmissible" and "experts fear" that "vaccines possibly won't work" and so on... a smart client said the inevitable next step was for "doctors to speculate" that it "could be attacking children." Bingo: that's the lead story in today's New York Times, along with a companion piece about how children are the pandemic's "forgotten grievers." What's next? Omicron in ice cream? Children's ice cream, Mandrake?

Meanwhile, in the UK, PM Boris Johnson orders tighter restrictions after his staff was outed for mocking videos about, yes, tighter restrictions.

It's all in "Recommended Reading."