Covid-2019 - 2022-01-05

That ultimate shaper of elite opinion, the New York Times, is setting up Rochelle Walensky, director of the CDC, to take the fall for the Biden administration in the US Omicron wave. In a front-pager, the charges against her are "stumbling" in her explanations, and "not being on the same page" as the White House. Meanwhile on the left coast, the Los Angeles Times has come up with something to make up for the disappointment that Omicron doesn't have much power to titillate the public -- a whole new disease: "flu-rona." Do you have it yet? All the cool kids do. It's all in "Recommended Reading."