Covid-2019 - 2022-01-24

Elite opinion continues to turn, with the New York Times highlighting statements by WHO officials confirming the new official view -- that the arrival of less-lethal Omicron means the pandemic is over (it's now endemic). That said, the politics is just too good to let go of this quickly. In what may be its most bumblingly obvious story yet, the Times headlines the horror that "Sarah Palin, who is unvaccinated, recently dined indoors in New York City before testing positive." The evidence presented is a photograph of a restaurant empty except for two waiters. Palin was outed by a journalist who later say, "My mom thought she was Tina Fey." Oh, and just by the way, Palin was in New York pursuing a libel suit against the New York Times.