Covid-2019 - 2022-03-18

That didn't take long. We highlighted a mysterious case-wave building outside the US, and wondered why no one was speculating about a new variant that was "wildly transmissible" (experts fear) and "potentially more deadly" (doctors worry) and "resistant to vaccines" (public health officials wonder). Well, here it is: the BA.2 variant of Omicron. It's pretty obvious from the non-US case resurgence that there should be concern here -- but less, we think, concern about the virus than concern about the over-reaction of public officials. Fortunately it's happening when the Russian invasion of Ukraine is distracting them with even more salacious narratives.