Noted Corona Hysteric Jennifer Rubin: Let's Stop Counting Cases Now Please
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Noted Corona Hysteric Jennifer Rubin: Let's Stop Counting Cases Now Please
Omicron marches on.
Washington Post columnist, committed Biden fangirl, and Corona hysteric Jennifer Rubin spent the fall fantasising about vaccine mandates for Trump voters, and casting the unvaccinated as villains responsible for rising infections in the lesser vaccinated American South. On 12 August she complained about the high prevalence of almost entirely meaningless Corona infections among schoolchildren in Mississippi, and 1 September she wrote of “the variant spread[ing] in low vaccination states, fanned by MAGA governors who oppose vaccine and mask mandates.”
Well, we are no longer in late summer, when extensive climatisation favours high rates of infection in the hottest regions. Instead, we are in the depths of winter, and now a lot of heavily vaccinated blue states are leading the case counts:
Rubin has thus decided that “we can stop agonizing over ‘cases’ and focus on those who are hospitalized or at risk of dying.”
In the same column, she also praises the CDC’s softened quarantine restrictions, introduced of necessity in the face of spiking Omicron infections, as “far more reasonable. … The cumulative effect is to de-escalate the response to omicron for vaccinated and boosted Americans, for whom the risk is minimal.”
Bit by bit, Omicron is chipping away at containment.
Noted Corona Hysteric Jennifer Rubin: Let's Stop Counting Cases Now Please
Omicron is the vaccine.
I agree that it's omicron that will bring the end to the madness.
The CDC just yesterday revised their estimate of omicron cases down from 70% of cases to 50%. But we just had Christmas and New Years' is yet to come, so I assume omicron will begin to sky rocket soon enough. All the restrictions and mandates have been cancelled for some time in my state anyway.
What's hardest for me are 2 things-
First, I don't know if I can ever forgive these people, any of them, from the government and bureaucrats right down to neighbors who participated in the madness and bullying. Next, I still see the carnage of what they have done all around me. The cleanup and healing are going to be monumental tasks, but I am up to helping with that. But I am truely terrified that if we don't act to prevent it, it will happen again, and the fear is that people will become lazy and complacent and not do the work needed to prevent a repeat in the future.