Daily Verse | Genesis 1:1
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

Monday’s Reading: Genesis 1-5

Monday and the start of a new year. Hoping you all had a great celebration with loved ones. New Year’s celebrations have a lost a little luster for me over the last couple of years because they’ve felt like extensions of 2020 and “two weeks to flatten the curve.” We’re now in the third year of those “two weeks.”

Speaking of flattening the curve, all I want to do this morning is remind you of the ominous glee with which our rulers declared that “the unvaccinated” among us were facing decimation this winter with the ‘deadly’ Omicron virus:

But the Omicron variant isn’t delivering. For instance, the

… US is seeing fewer COVID-19 hospitalizations per case than in previous waves, suggesting Omicron is causing “milder disease” than previous variants, the head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Wednesday.

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“While cases have substantially increased from last week, hospitalizations and deaths remain comparatively low right now,” Rochelle Walensky, the CDC director, told reporters at a White House briefing.

“While,” “comparatively,” and “right now” she says. You can almost hear the disappointment.

South Africa, where the Omicron strain was first identified and is a leading indicator of how the disease behaves, suggests further disappointment ahead.

“The drop in new cases nationally combined with the sustained drop in new cases seen here in Gauteng province, which for weeks has been the center of this wave, indicates that we are past the peak,” Marta Nunes, senior researcher at the Vaccines and Infectious Diseases Analytics department of the University of Witwatersrand, told The Associated Press. “It was a short wave … and the good news is that it was not very severe in terms of hospitalizations and deaths,” she said. It is “not unexpected in epidemiology that a very steep increase, like what we saw in November, is followed by a steep decrease.”

So the variant is behaving like epidemiologists expect: a spike followed quickly by a steep drop in new cases. And while no one can make guarantees, both the CDC and the senior researcher are finding that “hospitalizations and deaths” are not severe.

This again shows that our ruling elite either don’t know what they’re talking about, or they are using the occasion to try and frighten their subjects into compliance. In either case, they undermine their credibility when the situation doesn’t come close to resembling what they warn about.

It’s time to stop the fear mongering and accept Covid and its variants as a fact of life and treat it like the now-mild virus that it is. Take precautions if you’re more susceptible to disease, yes, but for the rest of us, it’s time to tell the government to stop picking winners and losers—because they can’t.