People seem able to simultaneously believe that Omicron is just as severe as Delta and that there can be a very high number of asymptomatic and barely-symptomatic cases.

Here is an example.

I still think Omicron is about 50-70% less severe than Delta. All the evidence so far seems to back this up, save that poor article from the tweet.

Conquering the galaxy is not an ambitious enough goal for humanity, but it’ll do for a start.

If the movie Big (1988) came out today, it would absolutely tear this website apart.

— 🏜🔋, fka ☕️ (@coopercooperco) December 15, 2021

As with many movies from the 1980s, Big could not be made today. It’d be considered too offensive by the wokesters and be canned even if it came up for development. During the 1980s, the zeitgeist was emphasizing our similarities and all about trying to bring people together.

That’s now transitioned to highlighting our differences, and making sure we dis-align along those axes. I have to say that what we were attempting during the 1980s was far better.

Unvaccinated Covid Patients Push Hospital Systems Past the Brink.

Unvaxxed people should be treated dead (pun very much intended) last at any hospital. Why waste medical staff’s time on those who have made their decision on how much they value their health? They’ve already demonstrated they’d rather die — so why not let them?

“Here’s some Tylenol; good luck.”

If omicron is as mild as it looks to be and delta can’t evade immunity from omicron, this could be the pandemic endgame

— Mason ‍♂️✂️ (@webdevMason) December 14, 2021

Seems likely to me too. Omicron appears mild but very transmissible. Most everyone is likely to get it, most probably asymptomatic if vaccinated.

In a way, with Omicron we got lucky. It didn’t necessarily have to be milder than previous variants though it’s becoming increasingly clear that it in fact is.

Indeed, this is how to lose most people with your ascetic horseshit:

Well-stocked supermarkets with reasonably-priced food are such a net win for civilization. That anyone even has to say this is just…I don’t even have words for it.

Liberals debating the utility of joy is essentially the whole problem with what’s left of their ideology. That’s what’s at the base of the catastrophic collapse even if there is more to it than that.

Gen Z Is Done With the Pandemic. Though the specter of a new variant hangs over the holidays, young people have no plans to lock themselves down again.

And good for them. They should be rebelling. We’ve put an enormous, incalculable burden on those 5-25 to protect — mostly — obese people over 70. This is not the way it should’ve been. We’ve isolated young people from their friends, prevented them from having extremely important formative and socializing experiences and then had the temerity to call them “selfish” for not wanting to be stuck at home for years at a time.

I’d be defying all that, too. I’d be in open revolution.