Oh, Oh, Omicron!

American Greatness ^ | 4 Dec 2021 | Roger Kimball

[Rummyfan]

Last week, I dusted off my Chinese-flu soapbox and said a word or two about (cue the scary music) the Omicron variant. It sounds like the title of a Robert Ludlum novel, doesn’t it? A friend told me about a parlor game that the journalist Christopher Hitchens and his pals used to play in which the object was to contrive names for Shakespeare’s plays that sounded like the title of a Ludlum novel. Hamlet was “The Elsinore Conundrum.” I am sorry that Hitch is not still with us to try his hand at the Omicron variant.

So far, I have to say, it’s been pretty much of a dud—unless, that is, you’re the stock market, which has taken a beating this last week or so, in part because of this new kid on the medical block (there is also that much more toxic financial emergency, the Biden Administration, but that’s for another day). The new variant has also been a godsend for scolds, nags, bureaucrats, and meddlesome so-called public health officials nannies who are just itching for another excuse to lock down your world, introduce new travel restrictions, and impose new testing protocols.

[jmacusa]

Just in time for the mid terms. This s**t is never going to end. Democrats. They’re the real virus.

[HartleyMBaldwin]

“The Omicron Variant” sounds to me like the title of a Big Bang Theory episode.

[goodnesswins]

Commies are the virus...Dems are one vector

[Paladin2]

OMG Con

[EEGator]

A lot of alpha males on that show...

[IrishBrigade]

‘This s**t is never going to end. Democrats.’

yeah, but you’ve seen the crowds at college football games, thousand of them maskless and shoulder to shoulder, and there’ nothing, absolutely nothing the nannies can do but cluck their tongues...

[Disambiguator]

I was thinking it sounds like a Michael Crichton story.

“The Omicron Strain”

[jmacusa]

Yup, you’re right.