Omicron: Here we go again.

Its name is "Omicron". It's the reason you'll still need to wear a mask at work and in school in 2022. It will be the desperate need cited for getting small children vaccinated. It's the reason you have to stay home for Christmas again this year (and don't even think of New Year's). It's the reason why you'll be getting a fourth shot in about five months. It's the reason your compliance will continue to be mandatory in 2022, the year you thought you'd finally be free of COVID. If you live in the formerly free country of Australia, it will be responsible for lockdowns 473 thru 842. If not Omicron, it will be the next variant. When the name Omicron fades from the headlines, as Delta did, it will be replaced. Thanks to COVID, we're all going to find out how many letters there are in the Greek alphabet. A recent article in the NY Post tells of this new COVID-19 variant. If the short, yet well-chronicled history of the COVID pandemic teaches us anything, is that news of the Omicron variant will be exploited as a reason to administer (read sell) more vaccine doses. It will be used as justification for all sorts of limits to our freedoms, even as the Western world grows sick, not from COVID, but of things like vaccine mandates and COVID apartheid. All across the globe, people are taking to the streets against the quarantine of the non-sick, forced medical treatment, and general infringement of human rights in the name of fighting a disease that the vast majority of people who've contracted it have recovered from. The expert class has so undermined their credibility that many now simply tune them out, even if they happen to be right. Again, it must be said, there will always with this disease be an excuse for authoritarian behavior on the part of our leaders, many of whom have a caviler attitude towards the rights of others. This patronizing and oftentimes detrimental treatment will continue for as long as we let it.