“Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don’t mean to do harm; but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.” – T.S. Eliot
Can you say Omicron (or Omnicron) variant? I knew you could.
It’s basically harmless, and might well be the reason there were so few Covid deaths in Africa. It seems to have been around for a while. But if it is harmless, that makes the whole public health establishment less important. And to those in the public health establishment, God forfend that happening.
Public health is important. Crying wolf over a harmless variant may be a short-term way to temporarily increase its importance, but long term it corrodes the credibility of the public health establishment. When the biological wolf eventually does emerge, people are going to disregard the public health establishment because they are tired of hearing lies and think it is yet another one.
Perhaps the public health heroes think that day of reckoning will never come. Perhaps it never will. In the meantime, they have been feeling important. Feeling important is a drug more addicting than heroin, oxycodone, and methamphetamine’ put together. And they are hooked.
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