The Omicron variant of COVID-19 spooks the globe.

Anthony Fauci announces he is the voice of science.

Again, and Joe Biden struggles to respond.

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sensing already that I'm taking this rather lightly. And I am. And the reason that I'm taking

this rather lightly at this point is because I have no evidence that we should be taking

this super seriously. When I say that, what I mean is, since Delta, I have been of the opinion

that you are going to get immunity one of two ways, either naturally or via the vaccine. That's the whole story. And it's your choice. I'm not under the weird assumption that some people seem to be under that you're never going to get COVID. I think that you will. I think that even if you get vaccinated, at some point you are likely to get COVID. And because you're vaccinated, it's likely to be very mild. And we have great therapeutics that are coming online. We should have the new Pfizer therapeutic that is going to be widely available in the next couple of weeks. And so the only thing that would freak me out at this point is if there was a variant that emerge that was more deadly. That's the only thing. I'm not that freaked out by a new variant that is more

transmissible. Again, the reason being, there is no evidence whatsoever that the T-cell and B-cell

immunity that has been created by the vaccine and by previous natural immunity is completely

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