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All righty. So, Omicron. Are you scared? Are you scared? You scared? Because apparently Democrats just

want you to be scared, but for no actual reason. So some of us have been saying ever since news broke of Omicron, that Omicron was not super scary. And the reason I said that Omicron was not super scary is because we had no data that it was particularly scary. He kept seeing headlines like 30 different mutations. Ooh, ah. It's like they were selling you a brand new hoverboard or something. No, that was not the thing about Omicron. That was supposed to scare you. Then it was, it spread super fast in the population. You're like, well, yeah, but Delta also spread super fast in the population. At no point did they ever say that Omicron was more virulent, meaning more deadly, meaning more damaging. Instead, the early data seemed to suggest that it was very infectious

and not particularly virulent, sort of like a cold, that it was like a really, really mild

case of the flu, actually. In fact, to date, I am unaware of a single report anywhere that anyone

has died of Omicron, anywhere. And now, I can name you, like almost 800,000 Americans who died

of COVID and some 5 million

people worldwide, which is a low-end estimate who have died of COVID. But if no one has died of

Omicron and it's spreading really fast and it's crowding out Delta, that's a good thing. It is a good

thing if people are getting Omicron versus Delta if Omicron is milder because then they get natural immunity via a much

milder infection. And yet, and yet, the Democrats have decided that they are going to go absolutely

ballistic ape bleep over Omicron. It's not just Democrats and liberals here in the United States.

It's people in Europe. It's people in Israel, the entire world,

which has been incentivized over the past year and a half to push the lie that they can control the spread of Delta and spread of COVID generally.

They continue to double down on stupid.

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