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Welcome to the commentary magazine daily podcast today is Friday December 17th 2021.

I'm John Potthorz the editor of commentary magazine yet again asking you to consider commentary in your end of your giving our 501 see three commentary and publishes commentary magazine releases the daily website and produces this daily podcast and we are grateful to our subscribers and to our advertisers for providing us with a great deal of funds to run what we run but we have a deficit and we have to close it every year in parables

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focus on us as part of your charitable generosity as the year comes to a close with me as always executive editor a greenwald hi a hi john senior writer Christine Rosen high Christine hi john and associate editor no arosman high Noah hi john

hi john so everybody I know is going absolutely bananas over the Omacron variant and we have headlines a very weird daily male headline that says there are going to be a million and a half cases a week by J.

C. D. C. report says a million and a half cases a week by January and a death toll of 2500 people a day in the United States as this goes forward says the C. D. C. and then as I read through the story I saw actually no citation of a C. D. C. report or anything

that says classic British journalism high high high drama low sourcing I believe it is still the case that we have one confirmed death on the planet earth from the Omacron variant I mean I I believe now since we only had one that if we had a second there would be a huge

red line saying second Omacron death and and yet my the high so my my kid who is an elementary school the high school attached was elementary school has gone remote

comes down early Stanford closed down early Cornell closed down early and and we're now you know last night on Broadway Mulan Rouge the biggest 서�na Broadway literally the audience was seated and was

sent home like was dismissed from the theater and sent home

of some Omelcrond event.

It really has the feel of 2020.

As the moment where everybody

without the consequence.

You knew that this thing was real

was when all of a sudden a game,

an NBA game that was set to take place in near minutes,

all of a sudden the players were rushed out

and then the audience was removed

and it was one of those free apocalyptic moments.

And yeah, certain municipalities are lurching towards

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