Good morning, good afternoon, good evening, wherever you are out there in the world, we're

all going to step out onto the high wire.

I hope those of you with the United States of America had a beautiful Thanksgiving dinner.

Last week and around the world, I hope you had a beautiful week.

We certainly enjoyed ourselves and it was almost like everything was going to be okay.

Just when you thought it was okay, we're all sitting down, not too many masks, not too

many paranoid family members.

At least not in my family.

We had another, you know, Lala Paloos' style Thanksgiving at my house.

We had almost 50 people in my house celebrating Thanksgiving.

But it was almost like while we were seeing their eating and celebrating and talking, it

was outside the windows, that movie shot.

It was looking at us from the distance.

We thought it was safe to go home at night.

It was Omicron.

When I was elected, I said I would always be honest with you.

So today I want to take a few moments to talk about the new COVID variant, Leomdechron.

The Omicron variant is causing worldwide worry.

The U.S. is bracing for the new Omicron variant.

That new COVID variant that the World Health Organization says poses a very high risk around

the globe.

This variant is a cause for concern, not a cause for panic.

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