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Welcome to the Commentary Magazine Daily podcast today is Monday November 29th 2021

I'm John Pajor it's the editor of Commentary Magazine with me is always executive editor a green wall hi a hi John

senior writer Christine Rosen high Christine

hi John and associate editor Noah Rothman high Noah hi John

So the Omicron variant is upon us now collapse the thousand points on Friday

Israel has closed its borders Biden announced

and end to all foreign entrance into the United States as of today he'll be speaking

if you listen to it this afternoon he will already spoken but we're taping at my clock in the

morning he'll be speaking sometime he I think he says 1130 which means he could be speaking

anytime before midnight and what do we know about it all the only thing we know about it is that it is

it has several mutations on it and what we don't know is whether the mutations are or not

susceptible to attack by the vaccines may lute the vaccines and therefore might give rise not

only to making people sick but but giving rise to other variants inside the bodies of people

there's some thought that this single variant may have emerged from a single immunocompromised

patient's body which is pretty staggering when you think about it and of course it just raises

the specter of here we go again here we go back into the you know we're going back into the cave

until the demon somehow you know eludes us or escapes us it does it does suggest that all those

things are possible it also suggests that all those things might not be possible because we don't

know anything about this and the world descended into paralytic alarm over a hypothetical

that is today being questioned very seriously by people who are saying well wait a minute

as much as we do know about this thing we don't know as much just as much about it and all that is

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