Hello and welcome. It's Eric Erickson here. I hope you had a delightful Thanksgiving.

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All right, we have to talk about

Omicron. Out of the gate. Let's talk about Omicron. You should know we're not going to

have a Xi variant of COVID because it would offend the Chinese dictator. So we've jumped over to the Omicron variant in the Greek alphabet, but that allows us to put

some perspective on the great freak out that is about this variant.

You know, we had the alpha variant is the original COVID.

And then you have beta and then gamma and then delta we all know

about the delta variant the media's been talking about the delta variant for a year but there

was along the way epsilon and zeta ada theta iota kappa lambda and muh we've had all those variants now there data, Iota, Kappa, Lambda, and Mu.

We've had all those variants. Now there was, you will recall, sometime, gosh, middle of the year,

can't believe it's almost a year. Where did the year go?

But sometime around June, July, or August, there was the Lambda variant.

It came up out of Peru. Now, it spread into Los Angeles.

There were multiple signs of the Lambda variant, but the Lambda variant collapsed.

There was about a three-day media freak out about the Lambda variant, and then it all went away.

Well, now we're at Omicron. Now, here are a couple of things that make it different from the Lambda variant.

I want to put this all in perspective for you because you should not be freaking out.

We'll get into why the media is freaking out, but you should not be freaking out.

Let me give you the data.

The data is the reason the media did not freak out as much about the Lambda variant as the Omicron

variant is because the Lambda variant came out of South America. The Omicron

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