The Left Roots for the Worst as Omicron Fails to Deliver – Opinion

If you are the cautiously optimistic type, the news on the Omicron variant of COVID-19 has been largely positive so far — though, you’d never tell that from the media coverage. As RedState reported, South Africa’s hospitalization numbers actually dropped during their wave and cases are already tailing off.

You can also find in FranceThey are also seeing less people being sick, and fewer patients are admitted to the ICU. That’s more evidence pointing to a lack of virulence regarding Omicron. Although it’s more easily transmissible than other viruses, Omicron seems far less hazardous, and presents as a mild case of the common cold.

“.. emerging good news from France, .. the vast majority of French ICU patients leave within a week, in sharp contrast to the earlier Covid waves.” We’re “increasingly hopeful that the Omicron hospitalization numbers will be much less alarming than the case data.” @PantheonMacro pic.twitter.com/Ro3SivPZz7

— Carl Quintanilla (@carlquintanilla) December 21, 2021

But while that might seem positive to normal people, it’s bad news for many on the left because they’ve invested so much of their personal being and political future into the pandemic. For figures like Joe Biden, Omicron presenting mild symptoms means losing his favorite punching bag — the unvaccinated. That’s why he just outright lied multiple times about what the data is showing on the new variant yesterday.

Then there’s stuff like this, where you can literally feel the disappointment.

Although milder symptoms are more common, experts believe the disease is still quite severe. There’s also a chance that a mild infection can still lead to long COVID. Most common symptoms are congestion and a sore or scratchy throat.

— HuffPost (@HuffPost) December 21, 2021

It’s mild, but it can still be debilitating! And you might get “long COVID”!

Of course, I’m skeptical “long COVID” actually exists on any widespread level given the “symptoms” track with a million other things human beings tend to randomly suffer from. There’s also a study involving children that showed the control group actually had more “long COVID” symptoms than those who actually were infected with the coronavirus. What’s that tell you?

It feels as though the left would rather this be worse. Here’s another example, in which an editor with the Florida Sun SentinelMarco Rubio is criticized for not stating the obvious.

These are not the hospitalization rates of omicron and delta. It is important to note that less powerful but less virulent strains don’t always mean less hospitalizations and deaths.

BTW: Yesterday was Houston’s first U.S. Omicron Death. Unvaxed.

— Dan Sweeney (@Daniel_Sweeney) December 21, 2021

While I’m thankful for that math lesson, Omicron’s lack of potency is, in fact, leading to less hospitalization and death. As I mentioned earlier, there has been well over a month’s worth of South African hospitalization data. We are also beginning to get useful data sets from Europe. The number of deaths has been minimal, with only one reported in the United States. Clearly, the increased transmissibility of Omicron is not overcoming the fact that it’s far less deadly than the Delta variant.

We should celebrate the Omicron data so far. Instead, the left appears to be in mourning while tyrannical political leaders pretend that positive data doesn’t even exist, instituting more asinine mitigation measures that only serve to punish and discriminate. These people will never let COVID go unless voters force them. We can, however, point at them and make fun of them while we wait.