Politico Has Found Who to Blame for the New ‘Omicron’ Variant

News on the “Omicron” front seems to be rather positive so far. According to some reports, it can cause mild symptoms similar to those of a common cold. The World Health Organization also stated that it can cause mild illness similar to a cold. announced yesterdayNo one has died yet from the COVID-19 new variant.

That hasn’t stopped the media from going all out, though. Cable news is abuzz with fear, as well as left-leaning publications. Politico took things one step further. In trying to assign blame, they think they’ve found the culprit — Donald Trump?

Yes, the bad orange man, who hasn’t been in office for over 10 months, is supposedly at fault for a variant that emerged across an ocean. This logic was reported by Newsbusters.

NOT kidding: Politico found a way (through anonymous sources) to blame the Omicron variant on TRUMPhttps://t.co/gkyaoNd76f

— NewsBusters (@newsbusters) December 5, 2021

Decisions by top officials responding to President Donald Trump’s edict to protect “America first” contributed to a global delay in Covid-19 vaccine donations and a lack of effort to assist low- and middle-income countries, according to Trump’s former and current officials were five of the following: Information about the federal pandemic response.

The failure to view the Covid threat in global terms left some nations — including those where the Omicron variant emerged in recent weeks — lacking inoculation and much more vulnerable to mutations, the officials said.

Anonymous sourcing is an excellent way to prove this ridiculous claim. It’s best to remain on-brand. This is a remarkable example of adhesion to the rules.

Regardless, let’s get into their claim. According to these “officials,” who are probably Miles Taylor and some other people we’ve never heard of, this is Trump’s fault because he took an “America First” approach to vaccine distribution early on.

But then he…left office…so I’m a bit at a loss of how a variant that emerged almost a year later is the fault of an initial push to get Americans vaccinated before doling out doses to the third world. On its face, that just doesn’t make much sense.

Joe Biden, at least as far as I know, is the president. He’s had plenty of time to shower vaccines on Africa and Asia if that’s the concern here. Trump, the White House resident currently in charge of the administration’s affairs, has been known to have ingested large amounts of vaccine doses. This led to him being under scrutiny. Even now, the rush to give “boosters” to young, healthy people who don’t need them in the first world is taking doses away from the third world. Isn’t that far more relevant than a policy Trump put in place in 2020? And that’s if you believe this theory about a lack of vaccinations in poorer countries causing mutations, an assertion that seems to lack evidence.

But what would be especially hilarious, given Politico’s framing, is if Omicron really does turn out to be a preferable variant. Yes, we’d all love for COVID-19 to be eradicated, but that’s never going to happen because it’s clearly endemic and seasonal. The question then becomes what variant is endemic and how it affects the world’s population. If the dominant variant is one that’s mild and doesn’t kill many people, then that’s actually a very good thing compared to the current dominance of the Delta variant.

It’s funny how, Polito might be roundingly blaming Trump in an indirect way for a variant of the pandemic that could end up helping to change the course. Isn’t that an orange man?