Quote Originally Posted by jcb View Post
The Dems are absolutely doomed except in the most blue of blueish states b/c of mandate resentment.

I'll also say, and I have absolutely nothing to back this up with, that I think it's also possible the CDC and other decision makers looked at Omicron and said "here's a highly transmissible, not as lethal variant" and thought it might be a good idea to remove the mandates, overcome the anti-vaxxers and nudge us toward herd immunity. The next variant could be much worse.
Did you ever think that since so many people are fully vaccinated these days that Omicron won't make as many people sick as before everyone got vaccinated? Maybe Omicron is as lethal as the original SARS CoV-2 virus but can't make vaccinated people as sick as before they were all vaccinated.