Maximum Carnage Week Game Thread

Fear, it's what's for dinner. What we get from the conservative blogs and TC is actually science. What we get from the MSM and dem politicians is FEAR. What we don't get is any priority relating to actual causes of death.

https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/

HEATHER MAC DONALD: Inside the Omicron Fear Factory.

In March 2020, a profile of the typical Covid victim emerged from Italy. The average decedent was eighty years old, with approximately three comorbidities such as heart disease, obesity or diabetes. The young had little to worry about; the survival rate for the vast majority of the population was well over 99 percent.

That portrait never significantly changed. The early assessments of Covid out of Italy have remained valid through today. And so it will prove with the Omicron variant.

The data out of South Africa, after five weeks of Omicron spread, suggest that Omicron should be a cause for celebration, not fear. Its symptoms are mild to non-existent in the majority of the infected, especially the vaccinated; hospitalization rates are over nine times lower than for previous Covid strains; deaths are negligible. That assessment will only be confirmed as the US and other western countries gather their own data on Omicron.

Yet the public health establishment and the media are working overtime to gin up Omicron hysteria. The official response to the Omicron variant provides a case study in the deliberate manufacture of fear. The following strategies are key:

Read the whole thing. The Omicron Fear Factory flies in the face of logic, particularly given this statistic: Fentanyl overdoses become No. 1 cause of death among US adults, ages 18-45: ‘A national emergency.’ More adults between 18 and 45 died of fentanyl overdoses in 2020 than COVID-19, motor vehicle accidents, cancer and suicide.