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I’ve never met Fred but I’ve read his articles, particularly the Ives mba series ones multiple times.

Like any intellectual, they push to grow their knowledge and sometimes venture outside their area of competence. They don’t realize they’re living in a relatively healthy area of society surrounded by people with easy access to medical care and without comorbidities.

omnicron is less lethal than the other variants but it still threatens significant lives, takes icu beds and takes an enormous toll on the nurses working with a still steady stream of dying patients.

We all want to move on, and Omnicron looks to be peaking soon— the nature of the beast is omnicron has only affected half the people it will.

I guess I agree there’s reason to be optimistic. But I don’t think now is the time we stop talking about it.