Omicron Is Creating An Unnecessary Media Hysteria Over Positive Case Numbers...Again

Individual cases as headlines, without context, only serve to whip people up into a hysteria. Especially with the Omicron variant.

Back about a year ago – before the Delta variant, but long after we had a firm grasp on exactly how dangerous Covid was (or wasn’t, depending on your perspective) - I made the point that we had to stop blindly relying on, touting and hyping up individual positive Covid cases and blanket positive test numbers.

In short, I made the argument that we needed…