A teacher at Manhattan’s New School confessed: “It’s literally all I’ve been thinking about. “Monday I wasn’t even thinking about, and Thursday I’m in a panic,” said a fifty-nine-year-old woman on the Upper West Side. Man-on-the-street interviews quote Nervous Nellies exclusively. A December 17 New York Times article headlined “As Virus Cases Surge, New Yorkers Feel a Familiar Anxiety” trotted out a parade of paralyzed city residents: The media want you to believe that everyone around you is scared out of his mind, and thus you should be, too. 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: 1. The Ukraine invasion is nothing compared to Iraq.America’s rural population is shrinking.
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