Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "Omicron Lights: They're MILD...!"

From DC's anarchist editorial cartoonist, Mike Flugennock -

"Omicron Lights: They're Mild...!"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=3376

Schoolkids and teachers in the UK, Chicago, Oakland and NYC are being 
clobbered, child infections are jumping, hospitals are being swamped, 
but the State and the media keep telling us that it's "mild" — over 
and over and over again, beating the word to death like a slow, 
painful mantra, kind of like "Weapons of Mass Destruction"... or, 
perhaps the end of a cigarette commercial in the 1950s or '60s — 
"...and, they are mild!"

Al Jazeera's just precious as hell, here. They really do think the 
Chinese are some kind of weirdos for actually trying to eradicate 
covid — they had what... two deaths last year? — while, back in The 
West™, we've thrown in the towel; State spokespeople have laughed in 
our faces on live TV, and thrown the working class to the wolves with 
a big, hot, sloppy slice of "learning to live with it".

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"Omicron is not 'mild'", Andre Damon at WSWS.org, 01.07.2022 
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/01/07/mild-j07.html

"Omicron exposes East-West divide on living with COVID", John Power at 
Al Jazeera, 01.07.2022 
https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2022/1/7/omicron-exposes-east-west-divide-on-living-with-covid

"Covid-19 Forecasts: Deaths" Centers For Disease Control forecast 
updated 01.05.2022 COVID-19 Forecasts: Deaths 
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/science/forecasting/forecasting-us.html


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