They must be just laughing at anyone still overwrought with this thing, by now. The fable of The Boy Who Cried Wolf needs a complete rewrite to account for the general sheepish gullibility of modern humanity. For, it's likely that the sheep being guarded by the boy still bleated their panic and alarm long after the villagers were deaf to it.

Diogenes Laërtius, a 3rd century biographer of the Greek philosophers, attributed a quote to Aristotle, who when asked what those who tell lies gain by it, ushered forth fundamental wisdom:

...that when they speak truth they are not believed.

Indeed, the whole artfulness of politics is that everything is always a lie. It's only about the right lies at the right time, even if it happens to be the truth sometimes. This extends to all liars. To be a liar is a craft, and to do it well is far more powerful and effective in this primitive stage of the evolution of human consciousness—where the majority of the organisms that house consciousness prefer to be lied to—than is absolute, objective truth telling. Mercilessly telling the truth exposes us all to ruin, at this stage of human development.

They lie to us, we know they're lying, they know we know they're lying, but they keep lying to us, and we keep pretending to believe them.

Elena Gorokhova

OMICRON VARIANT HYPE

I first heard about this latest VARIANT!!! (modest news flash: viruses mutate, always have, and they're called "variants" until such time as an "antigenic shift" is so great it's a new thing altogether) while at a party Sunday evening. I didn't get home until 4am, but once I resurrected, the first thing I did was my 15 minute college degree on Omicron; wherein, I know more than 99% of people on the planet.