Omicron Offers an Off-Ramp From Our Failed Pandemic Policy

As the COVID-19 pandemic and the Western world's unprecedented approach to it enters a new phase, with the Omicron variant becoming more prevalent, an opportunity presents itself to effect dramatic and much-needed changes to COVID policy.

Coupled with the Chinese regime's extreme censorship of COVID-related data and workers, coupled with apocalyptic COVID propaganda spread by its mouthpieces and sycophants, it can be argued that the West largely threw out the tried-and-tested traditional pandemic playbook in favor of extreme top-down policies eerily similar to those the Chinese regime was celebrating.

We adopted all sorts of tyrannical policies to "Encourage" adoption, even for healthy children who are at miniscule risk from the virus.

We need to halt the highly objectionable COVID policies being employed today, while giving up, for now, the assigning of blame.

In other words, a perfect opportunity to effect a dramatic shift in pandemic policy, for example to policies laid out in the Great Barrington Declaration and past pandemic public health standards.

Vaccine mandates can be dropped in an instant, policy can indeed be "Left to the states" as President Biden has suggested, and state leaders can also follow in kind.

It's an opportunity for leaders to use the novel Omicron variant to save face, as an "Off ramp" off the current authoritarian and unpopular policy track, enacting policies that will have them celebrated and also work well, helping us start to heal our society.

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