Doesn't Russia control the energy for nearly all of Europe?  If Europe turns up the pressure on Putin too much, can't he simply turn off the gas and let them freeze?

Interesting, thanks. I will check out the book.

I was sold in the first few seconds!

Would really love to hear more about #WeWork. You ended that story way too soon!

This is getting scary and it's only going to get worse!

Run to what instead?

I disagree. I think that if someone has symptoms, just assume you have it and stay home. Does it even matter if it is Covid or something else?  Why get other people sick?

Instead, they should save the tests for people who know they have been exposed, but have no symptoms - those are the most dangerous as they will continue to walk around and infect countless others, without even knowing it!

Thanks for writing this, but I don't see how it answers my question from your previous article.  Once again: If Omicron is much more contagious (I've read 10X as contagious!, but not as deadly, won't it still kill more people?  If it infects 10 times as many people, even if it's half or 1/4 as deadly, more people would still die simply because so many more people are infected, no? 

In fact I just read on the homepage of CNN that two new studies confirms that Omicron is much milder - one report said it is 66.67% less likely to lead to hospitalization than Delta, and the other report said 80% less likely.  Very encouraging!  But it also goes onto say that it is so much more contagious, that it is still likely to overwhelm hospitals.  That's a big problem.  And the more people who get it, the more people there are to spread it.

Question: If Omicron is much more contagious (I've read 10X as contagious!, but not as deadly, won't it still kill more people?  If it infects 10 times as many people, even if it's half or 1/4 as deadly, more people would still die simply because so many more people are infected, no?

Great, that's all we need to start off the new year.  Yet another Covid variant.