{"id":384353,"date":"2021-12-22T06:30:39","date_gmt":"2021-12-22T03:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/omicron-coverage-reveals-how-the-establishment-media-keep-us-scared\/"},"modified":"2021-12-22T06:30:39","modified_gmt":"2021-12-22T03:30:39","slug":"omicron-coverage-reveals-how-the-establishment-media-keep-us-scared","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/omicron-coverage-reveals-how-the-establishment-media-keep-us-scared\/","title":{"rendered":"#Omicron coverage reveals how the establishment, media keep us scared"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a25c92d1be8d\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a25c92d1be8d\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/omicron-coverage-reveals-how-the-establishment-media-keep-us-scared\/#1_Create_a_group_norm_of_fear\" >1. Create a group norm of fear\u00a0<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/omicron-coverage-reveals-how-the-establishment-media-keep-us-scared\/#2_Buttress_group_fear_with_expert_opinion\" >2. Buttress group fear with expert opinion\u00a0<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/omicron-coverage-reveals-how-the-establishment-media-keep-us-scared\/#3_Manufacture_epistemological_uncertainty_and_insist_on_that_uncertainty_as_long_as_possible\" >3. Manufacture epistemological uncertainty and insist on that uncertainty as long as possible\u00a0<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/omicron-coverage-reveals-how-the-establishment-media-keep-us-scared\/#4_Bury_both_good_news_and_dissenters_from_the_bad_news\" >4. Bury both good news and dissenters from the bad news<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/omicron-coverage-reveals-how-the-establishment-media-keep-us-scared\/#5_Omit_relevant_context\" >5. Omit relevant context\u00a0<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-6\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/omicron-coverage-reveals-how-the-establishment-media-keep-us-scared\/#6_Flog_the_case_count\" >6. Flog the case count\u00a0<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>#Omicron coverage reveals how the establishment, <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a> keep us scared<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>In March 2020, a profile of the typical COVID victim emerged from Italy. The average decedent was 80 years old, with <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>roximately three comorbidities, such as heart disease, obesity or diabetes. The young had little to worry about; the survival rate for the vast majority of the population was well over 99 percent.<\/p>\n<p>That portrait never significantly changed. The early assessments of COVID out of Italy have remained valid through today. And so it will prove with the Omicron variant.<\/p>\n<p>The data out of South Africa, after five weeks of Omicron spread, suggest that Omicron should be a cause for celebration, not fear. Its symptoms are mild to nonexistent in the majority of the infected, especially the vaccinated; hospitalization rates are over nine times lower than for previous COVID strains; deaths are negligible. That assessment will only be confirmed as the United States and other Western countries gather their own data on Omicron.<\/p>\n<p>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:<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"1_Create_a_group_norm_of_fear\"><\/span>1. Create a group norm of fear\u00a0<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The media want you to believe that everyone around you is scared out of his mind, and thus you should be, too. Man-on-the-street interviews quote Nervous Nellies exclusively. A Dec. 17 <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/12\/16\/nyregion\/new-york-covid-cases.html\">New York Times article <\/a>headlined \u201cAs Virus Cases Surge, New Yorkers Feel a Familiar Anxiety\u201d trotted out a parade of paralyzed city residents:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMonday I wasn\u2019t even thinking about [Omicron], and Thursday I\u2019m in a panic,\u201d said a 59-year-old woman on the Upper West Side. A teacher at Manhattan\u2019s New School confessed: \u201cIt\u2019s literally all I\u2019ve been thinking about. I\u2019m really heartsick and worried.\u201d A 36-year-old woman in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, said: \u201cIt\u2019s scary \u2014 it feels like we\u2019ve been here before.\u201d A 62-year- old woman in Queens reported that her <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">travel<\/a> and outing days were over: \u201cI\u2019m going to go home, I\u2019m going to stay home and just keep to myself.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/iStock-1213838327.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Seamless tile editable vector news headlines about the coronavirus outbreak\" class=\"wp-image-20576180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/iStock-1213838327.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/iStock-1213838327.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/iStock-1213838327.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>The official response to the Omicron variant provides a case study in the deliberate manufacture of fear. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Getty Images\/iStockphoto<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Are there any New Yorkers who are not panicked? Presumably, but you would not know it from the Times\u2019 and other outlets\u2019 coverage. Needless to say, dissenters from Omicron fear in the rest of the country are beneath notice. The point of these one-sided quotes is to spread and normalize panic as the only reasonable reaction to the variant.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"2_Buttress_group_fear_with_expert_opinion\"><\/span>2. Buttress group fear with expert opinion\u00a0<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The only public-health experts that the media quote are those determined to put the most dire spin on Omicron. They stress worst-case hypothetical scenarios and dismiss actual good-case evidence. At best, they may grudgingly admit that Omicron symptoms are disproportionately mild, but rush to assert that there are still many as-yet-unrealized grounds for worry.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven if Omicron causes less severe cases, the sheer number of cases could once again overwhelm unprepared health systems,\u201d the <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/director-general\/speeches\/detail\/who-director-general-s-opening-remarks-at-the-media-briefing-on-covid-19---14-december-2021\">director-general of the World Health Organization said<\/a>.\u00a0\u201cI\u2019m not counting [Omicron\u2019s lack of severity] as good <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a> just yet,\u201d a disease ecologist at Georgetown University said. \u201cEven if infection is mild in many individuals, it\u2019s not going to be mild in everyone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But that 100 percent mildness standard is unrealistic. There are outliers in any disease and any treatment; the question is: What is the predominant reality? The zero-risk, zero-harm standard for public policy adopted for the first time with COVID has proven a social, economic and public-health disaster.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/AP21349600110752.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"An 11-year-old receives her second dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine. \" class=\"wp-image-20576202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/AP21349600110752.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/AP21349600110752.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/AP21349600110752.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/AP21349600110752.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>An 11-year-old receives her second dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP \/ Nam Y. Huh<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>At worst, the favored experts do not even pay lip service to the evidence militating against panic. An epidemiologist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/12\/16\/health\/coronavirus-omicron-variant.html\">told The New York Times<\/a>: \u201cI think we need to be prepared for the possibility that this could be at least as bad as any previous wave that we\u2019ve seen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There are apparently no circumstances which would warrant a less-than-totalitarian response in advance of any actual disaster. The yearning for more draconian lockdowns and more control over the private sector is palpable.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"3_Manufacture_epistemological_uncertainty_and_insist_on_that_uncertainty_as_long_as_possible\"><\/span>3. Manufacture epistemological uncertainty and insist on that uncertainty as long as possible\u00a0<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The media intone repeatedly that much remains uncertain about Omicron, including how likely it is to cause severe disease. But we already have a good picture of that likelihood from the South Africa experience: very unlikely. Nevertheless, the director of the influential Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington, Christopher Murray, is determined to assert that we know little to nothing yet: \u201cThe most challenging question is severity,\u201d he told the Times.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"4_Bury_both_good_news_and_dissenters_from_the_bad_news\"><\/span>4. Bury both good news and dissenters from the bad news<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The South African data should lead any coverage of Omicron, yet it has barely been reported. Though only 27\u2009percent of that country is fully vaccinated, less than 2 percent of new cases are requiring hospitalization. And that number is undoubtedly too high, since many reported COVID hospitalizations were admitted for reasons other than COVID.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In countries such as the United States, with much higher rates of vaccination, the breakthrough infections from Omicron will be even milder. Omicron will be an ideal vehicle for achieving herd immunity, conferring protection without tears on the vast majority of the infected.<\/p>\n<p>The South African doctor who first reported the Omicron variant has declared herself \u201castonished\u201d by the world\u2019s reaction to the new strain, which is \u201cout of all proportion to its risks.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/AP21349476456420.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Scientists at the Africa Health Research Institute in Durban, South Africa, work on the omicron variant of the COVID-19 virus.\" class=\"wp-image-20576213\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/AP21349476456420.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/AP21349476456420.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/AP21349476456420.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/AP21349476456420.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Scientists at the Africa Health Research Institute in Durban, South Africa, work on the omicron variant of the COVID-19 virus.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP \/ Jerome Delay<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>\u201cPatients typically present with muscle pain, body aches, a headache and a bit of fatigue,\u201d Angelique Coetzee <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-10306211\/DR-ANGELIQUE-COETZEE-alerted-wider-world-Omicron-believe-Britain-overreacting.html\">wrote in the Daily Mail <\/a>on Dec. 13. \u201cAfter about five days [those symptoms] clear up, and that\u2019s it.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The only patient with severe symptoms whom she has seen over the last month had HIV, pneumonia and other comorbidities.<\/p>\n<p>Coetzee has been nonexistent in the non-conservative press. Just as we are supposed to believe that everyone around us is universally spooked, so we should believe that there is an unbroken expert consensus about the likely disaster that is Omicron. European health officials are warning of an Omicron spike, we are told. State and local health officials are urging that holiday gatherings be held outdoors and that all participants get vaccinated, boosted and tested; partygoers should wear masks.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Are there no experts who think that Omicron is not an emerging threat? Apparently not, if you read the mainstream media. If any dissenters do break through, they will be as demonized and silenced by Big Tech as the lockdown skeptics in the scientific community were at the start of the COVID era.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"5_Omit_relevant_context\"><\/span>5. Omit relevant context\u00a0<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>We hear constantly that 1,300 people are dying a day from COVID. By comparison, about 2,000 people die each day from cancer and 1,600 from heart disease. Their deaths get no coverage. COVID was the leading cause of death in the United States only in January 2021, even among those 85 and older. Since then, it has ranked as the third-most-frequent cause of death both in the overall population and in the elderly.<\/p>\n<p>To read the press coverage, however, you would think that nothing approaches COVID in fierce lethality and that all public resources should be directed to stopping its spread, no matter the costs to the education and socialization of children, to physical and psychological health, and to economic opportunity. Restrictive COVID policies exacerbated sickness in the highest-ranking categories of mortality, a toll that will only grow. Patients put off lifesaving cancer screenings, having been spooked away from medical facilities. Obesity worsened, as gyms were shut down and people barricaded themselves at home, packing on the pounds. Those ever-bigger fatties will be tomorrow\u2019s coronary casualties and COVID victims.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/AP21352196412909.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Respiratory therapist Frans Oudenaar replaces an oxygen tube for Linda Calderon in a COVID-19 unit at Providence Holy Cross Medical Center in Los Angeles.\" class=\"wp-image-20576223\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/AP21352196412909.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/AP21352196412909.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/AP21352196412909.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/AP21352196412909.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Respiratory therapist Frans Oudenaar replaces an oxygen tube for Linda Calderon in a COVID-19 unit at Providence Holy Cross Medical Center in Los Angeles.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP \/  Jae C. Hong<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Even those 1,300 daily COVID deaths are an overcount, since public-health reporting counts deaths with COVID as deaths from COVID. Someone who was dying already from cancer will be deemed a COVID death if he happens to contract that more newsworthy disease at the end of his life. Someone who dies of old age will also be counted as a COVID fatality if infected at death.<\/p>\n<p>The average life expectancy in 2019 was less than 79 years. But The New York Times\u2019 maudlin COVID obituaries report the deaths of nonagenarians as COVID fatalities, as if those oldsters would have otherwise lived indefinitely. A 91-year-old jazz pianist was included last week in the \u201cThose We\u2019ve Lost\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series<\/a>, even though he was a stroke victim with numerous long-standing health problems that the COVID virus merely exacerbated.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"6_Flog_the_case_count\"><\/span>6. Flog the case count\u00a0<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>If the media is obsessing about case count, it means that COVID deaths have been a terrible disappointment. COVID death rates have plunged over the last year and are barely budging in the post-Omicron era. But case counts are a particularly deceptive measure of pandemic severity, when so many of the new cases are mild to asymptomatic. And despite the concerted effort to generate hospital horror stories, hospitalization rates in New York City, the leading wedge of Omicron, remain comparatively low. COVID hospitalization numbers are themselves deceptive for the same reason as COVID death counts: Being admitted to a hospital with COVID is treated as being admitted for COVID.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, the fear-mongering is paying big dividends. Like clockwork, events and businesses in New York City are shutting down, extending the demand for and dependency on government handouts.<\/p>\n<p>Radio City has canceled its entire Christmas run of the Rockettes; expect Mayor de\u2009Blasio to pull the plug on the Times Square New Year\u2019s celebration.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/AP8080886070188486-2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Detect Hub rapid COVID-19 tests. \" class=\"wp-image-20576226\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/AP8080886070188486-2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/AP8080886070188486-2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/AP8080886070188486-2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/AP8080886070188486-2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Biden announced a plan to distribute via mail 500 million free at-home rapid tests.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>Return-to-work schedules are being shelved and entire offices put back on remote work, another severe setback to the revival of Midtown Manhattan.<\/p>\n<p>Outdoor mask-wearing in Manhattan is back up to about 90 percent, based on informal observation. Masked residents of buildings where virtually everyone is vaccinated are refusing entry to the elevator to their fellow residents (also masked), as if a three-second ride to the lobby will provide enough viral dose to be infectious. Grown men are using their knuckles to press elevator buttons.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the rest of the country, particularly in red states, will act more rationally toward Omicron. But here in the epicenter of blue-state dominance, we have turned the equivalent of the common cold into a potent weapon against the resumption of civil society.<\/p>\n<p><em>From The Spectator<\/em>\n                        <\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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The average decedent was 80 years old, with approximately three comorbidities, such as heart disease, obesity or diabetes. 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