Omicron induces (more) dangerous brain fog

The world is so eager for the pandemic to end, it's willfully misinterpreting lower rates of illness among Omicron's soaring cases as something better than it is.

After making us forget about Delta, Omicron seems to have a new side effect: willful and stupid optimism about Omicron. Reports have in the space of a day gone from skepticism about the seemingly lower virulence of omicron to repeating this hopeful falsehood even in the face of disturbing new evidence.

Here’s what’s happening with the pandemic: more an…