What do I have to do to get you to panic about variants today?

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From Unmasked by IM (found on ianmsc.substack.com and twitter.com) June 11, 2021

VARIANTS. Just the word itself sounds scary, right? It’s different, it’s exotic, it’s unusual. It’s a variant. Few words have captured media attention so completely, so quickly. Spurred on by experts eager to achieve the all important status of “acceptable arbiter of cultural groupthink,” journalists have pounced on variants as their latest source of COVID-related fear mongering.

In seemingly a matter of days, variants became a ubiquitous part of COVID journalism along with the incessant assertion that masks, testing, tracing and business closures are key to “beating COVID.”

Not only have variants provided an opportunity for media panic, they’ve allowed the experts to justify keeping (ineffective) masks and mitigations in place indefinitely. “It’s just too soon to remove masks or say for sure when we can pull back on restrictions, due to the impact of variants,” became the latest rallying cry for those desperate to keep pretending lockdowns are necessary.

A few articles earlier this year from the Los Angeles Times really exemplify this phenomenon, so I wanted to revisit and see how well they’ve aged.

Let’s begin!….

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