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The Covid Truths Come Out

National Review

It’s a new year, and our leaders are making it clear that the only thing between us and a recognition of endemic Covid is our own tolerance for their disruptions and guidance. Let’s resolve to be the rowdy, difficult, ungovernable mess that we always have been.

Our Covid-19 Mandates Make No Sense Against the New Variant

National Review

 If everyone’s going to catch Omicron, why are we threatening to fire truckers during a supply-chain crisis? Why are we threatening to fire anyone, for that matter? No business threatens to fire an employee who skips an annual flu shot. The hyper-contagiousness of Omicron also means that most of our masking protocols are requiring people to take actions that won’t do any good against this variant.

Putin Shouldn’t Be a Right-Wing Hero

National Review

Rich Lowry: The sources of Putin’s appeal to populists, from Pat Buchanan to Tucker Carlson, are manifold. They admire his strength in advancing Russia’s interests. They think he has the right enemies, namely the same establishment that also scorned Donald Trump…The problem is that all of this is abstracted from the reality of Putin’s rule, which makes him one of the world’s most dangerous men and an unworthy steward of the Russian people’s interests.