When the head of the South African Medical Association, a physician called Angelique Coetzee, noted that she had seen patients with a new variant of the coronavirus called Omicron, within hours politicians in many countries began planning elaborate and highly punitive new measures against their own populations.
This very hot potato is now in their court – getting in a mixed metaphor before they’re banned for changing the weather – and, whilst we worry how the report will land in February, we must all get on board the patriot train now and resist the over-reach like our lives depend on it.
Or is this another exercise in damage control?
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