Panic, panic, everybody panic. We have to panic. It's very important that we panic. The headlines betray nothing but panic. Panic, panic everywhere.

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I'm seeing sheer panic out there because, wow, Lindsey Graham announced that he had a breakthrough case of COVID and now he's going to self-quarantine for ten days. So, first of all, I'm not even sure that it's worth quarantining if you have COVID at this point. Like, it's so widespread that I'm not even sure, like on a public health level, whether quarantining is even going to slow the spread in any significant -- like, I get it. You're supposed to quarantine if you have COVID. I do, I understand, I understand why they're telling you to do this, because there are so many unvaccinated people out there. But if Lindsey Graham is dealing with a lot of vaccinated people every day, then really this should not be, like, of massive concern. In the same way that many people go to the office when they have a cold, many people go to the office when they are feeling mildly ill, if COVID is now degraded to the level of a minor illness, I don't understand why everybody on earth is supposed to be freaking out that Lindsey Graham got a breakthrough case of COVID that has resulted in the sniffles.

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Okay, why is that a public health story? I don't understand. Being diagnosed with, basically, very very mild illness is not a public health emergency. So when you see people freaking out over case rates, it makes no sense. It is just alarmism of the highest order.