ABOUT TIME: Still No Deaths From Omicron, And Americans Are Getting On With Their Lives.

While corporate media outlets panicked and revived permanent pandemic narratives and talk of more lockdowns, a new poll from CBS News and YouGov found that of 1,731 people surveyed, 81 percent said they have not rearranged plans because of the Omicron variant or the hype surrounding it. In fact, a majority said they still plan to keep their normal holiday traditions and routines. Sixty-eight percent still plan to “gather with friends and family,” 64 percent said they will do their Christmas shopping in person, and 52 percent said they will eat in a restaurant.

Only 17 percent of those surveyed said they were “very concerned about Omicron,” while about 42 percent said they were not concerned at all about Omicron despite the initial media and bureaucracy-induced panic about it.

These Americans’ thoughts on Omicron are validated by the data. As it turns out, not one single COVID-19-related death in the U.S. from Dec. 1-8 was found to be caused by the Omicron variant. As of Friday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that of the 43 people infected with the Omicron strain of COVID, most cases manifested only mild symptoms such as “a cough, fatigue, and congestion or a runny nose.”

I wonder how long the 17% — willing victims of a manufactured mass hysteria — will remain wedded to their masks.

Forever?

THEN IT ISN’T A MANDATE: New York Won’t Force Counties to Comply With Mask Mandate. “New York Governor Kathy Hochul undermined her own statewide mask mandate on Monday by revealing that she would not force counties to comply with the mandate.”

Translation: Enough counties wouldn’t comply even if Hochul did try to enforce a mask mandate that it would have been politically embarrassing.

BACK OF THE BUS: Atlantic writer David Frum calls for hospitals to ‘quietly’ ‘serve the unvaccinated last.’

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Matt Margolis: I Went Shopping Maskless in New York Despite The Mandate… Here’s What Happened.

Megan Fox: And Just Like That, Here’s Everything Wrong with the ‘Sex and the City’ Reboot.

Yours Truly: Biden and Yellen Are in Dangerous Denial About Inflation.

ENABLING CHILD MOLESTATION AND STATUTORY RAPE: Biden’s Education Dept. to stop collecting data on sexual assault allegations by teachers.

In an apparent move to appease teachers’ unions, the Biden administration’s Department of Education intends to repeal a Trump-era effort to collect data on sex crimes committed by teachers against their students.

The Department of Education said on Thursday that the Office for Civil Rights will not ask school districts any questions about teacher-on-student sexual assault allegations as part of its 2021-2022 Civil Rights Data Collection.

The change is supposedly designed to “reduce burden and duplication of data,” according to a department spokesman who spoke to the Washington Free Beacon.

They didn’t even bother coming up with a halfway decent excuse.

PARTY OF YOUTH: Now We Know What Nancy Pelosi’s 2022 Plans Are.

YOU CAN’T PROTECT A NARRATIVE WITHOUT BREAKING A FEW GRANNIES: ‘Not fitting their narrative’: Waukesha feels abandoned after tragic parade attack.

Flashback: Bernie Bro James T. Hodgkinson, Attempted Assassin Of Steve Scalise, Already Being Erased From History.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Why Is Hillary Clinton Bothering Us All the Time Lately? “We have certainly been getting a faceful of Hillary Clinton in recent weeks. This has been a pattern of hers since being sent back to Chappaqua by Donald Trump: she spends long periods out of the public eye, buried deep in her box of breakfast Franzia. Suddenly, like a bad combination of creepy stalker and unfortunate body odor, she’s everywhere and you can’t seem to make her go away.”

EVERGREEN: Paul Krugman Is Always Wrong: Inflation Edition. “Proving that some of the most basic facts of economic life for ordinary people elude some Novel-prize winning economists, Krugman dismisses the idea that inflation hurts the poor worse than the rich.”

IF YOU INSIST: Kamala Harris Insists She Really Isn’t As Useless As She Seems.

SHOT: FEMA chief says powerful storms ‘new normal’ in era of climate change.

Chaser:

Fear doesn’t monger itself, you know.

‘WITH’ NOT ‘FROM’:

BREAKING: WATER IS WET. Leftism Is Destroying San Francisco, AP Concedes.

BLUE CITY BLUES: Chicago Transit Authority workers march in Loop after spate of violence against bus drivers: ‘Give us safety for Christmas.’

THE PEOPLE IN THE WEST WHO WANT TO THINK SO WILL THINK SO: A Kinder, Gentler Taliban? Afghan Leaders Want Us to Think So.

THINGS WILL RETURN TO NORMAL WHEN WE’VE ACHIEVED A 110% VACCINATION RATE: Middlebury College declares COVID crackdown despite 99% student vaccination rate.

FACT-CHECKING THE FACT-CHECKERS: PolitiFact Fact-Check Helps Biden Hide the Facts About Gas Prices (But I Have Them for You).

YES. NEXT QUESTION? Are Medicare’s fiscal problems even worse than the headline numbers suggest? “The fiscal forecast assumes that an array of cost-reduction measures, including a series of caps on Medicare physician payments and bonuses, will persist. But the trustees noted that Medicare’s ‘long-range costs could be substantially higher than shown throughout much of the report if the cost-reduction measures prove problematic and new legislation scales them back.'”

POSTMODERN PRAETORIANS: Leftist ‘Journalists’ Float the Idea That Criticizing Joe Biden Is a Danger to Democracy.

GOOD QUESTION: Why Does CNN Exist? “They’ve been below the 1 million viewer threshold for some time. Fox News had 71 of the top 100 most viewed cable shows. CNN had zero.”

SHOCKER? Facebook Makes a Shocking Admission About Its Fact Checks in Court Filing.

IT’S A TERRIBLE AGENDA RUNNING SMACK-DAB INTO REALITY BEFORE IT’S EVEN ENACTED: Build Back beatdown for Biden: Fiscal double whammy for prez and his agenda.

The Congressional Budget Office released a report that examined the true cost of the Biden BBB plan — minus the accounting gimmicks. The results were devastating: twice as high as previously reported and closer to $5 trillion in spending over the next decade. Instead of “paying for itself,” as Biden claims, the deficit could skyrocket by almost $3 trillion more if Congress passes BBB.

Whoops! This is a bit more than a rounding error. If a private CEO tried to get away with these accounting scams, they’d be put in jail.

West Virginia’s Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin is now admitting the obvious: He’s worried that another multitrillion-dollar spending bill steamrolling through this Democratic Congress will make the inflation contagion worse.

He wants a “strategic pause” for a social-welfare/climate-change bill that he now calls bad for the country — and especially bad for West Virginia, a gas and coal state.

Stand fast, Senator.

FIRST-TERM LAME DUCK: Americans Continue to Sour on Biden’s Handling of All Sorts of Issues.

UPDATE (FROM GLENN): The ‘cabal’ that bragged of foisting Joe Biden on us must answer for his failed presidency.

HE CAMPAIGNED FROM HIS BASEMENT (WHEN HE CAMPAIGNED AT ALL): Hider-In-Chief: Biden Hit For Being ‘Least Accessible’ President In Modern History.

SAY ANYTHING: MSNBC and The Atlantic Claim ‘30 Million People’ Ready to Take Up Arms for Trump. “The survey claiming that as many as 30 million Americans are ready to undertake a violent coup for Donald Trump is the work of the University of Chicago Project on Security and Threats (CPOST). The director of CPOST is one Robert Pape, who several years ago won renown for a study purporting to demonstrate that the vast majority of suicide bombers were not motivated by Islamic texts such as the notorious Qur’an passage promising paradise to those who “kill and are killed” for Allah (9:111).”

UPDATE (FROM GLENN): If they believed this, they’d be acting very differently.