Omicron: A Kinder, Gentler Covid?

Omicron: A Kinder, Gentler Covid?

Mike Davis on the pandemic, plus John Nichols on January 6.

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Is Omicron the kinder and gentler Covid we’ve been waiting for? Less lethal, and more like the flu? Mike Davis comments on the pandemic—and the age of pandemics we are now living in.

Also: On the first anniversary of the insurrection of January 6, John Nichols argues that to defend democracy, we need the Senate to pass the Freedom to Vote Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Act—which requires changing the filibuster rules in the Senate. Also: proposals to expel members of Congress who aided or abetted the insurrectionists.

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