Authorities tell us the Omicron variant is a crisis requiring government action. Meanwhile, even the moonbats at Business Insider admit to difficulties distinguishing it from the common cold:

New data from the Zoe symptom-tracker app suggests one in two people with new coldlike symptoms will have COVID-19 rather than the common cold.

Tim Spector, an epidemiologist and the study’s lead author, said in a press release on Thursday that for most people, getting infected with Omicron would feel “much more like the common cold, starting with a sore throat, runny nose and a headache,” rather than fevers, continuous cough, or loss of taste or smell.

Naturally, this is presented as a reason to panic.

“We need to change public messaging urgently to save lives as half of people with cold-like symptoms now have COVID-19,” Spector said.

Changing public messaging won’t make much difference at this point. People have learned not to take anything coming out of our technocratic overlords at face value.

No wonder they panic over Omicron. The variant seems to indicate that Covid is evolving to become much milder and more transmissible. Everyone will get it no matter what Big Government does, and it won’t be a big deal. Our rulers will have to go back to hyping the tired global warming hoax.

On a tip from Anonymous.