Omicron and the virus of fear
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As I wrote in my book, “COVID: the Politics of Fear and the Power of Science,” words matter.
The omicron variant of COVID-19 captures the negative imagination, causing too many of us to jump to worst case scenarios. Highly contagious or easily transmissible means that the fear is easily transmissible, too.
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