In the month since it appeared in the United States, the Omicron variant has caused a lot of damage. Over 1 million new cases were reported Monday alone and, according John Hopkins University, nearly 1 in 100 Americans have tested positive for coronavirus in the last week. So far, it looks like 2022 may not be all that different from the years before.
On Tuesday, President Biden delivered an update on Omicron in the U.S. As usual, Biden’s messaging placed the burden of solving the pandemic onto individual people, and in particular portrayed the crisis as solely due to unvaccinated people. That’s not me doing any selective interpretation, by the way: During his briefing, Biden outright said, “This continues to be a pandemic of the unvaccinated.”
