In today’s edition of the Democrats’ perpetual pandemic, we have another one of Dr. Michael Osterholm’s dire warnings about the calamity both near and far of COVID-19.
Osterholm was an adviser to President Joe Biden’s 2020 campaign. He is the director for the University of Minnesota’s Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy. You might recall his incessant calls for more lockdowns, and on NBC’s Meet the Press on Sunday, he delivered another banger.
“First of all, let me say that at this time, we really are in a Category 5 hurricane status with regard to the rest of the world,” he said. “At this point, we will see in the next two weeks the highest number of cases reported globally since the end of the pandemic. In terms of the United States, we’re just at the beginning of this surge. We haven’t even really begun to see it yet.”
If that sounds familiar, it’s because Democrats, “the experts,” and Osterholm are always saying things like that but also because Osterholm likes to repeat himself in his numerous TV news appearances — and because this is apparently the “Category 5 hurricane” Osterholm has been predicting for three months.
On the same program on Jan. 31, when new cases of COVID-19 were in a steep decline, Osterholm warned ominously of “that hurricane five, Category 5 or higher, 450 miles offshore. … But I can also tell you that hurricane’s coming.”
Nothing ever gets better with these people. And when the evidence is that things actually have gotten a lot better — cases have dropped, and we have vaccines! — we’re told it’s actually bad and only going to get worse.
On Jan. 31, the U.S. was averaging nearly 150,000 new coronavirus infections per day. As of Monday, we’re averaging about 64,000. Highly effective vaccines have flooded the market. The New York Times reported on Monday that “the country is averaging fewer than 900 newly reported deaths a day for the first time since early November.”
But things are catastrophic! Category 5!
This is your semiregular reminder that some people enjoy the pandemic. They don’t want it to end for many reasons, including that it has made them famous and seem important. Osterholm is one of those people.
