Every few months, we hear about anew variant

Most turn out to not be much

Well, unfortunately, there's a new variant B.1.1.529 that is concerning

What do we know so far? A few things but not a lot

Reminder: when it comes to variants, we focus on three things

Short thread

This new covid variant is like when you reach the end of a Neal Stephenson novel and then realize, oh God, there's another 500 pages of this shit.

the upside of seeing my 'profession' as mildly pleasant but totally meaningless busywork that I perform to make pellets come out of a dispenser is that I almost never get bent out of shape about projects. the downside is that it's an unnatural peacefulness; peace without meaning