Virus Comeback

The White House holds a media dinner with all attendees fully vaccinated, yet the event turns out to cause an increase in virus cases.

Meanwhile in Porto, my wife has to make changes to her work schedule due to an outbreak of the virus among her vaccinated colleagues.

This is happening in May, when viruses are the least dangerous due to sunny weather, fresh air and the comforts that come with pleasant temperatures. It makes me wonder what things will look like next winter.

My prediction from a year ago looks likely to come true: The vaccinated will catch the coming variants while the unvaccinated will be spared.

Once the virus adapts to its new environment, there will be no need for it to target anyone but the vaccinated in order to spread. New variants will increasingly target the super-highway that is available to them; namely the compromised and streamlined immune systems of the vaccinated.

But this is not how my wife's colleagues see things. They are puzzled by the fact that they get ill, and that some get terribly ill. However, they don't make the connection that I do.

The answer that they agree on is that it is the lifting of the mask mandate that is to blame, and I suspect that many more will come to this conclusion as we progress into this new wave of infections.

Come this winter, there may well be sufficient popular demand for politicians to start another round of their tyranny.

The mask of the beast