It seems that the plebeians have been getting a little bit too complacent, so, once again, fear has to be ramped up. From CNBC:

Omicron will likely ‘dominate and overwhelm’ the world in 3-6 months, doctor says

by Abigail Ng | Thursday, December 2, 2021 | 2:13 AM EST

• “Frankly, omicron will dominate and overwhelm the whole world in three to six months,” Singapore doctor Leong Hoe Nam told CNBC’s “Street Signs Asia.”
• New vaccines targeting omicron are a “nice idea” but won’t be practical because of the transmissibility of the strain, he said.
• Experts don’t know exactly how contagious the highly mutated omicron variant is, but the virus’ spike protein — which binds to human cells — has mutations associated with higher transmission and a decrease in antibody protection.

SINGAPORE — The new Covid variant omicron will likely “overwhelm the whole world” in the coming months, according to a Singapore-based infectious disease doctor.

While vaccines against the strain can be developed quickly, they need to be tested over three to six months to prove that they can provide immunity against the variant, Dr. Leong Hoe Nam of Mount Elizabeth Novena Hospital said Wednesday.

“But frankly, omicron will dominate and overwhelm the whole world in three to six months,” he told CNBC’s “Street Signs Asia.”

Delta, the strain that is currently accounts for 99% of Covid infections, started becoming more common in the Indian state of Maharashtra in March 2021, and was dominant globally by July, according to Reuters.

Moderna CEO Stephane Bancel on Monday said it will take months to develop and ship a vaccine that specifically targets the omicron variant.

Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla also said shots could be ready in less than 100 days, or slightly over three months.

“Nice idea, but honestly, it is not practical,” Leong said of a vaccine that specifically targets omicron. “We won’t be able to rush out the vaccines in time and by the time the vaccines come, practically everyone will be infected omicron given this high infectious and transmissibility.”

Are you terrified yet? Are you quaking in fear? Are you ready to surrender more of your rights, your freedoms, your liberty, to those who know better than you, those who only want to protect you, for your own good?

Dr Leong is in Singapore, and should have no influence on US policy, but, not to worry, we have our own Dr Anthony Fauci:

“The profile of the mutations strongly suggest that it’s going to have an advantage in transmissibility and that it might evade immune protection that you would get,” U.S. infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci told NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday.

Dr Fauci does have the President’s ear.

The CNBC article included this video, with Dr Syra Madad, an infectious disease expert and a fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, which is part of the John F Kennedy School of Government at Harvard.

And that’s the key: she may be an infectious disease expert, but she’s part of the Kennedy School of Government! She’s ‘urging’ everybody to mask up and get tested frequently, but when someone connected to a school of government ‘urges’ something, we all know that significant non-compliance will result in that asked to become something mandated.