- December 23, 2021
- Posted by: Stratford Team
- Category: Business
Local leaders around the country are in the grips of COVID-19 hysteria. And, sadly, many small businesses are suffering because of it.
The hysteria is being caused by the latest variant – omicron – which has quickly become dominant. No matter that, for the 200 million people who chose to get vaccinated, the effects are reportedly much milder than the previous delta variant; or that so far only a very few people have required hospitalization, with many being asymptomatic; or that in South Africa, where the variant started less than two months ago, cases are already dropping at a significant rate.
No matter that the federal government, which according to President Biden is well supplied with masks and protective equipment, will be shipping half-a-billion COVID tests, opening 10,000 more testing centers and transferring patients from hospitals to other care facilities when beds are needed.
No matter that there are hundreds of millions of anti-viral pills…
