VIDEO: New Covid variant hits South Park!

It's been years (really!) since I watched a full episode of South Park, since it's not on "free" TV any more. I don't think I'm the only one who won't pay for programming I'll never watch just to see one show, as clips from the latest episodes appear on YouTube within hours of being aired. 

In this one, set in the South Park of the Future -- yet strangely in the present -- citizens of South Park go into panic mode when it is revealed that Dr Kenny McCormick died of a new variant of the kung flu. Think about this as you're shopping today for turkey or toilet paper.

 

Panic over nothing. It's what Americans do best. But the South African discoverer of the Omicron variant is officially telling everyone to calm down . In a column for the UK Daily Mail, Angelique Coetzee criticized the global ramp-up of travel bans, mask mandates and quarantine extensions wrought by the new variant. 

"The simple truth is: we don't know yet anywhere near enough about Omicron to make such judgments or to impose such policies," she wrote, adding that there is still no evidence of anybody being hospitalized due to Omicron. "If, as some evidence suggests, Omicron turns out to be a fast-spreading virus with mostly mild symptoms for the majority of the people who catch it, that would be a useful step on the road to herd immunity."