It seems that Omicron is forcing changes to the paradigm. In fact, ESPN published an article headlined “NFL chief medical officer: Symptomatic players driving COVID-19 spread; no indications of asymptomatic spread.”

Say it isn’t so! After all, wasn’t the spread due to all those asymptomatic folks?

The sports media giant reported unironically that the new “position represents a significant departure from the pandemic-long stance of public health authorities.”

Well, that puts us in a pickle, after all who should we believe now? Public health officials? The NFL? Our own eyes?

To date the league has now tested more than 300 players as positives, and that’s not good for business or the narrative. So, the NFL’s health director disclosed that the closely monitored, constantly tested league was only seeing spread by vaccinated people: “Once [the virus] replicates enough to cause you to have symptoms,” he said, “now there’s enough there for us to say that you’re going to be shedding it out in a live form to infect someone else.”

It's unfortunate they didn’t let us know this earlier. It might have been good to know.

The announcement was ostensibly issued to support the league’s decision to halt testing of asymptomatic players, at least injected ones. They still plan to test un-injected players every single day, though, symptomatic, or not. Because after all the league never wants to be accused of not following the science.

In our second example, the CDC issued some new emergency guidelines for U.S. hospitals, to help them prepare for a surge of Omicron hospitalizations. You might be thinking that they are going to stop firing doctors and nurses for not getting the injections. Of course not. That would be crazy talk!

Instead, in the quest to follow the science, the CDC announced it is SHORTENING QUARANTINES. That’s right. If a doctor or nurse gets Omicron, they’re no longer required to stay home for seven days and then get a negative test to come back to work. No siree, under new “crisis” status, health care workers can return to work after only five days, and EVEN IF they are still mildly symptomatic, and now, even without testing. WOW, the science has progressed!

You see, seven days was always just a fluid concept anyway. Five days is fine. And who needs a negative test? Those things aren’t accurate, so why bother.

Now all of you “flat earthers” might be thinking that this is somehow going to increase risk, not to worry, the CDC is one step ahead of you, that’s why they’re in charge and not you! They stressed that these workers will be required to WEAR MASKS whenever they’re around patients. See, following the science once again!

Obviously, they’ve recognized the problem of hospitals everywhere in the U.S., allowing healthcare workers to roam freely unmasked around patients. Man, our Canadian government agencies could sure learn a thing or two from the CDC on true leadership!