1. As predicted 18 months ago, there's a reason there's never been an effective coronavirus vaccine -- the variants inherent to the disease evade any vaccine. "The scientists express concern in the study published Wednesday that the variant’s “extensive” mutations can “greatly compromise” the vaccine, even neutralizing it." https://nypost.com/2021/12/16/columbia-university-finds-omicron-vaccine-resistance/

2. CDC caught lying again about the data. "But the Arizona study at the center of the CDC’s back-to-school blitz turns out to have been profoundly misleading." https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/12/mask-guidelines-cdc-walensky/621035/

3. Covid politics shifted as predicted: "beyond elites in big cities, no one cares about the virus anymore." https://spectatorworld.com/newsletter/biden-needs-to-learn-to-live-with-the-virus/

4. Lind rightly ties the current professional class statism as the ancestor to the progressives of the early 20th century, and how their war on political machines for civil service reform was actually a thinly disguised power grab: "executive branch reorganization that would have created an American mandarinate of Ivy League graduates comparable to the powerful enarques of France (graduates of prestigious schools of public administration)." https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/how-american-progressives-became-french-jacobins

5. Inflation issues infect more economies. https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/turkey-halts-all-stock-trading-currency-disintegrates-central-bank-powerless-halt-collapse

*Bonus: 75th anniversary of It's A Wonderful Life in the town that birthed the story. https://www.voanews.com/a/6357950.html