Besides being utterly, obviously, and cruelly false, this kind of premature surrender is a horrible way to encourage everyone to get their bivalent boosters, which is something we desperately need, and all but guarantees the funding we need for prevention & treatment will vanish

When you see something horrible and outrageous online (e.g., "Look at this terrible thing this awful person just said!") the first step should always be to check if it's true. If the replies are all links to fact checks showing it's false, maybe take a minute.

There are lots of things to be angry about and you can be angry about many things at once without choosing only the absolute worst. But also anger is exhausting and can be corrosive to the one who carries it; it’s okay to step away sometimes and breathe and take joy if you can.