This post is from the delightful Ellen Hawley at Notes from the UK.
If you’re even vaguely awake (or as our former and once again active home secretary would say, if you’re a Guardian-reading, tofu-eating wokeanista), then you’ll know that Covid has some new variants, and that they have good publicity agents. So how much sleep exactly should you lose?
Not as much as some of the nightmare-on-Covid-Street headlines would have you think.
Let’s sort the variants into separate piles and talk about them.
Irrelevant photo: A California poppy. Or since it’s growing in Cornwall and is at least four generations in, maybe by now it’s a Cornish poppy. (That’s a bit of an in joke and I’ll explain it if anyone’s interested.)
The BA variants
BA.2.75 begat BA.2.75.2, because viruses are good at begatting, even if they’re useless at naming their begotten, and since they work under pressure from both our immune systems and the vaccines that are loose in the…
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Snowbird of Paradise 
Many thanks for the reblog–and the kind comment.