It looks like 2022 will be the year the Covid pandemic ends and the virus becomes endemic. Just looking at the reported numbers in Ireland and the UK in each country about 1 in 300 people are becoming infected a day. But by most accounts Omicron is the sniffles, so this number has to be massively underreported and there is likely a large multiple of this number catching it every day and being asymptomatic or hardly noticing symptoms (half of PCR tests in Ireland are now coming back positive, which is way way up and proportionately and suggests a lot of underreporting).

I predicted at the start of the year that lockdowns and restrictions would mostly be over by the end of the year and the focus would be on the introduction of vaccine passports. The Delta strain threw this off a bit but now Omicron is already wiping out and replacing Delta. Factor in that this strain isn't killing anyone and is conferring immunity against other strains of covid, and you have what is basically an airborne vaccine (one that is probably less harmful than any of the jabs) and a scenario where something like herd immunity and a move to an endemic phase seems imminent. South Africa, where Omicron originated has already peaked and cases have been collapsing rapidly since just a couple of weeks after it was discovered.

There are some signs of a change in approach already, Israel, who are on their fourth booster shot are now considering admitting defeat on trying to contain covid and moving to a herd immunity model. We are also seeing some prominent liberal journalists changing their talking points to give up on trying to contain the virus and move on. I also suspect a lot of individual governments are also keen to finally declare a victory on this now with a lot of imminent elections next year. Maybe we'll get another year of lockdowns despite deaths being virtually nill and hospitalisation rates plummeting, them admitting the vaccines do nothing to stop the spread, and Omicron likely already peaking and conferring immunity for other strains, but I really doubt it.

The episode of The Writers’ Bloc featuring two men from the nations of the former Yugoslavia, host Nick Jeelvy and guest Dr. Tomislav Sunić, discussing the breakup of the country and the lessons today’s dissidents can learn from it has now been sprung from the paywall. https://counter-currents.com/2021/12/counter-currents-radio-podcast-no-395-the-writers-bloc-with-nick-jeelvy-tomislav-sunic-on-yugoslavias-breakup/

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James J. O'Meara's review of Robert M. Price's Judaizing Jesus, a book which debunks modern attempts to construct an ecumenical Jesus based on the idea that he was a conventional Jew by pointing to a wealth of textual evidence that contradicts it, has been sprung from the paywall. https://counter-currents.com/2021/12/jesus-we-hardly-know-ye/

Tonight on the Writers’ Bloc, we’re having The Best Year Ever extravaganza, where 12 audience favorites will recount their successes and lessons learned in the year 2021. Beginning with the brainy Posh Crew at 10pm CET (4pm EST, 1pm PST), moving on to the hardy Action Crew at 10:40pm CET (4:40pm EST, 1:40pm PST) and rounding it out with the rowdy Boozy Crew at 11:20pm (5:20pm EST, 2:20 PST), we’ll be giving The Best Year Ever a proper sendoff.

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The great fantasist and linguist J. R. R. Tolkien was born on this day in 1892. Find out more about his life and work at Counter-Currents. https://counter-currents.com/2022/01/remembering-j-r-r-tolkien-10/

Andrew Hamilton's essay on the curious absence of blacks in anti-Southern playwright Tennessee Williams' works, and the possibility that Williams himself may have been of mixed-race heritage, has been sprung from the paywall. https://counter-currents.com/2021/12/blacks-in-tennessee-williams-works/

The French writer and fascist intellectual who was martyred for his beliefs, Pierre Drieu La Rochelle, was born on this day in 1893. You can discover more about his life and work at Counter-Currents. https://counter-currents.com/2020/01/remembering-pierre-drieu-la-rochelle-7/

Trevor Lynch reviews the new installment in The Matrix franchise, The Matrix Resurrections, and finds it continues the trend of each film being worse than the one before it. https://counter-currents.com/2022/01/the-matrix-resurrections/

Jim Goad brings us his first of the new year, writing about Jack Murphy, an allegedly conservative “masculinity coach” who will get very angry with you if you suggest he’s gay, even though he’s said publicly that he’s had sex with men and has made videos while using a dildo on himself, and who used to frequently interact with a recent mass shooter on Twitter; Bambi as harbinger of the Holocaust; E. O. Wilson, who argued in a landmark study that culture follows genetics; and more. https://counter-currents.com/2022/01/the-worst-week-yet-63/

Petr Hampl on why the West's elites today are actively undermining the very same societies that gave them their wealth and power in the first place, and how it relates to the Great Replacement. https://counter-currents.com/2022/01/the-time-of-lackeys-the-time-of-kings-the-time-of-the-republic/

Robert Hampton on why Kwanzaa, despite being promoted by all of America's major institutions, is no longer the holiday of choice for black America. https://counter-currents.com/2022/01/the-kwanzaa-absurdity-will-be-dwarfed-by-juneteenth/

Beau Albrecht on the new Coen brothers film of Shakespeare's Macbeth, featuring a mostly sub-Saharan cast. https://counter-currents.com/2022/01/the-tragedy-of-the-tragedy-of-macbeth/

On the special New Year’s Day broadcast of Counter-Currents Radio, which is dedicated to all our donors, host Greg Johnson was joined by two new members of the Counter-Currents team, Cyan Quinn and Robert Wallace, to talk about what is coming in 2022. As always, we also answered YOUR QUESTIONS and made the BIG REVEAL of the total for the Counter-Currents 2021 Fundraiser. The broadcast is now available for download and online streaming. https://counter-currents.com/2022/01/counter-currents-radio-podcast-no-404-the-new-years-day-special/

Anthony Bavaria reviews Counter-Currents writer Mark Gullick's novel Bestest Boys, a story about subversive non-conformists trying to live off the grid in London. https://counter-currents.com/2022/01/mark-gullicks-bestest-boys/

Ondrej Mann reviews the Austrian band Der Blutharsch's 2019 album Wish I Weren't Here, finding it a sharp departure from their early martial-industrial work, but not an unpleasant one. https://counter-currents.com/2022/01/der-blutharschs-wish-i-werent-here/

Host Nick Jeelvy put together The Best Year Ever extravaganza on The Writer’s Bloc last weekend, where audience favorites Fullmoon Ancestry, Jim Goad, Mark Gullick, Richard Houck, Greg Johnson, Gaddius Maximus, James J. O’Meara, Kathryn S., Thomas Steuben, Karl Thorburn, and the Z Man recounted their successes and the lessons they learned in 2021, and it is now available for download and online listening. https://counter-currents.com/2022/01/counter-currents-radio-podcast-no-405-the-best-year-ever-extravaganza-on-the-writers-bloc/

Mark Gullick describes the impact of mass immigration on London through his own personal experiences. https://counter-currents.com/2022/01/a-different-black-pill/

Travis LeBlanc on what the recent Jack Murphy blowup and the ensuing fallout can teach the Right about the need to identify and getting rid of sociopaths early on, before they get into a position where they can do serious damage. https://counter-currents.com/2022/01/what-jack-murphy-teaches-the-right-about-sociopaths/

The great popularizer of comparative religions and man of the Right Alan Watts was born on this day in 1915. Find out more about his life and work at Counter-Currents. https://counter-currents.com/2022/01/remembering-alan-watts-7/

Morris van de Camp's essay on the leadership strengths of the English colonists who established the Jamestown colony in Virginia, qualities that would continue to serve America well for generations afterwards, has been sprung from the paywall. https://counter-currents.com/2021/12/jamestown-the-virginians-leadership/