Omicron Reinfects Government - WSJ Opinion

With Omicron’s discovery days ago in South Africa and before that the surge of infections in Europe, it is striking how reflexively governments are reverting to the strategies used at Covid’s onset in early 2020—crude travel bans, lockdowns, border closings and quarantines.

Emphasis mine.

Hour-to-hour adaptability is the 21st century’s defining characteristic. One word defines government’s response to the Covid pandemic: rigidity.