What do I have to do to get you to panic about variants today?

Double mutant coronavirus strains and the media who love them

VARIANTS. Just the word itself sounds scary, right? It’s different, it’s exotic, it’s unusual. It’s a variant. Few words have captured media attention so completely, so quickly. Spurred on by experts eager to achieve the all important status of “acceptable arbiter of cultural groupthink,” journalists have pounced on variants as their latest source of CO…