Mark Steyn: Will you even play ball with another lockdown?

As we head into the 22nd month of two weeks to flatten the curve, the Omicron variant is all the rage now.

Yes, we're still on Omicron. I wouldn't worry too much though – I assume Chairman Xi is cooking up the Pi and Rho variants in a Wuhan lab as we speak.

Maybe we can get through them all before the year's end. The latest data suggest that for all of Omicron’s vaunted infectiousness, it isn’t actually that big a deal if you get it.

It’s only mildly symptomatic, reports show. So we're sure to get a measured and reasoned response, right? Ha!

Germany is plunging all its unvaccinated citizens into yet another lockdown; Joe Biden's Covid Tzar is mulling a vaccine mandate for travelling within the United States; the question in the UK is whether there will be another Christmas lockdown.

It won't be a lockdown for everyone though.

Last Christmas, the Mirror reports, Boris' team were holding parties at No. 10 Downing while police were inspecting shopping carts for non-essential items and ticketing people for sitting on park benches.

Lockdowns are just for you peasants, after all. If Omicron is infectious but symptomatically insignificant, what’s the big deal?

Will you even play ball with another lockdown?