Huge week on the fringe and a huge week for covid-19 with a new variant - Omicron - joining the ranks. I've never met a variant that I liked, and this one sounds like a bit of a dickhead to be honest. We are reserving judgement, though, as it's yet to be seen how rude this little guy is.

The q-anon throng in Dallas are losing their minds, unironically wearing Q merch to a thing that Q himself said wasn't a thing. Logic? Nah. It's a death cult!

In AV Update we see Covid tearing through the movement, with prominent antivaxxers getting very sick recently. Gee, I wonder how they could have avoided that.

Like to exacerbate this, they all went to a protest on the weekend. Yet another protest. 800,000 in Melbourne, 150,000 in Sydney. Wow! Just kidding. 20k in Melbourne, 9k in Sydney. But don't let the truth get in the way of a good crowd estimate.

Herman Cain is dead and Pete has a big week. Get stuck into it, no more spoilers.

Enjoy!

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