Omicron’s New Year’s cocktail: Sorrow, fear, hope for 2022
The mostly muted New Year’s Eve celebrations around the world ushered in another calendar year framed by the global pandemic.
Sorrow for the dead and dying, fear of more infections to come and hopes for an end to the coronavirus pandemic were — again — the bittersweet cocktail with which the world said good riddance to 2021 and ushered in 2022.
New Year’s Eve, which used to be celebrated globally with a free-spirited wildness, felt instead like a case of deja vu, with the fast-spreading omicron variant again filling hospitals.
“We just need enjoyment”
“We have just been in so long”
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