Twitter and the pandemic are two things that are pretty exhausting in the long run, especially when combined.
In the short message service, anyone can pretend to be a virus expert or “ideology-allergic” journalist and spread disinformation on a large scale.
Those who really know the subject and tweet new studies have to be prepared for death threats in the worst case, or at least for the accusation that they are "systematically lying" or are puppets controlled by the state, Bill Gates or someone else.
Twitter and the pandemic are a diabolical symbiosis after two years with the epidemic. And now the virus has mixed itself with the Twitterers. The Omikron variant in person has acquired a German account called "Omicron aka B.1.1.529" (@ realB11529) and tweets, according to the profile information, "about your tour through Germany". More than 53,000 accounts are now following the variant, which surprisingly did not come at all to polarize any further.
In her tweets, she reports very friendly and with black humor how things are going and what she is up to. "Are you so happy that #Lauterbach has ruled out a lockdown?" She tweeted about or about the findings of the Frankfurt virologist Sandra Ciesek that antibodies cannot neutralize Omikron as well as their colleague Delta: "This is great news for my tour plans . But that says nothing about the course. And you keep asking me about that. There is still a lack of data for this. So stop all measures and get infected! For science! "
If the virus wants as many infected people as followers on one day, it can tweet the next day: “Done.” Of course, it is also happy about Sundays that are open for sale. And despite all the satire: Omikron's tweets objectively draw attention to the danger of the virus, completely without daily incidence tables and death numbers, which have long since triggered nothing in many pandemic-weary people. Even among the tweets you look in vain for the open-plan office that usually dominates Twitter, where someone is constantly yelling at someone.
The variant communicates on Twitter how one imagines such a virus: completely unpretentious.
All it wants is to spread, and opportunity creates contagion.
Keeping this in mind more often, albeit from a Twitter account of unknown origin, can't hurt at all.
On December 28th, the Omikron account announced a new, worldwide high of new infections with the virus.
No good news before the turn of the year.