‘SNL’ imagines a new COVID variant that is . . . good?
Now that America has hit the ground again following the phallic-shaped Omicron spike in COVID cases, Americans are bracing for whatever comes next.
Some scientists and doomsday preppers have already moved on to fearing a new subvariant of Omicron which may be rearing its head more soon.
“Seriously bad” — BA.2 variant: New study suggests Omicron variant worse than BA.1 https://t.co/xUxZ82WWfa
— Eric Feigl-Ding ???????? (@DrEricDing) February 21, 2022
But waiting for the next subvariant to take more lives and complicate everyone else’s is the last thing most of us feel like after a long, gloomy winter. This pandemic has gone on too long, and there is too much going on for that. People are burned out on the kind of bad news that puts a dark cloud over the next several months. They need a break from all the doomer news, no matter how short or naively optimistic. On the latest episode of Saturday Night Live, a digital short offers the ultimate naïvely optimistic fantasy of where things go from here.
Created by the trio known as Please Don’t Destroy, a smart hire for the current season, “Good Variant” starts with the premise that the next COVID variant will be a “good” one, and spins out deliriously from there. Let this standout sketch from an already-solid episode hosted by John Mulaney provide the energy you need to start off this week from a place of not-quite despair.
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