America is Running Out of Covid Virgins: Nose is subtle, fruity, with notes of purity culture - implying that people who haven’t gotten the virus are naive and unworldly? Body is light, featuring zero meditation on its estimate that 82 percent of the population has gotten covid (other articles guessed 70 percent).

Meet the Covid Super-Dodgers: Nose is sweet, well rounded, with a bouquet of heroism that describes a combination of sensible adherence to precautions and dumb luck. Body is playful, featuring the gamification of not getting and spreading a deadly disease. Keep running up that scoreboard, folks!

Scientists are narrowing in on why some people keep avoiding Covid. BA.5 could end that luck.: Nose is tannic, bitter. Shades of they’ll get theirs ere long, ho ho. Body is very dry, mainly “must be genes or something, idk.” Pairs well with a sense of despair at the endless turning of the wheel.

I’m really curious to see the press memo this week. Why focus on the shrinking population of people who haven’t gotten (and assuming some large plurality or outright majority have gotten infected but had mild symptoms or were asymptomatic, a distinct possibility given the state of our testing).