By Billy Baker and Julia Carlin Globe Staff and Globe Correspondent,Updated December 2, 2021, 7:25 a.m.18

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/12/02/nation/just-time-holidays-omicron-variant-storms-into-our-lives-thanks-nothing/

There’s a new coronavirus variant people are freaking out about. Or they’re freaking out about the people who are freaking out about it. Or they don’t freaking care anymore. It’s exhausting being exhausted for 20 long months.

Boosters are available now, and kids can finally get vaccinated. So even as the pandemic grinds on, Thanksgiving brought hope for better days, with many family and friends able to reunite for the holiday.

But with bitterly cruel timing, news of theOmicron variant broke the very next day, fracturing our fragile sense of normalcy and jolting us back into pandemic mode with a whole new mess of uncertainty.

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