It’s great that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has finally recognized reality in its updated guidance on the coronavirus. But at this point, we are past even that. The “new normal” is over. It’s time to move on and go back to the old normal.

We already knew that vaccinated people do not need to wear masks, indoors or otherwise, before the CDC finally decided to make that its position. We already knew that, because children were not vectors of coronavirus transmission and that schools should be fully reopened, as now Dr. Anthony Fauci and American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten are finally saying.