As vaccines meet demand, the case for mandates and closures is evaporating

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“I am asking you to just hold on a little longer,” President Joe Biden’s top health official said recently in defense of lockdowns, mask mandates, and social distancing requirements. But “asking” is the wrong word when discussing mandates, prohibitions, and regulations.

State and local governments (especially those run by Biden’s party) are using the force of law and the threat of fines (or worse) to prohibit bars from serving willing customers, to require people to wear masks, and to clamp down on the ability of gyms, restaurants, coffee shops, churches, and schools to gather people together.

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