For all of those people on the Right who thought the pandemic hysteria would quickly fade away after the 2020 election: Good God, were you wrong!
A lot of conservatives believed that the coronavirus was mostly a political tool for liberals to attack former President Donald Trump, but no, its utility goes far beyond that. The Biden administration has made clear in its first week that this White House sees no future that doesn’t involve masks, lockdowns, and “social distancing.”
Twelve weeks have passed since the election, and Michael Osterholm, one of President Biden’s top COVID-19 advisers during the campaign, said Thursday on CNN that the next 14 will hold “something that we haven’t even come close to experiencing yet.”
Hunker down, folks!
Biden himself said Tuesday at the White House that “we got a long way to go.”
Stay home, folks!
That cute “100 Days Masking Challenge” set up by the White House — you don’t think it actually means anything, do you? Rochelle Walensky, the new head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said Wednesday on CNN that it didn’t. “Will we feel as if we have herd immunity by the end of the first 100 days?” she said. “I told you I’d tell you the truth: I don’t think we’re going to feel it then.”
She added that “it’s going to take a while for us to feel like we’re back to a sense of normalcy.”
Notice that she didn’t say “back to normalcy.” She said a sense of normalcy.
We’re all in this together, folks!
Saint Anthony Fauci isn’t even using science anymore. This week, he said people are better protected from infection if they wear two masks, not because data exists to back that up, but because “it just makes common sense.”
He’s not promising a path back to life as we knew it before the pandemic, either. He said last week that when the vast majority of people are vaccinated, we might see a “degree of normality.”
Democrats weren’t joking when they said all throughout 2020 that we weren’t going “back.” They meant it.
