Remember the anti-science fanaticism that led to policies determined by irrational COVID-19 panic? The direct effects carried far into 2024, multiple years after common sense should have prevailed.

The Los Angeles City Council has only now voted to end its COVID-19 vaccine requirement for city workers, unanimously repealing it on Tuesday. In other words, the Los Angeles City Council continued to require COVID-19 vaccination for city workers starting in late 2021 and extending through 2022, 2023, and half of 2024, banning firefighters, police officers, and other city workers from their jobs for, according to one attorney, “two years, nine months, and 22 days.”