NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE W e can’t obey our way to normalcy. That shouldn’t surprise people as historically unruly as Americans. Obedience is often abnormal for us.
But it remains true in a pandemic. There is no guarantee of getting out of or beyond COVID-19–era mortifications on public life — masks on toddlers, socially distanced funerals — by compliance with public-health wishes. Nobody in the White House, CDC, or the public-health bureaucracy has put a number on shots in arms that get us back to normalcy. They don’t know. And now their minds are too rattled by the Delta-variant wave to speculate. As we’ve seen in …