During an interview on 60 Minutes last night, Joe Biden made a little declaration: “The pandemic is over,” he said. “We still have a problem with COVID. We’re still doing a lot of work on it. But the pandemic is over. If you notice, no one’s wearing masks. Everybody seems to be in pretty good shape, and so I think it’s changing, and I think [the Detroit auto show resuming after three years] is a perfect example of it.”
Oh? Okay. Yeah. I hope this is forwarded to the people I still see wearing masks as they drive solo, with the windows up, in their Kia Sorentos.
Will the remaining mandates cease? Will health-care facilities stop requiring masks?
Will government directives given via emergency powers end now? Don’t forget that the student-loan-forgiveness scam was based, flimsily, on the idea that there is an ongoing pandemic.
And, rather importantly, will Title 42 cease?
For those following from home, don’t forget the pandemic order from the CDC that allowed Border Patrol to turn away illegal migrants on the basis of health risks. It’s a policy that the Biden administration has partly relied on to prevent a total border meltdown, because, well, it is more comfortable turning people away for health-policy reasons than it is acknowledging that the United States is a nation with borders that need enforcement.