If This Isn t the End of the Pandemic, It Will Never End – Noah Rothman, Commentary Magazine
As one Biden official told Politico, the administration knows it needs to reset people s expectation that they can get back to joy. But they don t want to do so in a way that exposes them to any political risk in the event that the pandemic takes another unexpected turn. So they re left to forecast a near future in which we ll start to see a gradual return to normal, even though normal will not be exactly the way it was before all of this. That is not good enough. A critical mass of the voting public is sending every possible signal that it won t accept this new, substandard normal in perpetuity. Either Democrats will deliver what voters expect from them, or they will find someone who will.
God I hope so.