America is getting closer to normalcy — it’s absurd to paint it any other way

NY Post ^ | 27 February A.D. 2021 | Post Editorial Board

[lightman]

New US COVID-19 cases are a quarter what they were six weeks ago, with the daily numbers dropping 15 percent to 25 percent a week. It’s time for the country to start moving rapidly to normalcy — restoring jobs and restoring lives. Caution is still in order, but only that.

Yet President Biden, after vowing the nation will have enough vaccine doses by July’s end to vaccinate every American, just said he only hopes for a return to normal by “next Christmas.” Huh?...

Biden’s chief medical adviser, Anthony Fauci, says the worst of the pandemic “might be” behind us. Yet he’s also telling Americans they’ll need to wear masks (maybe two at a time) at least through 2022 — even if they get vaccinated.

This is absurd: Our leaders should be nonstop pushing reluctant Americans to get jabbed so we can all get on with our lives...

More than 13 percent of Americans have gotten at least one dose, and the majority are health-care workers or those in nursing homes or other high-risk settings.

Add to that the number of us estimated to have already been infected — 35 percent of Los Angeles County and more than half of Miami-Dade County, for example — and you can see why Johns Hopkins prof Marty Makary predicts we’ll have herd immunity by April...

Perhaps it’s just that normalcy makes it too hard to justify the rush to pass a $1.9 trillion “relief” bill filled with Democrats’ pet projects. We’d rather not think cynical politics is behind Biden’s gloom, but it’s hard to see any other reason he’s denying that the pandemic’s end is staring us in the face.

[353FMG]

Do not expect normalcy until 2024 (maybe).

[Allegra]

THAT kind of language is the exact program they want .... and you will still wear a mask, even when the all clear is sounded.

I don’t wear one now. So, no.

[Karl Spooner]

Not so fast...they got another one on the way.

Bill Gates Warns That a Next Pandemic Could Be 10 times Worse

https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/364371

[proust]

Old normal or the new normal? The grinding down of America continues...

[Hieronymus]

Bill Gates Warns That a Next Pandemic Could Be 10 times Worse’

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Do not fear. The Gates of Hell will not prevail.

[SaveFerris]

[Our leaders should be nonstop pushing reluctant Americans to get jabbed so we can all get on with our lives...]

Don’t know about anyone else, but the NY Post can take their forced vaccines, and .........

[Big Red Badger]

Glass Half,,,
Well,
You Know the “Thing!”

[DoughtyOne]

When those thousands of businesses went under, so did the
capital it took to run them.

Life savings were wiped out. Sure Capitalism is the way to
go, but thousands of people who supplied the nation with
workers will no longer be able to do so.

A lot of wealth just evaporated.

[MAGAthon]

more evidence the industrialised countries are willingly committing economic suicide. Australia is just as insane, despite no CASES, NO DEATHS this year:

28 Feb: news.com.au: New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern announces week-long COVID-19 lockdown after new case detected
New Zealanders would rightly be “disappointed” they are facing yet another lockdown following ONE CASE of COVID-19
Boos greeted the alert level announcement at the Joseph Parker v Junior Fa fight at Spark Arena in Auckland on Saturday – but cheers erupted when the crowd was told the boxing was allowed to continue...

Auckland went into a snap three-day lockdown just over two weeks ago after three new cases were detected...
https://www.news.com.au/world/pacific/new-zealand-pm-jacinda-ardern-announces-weeklong-covid19-lockdown-after-new-case-detected/news-story/e3c85baa27248726f947acef1875739f

[DoodleBob]

Here is some added data, pointing to an autumnal SEASONAL RISE in cases and fatalities, and likely not a "surge" or a "new strain of the virus."

What we are seeing now is likely a SEASONAL DECLINE and likely not the result of triple-masking, vaccines, or statist policies.

The majority of deaths in most countries can be attributed to causes that feature a distinct seasonal pattern. The figure depicts the relative monthly frequencies of nine selected causes of death in the United States for women and men combined for the years 1959–2014. The reported number of counts in parentheses in the title of each panel is the actual number of deaths.

Viruses gonna virus. Even non-viruses gonna non-virus.

My take: this contagious yet mildly lethal bug is with us Forever. We never get herd immunity on influenza, and flu shots aren't very effective. If I'm right, this thing will start coming back in the Fall, after everyone's been peer-pressured into getting immunized.

When that happens, we will face a choice: stay bubble wrapped forever and maybe your average lifespan remains 77 years, or live free and maybe you'll die on average when you're 75.

[MAGAthon]

just to clarify, Australia has had a few alleged CASES this year, involving people returning to Australia, but there have been no deaths.

[BookmanTheJanitor]

How do you restore those jobs?

Obvious answer, raise taxes. (extreme sarcasm)

[lapsus calami]

 

 

The ChiComs are laughing their asses off watching the nations of the West wallow in the self destruction of their own economies.

 

 

[arthurus]

Who believes that the newly minted petty tyrants in Governors’ chairs in mostly liberal but some more conservative states will easily give up their dictatorial power? When they cannot get enough support from the CCP virus they will probably jump to Climate Emergency. The restrictions will change somewhat but surely the new ones will be more onerous. The left is already pushing for Climate Emergency to be declared by whoever is operating Joe Biden so the rule by Decree can come from the top.

[dp0622]

Wow. I haven’t posted so much since the official coup but I see we still have fruits on here and anybody that thinks like you...WTF are you doing on FR??

Very disappointing.

[IrishBrigade]

‘Caution is still in order, but only that.’

quite frankly, that’ stupid; an ‘overabundance of caution’ has ruined our society for years to come...

caution, my ass...

[ronnie raygun]

Accepted kind of, since we no longer have trump in office, biden saved us from covid!! praise the lord

[IrishBrigade]

‘It would only get close to normalcy if Dems are out on their ears.’

yes, because it was so ‘normal’ when the pubs controlled the executive, the upper chamber of congress, and the scotus...

[IrishBrigade]

‘...but I’m seeing the cases still high...’

cases, eh...? a ‘case’ is anything a government funded doctor says it is, a number pulled out of the air in order to buttress the hairbrained response by politicians...

‘Data folks, DATA.’

data...? from government funded agencies backing up their funders...? too funny...

[IrishBrigade]

‘Do not fear. The Gates of Hell will not prevail.’

oh, well; okay then...