Prolonging the Plannedemic Puritanism appears to be the goal.
If a second Thanksgiving, a second Christmas, a third Easter, and a third Independence Day, can be squelched through fearmongering (if not outright government oppression) it may not be much longer before people will not only not wish to return to pre-Plannedemic celebrations, but will actually begin to lose the memory of what such celebrations were like.
This is the CCP’s global “Cultural Revolution”.
I've been thinking the same thing. Not only will the world -- and especially the US -- not "return to normal", but it will simply move forward into the next phase of the Great Cultural Metamorphosis.
The breakdown of American culture has taken 50 years, starting with Cloward-Piven and LBJ's Great Society, but it happened so gradually that we adjusted to each incremental step. Now we are on the brink of the collapse, the great ship's bow is already over the edge of the waterfall, and I can't imagine what it would take to reverse the downward progression.
I have come to sadly believe that it is irreversible -- that the America of the Founders will disappear and will have to be recreated by another group of inspired men some day, God willing.