Declaring the pandemic 'over' may have been politically shrewd. But was it also dangerous?
Yes, this certainly gets to the heart of it: Is Joe Biden just kind of talking off the cuff, or did his pronouncement mean anything? First, I was compelled by the New York Times’ reporting that reminded me that the relevant distinction for, say, the
, isn’t whether we are in a pandemic, but whether we are in a public-health emergency. Which we still are, so funding-wise and logistics-wise, those things stay the same.But also, there’s a way in which I see this whole issue as something larger. You and I have both been extremely frustrated throughout the pandemic about how so much of the responsibility for mitigating the risk associated with COVID-19 has been pushed onto individuals’ shoulders.
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