Will the UK's return to normal force Biden's hand?
Jan 27, 2022 23:57:36 GMT -5
Post by maybetoday on Jan 27, 2022 23:57:36 GMT -5
January 27, 2022
Will the United Kingdom's return to normal force Biden's hand?
By Thomas Buckley
Tick, tick, tick...is the end nigh?
The prime minister of the United Kingdom was facing an immediate political death sentence, so what did he do? He declared the pandemic over.
The question now on this side of the pond: Will Joe Biden — himself facing a political death sentence, though admittedly a few months away — learn anything from Boris Johnson?
As the already relatively weak omicron variant wheezes towards its nadir, the calls to end COVID-related restrictions — to remove the elephant that has been sitting on the congested chest of the world — have grown louder and more insistent.
This increasing clamor has already appeared to cause an attitudinal shift among the denizens of the "caring industrial complex," with the groundwork to prepare the pandemic pathologicals among us for the upcoming change already begun. Reporting "with COVID" instead of "from COVID," death rates instead of case rates now being referenced, and quarantine timings being shifted — all of these recent changes in media coverage and the CDC's pronouncements are a hint of what is coming.
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Will the United Kingdom's return to normal force Biden's hand?
By Thomas Buckley
Tick, tick, tick...is the end nigh?
The prime minister of the United Kingdom was facing an immediate political death sentence, so what did he do? He declared the pandemic over.
The question now on this side of the pond: Will Joe Biden — himself facing a political death sentence, though admittedly a few months away — learn anything from Boris Johnson?
As the already relatively weak omicron variant wheezes towards its nadir, the calls to end COVID-related restrictions — to remove the elephant that has been sitting on the congested chest of the world — have grown louder and more insistent.
This increasing clamor has already appeared to cause an attitudinal shift among the denizens of the "caring industrial complex," with the groundwork to prepare the pandemic pathologicals among us for the upcoming change already begun. Reporting "with COVID" instead of "from COVID," death rates instead of case rates now being referenced, and quarantine timings being shifted — all of these recent changes in media coverage and the CDC's pronouncements are a hint of what is coming.
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