The idea is that May 31 is a rare American three-day weekend and the traditional start of summer, and after 15 months of plague there is no way any kind of public health self-restraint is going to make it through that weekend
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Huge crunch time this week for covid podcasts, book proposals, and memoirs of what it was like to come of age in Williamsburg during a pandemic
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There's a big cultural gulf between Americans who are just starting to emerge cicada-like from a year of total isolation, and people who have been living basically normally since right after the initial freakout in spring 2020. National media way over-represents that first group
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Some people lived normal-ish lives during covid out of choice, others out of necessity, but either way it's only a small elite of working-age Americans who were both able to and chose to follow every precaution. Another fault line for us to fracture across
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Having a moralizing, overeducated elite demanding six more months of economic hardship and child care nightmares for small businesses and the working poor is my great political fear for 2021.
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To be clear, my anxiety is for what happens after a couple of months of reopening, particularly going into the new school year. I don't think there's a big push right now for things to stay closed, but variants and a rebound in cases could change that dynamic by September
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the CDC announced that covid is over, though they didn't use those words.
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Exactly. They practically told us to take our tops off and grab a beer
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funny to see this headline and photo after starting to watch Army of the Dead
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