The US Enters “The Great Unmasking, Part Two,” As Omicron Wanes

Last May, amid a strong vaccine rollout that sent COVID infections plummeting, the federal government relaxed its pandemic guidelines, giving those who had received their shots the go-ahead to be maskless in most public settings and to prepare for what President Joe Biden promised would be a “summer of freedom, a summer of joy, a summer of get-togethers and celebrations.” “An all-American summer,” he said last June, “that this country deserves after a long, long dark winter that we’ve all endured.” It’s been another long, dark winter and so it also does well to remember the warning he also issued:… Read Full Article