More support for my "this is the last week of American covid" thesis 
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
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
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
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
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.
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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