Thread by @brianbeutler

And then if a new variant of concern emerges, scaling interventions back up will be very hard, as will responding to bad-faith attacks on Biden for losing the fight against the pandemic.

https://twitter.com/whstancil/status/1491467253807828997

First, the administration wanted to proclaim victory over the pandemic after vaccine uptake began to stall; now, it’s hiding from its own shadow. But both cases were really just rolling the dice that new variants wouldn’t set us way back. Maybe this time it’ll work out better?

What might actually work is preparing people for the possibility that we’ll have to demobilize and remobilize for some time, and communicating to people what that might look like.

But among other things that would entail chastising the people who have intentionally prolonged the pandemic by discouraging all mitigation, at all times. Not implicitly conceding to their terms.