We had expected there to be a break in the coronavirus hysteria during the summer, since it’s difficult to keep up the hype when it is not flu season.
Gov. Gavin Newsom said Wednesday that California could significantly ease its mask mandates in the coming weeks as COVID-19 cases continue to decline and vaccinations increase.
State health officials have not offered guidance, but Newsom said it could come soon.
On June 15, when the state is slated to reopen its economy, “we’ll move beyond the blueprint and we’ll be in a completely different space,” Newsom said. “We will be updating our mask guidelines, outdoor masking, if we reach that threshold where we hope to be…. In fact, it will be eliminated, those mandates. They’ll be guidelines or recommendations.
“But for indoor activities, we will still have, likely, some mask guidelines and mandates. But we hope, sooner than later, that those will be lifted as well,” Newsom said at a press conference.
In an interview with Fox 11 News a day earlier, Newsom said California after June 15 will look similar to pre-pandemic times.
“That world looks a lot like the world we entered into before the pandemic,” he said. “We’re not wearing face coverings. We’re not restricted in any way, shape or form of doing the old things that we used to do,” with the exception of large-scale indoor events, for which he said “common sense” will still be required.
“Otherwise, we’ll make guidance, recommendations, but no mandates … and no restrictions in businesses large and small,” he said.
My original theory was that the lockdown would be lifted to about 40% of its normal intensity. People would not be required to wear masks outside on the street and so on, there would be no restrictions on private gatherings, restaurants would be allowed to operate sort of normally, etc.
We know that “the coronavirus” is really just a rebranding of the seasonal flu, and that there is very little seasonal flu in the off-season. However, they are going to frame the drop in “cases” with the warm weather to the vaccine being successful.
Then, when we go back into the fall and people start getting the flu again, and they can show videos of hospitals where people are sick with the flu, they will say that there is a “new strain” that the vaccine cannot fight.
That will basically bring us back to where we were in March of 2020 – except that everyone already will have been trained to accept this vaccine passport stuff.
Probably, during the summer, we are going to see this “Cyber Pandemic” stuff take center stage for a while.
For your own psychological health: enjoy the summer break, but remember that this is all coming back after a few months, and that it is going to come back a whole lot worse.
This is power that the population gave them that they are never going to give up.
Enjoy what you can to the fullest. But do not kid yourself.