In September 2022, Biden declared the pandemic was over on the CBS show “60 Minutes”.
But apparently, it wasn’t over. The end date is now slated for May 11.
…Biden’s administration on Monday said it will end COVID-19 emergency declarations on May 11, nearly three years after the United States imposed sweeping pandemic measures to curb the spread of the illness.The COVID-19 national emergency and public health emergency (PHE) were put in place in 2020 by then-President Donald Trump. Biden has repeatedly extended the measures, which allow millions of Americans to receive free tests, vaccines and treatments.The White House’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB) said in a statement the declarations, which were set to expire in the coming months, would be extended again until May 11 and then terminated.”This wind-down would align with the Administration’s previous commitments to give at least 60 days’ notice prior to termination of the PHE,” OMB said in an administration policy statement.
Quite frankly, covid has stopped being a fear-inducing condition for some time. New York Post columnist John Podhoretz explains the likely real behind the continuing extension.
… This is not about an emergency, and it hasn’t been for more than a year. This is about the people who have actually gained things from the emergency and who need to be weaned off the unhealthy and society-killing benefits they have reaped since March 2020.Said the White House: “An abrupt end to the emergency declarations would create wide-ranging chaos and uncertainty throughout the health care system — for states, for hospitals and doctors’ offices, and, most importantly, for tens of millions of Americans.”I’m sorry, but this is a demented series of claims. “Tens of millions of Americans” do not equal 330 million Americans, which is the actual population of the country. Perhaps they will find the new dispensation more difficult. But living under the COVID administration has made life difficult for everyone.
I will point out that demented is on-brand for Biden.
Finally, under Republican leadership, the House voted to pass a bill that would have ended work-from-home for up to nearly a million federal employees on Wednesday.
The bills passed on a mostly party line vote – three Democrats joined all but one Republican in voting for the bill. The final tally was 221-206.The Republican who voted against the bill was Rep. Brian Mast, R-Fla. The three Democrats who voted for it were Reps. Josh Harder, D-Calif., Kim Schrier, D-Wisc., and Susan Wild, D-Pa.The Stopping Home Office Work’s Unproductive Problems (SHOW UP) Act now heads to the Senate, where it is unlikely to come up for a vote under Democrat control.
Perhaps we should be grateful that the measure won’t pass, and our bureaucratic state will be less productive regarding the damage it can do.
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