The PBS Newshour last night focused on Ukraine, of course, but it was also the first newscast in over two years that I remember making no mention at all of the Pandemic. No news on infection rates, death rates, vaccinations. The truckers’ convoys in Canada and New Zealand, and one supposed to be organizing in our own country didn’t even make the Newshour.
Wallowa County showed just one new case yesterday, and the state continues to show rapid declines in cases and hospitalizations. Mask mandates are moved forward, and re-openings are announced. Death marches on—expected as its path of ups and downs follows cases and hospitalizations.
But Covid-19 has been tempered by vaccinations and contagions resulting in forms of “natural” immunity, and been swallowed by fatigue, boredom, anger, and now War.
I’ll mark February 24, 2022 on my calendar as the day that Covid ceased being the number one concern of the population and our governments. It might come back, gnaw away at us one mild case, one hard case at a time. It will matter to the hard cases and their loved ones, but to the rest of America it is now yesterday’s news.
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