Abandon ship: Politicians seek clean exit from sunk costs of COVID Mania

Midterms are right around the corner.

After two years of empowering every aspect of the authoritarian insanity that is COVID Mania, the American ruling class has started to awaken to the reality that citizens have had enough of the Safety Regime’s tyrannical edicts.

Governor Phil Murphy (D-NJ) announced this morning that New Jersey (not exactly MAGA country) will no longer require children to wear masks in school. These barbaric mask policies, which remain entirely unsupported by actual scientific evidence, has been in place in much of Safety Regime-compliant America for almost two years.

Governor Phil Murphy @GovMurphy

Effective March 7, the statewide mask mandate in schools will be lifted. Balancing public health with getting back to some semblance of normalcy is not easy. But we can responsibly take this step due to declining COVID numbers and growth in vaccinations.

nytimes.comN.J. Governor to End School Mask Mandate in Move to ‘Normalcy’For the first time since the start of the pandemic, New Jersey districts will be permitted to allow students and teachers to stop wearing masks.

The new policy, and the governor’s sudden embrace of reality, is a vast departure from Murphy’s previous insistence that COVID must be entirely eliminated in order for society to return to normal.

In August of 2020, he stated that COVID deaths must go to zero in order for this “fight” against a virus to be over.

Governor Phil Murphy @GovMurphy

New Jersey has now lost 14,134 members of our broad and diverse family to #COVID19. In their memories, we must continue to do all that we can to fight this pandemic. We cannot give up until the number is ZERO.

Congressman Ted Lieu, who represents a 70/30 Democrat district in Los Angeles County, struck a similar tone in his messaging, going as far as to acknowledge natural immunity to COVID-19. Acknowledging natural was once a great sin, and it remains greatly upsetting to the Branch Covidians who remain true believers.

Ted Lieu @tedlieu

With the rapid decline of Omicron, pandemic restrictions will be lifted sooner rather than later. In considering when to do so, health officials must factor in natural immunity, not just vaccination rates. This CDC chart recognizes natural immunity and so should health officials.

The White House has mentioned that polling exists showing restrictions are becoming deeply unpopular. White House spox Jen Psaki said Monday that the polling shows “the public is tired of COVID.”

Charlie Spiering @charliespiering

"We certainly understand and have seen in polling that the public is tired of Covid. We understand that. So are we," says Jen Psaki. Says they are in “constant touch” with public health experts about updating guidelines

Even noted COVID hysteric Leana Wen, who has routinely advocated for a two tiered segregation system that discriminates against the “unvaccinated”, has acknowledged that restrictions might need to come to an end.

IT Guy @ITGuy1959

PS- Here's yet another one. Memo CLEARLY went out.

The pattern is obvious. The polling must be really bad for the restrictionists. This ruling class is indeed seeking the exits to protect their power, and they will attempt to do so without acknowledging that this two year campaign of destruction was all for nothing.

Washington Examiner @dcexaminer

A slow drift of Democratic state and local leaders away from emergency COVID-19 measures comes as polling shows voters are growing impatient with restrictions. From Denver to Chicago, here are some of the restrictions that could be lifted shortly:

washex.amSome liberal cities look to end vaccine and mask mandates as opposition growsAs COVID-19 cases plummet across the country on the tail of the omicron wave, some cities that imposed vaccine requirements and widespread mask mandates are reconsidering the policies amid growing public opposition.