President Biden told 60 Minutes that “the pandemic is over.” In the interview, Biden also hinted at allowing large events and not requiring masks.
“The pandemic is over,” Biden told “60 Minutes” from the Detroit auto show last Wednesday, the first time the even has been held since the onset of the pandemic in 2020.
“We still have a problem with COVID. We’re still doing a lotta work on it. It’s — but the pandemic is over. if you notice, no one’s wearing masks. Everybody seems to be in pretty good shape. And so I think it’s changing. And I think this is a perfect example of it.”
With the spread of contagious variants throughout the world, it is almost impossible to get rid of the virus fully. With that information, President Biden and his administration have focused on telling the country how important vaccination and boosters are.
But as we all know The World Health Organization or WHO, has not declared the pandemic over. They are the only people who can declare it over. Though Biden has said we have “turned a corner on the pandemic.”
“I think you’d agree that the impact on the psyche of the American people as a consequence of the pandemic is profound,” Biden said in his interview with Scott Pelley. “Think of how that has changed everything. You know, people’s attitudes about themselves, their families, about the state of the nation, about the state of their communities. And so there’s a lot of uncertainty out there, a great deal of uncertainty. And we lost a million people. A million people to COVID.
“When I got in office, when I got elected, only 2 million people had been vaccinated. I got 220 million — my point is it takes time,” he added. “We were left in a very difficult situation. It’s been a very difficult time. Very difficult.”
I think most Americans are going to listen to WHO. Wanting the pandemic to be over and it being safe for it to be over are two different things.
Source The Hill
