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Hey, guess what? The COVID emergency is over — three months from now! God made the universe in six days. It will take President Joe Biden about 240, all in all, to bring an end to an “emergency” that ought to have been over the very moment he said it was over in September 2022.
I know Joe Biden isn’t God, to put it mildly, but this is setting the bar a little low even for a president who has redefined the meaning of the phrase “setting the bar low.”
To recap: The president declared the crisis moment had passed Sept. 18, 2022, when he appeared on “60 Minutes” and said “the pandemic is over.” On Jan. 30, 2023, the White House announced the official “COVID emergency” would come to an end in May 2023. That’s eight months after Biden’s “60 Minutes” claim.
Why May? Well, according to The New York Times, the Biden White House wants “an orderly transition out of the public health emergency.” Welcome to Orwell-ville. An “orderly transition” out of an emergency is to end all emergency measures the second the emergency is over.
A state of emergency is — by definition — a condition of existential disorder. People are forced to live and act and work in a manner other than what would be normal. Ordinary rules are suspended. Ordinary procedures are superseded by extraordinary procedures that wouldn’t be in place otherwise.
An emergency is a disruption of the usual, the regular.
