They’re under immense pressure to stop masking and testing, both externally from countries demanding they open up their economies and internally from citizens who have been tricked by the rest of the world into thinking COVID isn’t dangerous after vaccination.

I’m sympathetic towards the inability to continue, it just shows that they aren’t yet strong enough to totally defy the market forever.

On the bright side, at least when bird flu spreads from milk drinkers in the US they’ll be ready to go right back into lockdown.