Maybe "not being Trump" isn't a sufficient governing strategy

So far, 244,000 Americans have died of COVID-19 under President Biden, with more than 40,000 of those deaths in the last month alone. Mask mandates are back. Colleges are shutting down their classrooms. Depending on where you live, much of life has returned to abnormal.

Biden and his administration have made some missteps to exacerbate this — mostly not approving cheap, reliable COVID-19 tests — but largely what’s happening is that a very infectious virus was always going to be impossible to “shut down.” Biden had spoken as if he would eradicate coronavirus, which was never going to happen. He convinced people that coronavirus was only spreading because of Trump’s malfeasance or stupidity.

So maybe this is why some liberals are more depressed now than in spring 2020, when everything was closed and we were all being warned that the virus could get us if we didn’t wash our groceries.