By Ben Shapiro | August 4, 2021 | 11:07am EDT
A woman walks past a social distancing sign during the coronavirus pandemic. (Photo credit: Noam Galai/Getty Images)
Two weeks to slow the spread.
That was the original rationale for the lockdowns, masking, and social distancing: Prevent transmission of the coronavirus so that Americans could be assured that we would not overwhelm hospital capacity, causing needless death.
Wait until a vaccine is available.
That was the next goal post: an admonition to continue to take precautions to avoid spreading the coronavirus until a vaccine could be developed. Despite the warnings of COVID-19 pessimists that a vaccine would take years to develop, despite the unjustified alarmism of figures like Vice President Kamala Harris that the Trump administration would skew the vaccine protocols to achieve political ends, vaccines were miraculously developed.
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