And that is why we see these nonstop flurry of new initiatives and actions out of the White House, all of which simply serve to kind of continue keeping us in this crisis mentality and crisis mode.Īnd we've now developed an entire world around it as well with our testing regimes and our masking rules and our vaccine mandates and turning all of this into a political question as well. That's their default reaction to any situation is here, let me show you that I'm doing something. One is just the fact that, politicians exist to prove that they are doing something. But here are the forces that I think push back against that. I mean we're going to be going two years into this and who'd have thought? But here's what makes me worried about the potentiality for normality and the difficulty of getting there is, I mean in some ways we're beginning to see some different signs out of the White House, et cetera, that people are beginning to accept to a certain degree that this is likely to become an endemic disease that we are going to have to live with. Kim Strassel: You know, I would really like to think so. Do you think we'll get back to some sort of real normality in 2022 and put behind us? Kim, maybe the place to start here is with COVID-19, which has been the huge story raining since it first hit in 2020, March of 2020. We're joined today by my colleagues, columnists Kim Strassel and Bill McGurn. Welcome, I'm Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street Journal. Kyle Peterson: As 2021 comes to a close, what to expect in 2022 from the pandemic, politics and the Supreme Court. Speaker 1: From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch. This version may not be in its final form and may be updated. This transcript was prepared by a transcription service.
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