I would like to posit that the US population is sitting in a big waiting room for COVID-19 'to be over'.

Uh huh.  

So, this is the little talk I give to people to I inform them of the following.
  
The pandemic is over when you decide that it is over because ... zero people can control COVID-19 virus from being an infectious disease that successfully ran its course.  Other people are not running your life better than you could.

Everyone failed to control the virus.  

So what time is it now?  Time to get on with your life. 

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