DECORATE THE STREETS FOR DECORATION DAY.

National Review's Jim Geraghty:

There are roughly 209 million adult Americans. We should be pretty close to herd immunity by the start of summer, and keep in mind that herd immunity isn’t really binary — as we get more people vaccinated, the virus will have fewer bodies to infect, and we will see cases drop steadily.

This means that, as spring turns into summer, there will be less and less justification for the pandemic restrictions in Americans’ daily life.

By the end of May, a lot of school districts have ended their school years but not all of them; if every adult in a school has access to a vaccine, there’s no good reason to keep schools closed at all. If everyone has access to a vaccine, there’s no good reason to keep businesses closed or restrict them to below their normal capacity. There’s no good reason to bar large gatherings, attendance at religious services, concerts, and sports events.

And by summer, when not being vaccinated becomes a personal choice, as opposed to situation forced by a lack of access to the vaccine, those of us who do get vaccinated are not obligated to lift a single finger to protect those who choose to not get vaccinated. We’re not going to restrict large gatherings. We’re not going to agree to wear masks or make a consistent conscious effort to remain six feet away from everyone outside our household.

Those people who are fretting about "new more contagious variations" whenever there's good news? Undermine them with mockery. "Declaring, 'We can’t allow people to go back to normal life because of the risk of new variants' is effectively declaring that we can never go back to normal life."  Such people deserve the same scorn as people who imposed that national 55 mph speed limit "to reduce our dependence on foreign oil" and when the oil cartel came undone, decided that keeping the speeds low "to reduce fatalities in crashes" was a useful pivot.