Yep. That came to my mind as well. Crisis stage needs minimum of 6 weeks, notice how 45 days to flatten the curve is 6.5 weeks? So obvious.

They had to back off the "new normal" language because people stopped buying the bullshit. They found out that the American Spirit, even in its current weakened form, is not so easily broken. They needed another crisis.

Yep. That came to my mind as well. Crisis stage needs minimum of 6 weeks, notice how 45 days to flatten the curve is 6.5 weeks? So obvious.

They had to back off the "new normal" language because people stopped buying the bullshit. They found out that the American Spirit, even in its current weakened form, is not so easily broken. They needed another crisis. They will freak out about a "second wave" of COVID-19 in approximately 10 days. Fauxi and Birx will resurface from the depths of the swamp. Normalization language will return after that.