After all that Democrats have flagellated Americans over regarding COVID, with Joe Biden demonizing the unvaccinated, pushing mandates that would throw people out of their jobs, and harming our economy, they’re now going to try to declare a “win” over COVID.

As we previously reported, after all the harm that they’ve done, they’re going to try to declare a “win” not because of the science but because they’ve realized they have an election coming in November and if they keep talking about COVID that’s going to continue to hurt them.

Here’s what Biden’s chief pollster advised everyone on Feb. 24 and it was liberal Punchbowl News that posted the memo.

Here is the literal memo to the Dems from Biden's polling firm. Declare a win over Covid and move on. I suspect CDC will get the memo. Will @GavinNewsom and @lapublichealth? We shall see. SOTU is Tuesday. pic.twitter.com/1Enk5SIITk

— Julie Hamill (@hamill_law) February 25, 2022

We’ve had the “tools in the toolkit” that they talk about in the memo to deal with COVID for months. So why is this coming now?

Because, as the memo notes, they see they are getting killed in polls.

“The more we talk about the threat of COVID and onerously restrict people’s lives because of it, the more we turn them against us and show them we are out of touch with their daily realities [….]

Stop talking about restrictions and the unknown future ahead. If we focus on how bad things still are and how much worse they could get, we set Democrats up as failures unable to navigate us through this. When 99% of Americans can get vaccinated, we cause more harm than we prevent with voters by going into our third year talking about restrictions. And, if Democrats continue to hold a posture that prioritizes COVID precautions over learning how to live in a world where COVID exists, but does not dominate, they risk paying dearly for it in November.”

There it is. It’s not about the science that has been in place for months with treatments, it’s about the polls. They’re going to tell you “now” we can declare victory.

So now what do we hear in the wake of that? Suddenly, Democrats are declaring masks are no longer going to be required for the State of the Union.

Update on attending #SOTU: “KN95 or N95 mask wear is no longer required and mask wear is now an individual choice option” per House Sergeant-At-Arms from the Attending Physician’s new guidance to House members. https://t.co/qhwD4umOYJ

— Craig Caplan (@CraigCaplan) February 27, 2022

Why? What happened between Feb. 17 when they demanded the masks and Feb. 27 when they made this announcement? Here’s what they had previously been demanding for the SOTU.

[R]ules for the State of the union included requirements for masking, social distancing, a negative COVID test, and avoiding physical contact with others. Those initial guidelines included a threat that “failure to follow guidelines or removal of the mask in the House Chamber will result in the attendee’s removal from the event and/or fines.”

In the meantime, they got the polling advisory. If they want to be able to declare “victory” at the SOTU, then masks would kind of make that look bad and not like victory, particularly if the masks had “MADE IN CHINA” on them (yes, the masks they handed out to members were made in China). Talk about a clueless House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA).

President Donald Trump’s White House chief of staff and former member of Congress Mark Meadows nailed it.

Following the (political) science https://t.co/AuIz7Bo73H

— Mark Meadows (@MarkMeadows) February 28, 2022

Lots of major Covid policies are changing in the days and hours leading up to the SOTU address tomorrow https://t.co/3Ra88Eokrr

— Marty Makary MD, MPH (@MartyMakary) February 28, 2022

Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) who has been fighting the mask mandate in the House called out the “political theater.” The national security advisor for Sen. Ted Cruz, Omri Ceren sarcastically observed, “Lucky break for Dems the science evolved just now.” Fox’s Tammy Bruce joked, “Biden’s SOTU continues to cure COVID!”