Joe Biden announced that the “pandemic is over” during his “60 Minutes” interview that aired on Sunday night.

It’s been “over” for most of us for some time.

But as I reported earlier, that throws all of his mandates and state mandates into question, not to mention the legal justification for his student loan bailout. There was speculation that he was doing it to make things sound better before the election.

It’s now causing a meltdown on the left. So it may not have helped him with those on the left who still can’t let it go.

2) I’m still shaking my head at what Biden says. If he only knew how much I stuck my head out and sacrificed for him in 2020… https://t.co/ydhc77LSs5

— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) September 19, 2022

One of the (many) reasons they’re not wearing masks is because people like Biden keep (falsely) telling them the pandemic is over. https://t.co/fvwOvtBQbo

— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) September 19, 2022

If they want to retain any ounce of credibility, any public health experts who have access to the White House should be demanding that the President retract his statement that the pandemic is over. This statement will cause lower vaccination rates & stop COVID prevention funding.

— Dr. Lucky Tran (@luckytran) September 19, 2022

Besides being utterly, obviously, and cruelly false, this kind of premature surrender is a horrible way to encourage everyone to get their bivalent boosters, which is something we desperately need, and all but guarantees the funding we need for prevention & treatment will vanish https://t.co/mU4jPT89Vb

— Katie Mack (@AstroKatie) September 19, 2022

But perhaps the saddest reaction was from the people who are still living in the lockdown mentality. Now they’re perfectly free to do so, that’s the whole point of choice, which is something that so many in government denied to many of us for so long. But this is what the government reaction has wrought — people who have been locked up for more than two years: people who haven’t gone out to eat, haven’t shopped, haven’t gone anywhere. One woman said she felt after Biden’s comments there was no hope for high-risk people like her, that she’d been left to die or be trapped in isolation. Another said she felt so hopeless. A third said that going to Walmart would feel like a vacation at this point. This is what Democratic policies have done to these people.

Some even said they regretted their vote for Biden now that he had made this statement about the virus.

I will NEVER vote for Biden. The pandemic isn't over.
This is evil. pic.twitter.com/F5Iikk40TN

— Pat, just Pat (@PatTheBerner) September 19, 2022

Then there were the leftists telling these folks the answer was “humane communities.”

Uniting & forming communities of humane people is how we survive this

Our idea is to create humane towns across the country and world structured like Mondragon in Spain – a coop of worker owned cooperativeshttps://t.co/a2yFHQG0w6

— LRSH – Education Podcast (@LRedSchoolHouse) September 19, 2022

for our vision of humane Covid safe community to occur everyone needs to unlearn hyper individual capitalist tendencies and learn how to be active humane community members

For example instead of only custodians cleaning a space everyone needs to clean up after themselves

— LRSH – Education Podcast (@LRedSchoolHouse) September 19, 2022

Yeah, no, I’m thinking that’s the last thing anyone needs.