New York Times: "Some Americans cheered the moves, mostly by Democratic governors, but others questioned the timing, with more than 200,000 new virus infections being reported each day." Fox News: "Critics are knocking Dems, media for following politics instead of the science ahead of the midterms" You seen this? Switzerland is about the only country willing to call a spade a spade: COVID has gone from a mandatory pandemic to an elective one. Ain't nobody out there undecided at this point. If you're vaxxed and boosted and under 50, Omicron is LESS dangerous than the flu, and nobody mandates flu shots. More than that, democratic governors are the ones who know their base is utterly, completely, unquestionably safe from COVID at this point. Disrupting the superbowl would have been an extremely stupid look considering California's mask mandate was going to expire in three days. I'm not sure why it's so surprising to everyone that the liberal states are the ones going "enough." But since that doesn't match the Fox News narrative they have to go with "glowering Gavin Newsom."