Remember “Neanderthal thinking?”
That’s what President Joe Biden called it when Mississippi and Texas lifted their mask mandates and capacity limits. Ol’ Uncle Joe did everything but blow a fuse or call Texas Gov. Greg Abbott a lying, dog-faced pony soldier.
“Look, I hope everybody’s realized by now, these masks make a difference,” Biden said March 3. “We are on the cusp of being able to fundamentally change the nature of this disease because of the way with which we’re able to get vaccines in people’s arms. We’ve been able to move that all the way up to the end of May to have enough for every American, to get every adult American to get a shot.
“The last thing, the last thing we need is Neanderthal thinking that in the meantime, ‘Everything is fine, take off your masks, forget it.’ It still matters.”
Well, it turns out Neanderthal thinking works just fine — at least according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, along with The New York Times.
On Wednesday, the seven-day rolling average of cases was 16,272 in the United States, according to data from The Times. The article was written when the newest data showed just over 17,000 daily cases — both less than half the 35,442 on May 13.