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<em>The Atlantic </em>Daily: Americans Need an Off-Ramp to the Post-pandemic World

As more vaccines go into arms, governments and businesses ought to relax some COVID-19 precautions, one of our staff writers argues.
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Americans are over it.

The country suffers from what my colleague Amanda Mull calls “pandemic senioritis”—“an abrupt bout of laziness, or flakiness,” that’s set in as the nation awaits an oh-so-glorious summer.

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