I had a feeling the lockdowns would be going away around the time Biden is inaugurated. they got a lot of juice out of it. The lockdowns let them 1) accomplish massive election fraud 2) the frustration they channeled into the capital protests allowed them to establish their all-important 'white people are domestic terrorists' narrative, which they will hit the ground running with in Biden's first term, 3) they got their vaccine rollout going, and 4) they got months worth of data on how western societies respond to the lockdowns in the case of what was largely a null threat. now they can be confident in being able to get away with even more when the next designer virus is released.