It's to make sure when they declare the vaccine as a goalposts and the lockdowns/masks/social distancing are there to stay until 2 weeks with 0 cases (in reality it means "until people devolve into cannibal monstrosities") nobody will know what even hit them.
It's subtle, crude and insidious enough that if this is the end of civilization none will notice it.
It's to make sure when they declare the vaccine as a goalposts and the lockdowns/masks/social distancing are there to stay until 2 weeks with 0 cases (in reality it means "until people devolve into cannibal monstrosities") nobody will know what even hit them.
It's subtle, crude and insidious enough that if this is the end of civilization none will notice it.