It looks as if the White House is preparing for another wave of COVID to strike coincidentally just before the midterm elections. So even though it's now in the endemic, no-worse-than-a-cold-for-most-people phase, and we're just talking about case numbers and not rising death numbers, it will still be necessary to have mass mail-in ballots and thousands of unattended drop boxes. And be sure to wear surgical gloves before you stuff a ballot (or ballots) into those boxes. For the sake of public health!