In recent weeks and months and years we have been subject to proclamations, ceremonial and otherwise, that the coronavirus pandemic is “over.”

(Pause for effect.)

Here’s your hot take for today.

The coronavirus pandemic is not officially over until every person who was in school during so-called “distance learning” in 2020 and 2021 has graduated.

Or dropped out.

Someone in Kindergarten in the fall of 2020 will finish 12th grade in June of 2033.

Yeah, we’ve got a ways to go.