Welcome to the commentary magazine Daily Podcast today's Tuesday, June 29th, 2021.

I am John Pajor, it's the editor of commentary magazine with me as always associate editor,

Noah Rothman. I know. Hi John. Senior writer, Christine Rosen,

high Christine. Hi John. An executive editor, Abe Greenwald. Hi Abe.

Hi John. So the Corona virus seven day running rolling average number appears basically to be frozen

somewhere around 11 and a half thousand new cases a day. And as we keep saying, the magic number

according to Fauci was the cases have to drop below 10,000 a day. I would have thought given

the trajectory over the course of June that we would have hit that already. We're not hitting it.

Maybe it will hit it next week. And of course, the fourth of July is coming, which was

supposed to be this celebration of our liberation, there is an incredibly weird pull out from Gallup.

Very disturbing, very disturbing pull that says that asks people if the pandemic is over or not

and then breaks that down in partisan numbers. And the poll asked is the pandemic over.

And 96% of Democrats say it is not and 57% of Republicans say the pandemic is over.

I don't know what to make of this except that the identity in nature of how you think about COVID.

Now I think till it's very very strongly in the direction of the Democrats and not the Republicans.

We have heard for a year it's Republicans who are politicizing the Corona virus.

But if you have almost unanimous democratic sentiment that says that the virus

that the pandemic is not over on one side, that means that there is almost total agreement that you

cannot say that it's over in one party. What's interesting about that though is obviously the numbers

are extremely partisan. In political terms, it's not exactly political in that you would think if

it were purely political, Democrats would be eager to say it's over now because our guy is in

office and he saved us. So it's not about that, it's not about winning. It has much more to do with

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