First Fauci, then Newsom, now Powell, with the ridiculous vaccine uber alles absolutism.
There are three ways back to the "old normal". (Though I suspect we'll still see lots more working from home and virtual meetings even once everything's open again -- I like being able to "go to" seminars at MIT, UC Riverside and the University of Birmingham (UK) all in the same week without leaving Kansas).
(1) an effective widely available vaccine
(2) herd immunity
(3) treatment protocols that get the fatality rate down to a level comparable with a seasonal flu.
As I have observed before in making this point, people don't like to think about the third because it involves making a rational assessment of risk, something people are lousy at (which is how the shift from "bend the curve" to "stay home until there's a vaccine" took hold among both policy makers and a large segment of the populace).