This week, California Governor and hair gel enthusiast Gavin Newsom revealed plans to propel his state into the next phase of COVID recovery. His new approach would involve shifting his state’s perspective on COVID to achieve a semblance of normalcy and encourage people to learn to live with the virus, as opposed to letting the virus dictate every aspect of our existence, per CNN.
So far, the world has been treating COVID as a pandemic because the virus has been unpredictable, deadly and widespread. Newsom’s ‘SMARTER’ plan — which stands for Shots, Masks, Awareness, Readiness, Testing, Education and Rx — aims to change his previous pandemic approach into an endemic one.
