That goes two ways, how is the CDC going to enforce their rulings? You think they're going to fly some labcoat clad nerds down to Miami to throw down with the state troopers handing out eviction notices?
This is the same issue as sanctuary cities, the federal government can issue all the demands it wants, but if local authorities don't cooperate and back up the feds, they can't actually do anything.
If Biden was confident in doing this, he wouldn't have spent a week trying to wiggle out of doing it, or admitted that the SC is going to squash him the second it hits thier docket as he announced he was doing it. You're reading this an evil plot, when the reality seems more that Biden is trying to throw the dem's bolshevik wing a bone and keep them from getting too upset, because the dems are barely holding together after 5 years of "orange man bad" being thier only core policy position.
The main takeaway from this is yet more evidence of Biden being spineless and unfit, as he's again flip flopped on an issue within a few days to try and placate the mob. That sort of record will not serve him well a few years from now.
I think it's two things, honestly. First, he does want to placate the angry liberals in his party demanding that the government step in and save people from a hard day's work and paying rent. Second, he is probably somewhat concerned with the emerging Delta variant within the USA. While I think a few here might find that odd, they should consider that Liberals will happily turn on Biden should he stray too far.
I don't however, think it's an indication that Biden is being spineless. I think this is him and his team trying to pivot to a more sustainable voting base, while retaining as many liberals as they can. As much as there has been a focus on the Republicans hitting a rocky shore on Jan 6th, the fact of the matter is the Democrats hit their own after the election, when they did not get the sweeping victory they had promised themselves. Little or no gain in the house, minimal gain in the Senate. After losing SCOTUS for the next ten to twenty years, that was NOT the victory they'd hoped for.
So word is that Biden and his team are looking to push the SJWs and the communists back under the rock they found them and orient towards are more cohesive group. Currently, the rumor is that they're going after national security/military and business voters. That's more comprehensible now that many more business owners are liberal, but I also think it's got a built-in-problem that the Democrats aren't going to be ready for.
Namely the habit of businesses to put family second (or third, or never) with the liberal tendency to destroy the nuclear family. At the same time, that's going to cause problems with members of their own voters (such as single mothers) who don't like the idea that they can't spend holidays with family. And it certainly won't do well with Evangelicals, Catholics, Hispanics, and Populists. We'll have to see what happens though.
Either way, while this isn't really good news. I am glad that Biden has steered clear of trying to pack the Supreme Court. If you think Liberals are angry that Biden isn't going to give deadbeats $2k a month merely to exist, they're downright furious that Biden and the media are not making a full court press against SCOTUS.
Don't forget whatever COVID variant, just in time for mid-terms.
US Midterms are in 2022. I do not think that even the one or two wackos in the Biden Admin think they can keep any sort of nationwide lockdown going into November of 2022. I can think of a handful of options:
1) 80% or more of the US population gets the vaccine and following boosters, which makes proposals for restrictions silly to the broader public.
2) Governments and companies will start demanding vaccine & booster verification (this process is already underway) for employment or even service (see NYC), thereby forcing most of the population to get the vaccine or suffer crippling economic obstacles.
3) We don't get much further than 60% vaccinated and boosters, where it's obvious that part of the population--despite any damage caused by Delta, will NOT get their shots and you'll have mostly local mask/lockdowns.
4) Delta is really as deadly as the media likes to make it seem, meaning many of the Republicans who catch it between here and then will be dead and thereby handing the region to Democrats, who will proceed to rape the state and its populace of money.
