President Joe Biden vowed Tuesday to not impose lockdowns on schools and businesses this winter as part of his response to the Omicron variant. Omicron is now believed to be the prominent strain of the CCP virus, which causes the disease COVID-19, in the United States. In an address Dec. 21, the president said that while the new variant is expected to increase the number of COVID-19 cases nationally among both vaccinated and unvaccinated populations in the coming weeks, the federal government will not order any new lockdowns. “Another question folks are asking is are we going back to March 2020,” Biden said. “The answer is absolutely no.” In 2020, while President Donald Trump was in office, governors across the country imposed strict lockdown measures to try to mitigate the spread of the virus. Biden cited the nation’s vaccination rate and the federal stockpile of personal protective equipment for hospitals …