Commentary Reports from Mardi Gras, New Orleans, Louisiana, March 1, 2022, are that lockdowns and mandates are done. It was madness on the streets, more than ever. Forget “social distancing” restrictions. This was nothing but mayhem on steroids… or something much stronger. Anthony Fauci would not approve. As for the vaccine passports formally in effect in New Orleans, they are all but ignored. The party was canceled and banned last year but the revelry seemed twice as big as two years ago. The backlash has finally arrived, and rightly so. But here’s what’s interesting. Nationwide, both cases and deaths attributed to Covid are higher now than they were in lockdown from the summer of two years and one year ago. Hence, there is no “scientific” reason why Mardi Gras this year happened, complete with astonishing piles of trash on the streets today, and not last year. The difference is the …