The CDC has proven themselves willing to lie repeatedly to manage the narrative around Covid politically. Long Covid has had a large and continuing impact. The virus has not changed. In fact it had its second largest season this winter, just going by the CDC's own wastewater data graph:

https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#wastewater-surveil...

In light of that, desire to normalize fewer precautions is a way of saying "the weak shall perish" and blaming victims of the virus instead of shouldering any responsibility for them.