Viking_Hippie , 13 hours ago

I mean, he said that he might do it for health reasons and then it was announced a day or two later that he had tested positive for covid again.

It’s probably just a fig leaf for him to bow to pressure from the party without losing too much face, but it’s also possible that he’s honestly realizing that staying in a job that keeps exposing you to covid and any other epi/pandemic that comes along isn’t a good idea at his age…