GET VACCINATED! IT WORKS!

I had all the apprehensions everyone else does. But, it went fine. I had two doses of the Moderna vaccine. It was fine.

Get vaccinated.

April 1, 2021
By Karen Weintraub

Six months after getting a second dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine (click here) as part of a 46,000-person clinical trial, volunteers remained more than 90% protected against symptomatic COVID-19 and even better protected against severe disease, a new company study found.

Out of 927 trial participants who fell ill with COVID-19 more than a week after their second dose, only 77 had received the active vaccine, compared with 850 who got a placebo.

There were no serious safety concerns among the 12,000 volunteers who are at least six months past their second dose, according to the newly released findings. Many, however, did have typical, short-term side effects such as fatigue and sore arms.

The study also showed that the vaccine is effective against a virus variant called B.1.351, first identified in South Africa....

This is Holy Week and while Pope Francis had a glorious ceremony for children on Good Friday...

...the right-wing wackos in the USA are killing people. I do not want to hear how the right-wing has god on their side. It is a huge lie. Even Northern Ireland wasn't this disregarding of God. Perhaps we need to start peace talks with the idiots of the right. Ask Tony Blair to begin. He was successful with the radicals in Ireland.

April 2, 2021
By Linda Bordoni

Pope Francis (click here) presides at the Way of the Cross, in a near-empty St Peter’s Square: a poignant symbol of the solitude and isolation caused by the Covid-19 pandemic imbued by the hope provided by the reflections prepared by children....

This holy season Pope Francis wants all to concentrate on the crosses children carry. In a country where parents are dying in hails of gunfire it is easy to say American children definitely are bearing their own crosses.

March 31, 2021

By Jordan Culver

Four people, including a child, (click here) are dead after a suspect opened fire at an office building in Southern California, according to police. 

Details were scarce late Wednesday regarding the incident in Orange, California, but Orange Police Department Lt. Jen Amat told reporters at the scene four people died and the suspect in the shooting was injured and taken to a local hospital and is in critical condition. Officers recovered one gun, she said. 

One woman was injured and hospitalized in critical condition, Amat said. Both the woman and the suspect suffered gunshot wounds, Amat said. She added she didn't know if the suspect's wound "is self-inflicted or not." 

There was no additional information about the suspect or the victims. Amat stressed there was no ongoing threat to the public and had no information about weapons found at the scene....

Get this straight.

There is absolutely no moral content to the killing by right-wing extremists. This is more than the security of the US Capitol. This is about guns and killing within the borders of the USA.

Why should the Capitol have to be secured at all? Before Trump's insurrection, it was never an issue.

April 2, 2021
By Emily Cochrane, Nicholas Fandos, and Ben Decker

Washington - The band of razor wire-topped fencing (click here) around the Capitol had recently come down. The heavy National Guard presence had begun to thin.

But on Friday, not quite three months after the deadly Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol, a car came careening midday onto the Capitol grounds, slamming into two Capitol Police officers and leaving one of them dead and the other injured.

This time, the source of the violence was not an angry pro-Trump mob, but a lone driver, armed with a knife, who had recently told friends he had left his job and had “afflictions.” After crashing his car and menacing officers, he was shot and killed.

“It is with a very, very heavy heart that I announce one of our officers has succumbed to his injuries,” Yogananda D. Pittman, the acting Capitol Police chief, said during a news conference near the scene. “This has been an extremely difficult time for U.S. Capitol Police, after the events of Jan. 6 and now the events that have occurred here today.”...