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July 29, 2021

Covid is facing a resurgence in the US, and so is Trumpian politics Robert Reich

Despair is worse after hope is briefly ignited. I don’t know about you, but I was elated earlier this spring when it seemed as if Trump and Covid were gone, and Biden seemed surprisingly able and willing to get the nation rapidly back on track.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jul/29/covid-coronavirus-delta-variant-trump-politics

July 28, 2021

Judith Fox: Woman killed and dismembered mother jury finds

A jury has found a woman killed her mother whose remains were found in woods. Lucy Fox, was subject to trial-of-facts proceedings, after being deemed unfit to enter pleas and the case was heard in her absence. The partial, dismembered remains of her mother, Judith Fox, were found in Shropshire..

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-shropshire-57997503

July 28, 2021

Woman Thrashed, Eyes Burned With Hot Knife After Resisting Rape By 2 Men

A woman in India has been reportedly thrashed and brutally assaulted by two men after she tried to resist their attempt to rape her. The 25-year-old woman from Lalitpur, a city in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, has been hospitalized after the suspects allegedly burned her eyes with a hot knife and beat her up in a failed sexual assault attempt last week, News 18 reported.

https://www.ibtimes.com/woman-thrashed-eyes-burned-hot-knife-after-resisting-rape-2-men-3261173

July 24, 2021

'Dating Game' serial killer Rodney Alcala dies on death row

Rodney Alcala, a convicted serial killer who was on California's death row, has died, authorities said Saturday.

Alcala, 77, died of natural causes at 1:43 a.m. Saturday at a hospital in the community near Corcoran State Prison, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said in a statement.

After representing himself in Orange County court, he was sentenced to death in 2010 for the 1979 murder of 12-year-old Robin Samsoe and the murders of four other women - 18-year-old Jill Barcomb and 27-year-old Georgia Wixted, both in 1977; 32-year-old Charlotte Lamb in 1978; and 21-year-old Jill Parenteau in 1979.

Alcala's execution in California had been postponed indefinitely due to a moratorium on the death penalty instituted by the state in 2019.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/dating-game-serial-killer-rodney-alcala-dies-death/story?id=79036859

July 24, 2021

Pfizer is only supposed 40% aganist the Delta Variant

So does that mean Moderna is the best vaccine and not Pfizer. JJ has its issues and Pfizer appears now to have issues as well.

July 24, 2021

Far-right, other activists march against French virus rules

PARIS (AP) — Far-right activists and members of France’s yellow vest movement are holding protests Saturday against a bill requiring everyone to have a special virus pass to enter restaurants and other venues and mandating COVID-19 vaccinations for all health care workers.

https://apnews.com/article/europe-health-coronavirus-pandemic-dc03061cb033cb4181ff5424acb9ed63

July 23, 2021

Rant on Doing Social Distancing and Being Fully Vaccinated

I feel that right now is heading like the bad old days of last year, with me moving towards self-imposed social distancing again. There is one AA meeting that I have to attend in person, but I want that group to reimpose their mask mandate because the case spike is out of control.

All of the college students are coming back, making the area where I live into a COVID hotspot. I am fully vaccinated and very healthy, but I don't take any chances with the virus. Even though I might not even feel COVID, it could use me to spread the virus even more, and somebody will die because I didn't take proper social distancing measures.

At this point, I don't fear the virus and getting sick. What I fear is spreading to other people more than what happens to me, so I feel that I need to reimpose voluntary social distancing measures again.

What the government does is not my responsibility. I am only responsible for my behavior. If I got my way, all of the old school restrictions from California's tier system would come back until past January. That means cases level out, and the virus does not become an out-of-control killer.

But the people don't want my draconian ways, and I am powerless over people, places, and things. So I do my part and leave everybody else alone unless you think I should complain to Gavin Newsom to reimpose the tier system.

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