![]() This 2020 electron microscope image provided by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases – Rocky Mountain Laboratories shows SARS-CoV-2 virus particles which cause COVID-19, isolated from a patient in the U.S., emerging from the surface of cells cultured in a lab. Not being allowed to hold a wake and regular funeral for lost loved ones compounded the already depressing days that made the first year of the pandemic, at times, unbearable. A vaccination record card is shown during a COVID-19 vaccination drive. Still, nobody was crazy about the whole concept. Others rationalized abiding by it all was for the greater good. The whole idea of showing a vaccine card and adhering to a mandate in order to keep your job gnawed at our collective independent streak. (Herald file photo)ĭon’t toss that vaccine card just yet, some still push them. Not all the news is good - animals are still being killed on highways - but we did give Earth a break from all the noise and pollution. Dolphins were seen in harbors, white-tailed eagles flourished, coral reefs recovered, sparrows sang and we all noticed. When we all went inside, wildlife went further outside. The question is will working from home to some degree be here to stay?Īn EMT gets to work. Work friends are great, but your pets probably appreciate you being home more, too. Those who can still work from home, even for a few days, will probably live longer now that you won’t be so frustrated while stuck in traffic. (Herald file photo) Hybrid and remote work To-go cocktails will remain on the take-out menu. Mixologists worked their magic helping customers cope with being cooped up. In a rare smart move, the state Legislature did allow the purchase of to-go libations with takeout meals. Restaurants and bars were shut down crippling those businesses so severely many have been unable to recover. What’s your opinion? Take the poll HERE today at on the best and worst of the coronavirus pandemic: BEST: To-go cocktails But all we went through will never be forgotten, at least not for a long time. Now the World Health Organization - never a bastion of believability - has downgraded the plague declaring it no longer qualifies as a global emergency. The bad taste in your mouth for weeks, the splitting headaches, and worse has infected almost all of us - or worse. Lockdowns and panic gripped the globe as dire news began to seep out of Wuhan then Italy as the virus quickly spread to both coasts with a Biogen conference here intensifying the fears locally. (Just kidding.) But no matter what, it’s a comfort to know that CNN will always be here, filling an information vacuum with hot air and letting us know that the real problem with the Iowa caucus reporting getting screwed up is that the candidates need to get on their flights to New Hampshire immediately, or else this whole thing’s gonna break down.It’s been a slog since the second week of March 2020. We might have a tweet from Donald Trump sending us the same message that CNN sent all night-you can’t trust this process, something’s fishy-or we might not. ![]() We might know what happened to the app and the hotline, or we might not. But I bet that CNN was the only network to actually impede the caucus reporting process by causing the party’s hotline to hang up on a precinct captain who had been waiting patiently on hold to report his results, which is what we were all watching CNN for to begin with.īy the time you are reading this post, we might have the results. ![]() I only watch CNN-it’s the best!-but maybe other media outlets were also stoking and spreading and validating the election paranoia that now lies deep within each of us (or right on the surface). What about the other networks? I honestly have no idea. Democracy in action, I told my children! We were moved. There were the people in all their glory-in gymnasiums and auditoriums and lobbies, clustering for their candidates, raising their hands to be counted by diligent precinct captains who were too busy and focused to mug for the camera. The app may have broken, and the hotline failed, but the most visible meltdown in the first nominating contest of the 2020 election was all CNN’s.Ĭaucus night started off well! Holding down the fort in the studio, Wolf Blitzer threw to Jake Tapper, Dana Bash, Jeff Zeleny, and the rest of the gang in Iowa, where they had fanned out across the state to bring viewers a taste of the caucus process. The World’s Shortest Defamation Trial Left a Chilling Lesson Jean Carroll Trial Will Probably Doom Him in Court Again and Againĭominion’s Defense of Democracy Was Always a Negotiating Tactic Trump Was Implicated in a Vote Machine Theft.
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