2021 officially starts today. Oh, sure, we’re four days in. But, come on. You cannot really start a year on a weekend. I’m “back at work”, so working from home still for the foreseeable future. At the rate the vaccinations are going, I expect to get mine sometime in 2024.
I hope everybody had a safe and socially distanced holiday. Judging from the pictures I have seen on social media, we are going to be in for a rough few weeks with infection rates and hospitalizations.
Our criminal president is spending his last few days in office trying to fit in as many crimes as possible. A tape leaked of a phone call with him trying to threaten the GA Secretary of State into “finding” enough votes for him to win the election:
Georgia elections board member calls for probe into Trump’s call seeking to pressure Raffensperger https://t.co/GmN0BnafSy
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) January 4, 2021
Audio of the full 62 minute phone call in which the president repeatedly presses the Georgia secretary of state to “find” 12,000 votes to overturn the election. https://t.co/EAw7uzrO96
— Rosalind Helderman (@PostRoz) January 3, 2021
I really wish Dems would start another impeachment against him. It’s so obvious that he is going to spend the next 17 days in office trying to steal the election (Jan 6th won’t be the end of it) and even though he has zero chance of succeeding, he still can cause problems and stir up unrest. Put him on the defensive at least to throw him off his game.
How is Brexit going?
A number of British expats hoping to return to their homes in Spain say they have been barred from boarding flights and told their ID documents are not valid post-Brexit https://t.co/qujlwQ6Gt5
— Sky News (@SkyNews) January 3, 2021
How are things with Covid?
New numbers on the global #COVID19 #pandemic — grim and grimmer.
Global Cases = 85 million
USA cases = 20.6 million
World deaths = 1.84 million
USA deaths = 351,000
Reminder: These are undercounts due to reporting delays, lack of COVID-19 diagnoses, uncounted deaths in homes. pic.twitter.com/5GYxnY9fhh— Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) January 3, 2021
Terrifying #COVID19 surges across London, England & Wales. Whether it’s driven by the new mutant form of #SARSCoV2 or not is almost irrelevant — the UK is in the grips of catastrophic COVID spread. The #BorisJohnson govt is running out of tactical options short of 100% lockdown. https://t.co/Tb8ma6HLlk
— Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) January 3, 2021
Keith Richards talks to a horse:
There’s a neighborhood in California next to an airport where people park their planes in their garages and driveways: