Looking Forward Doesn’t Mean Forgetting The Past

we cannot put it behind us. Trump’s big lie and all that it has provoked are still with us. If we forget what has occurred, the trauma will return, perhaps in even more terrifying form.

Filosofa's Word

The attacks on Congress and the Capitol on January 6th of this year are destined to become a notable part of the ongoing history of this nation.  We rely on the media to help us find answers to the ‘why’ and ‘how’ questions, but instead the press, whose independence we cherish and protect, is turning a blind eye, has moved on without delving too deeply for answers.  The GOP prefers to simply ‘move on’ and the press is giving in to them, it seems.  Robert Reich’s piece in The Guardian yesterday speaks to this issue …


Republicans tried to overturn the election. We can’t just forget that

Robert Reich

Americans like to look forward but the effects of Trump’s lies about Covid and the 6 January insurrection are still with us

America prefers to look forward rather than back. We’re a land of second acts. We move on.

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Una mujer, una dama, una madre – Senioren um die Welt – A woman, a lady, a mother

While in Germany “Mother’s Day” is always celebrated on the second Sunday in May (this year on May 9th), the “Día de las Madres” in Mexico is always May 10th, no matter what day of the week it is. Compared to Germany, Mexico is more traditional and more festive than here.
The Mexican writer and journalist Santiago Galicia Rojon Serralonga made a nice contribution to this. Source: Una mujer, una dama, una madre – Senioren um die Welt

Nursing Homes and the Coronavirus

Finally, experts have agreed that Covid-19 was truly air born and was most dangerous indoors in places with air systems that stored and distributed the virus room to room because of lack of fresh air. nursing homes, restaurants and churches were made for spreading the virus.

Blind Injustice

As my readers know by now, the death toll from the Coronavirus in the United States has been astronomical—heading towards 600,000. Also astronomical is the fact that 182,000 of those deaths, as of April 15th, have happened in nursing homes, whether it be residents or staff.[1] What this means is that over 30% of total deaths reported from COVID-19 in the United States have been related to nursing homes, in spite of the fact that nursing home residents and staff combine for about one half of one percent of the total population in the United States.[2]

But how did we get here, and where do we go from here?

Yes, a high percentage of the population who died from this virus were over the age of 65, and yes, nursing homes have high concentrations of older persons. However, simply attributing what happened during COVID-19 in nursing…

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WHO names B1617 fourth COVID-19 variant of concern | CIDRAP (India)

Over the weekend, India’s cases remained near record levels, with the country reporting more than 400,000 cases on May 8 and about 366,000 cases yesterday.

In other Indian developments, the country is asking former army medics to help care for patients at overwhelmed hospitals and military doctors to do online consultations, according to Reuters.

Meanwhile, doctors in India are reporting an increase in potentially fatal fungal lung infections called mucormycosis in people with COVID or in those who recently recovered, according to the New York Times. Some experts said the cases could be linked to increased use of steroids or from treatment at home, including oxygen, without proper hygiene.

Source: WHO names B1617 fourth COVID-19 variant of concern | CIDRAP

Arizona Election Recount Embarrassing Even Republicans

a top official in the Department of Justice warned that ballots “are at risk of being lost, stolen, altered, compromised or destroyed” and that the recount may violate federal law. Arizona’s Secretary of State, Katie Hobbs, was the first to raise the alarm that, as she put it, Cyber Ninjas’s review represented “a significant departure from standard best practices.” According to the Times, her remarks resulted in Trump supporters sending her death threats, and Hobbs had to be given protection from the state police.

In a recent interview with the New York Times, Republican state senator Paul Boyer expressed a little bit of buyer’s remorse. “It makes us look like idiots,” Boyer told the Times. He added, “Looking back, I didn’t think it would be this ridiculous. It’s embarrassing to be a state senator at this point.”

Source: Arizona Election Recount Embarrassing Even Republicans