A Supreme Court Justice candidate – Dr. Fauci indicates that the end of the pandemic phase is approaching – The situation in Ottawa – Evening statistics
A new candidate for the vacancy in the Supreme Court has offered her services for the position, one Maddi Morgan, who it must be admitted has certain qualifications: she lives just a few blocks from the court building, so that commuting would not impose any difficulty, she is black, and she is female, which last two criteria Biden has announced to be all-important in his selection of a candidate. There is a slight impediment, however: she has no legal experience whatsoever, being only 11 years old. When asked if she thought a child could handle the position, she responded without hesitation: “Children don’t have a voice in this country. Give them a small one.” However, ambitious though she might be, she has had the foresight to make backup plans in case this proposed arrangement falls through. “I would definitely understand that President Biden does not want a child on the Supreme Court,” she said. “But I have always wanted to be an astrophysicist.”
Dr. Fauci is already working on the strategy for the time when we reach the post-pandemic stage. At one point experts indicated that people would be getting an annual COVID shot, just as currently many of us get an annual flu shot. Dr. Fauci, however, has indicated that such boosters may be given at intervals of 4-5 years instead of annually. He has said, moreover, that all COVID-related restrictions will be lifted soon, although he was not specific about dates. But he says that we are certainly heading out of the pandemic phase at this point. As of February 9, 2022, the current 7-day moving average of daily new cases decreased 42.8% compared with the previous 7-day moving average. New hospitalizations have decreased by more than 25% within this period. Deaths, also, are beginning to decline, having fallen 5.9% within the same period. Virtually all of the currently active cases are of the omicron variant, whose hospitalization and mortality rates are considerably lower than those of previous variants. About 75.8% of the population has received at least one dose of a COVID vaccine and 64.3% of the population is fully vaccinated.
The anti-vaxxers in Ottawa were repulsed by 40 cannons firing into their massed forces, a “whiff of grapeshot” that effectively dealt a death blow to that movement – no, wait, I’m getting that confused with the 13th Vendémiaire, the events of which propelled the young general Napoleon Bonaparte into prominence. What has happened in reality is that Justin Trudeau, who bears no resemblance whatever to Napoleon, continues to do nothing, and the Canadian police follow his example by sitting on their hands while the citizens of Ottawa are robbed of their sleep by the continual noise-making of the protestors and numerous businesses lose revenue or are forced to close altogether because pedestrians are harassed on the streets to such an extent that they are unable to access the stores’ buildings.
Today’s statistics as of 8:00 PM – # of cases worldwide: 408,646,137; # of deaths worldwide: 5,819,357; # of cases U.S.: 79,196,377; # of deaths; U.S.: 941,658.