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HEARTWARMING

This blog site seeks balance.  Sometimes I report more on the bad than the good:  Donald Trump, natural disasters and the like.  I had a last day of this blog on 30April2018, ending ten years of daily reporting:

     MY FINAL DAILY BLOG

Then on 3May2018 the Lower Puna Eruption began.  It went on and on, and so did this site.  Finally, on 5December2018 the eruption completely subsided.  But through  ups and downs, victories, meals, travels and disaster, I have continued on till today.

I will end the week only with good news.  In fact, even better, much of the following will be HEARTWARMING.

The New York Times this morning featured COVID-19 and children:


Death is not the only outcome that parents fear, of course. Yet “long Covid” and hospitalization have also been very rare in children. It’s just that society has been so focused on Covid that we have paid intense attention to the risks associated with it — even when they are smaller than other risks that we unthinkingly accept.

To take one example, we don’t use the phrase “long flu,” but it’s a real problem, including for children: One academic study has found that up to 10 percent of people who contract influenza later develop cardiac inflammation.

Thus, the matter of parents choosing not to have their children inoculated appears now not to be a serious concern, for soon most adults will be vaccinated, and those few youngsters so afflicted will almost surely live.  Finally:

  • The biggest risk to your child’s health today almost certainly is not Covid. It’s more likely to be an activity that you have long decided is acceptable — like swimming, riding a bicycle or traveling in a car.

About the Supreme Court protecting Obamacare, three liberals and four conservative justices voted to protect the Affordable Care Act, including two Trump nominees, Amy Coney Barrett and Brett Kavanaugh.

Finally, bi-partisanship, for just this week the U.S. Senate UNANIMOUSLY and House on a 415-14 vote passed the legislation commemorating the end of slavery in the U.S.  Yesterday President Joe Biden signed the Juneteenth bill, making June 19 a national holiday.  As that day is on a Saturday this year, all Federal employees have today off.  The stock market remains open.  Why is it called Juneteenth?  Read this.

You remember Sonny and Cher in I Got You Babe.  Well, here is Terry Fator doing both.  Chastity was born in 1969, between 2008 and 2010 underwent a female-to-male gender transition, and is now known as Chaz.  He became a competitor in the 13th season of Dancing with the Stars in 2011, and last year acted in Curb Your Enthusiasm.

Here is a heartwarming story:


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