(Below will be photos I took of the Tokyo Summer Olympics Opening Ceremonies.  The first is Tokyo Tree that night.) Simply, there are at least two recent court judgements on cases regarding the right of government to mandate vaccinations: An Indiana court  supported Indiana University requiring all students, faculty and staff to be fully vaccinated  before returning to campus in August, save for those with religious/medical exemptions and students taking online courses.   The ruling, though, only applies to this university.   Hundreds of other colleges have also taken certain steps, and they all remain open to challenge. The University of Hawaii has indicated that vaccinations are not required until the Federal Government officially approves those vaccines, something that won't happen until later this year. The bottomline situation nationally, thus, remains murky. In a rather confusing set of decisions and changes, the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals a week and a half ago sided

The original COVID-19 is deadly compared to the seasonal flu.  The   mortality rate of flu is 0.1% , or one in a thousand who contract this ailment dies.    This pandemic virus has a rate of 2% , or is   20 times more lethal   than the flu. However, the Delta variant apparently is worse.  Might well be 40 times more according to the graphic on the left. While vaccinations are protecting more and more, there is no question the world is now in its fourth wave: The current U.S. daily cases per million people is slightly under 100. But with all those vaccinations, why is the daily count rising?  Out of India   (above is an aerial photo of a New Delhi funeral pyre for victims of this pandemic ) came the  Delta variant .  Here is how Delta took over in the UK: 99% of cases from July was caused by the Delta variant.  In the U.S. this strain is around 50%.  Even then, with the vaccination rate nearing 50%, those negligent Trump states ( which are being inoculated at a lower rate ) are sufferin