I stumbled across a draft of the following posting that was supposed to be published on 11 January 2021, five days after that awful day in the U.S. Congress when Donald Trump, still in office as president, was attempting to orchestrate a coup.  In a rare error of this type, it turned out I had no blog on 11 January 2021.  So I'm inserting it today unchanged.  Note: My optimism about this pandemic was unwarranted.  But the Delta variant, this B.1.617.2 strain, had not yet been detected.   Read this article , which indicates that the first notice was in India in February, with some speculation that it was more transmissible. I even went on to suggest that Congress would impeach Trump and the Supreme Court would concur.  Of course, this did not happen, which is slowly pushing the Republican party into someday fracturing.  Then again, perhaps I again might be too optimistic. The reason why I am posting this article today is that I recently woke up in bed with an uncomfortable sense of

Scanning the world news scene , no one is yet predicting that the pandemic has hit a peak and COVID-19 cases and deaths are beginning to decline.   With vaccinations increasing and the coming of spring in the Northern Hemisphere ( for 90% of the human population is in the nort h), I feel comfortable in saying that, after this week, the inauguration of Joe Biden will hasten national and world recovery. Watch this video by Arnold Schwarzennegger, former Republican governor of California.  How fitting that the incoming president is Joe Biden.  He will be a one-term POTUS because of his age, and is safely non-threatening to Republicans and Democrats.  If anyone can bring the nation together after what happened in the Capitol last week, it is Joe.  Congress will help by the House impeaching Donald Trump and the Senate sometime over the next few months convicting him and assuring that he can't run again.   It is constitutionally uncertain whether you will need a majority or two-thirds v