The first few days I felt trapped in a constant twilight of vertigo, like in the dream where you're suddenly falling... only I was constantly falling… - Joe Biden

According to new data just released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, guns are the number one killer of children in the United States of America. The number one killer. More than car accidents. More than cancer. Over the last two decades, more school-aged children have died from guns than on-duty police officers and active-duty military combined. Think about that: more kids than on-duty cops killed by guns, more kids than soldiers killed by guns. For God’s sake, how much more are we willing to accept? How many more innocent American lives must be taken before we say “enough”? Enough.

grew harder and harder for either side to acknowledge the basic humanity of the other.

We are looking at a winter of severe illness and death [for the unvaccinated]