Prisoners will be in second round for COVID vaccine

“Safety From The Ground Up.” This is what JetBlue is promising to ensure for its customers traveling over the holidays.  In support of this promise, the company makes liberal use of a study by Harvard researchers, which it says shows that the “risk of contracting COVID-19 while taking a flight is very low.” This past week, I took a JetBlue flight in the aftermath of a family emergency. The experience raised significant questions about airlines’ claims that air travel is “safe.”

In an ideal world, money would not be the deciding factor in who can get access to healthcare. But I have come to accept that we do not live in an ideal world. I’m reminded of this when reading news articles about taxes, hearing politicians talk about budget cuts, and even while discussing ways to improve healthcare with coworkers at the hospital.

He’s making a list, checking it twice. He already knows who’s naughty, and that convicted felons aren’t nice. But he’s going to pardon them anyway. Some are expecting a pardon blitz before January 20, our quadrennial celebration of democracy that no one expects the sore loser in the White House to attend.

The Mirror recently reported that Sen. Richard Blumenthal and Rep. Joe Courtney are fighting hard against Trump’s “feckless threat to veto the National Defense Authorization Act.” Go, team!  According to our representatives, even the threat of a veto goes squarely against bipartisan passage of the defense bill, which is apparently “the longest running traditions in Congress” –  going back to the time of President Kennedy.