Okay…so Arizona just certified that Biden won its electoral votes. What is Giuliani now on these lawsuits? One for forty or something like that? A saner strategist might decide they're just making Trump's loss feel more legitimate, not less. One gets the feeling that Trump told Rudy, "Just get me a win anywhere!" Because even reversing the loss in Arizona — which was real unlikely to happen — would still have left Biden well north of 270.
There seems to be encouraging news about COVID vaccines but I won't take them seriously until my doctor takes them seriously. I've gotten a couple of inquiries from folks who are thinking they can stage a comic book convention next March or April who I think are kidding themselves. But maybe they should start thinking about how to configure conventions whenever we're in that transitional stage where the chance of catching the virus is plunging but not yet close to zero.
Will there be cons where you'll need to show proof of vaccination to get a badge? Where masks will be mandatory? (A lot of folks will wear them even if they aren't.) For that matter, will stores like Walmart and Costco and that big supermarket near you require proof of vaccination before they'll let you in to buy a can of salmon?
Some alarming percentage of Americans tell pollsters they won't take any vaccine. I don't know how they can say that when they don't yet know which vaccine it is, how safe it may be, what their personal physicians will say about it and such. But if you're dead-set against letting any vaccine ever into your body, how will you feel if/when CVS Pharmacy says, "No shirt, no shoes, no vaccination, no entrance"? What if the airlines all say it?
Even when this thing is over, it's not going to be over.