...one of the top six stories is about the Pope cracking jokes...and how Congress is exempt from Biden's vaccine mandate...

Oh boy.

I guess I long for the days of a 5-minute news cycle, when the bull in the china shop ex-president is wreaking havoc with every fart and belch.

But do I really?

In a word: No. No, I don't. I'm cool with slow news days. THIS is normal.

Now only if we could wrangle COVID...I read yesterday we eradicated small pox in 1979, after nearly two hundred years of having an effective vaccine.

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In other news...

A N.Y. Hospital Will Stop Delivering Babies As Workers Quit Over A Vaccine Mandate

At one local hospital in upstate New York, dozens of staff members walked away from their jobs after refusing to get vaccinated. The move has seriously disrupted care in the process.

Lewis County General Hospital in Lowville, N.Y., announced Friday that it is pausing maternity services later this month because dozens of staff members quit rather than get COVID-19 vaccines.

The hospital will be “unable to safely staff” its maternity department and newborn nursery as of Sept. 25, according to Lewis County Health System CEO Gerald Cayer. He added that other departments in the hospital are at risk as well if workers don't get vaccinated.

As of Friday, 30 employees had resigned from Lewis County General Hospital. At least 464 people in the Lewis County Health System have been vaccinated — a 73% immunization rate among employees.

Separately, there are 165 workers who haven't been vaccinated and haven't shared yet what their plans are as the state's Sept. 27 deadline for a first shot approaches.

“We have a challenge to work through with the vaccination mandate,” Cayer said during a recent news conference. “The number of resignations received leaves us no choice but to pause delivering babies.”

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Bill

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