Sometimes, I crack myself up. This time, with the silliest of silly puns (see the headline, connect the dots, giggle with delight).

Today's Morning Sixpack features stories about budget reconciliation. (It's fascinating, I assure you!)

Also, COVID, more COVID, and even more COVID. Sorry.

And finally, some news about Georgia and Major League Baseball (beer aficionados everywhere fighting off depression)...oh, and nevermind, it's a real downer.

Here's one story to whet your appetite or your whistle--your choice.

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5 I promise, this is the last COVID story today.

Infectious disease expert Michael Osterholm on Monday warned of the inevitability of another wave of coronavirus infections in the United States.

“While vaccination is important, it is obviously a critical part of our long-term game plan, we’re not going to have enough vaccine, at the way we’re going, into the arms of enough Americans over the course of the next six to 10 weeks, with this surge, that we’re going to stop it,” Osterholm, the director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, told CNN’s Erin Burnett.

“It’s just simply not going to happen,” he added.

Osterholm noted that some states, even where vaccination uptake has been high, are now experiencing rising daily new infections.

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What wasn't mentioned above is that testing for COVID infections has gone down. Yet infections are up.

Do the fucking math. This IS NOT good.

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