Hi!

Hopefully, you got a long 3-day weekend and it was time spent well. Of course, the world keeps turning and news keeps breaking.

September 7, 2021 The Morning Sixpack - Florida Man on Meth Goes on Shooting Spree, killing four people and injuring others. Police apprehended the man, then he tried wrestling a gun from an officer. He's white, so he's still alive.

Of course, he's a former Marine. I don't know what we're going to do to move forward in this country. Endless wars and war drum-beating has broken a lot of people, not to mention all the people we've killed abroad.

I'm glad Biden pulled us out of Afghanistan. I hope he and the other Presidents who follow will take the lesson to heart: No more wars.

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In other news,

New COVID infections are up 316% from last Labor Day

Daily coronavirus infections are more than four times what the U.S. was seeing on Labor Day last year, or a 316% increase, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. And daily deaths are almost twice as high.

Blame the highly contagious delta variant and a swath of Americans refusing easily accessible vaccines that most of the developing world is furiously scrambling to obtain. 

Hospitalizations are up 158% from a year ago, U.S. Health and Human Services data shows. The result: Some U.S. hospitals are getting so crowded with COVID-19 patients that physicians may soon be compelled to make life-or-death decisions on who gets an ICU bed.

“We are perilously close,” Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation's top infectious disease expert, told CNN. “You're going to have to make some very tough choices.”

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Make it a great day!

Bill

🍺 PS - Buy me a beer because I'm thirsty.