News Of The Week Roundup: Week 7, 2021

The biggest story of the past week was easily the fiasco in Texas. Severe and abnormal winter weather hit Texas and it basically crippled the state. Days after the storm, residents are still without power and water. It got so cold, many residents died, including a young boy. Comments from a (now former) mayor did not go over well with residents. Ditto for comments by former Texas governor Rick Perry who basically told folks to just suck it up. Then there was the complete debacle caused by Senator Ted Cruz who up and decided to go on a beach vacation in Cancún - staying at the Ritz Carlton - amid all the chaos.

“Anyone can or want to leave for the week? We may go to Cancún.”

Inside the revealing text messages that left Sen. Ted Cruz facing fierce blowback for fleeing Texas as disaster struck: https://t.co/e1wOAvJYaP

— The New York Times (@nytimes) February 20, 2021

A United airlines flight from Denver to Honolulu had a big mishap yesterday when it lost an engine... parts came off the plane, landing in yards of onlookers below. Amazingly no one was hurt on the plane or on the ground. These photos are nuts.

JUST IN: Denver International Airport officials tell us United Airlines Flight 328 bound for Honolulu returned to the airport after an engine problem. Neighbors heard a loud boom, took these photos of what look like Boeing 777 engine nacelle in their yards. pic.twitter.com/mklpz3VG4F

— Pete Muntean (@petemuntean) February 20, 2021

COVID-19 cases are finally going down in America - or at least it seems so! This is good news while the country hits a grim milestone: 500,000 dead.

A little less than a year ago, covid-19 had killed just a handful of people in the United States. Now, the pandemic’s official death toll equals the size of a major city, more than the population of Kansas City and nearly as many as Atlanta or Sacramento. https://t.co/XlLzYE7WlL

— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) February 21, 2021

Dr. Fauci says it's possible Americans will need to wear masks in 2022 even as the US may reach "a significant degree of normality" by year's endhttps://t.co/XLRwWIPMC9 pic.twitter.com/B3ntTpsKDH

— CNN Breaking News (@cnnbrk) February 21, 2021

...and I leave you with this - copy cat:

📷: @jobet pic.twitter.com/weWMIaG0Gu

— Bodega Cats (@Bodegacats_) February 21, 2021

Comments

[stu]

TX representing here. still don’t have full water pressure in town (north of dallas) - the 2-day (non) rolling blackout included the grid that had the water treatment plant. so the county is still trying to fix all the issues that caused - and we’re still under a boil order. other than that, nice little vacation.
and the house/plane thing makes me want to go watch donnie darko.

[Jack T. Ripper]

Horrible situation in Texas. Very sad that lives were lost. Terrible decisions by politicians all around. Going Green???? Maybe 🤔 Not the complete answer.. Big News this week in NY... Cuomo has been caught in a web of Lies. The cover up is worse than the crime!!!! Between Cuomo and DeBlasio a once great city is a complete Disaster! It will take a lifetime to recover.

[GNR]

2,712,630 deaths in the U.S. in 2015
2,744,248 in 2016
2,813,503 in 2017
2,839,205 in 2018
2,854,838 in 2019

We'll find out later this year what the CDC reports as total deaths in the US. Instead of all the pundits guessing. Sucks to think about death... but you can turn into the news every day for the countdown to extinction clock.

[Him]

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