News Of The Week Roundup: Week 5, 2021

Another big week of news, at least in America. The good news is that vaccine distribution is significantly picking up, new cases are down and it seems like we are turning the page... at least in the U.S. Still, all kinds of misinformation hinder the progress. A look at how conspiracy theories online are hurting the fight against COVID-19, by ProPublica:

Conspiracy theorists' "skepticism is a bottomless, never-ending pit of skepticism about anything related to the official account. And that skepticism is accompanied by extreme gullibility to anything related to the conspiracy."https://t.co/ynpP1pg8Sf

— ProPublica (@propublica) February 7, 2021

The pandemic has taught us all some valuable lessons - and I hope the positive side of this nightmare is that we realize life is short, time is precious and we shouldn't waste every waking hour working. From Travel and Leisure:

Americans Learned Their Lesson and Are Going to Actually Use Vacation Days, Expedia Survey Says https://t.co/pL5vsZ3qKo

— Travel + Leisure (@TravelLeisure) February 5, 2021

The GOP paid for an autopsy to figure out what went wrong during the 2020 election cycle. I could have done this autopsy for free and in about 15 minutes. The findings? People don't like the prospect of dying from a novel disease that the government ignored, white voters moved heavily to the Democratic column and folks didn't think Trump was honest enough (no kidding).

New - Trump chief pollster Tony Fabrizio has circulated a detailed autopsy of what went wrong:

-hemorrhaging white support
-disapproval of coronavirus management
- a voter perception that he wasn't "honest and trustworthy"

Read the full thing >>https://t.co/BEfa3zgCnu

— Alex Isenstadt (@politicoalex) February 2, 2021

And I leave you with this...

How it started How it’s going https://t.co/QtdEUFV83K

— Larry the Cat (@Number10cat) February 3, 2021