Unfortunately, Senator Elizabeth Warren has tested positive for COVID. I join millions of other Americans in wishing and praying her symptoms continue to be mild and that she recovers quickly.
Also in the article is this mind boggling and heartbreaking sentence:
On CBS News’s “Face the Nation” on Sunday, Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, said that cases will increase steeply over the next couple of weeks and that the country could soon see 1 million new cases a day of omicron, dramatically exceeding the record of about 250,000 new cases per day set in January.
That is an impossible stat for me to process right now. It’s just too much.
Please stay safe, people. And if Airplane isn’t your speed, I humbly suggest that Tampopo, the first (and I believe only) Ramen Western will surely brighten your day.
Adding: There is nothing funny about the tragic horror of the pandemic. But the stress is monumental and we all need a break. These two films invariably do it for me and for those who haven’t seen them, you are in for several hours of sublime silliness. You deserve it.
It’s Happy Hollandaise time here at Hullabaloo. If you’d like to drop a little something in the old Christmas stocking you can do so here: