Cliff Notes on the News

Cliff Notes on the News

Veteran San Diego news director and reporter Cliff Albert shares his thoughts on the latest news and stories each weekday at 7:22am. Full Bio

 

A Message for the Beginning Days of 2021

The pandemic, the politics and the protests of 2020 are all coming together here in this first month of 2021.

The coronavirus, that first emerged in the U.S. one long year ago and led to the shutdowns that started in March more than 10 months ago is now at its worse, with the number of deaths of Americans now more than 400,000. And now just a few weeks after the arrival of vaccines that were developed in record time and brought hope of a quick end to the pandemic, there are holdups in the distribution that will slow things down.

And on this day before the traditional and peaceful transfer of power following a presidential election and the inauguration, things are anything but traditional and peaceful.

The pandemic already was going to dramatically reduce the size of the crowd, but all those thousands are replaced by many thousands of National Guard troops and steel fences with razor wire surrounding the U.S. Capitol where just days ago, on another day that could live in infamy, January 6th, hundreds of Americans, in a deadly riot, stormed a building that represents America’s democracy.

And the inauguration is set to happen just after the nation was remembered the Reverend Dr Martin Luther King Jr. and the reminder that we still have a ways to go for his dream of a nation where people are judged not by their color but by their character can become a reality.

With the unprecedented year of 2020 behind us and now the start of an already historic and tumultuous year of 2021, but still knowing that we have survived past calamities, we need to be hopeful about the future and about our country.

(Photo Getty Images)

Cliff Notes January 19, 2021

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