As LA County continues to vaccinate healthcare workers, this message needs to get out loud and clear: If a provider has unused vaccines at the end of the day and no healthcare workers are available, they can and SHOULD use them to vaccinate other people. Under no circumstance should a vaccine dose go to waste.
I am advocating that LA County create a “standby list” for residents who are 65 and older. That way, if or when there are leftover doses, clinics can call these people and get them vaccinated as soon as possible.
This past week, over 2,000 people died in LA County. The vast majority were over the age of 65.
The best thing we can do for our healthcare workers and our overloaded hospitals is to vaccinate the general public as quickly as possible, starting with our most vulnerable residents.
Janice Hahn, District 4 Los Angeles County Supervisor
If we are going to get to the “truth” about 1/6, we are going to have to look at our extremists Cold War politics over the past many decades. Besides Trump flags that day on the Capitol steps, there was one lone white sign. It read: “The true hidden enemy is Communism.” Trump fanatics are virulently anti-communist. They see it everywhere, they will take up arms against it, they will lie about it, and they will decide for you that you are “Better dead than Red.” Has this not been actual U.S. policy for decades?
I have been red-bated all my life. I believe in-and work for-world peace not world war, equality between the races, economic fairness and sustainability, education and healthcare for all, and a vibrant, intelligent culture. If those values are “communist”, then it would appear that the American “anti-communist” movement all these decades has a lot to answer for, not me or my “fellow travelers” in these causes.
Our organization has sought justice for Latin America in the light of America’s violent “anti-communist” policies. We are now working on a Cold War Truth Commission. We seek to give voice through public Testimonials to those effected or traumatized by the U.S. Cold War, at home and abroad. This issue can no longer be ignored in America. It is literally on the steps of our Capitol.
The question remains, of course, can Americans now handle the truth?
Rachel Bruhnke, Board President, Witness for Peace Southwest, San Pedro
Does anyone else see what’s going on here? Hundreds of thousands of people flooded the streets of D.C. to demonstrate their outrage over credible concerns about our electoral processes. And what happens? A few hundred rush the steps of Congress to raise hell within the guts of our government. The outcome is that everyone in power, left and right, as well as their media pulpits and puppets unify in righteous outrage over the actions of those few hundred … while the protests of the remaining hundreds of thousands become completely ignored! As for the concerns over election issues … all gone. The storming of Congress dominates. The alarm has been raised, and it’s not Paul Revere alerting the colonists. It’s the other way around. Actions must be taken by all parties on both sides of the aisle to put an end to such an uprising. The status quo must be preserved! Allow the citizens to hold fast to their precious votes while the machine manipulates their thoughts and perhaps even the counts. This was a set up, plain and simple, orchestrated by powerful entities that have one agenda in mind, recovering power lost to the Trump presidency. It’s the only thing that makes sense. And if I’m wrong, millions are wrong with me. Even Fox news has joined the chorus of establishment caterwauling. Four dead in DC! Buried is the information that three out of the hundreds of thousands present succumbed to medical emergencies. And the woman shot was an apparently unjustified discharge of a DC police officer’s service pistol.
And OMG! …”at least 70 unrest-related arrests were made” and “47 because of curfew violations”! Curfew violations! If you don’t believe that Americans are getting played by a massive power conglomerate, then you need to wake up now.
Daniel Breckenridge, Oklahoma
Mr. Breckenridge,
There was an attempt to steal this election and it is clear now that it was by your Dear Leader who was working to do this and inspiring his loyal followers, inciting them to acts of insurrection and sedition. If you haven’t read 18 U.S. Code CHAPTER 115— TREASON, SEDITION, AND SUBVERSIVE ACTIVITIES I suggest you and your friends do so now. To which section 2383 reads:
Whoever incites, sets on foot, assists, or engages in any rebellion or insurrection against the authority of the United States or the laws thereof, or gives aid or comfort thereto, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.
I dare to say that your continued defense of these rebels is an act of treason in and of itself. And it is my deepest desire that all who knowingly acted to overthrow the government of the United States of America be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
Although I am not a fan of capital punishment, I would make an exception in this case.
James Preston Allen, Publisher
As the pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church where Martin Luther King Jr. once served, I know this: This MLK Day, more than anytime before, his teachings and the legacy he left behind for all of us is precisely what this nation needs to begin the difficult process of unifying.
During this harrowing month, in which our democratic institutions were tested, we once again witnessed two vastly different systems of justice in action — making this day for reflection, remembrance, and activism all the more important.
As Martin Luther King Jr. once said, “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” Well, we saw firsthand just how true that is not only a few weeks ago, but over these past four years.
With the upcoming historic presidential inauguration of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, I hope that you will take a moment to reflect on the hard work that brought us to this moment. And I hope that you will remember that we all stand on the shoulders of giants like Martin Luther King Jr., who stood steadfast in his relentless pursuit of justice.
Just two days from now, folks across the country and around the world will not only witness the swearing-in of Joe Biden — but of Kamala Harris, the first African-American and South-Asian female Vice President in the history of the United States of America. Soon after, we’ll get to work bringing compassion and justice back into our policy and begin the hard work of building back better.
On this critical day of reflection, reverence, and celebration, we must recommit to our fight to form a more perfect union. As Democrats and as Americans, we must also be relentless in our pursuit of justice and continue working to create an America that represents all of us. Today, and every day, our fight for justice continues.
Rev. Raphael Warnock, U.S. Senator-Elect, Georgia
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