Hello there,
Today is Cyber Monday. Here, ergo, is your Cyber Monday public service announcement telling you that Amazon had a record year in 2020 and avoided paying $2.3 billion in federal taxes.Â
The big news today is of course the Omicron variant. President Biden last Friday announced a travel ban on several countries in southern Africa, but of course the variant has already spread to Canada and, experts believe, to the United States, but we just donât know it for sure yet. Do we need a new vaccine? If so, how fast can we get it? And if this doesnât light a fire under governments to force the manufacturers to distribute the vaccine around the world, what will? In South Africa, where this originated, the fully vaccinated rate is just 24 percent. Globally, 54 percent of people have received at least one dose, but in the developing world that number is 6 percent.
Republicans are being their usual helpful selves. Here was a tweet over the weekend from Ronny Jackson, an actual member of Congress from, where else, Texas (well, it could also be South Carolina, but in this case itâs Texas):
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