Blind faith

 

   “You can’t see God, but he exists.”

   This quote, recently in the Los Angeles Times, is from a woman in Georgia who voted for Donald Trump, explaining her strong belief that Trump, not Joe Biden, won the election early this month.  Never mind that it was finally “ascertained” a couple days ago that Biden was indeed that winner and can have access to funds, information, office space, etc, to ensure a smooth transition, that may in fact save lives given the pandemic and national security, despite Trump’s continued grumbling that he won the election. 

   Yes, it’s definitely worth cheering Biden’s victory and that we won’t have another four years of Trump – at least until 2024 – but Biden is likely in for some tough sledding, with 71 million people having voted for Trump and a good number of them with this adamant belief, this adamant faith that Trump won and so Biden is an illegitimate president – not just “not my president” but not the president. 

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   After starting off with two episodes dealing with COVID, the new season of The Good Doctor is back to business as usual, in a world without COVID.  This is just weird – and not just because COVID suddenly went away.  Television may be an escape for lots of people, but a show set in a hospital, of all places, not dealing with COVID, as depressing as those two episodes were, is...just weird. 

   Then there are all those commercials showing holiday gatherings…