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What do you think was the biggest news event this past week -- either in your community, nationally, or globally? Talk about why it’s a big deal.

For us here in Scotland, it felt like the question of "is the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine safe" was the biggest news story this week. But as an American living abroad, I was dismayed and shocked by the random shootings in Atlanta, apparently aimed at Asian Americans. Both these issues are connected by their Coronavirus connection (ill will toward Asian Americans has soared in the past year because of the virus's origin). And I'd venture to say that both these issues arose through STUPIDITY AND HYSTERIA. There is no proven connection between the AstraZeneca vaccine and blood clots; there is no connection between people going to nail salons in Atlanta and the origin of COVID-19. So... as usual Western civilization wallows in its own privilege and self-centreness, while 500,000 Tigrayans are made homeless by a bloody conflict in Ethiopia which stays at the bottom end of the news media.