Gillian Flaccus May 04, 2021 - 10:40 AM
PORTLAND, Ore. - Brianne Smith was overjoyed to get an email telling her to schedule a second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. Hours later, her relief was replaced by dread: a phone alert â another mass public shooting.
Before the pandemic, she would scan for the nearest exit in public places and routinely practiced active shooter drills at the company where she works. But after a year at home in the pandemic, those anxieties had faded. Until now.
âI haven t been living in fear with COVID because I m able to make educated decisions to keep myself safe,â says Smith, 21, who lives in St. Louis, Missouri. âBut thereâs no way I can make an educated decision about what to do to avoid a mass shooting. I ve been at home for a year and I m not as practiced at coping with that fear as I used to be.â
Chicago resident Ray Mandel practices shooting during a session at Maxon Shooter’s Supplies and Indoor Range, Friday, April 30, 2021, in Des Plaines, Ill. After a year of pandemic lockdowns, mass shootings are back, but the guns never went away. As the U.S. inches toward a post-pandemic future, guns are arguably more present in the American psyche and more deeply embedded in American discourse than ever before. The past year’s anxiety and loss fueled a rise in gun ownership across political and socio-economic lines.
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PORTLAND, Ore. Brianne Smith was overjoyed to get an e-mail telling her to schedule a second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. Hours later, her relief was replaced by dread: a phone alert another mass public shooting.
Baltimore RNLI Assist Yacht in Difficulty on Second Callout of the Day
3rd May 2021
A file photo of the Baltimore RNLI inshore lifeboat
Baltimore RNLI was called out to provide assistance to a yacht in difficulty in Baltimore harbour, West Cork this afternoon (Monday 3 May) in a second callout of the day.
The volunteer lifeboat crew launched their inshore lifeboat at 12.05 pm, following a request from the Irish Coast Guard to provide assistance to a yacht with two people on board that was in difficulty in strong wind and rough seas in Baltimore harbour.
The Baltimore inshore lifeboat crew arrived at the casualty vessel at 12.09 pm and discovered it had broken free from a mooring and was caught by its rudder on a line in the harbour. Voluntary lifeboat crew member David Ryan went aboard the casualty vessel to establish a tow. The Baltimore inshore lifeboat towed the vessel through rough conditions in the harbour and put the boat on a mooring in the shelter of Sherkin Island. An
Leonel Trujillo recently joined Albany OB/GYN.
Trujillo provides general obstetrics and gynecological care. He specializes in minimally invasive surgery techniques using traditional laparoscopy and the da Vinci robotic-assisted surgical system.
Trujillo earned a bachelorâs degree from George Fox University, and a medical degree at Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences College of Osteopathic Medicine. He completed residency training at AMITA Health Saint Francis Hospital, as well as an internship at Good Samaritan Regional Medical Center in Corvallis.
Before pursuing a medical degree, he worked as a nursing assistant and shadowed physicians in the United States and Central America.