In the Italian town of Codogno in Lombardy, the centre of Europe’s first wave in February last year, a monument has been built to mark its first case and the first victim.
In London, a fund-raiser to create a memorial at St Paul’s Cathedral hit its £2.3m goal in under a month,
The Guardian reported this week.
New York’s Department of Sanitation unveiled the city’s first permanent, free-standing memorial to victims of the pandemic, the
New York Times said, adding that it is likely to be the first of many.
In Uruguay, $1.5 million will be spent to erect a circular structure over the ocean, which will be able to accommodate 300 people, according to
Last week, Republicans blocked the creation of a bipartisan commission into the January 6 mob attack that sought to stop Congress from ratifying Mr Biden s victory.
House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy rejected his own negotiator s reasonable deal with Democrats. Then Senate Republicans used the inevitable filibuster to scupper it.
Their excuses were risible.
The commission would not also be investigating violence at unrelated protests after the police killing of George Floyd. It somehow was not bipartisan enough. And it would either drag on too long – though it would end nine months before the 2022 midterm election – or it is too soon to investigate the disaster at all.