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Getty I was not surprised reading the Sun-Times story about coronavirus relief money being used to purchase guns. I am sure further research would find, thanks to the relief checks, an increase in the purchase of pizzas, sugary drinks, cupcakes and sweetened breakfast cereals. People probably bought more tobacco, too. It took a long time for unsafe foods and drugs to be be regulated by the government and even longer for tobacco to be declared a public health hazard. While many people are applauding President Joe Biden for his executive action on ghost guns and red flags laws, it is painfully obvious that this is not enough. The criminally easy availability of guns has made all of us unsafe in our homes and schools and hospitals and movie theaters and grocery stores. And it will continue to be so until guns are declared a public health hazard. ....
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Damian Dovarganes/AP file There’s going to be a lot of complaining about Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s decision Wednesday to make state legislators eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine now instead of requiring them to wait until the next phase later this year, but I have no objection. Legislators have an important job that’s best accomplished by meeting in person, and this should allow them to safely do that, eventually. I just have one little caveat: If they want to actually get vaccinated, legislators should be required to go through the same maddening process as the rest of us who are eligible but are still looking for an appointment. ....
AP Photos “The Queen’s Gambit” broke all sorts of viewership records on Netflix. An unlikely hit because it is about chess. The limited TV series focuses on a misfit of a girl who encounters a janitor one day in a boarding school basement and discovers the game of chess. The young actress at the heart of the movie, Anya Taylor-Joy, is mesmerizing. The TV series is such a sensation that millions of people who have never played chess before are apparently playing the game online. It’s like Bobby Fischer all over again, only Fischer was a real chess champion whose life was stranger than fiction. ....