A lot has happened and it is only Tuesday of this week. We’re not even halfway done yet, but we have had more eruptions at the La Soufriere volcano in St Vincent and the Grenadines, police officers beating, shooting and carting off a protestor in Dominica and we have also seen the failure of the Johnson and Johnson vaccine in the US. The most touted Johnson and Johnson vaccine where you only need one shot instead of two.
No one can really predict the future. Life is what it is. To work my way backwards, I was hoping that the Johnson and Johnson could be the silver bullet everyone was waiting for on the COVID-19 vaccination front. But it seems as if it is ending up like the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine in that it also causes blood clots and this time the blood clots were found in six people out of 6m who took that vaccine. A small number, but significant nonetheless. No one wants to be “that one” person that it affects.
For the police brutality in Dominica. It seems as if Dominica is getting worse and worse with these police brutality videos which are being caught on camera more frequently. I was alerted to the abusive way of Dominica police about three years ago, but paid it no mind but the last two incidents really have caused me to raise the alarm on them as it has gotten way out of control and someone will be hurt badly one day. You just cannot beat and assault protestors and then shoot them- Rubber bullets or not.
Then we have the ongoing fallout from the La Soufriere volcano in St Vincent and the Grenadines, a volcano that has not had any activity since 1979 blew this past Friday almost to the date it blew in 1979- April 13, Good Friday.
Ash has covered all of the northern coast of SVG and there is so much ash that people in Barbados is experiencing the fallout- some 118 miles due east from SVG.
Humanitarian aid must pour into SVG. Inter-American Development Bank, Caribbean Development Bank, World Bank, The United Nations, the US, Britain, Canada or even Japan and China. That La Soufriere money should be coming in any time soon, because SVG is going to need it.