<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">The Today's Issues group is meeting at 9:30 on Sunday mornings to discuss issues that are currently in the news.  We meet in person in the parlor of the Religious Education building next to the church, and also on Zoom at: <a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/j/8583258484?pwd=RFdJUGZOZkU4THArWFpnVkllZzh1dz09" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://us02web.zoom.us/j/8583258484?pwd=RFdJUGZOZkU4THArWFpnVkllZzh1dz09</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></a>  </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">Our suggested readings for this week are short news items, but you don't have to have read these particular items to attend.  The items have been posted in Google Docs so you don't need a subscription to the NY Times or the Atlantic to read them.  Just click on the links.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span id="gmail-m_-3511700903279654804m_-1425948500671111782m_-5759237025535591981m_-8237074918865700739gmail-docs-internal-guid-fb270c92-7fff-9270-c6fa-e3c1f0927dc1"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;text-indent:18pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Garamond,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vAohcbLJHKoJfzcDVQSQoEjpUgIsXy9lBDH-1P6Zm9E/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank">Omicron Is the Beginning of the End</a></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;text-indent:18pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">By Yascha Mounk in The Atlantic    This is about the current state of the social response to the pandemic, people seem to be giving up on masks and distancing even though COVID is still out there.<br></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;text-indent:18pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></p><p style="line-height:1.2;text-indent:18pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KTyejBpRUUs-q4XL41mtDoqzixUqWH9qiXRxr4hFoQE/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank">Trucker's Protest Grows in Canada,</a> NY Times Feb 7  This strike is getting a lot of attention in the US and even the rest of the world. </p><p style="line-height:1.2;text-indent:18pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></p><p style="line-height:1.2;text-indent:18pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">The next two are about economics life today, what's behind the supply chain problems and will the persist, and why do people feel so negative about the economy even though unemployment is low and incomes are up, even accounting for inflation.</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;text-indent:18pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Garamond,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></p><p style="line-height:1.2;text-indent:18pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Garamond,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1z2oE8qytYSc1AEVx7iNX52vBAjnrPgRKhzM58zM5H_0/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank">Supply Chain Issues Will Likely Muck Up 2022,</a>  NY Times, 2/7/2022</span></p><p style="line-height:1.2;text-indent:18pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Garamond,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></p><p style="line-height:1.2;text-indent:18pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Garamond,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ysg-bLV4yR06O1W5sHRvwx1FdzwmWzoLJSLom-ZiOVY/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank">More Thoughts on America's Feel Bad Boom,</a> Paul Krugman, NY Times 2/3/2022</span></p></span><div class="gmail-yj6qo"></div><div class="gmail-adL"><br style="font-family:Arial,Helv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