Joe Haggerty. You may like. Game Boston Bruins Vs. Montreal Canadiens Lines, Betting Preview. Dilly Dilly! Never miss a post! Enter your email address to get all of our posts sent directly to your inbox! Bruins Team and Cap Info. Latest Popular. BHN Talking Points 5 hours ago. Batman: What do you mean? Spider-Man: I mean, he just pressed the reset button, basically. I was kinda hoping for something, I don't know, a bit more Batman: It's a perfectly plausible resolution.
Spider-Man: Yeah, but is it satisfying? Batman: It works within the boundaries of what was established. Spider-Man: Yeah, but it takes all the excitement out of it if all you have to do is make it so that it never happened. Batman: No, that's only if it turns out to just be a dream or something.
Spider-Man: But you can't have drama without In , in response to the politics of the animated film adaptation of his comic Fritz the Cat , Robert Crumb kills off Fritz. Not used, but directly mentioned in Megamind. Apparently the main character stopped trying to make one after learning the science behind it was impossible. The book's ending is left ambiguous enough that one can infer that the Reset Button attempt only made things worse, though The Film of the Book lacks this Karmic Twist Ending.
Galaxy Quest had a very limited Reset Button: the Omega 13 could turn time back thirteen seconds. Just barely enough time to fix a major mistake.
Fortunately, it wasn't a plot reset button. The movie was way too good to try that. The Russian movie Day Watch ends thanks to a piece of miraculous chalk with a huge reset of not just all of its events, but also those of the first movie Night Watch. Though at least there are some developments right after that and some of the characters seem to retain the memories of the original timeline.
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time : Much like its game counterpart, has the both the Sands themselves and the Dagger of Time, which allowed the wielder to undo anything they wanted. And just like the game, the events of the entire film end up being reset back to the beginning. In the Superman films: When Lois dies in the first film , our hero starts flying around the earth and goes back in time to save her.
Because we see Superman flying around the Earth, which reverses its rotation as he flies faster and faster, most viewers interpreted this scene as Superman reversing the rotation of the Earth, which magically reverses time.
It was supposed to represent Superman flying so fast that he flies through time and into the past. The Earth spinning backward is a visual representation of the reversal of time, much like the hands of a clock going backwards in other time-traveling scenes.
In the comics, Superman sometimes travels through time by exceeding the speed of light. He even made us forget about the earthquake that killed Lois. What earthquake? Superman's time travel ends up freeing the Kryptonian villains in Richard Donner's [superior] cut of Superman II , forcing Supes to do the "backwards rotation" thing a second time to undo all the crap General Zod started in fairness, this was supposed to be part II's ending from the get-go; it was moved to part I after Donner got canned.
Wells short story of the same name employs a giant reset button. The eponymous George Fotheringay impulsively wishes to make the day last longer; his Literal Genie powers accomplish this by stopping the Earth's rotation. Just the Earth, not anything currently on the planet's surface.
Suddenly finding himself spinning amid mountains of wreckage, he decides he is only human after all, wishes he'd never had his godlike powers and returns to the very beginning of the plot, minus the powers or memory he ever had them.
Subverted in Mystery Men : Trying to free Captain Amazing from Casanova Frankenstein's mansion, the team is confused by the toggle-switch instructions, and Mr. Furious asks if there is "some sort of reset button".
When the toggles are flipped in the wrong order, killing Captain Amazing, Mr. Furious responds with, "Everybody heard me say reset button , right? What it doesn't say is that the game can even undo time. It has at least the power to erase the years between starting and ending the game from history.
In Zathura , the Spiritual Successor to Jumanji , when the game ends the house is restored to normal and the astronaut is retconned out of existence. One of the scarier Reset Buttons, given that it involves being sucked into a black hole. Star Trek : Star Trek: Generations used the Reset Button, via Picard's travelling back through the Nexus to before the star exploded, in order to bring back Kirk to help stop it from happening.
An unintentional aversion exists here, in that it's established early in the movie that Picard's brother and nephew recently died in a house fire which caused the normally unflappable Picard to break down into tears. Yet even when given the power to return to any point in time he didn't even consider going back far enough to prevent his own blood relations' horrible fiery death.
Star Trek was more of a full reboot rather than a use of the reset button, and it was lampshaded in the movie. Men in Black II pulled out a partial reset button to bring back Agent K, who had been sent to happy retirement at the end of the first film.
Also to stubbornly maintain the new guy-mentor relationship between J and K, the film added a layer of secrets known to K but which J was completely unaware of, despite having worked as a Man in Black for years by then.
Happens at the end of Dogma '95 movie Truly Human. X-Men: Days of Future Past for the entire franchise, as Wolverine's interference has essentially made First Class the only film in the series which is still canon with respect to the new timeline. By the end of the movie, Scott, Jean and Professor Xavier are alive again, Rogue has her powers back, and she and Bobby are dating again.
Used in Weird Science in a complete cat in the hat manner just before the parents get home In Risky Business , the main characters spends all his gains from the prostitution ring to repurchase all the stolen goods from his house, so it's like nothing really happened.
In Edge of Tomorrow , the aliens have the power to reset the day. The hero accidentally gets in control of this weapon and turns it against the aliens. The Last Sharknado: It's About Time does this for the entire franchise, as Fin's actions prevent the original modern Sharknado and restore all of his lost friends and family to life.
Slipstream is a film featuring Sean Astin as a socially inept scientist who develops a time travel device the eponymous 'Slipstream' that can act as one, letting him go back in time ten minutes by interfacing with a cellphone system regional antenna. He mainly uses it to reset his own mistakes such as when he tries to get a date and fails, he just reverses time and tries again , but it later gets stolen by a bank robber.
By the end of the film, the pair are on an airplane, where Astin's character winds up discovering he can now access many cellphone relay systems at once and bypass the ten-minute time limit Subverted in Avengers: Endgame.
Five years after The Snap , the heroes seem to have a plan to go back in time and stop Thanos ' actions in Avengers: Infinity War. They need Iron Man to help build the Applied Phlebotinum , but in the meantime he's settled down with Pepper and started a family , and won't risk erasing his daughter from existence. They eventually come to a sort of compromise: they won't alter history, but they can bring back Thanos' victims in the present.
In the end, this is a Zig-Zagging Trope : everyone erased by The Snap is brought back, but between various heroes being Killed Off for Real and the sudden reappearance of billions of people after five years, it's clear that Nothing Is the Same Anymore.
He's able to "see the code," transcending the artificiality of the virtual world and breaking all the rules. This is exemplified by killing Smith by ripping his code apart, stopping bullets and flying. In The Matrix Reloaded , Neo discovers that agents have been " upgraded ," so he's back to shooting and fist-fighting them like he did all through the first movie.
He also displays no other abilities beyond the flying and bullet-stopping he showed in the first film. Altogether, he's brought back down from Reality Warper to just the strongest member of the resistance. Shortcut to Happiness : The jury declaring Stone's contract null and void seemingly undoes all of the events of the movie, with Stone suddenly finding himself back before he made his Deal with the Devil , with Julius still alive and presumably everything else undone as well. At the end of The Man Who Could Work Miracles , the desperate and contrite Fotheringay calls on his powers one last time to put things back as they were before he ever entered the pub the day before, willing away his power to work miracles.
Fotheringay appears again in the pub as in the early scenes of the film, again tries the trick with the lamp, and fails. Oracle of Tao : Abused. God has the ability to reset time. But because Ambrosia has a tendency toward stupid mistakes, this gets used way more often than it should be. David and Leigh Eddings 's Dreamers series ends with a massive Reset Button, using time travel to negate the existence of the Big Bad and thus negate absolutely everything that occurred in the previous novels.
Almost the entire fanbase turned against the authors after that, understandably. Deliberately pushed at the end of Eddison's The Worm Ouroboros. The princes of medieval Demonland, having triumphed over rival Witchland, nevertheless mourn the loss of their worthy enemies and the ending of their epic battles.
Their companion the demi-goddess Sophonisba allows their entire world to be reset to just before the countries declare war, to the satisfaction of all involved, with the implication that this may keep happening for the rest of time. BBC Books' last full-length novel based on Doctor Who featuring the Eighth Doctor sets up a Reset Button to clear the novel continuity out of the way of the new series, but doesn't actually press it.
Instead, the book ends on a cliffhanger. Lance Parkin left the door open in case the new series bombed, as the BBC thought it might have done. In which case, novel continuity would have mostly or completely ignored the new series continuity.
The main plot point reversed is the destruction of Gallifrey and the death of almost all of the Time Lords. Which then happens again by different means in the Backstory for the new series. Gallifrey is clearly a very unlucky planet. The beginning of the book The Toyminator applies the reset button to the main characters so that they'll be exactly as they were when The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse not misspelled , the previous book, began.
This is only its first problem. A Game of Universe features both direct and indirect examples of Reset Buttons. In the direct example, Germain goes back in time seven seconds after losing a magical battle and going to hell. The indirect example comes when an angel reveals that he's been following Germain and traveling back in time every time he dies.
Done in Animorphs when the gang go back in time to prevent the birth of Visser Four's human host body, thus undoing all of Visser Four's subsequent changes to history. Also done when they manage to acquire T-Rex morphs via time travel, likely to prevent it being an in-universe game breaker.
At the end of the Discworld novel Sourcery , Coin resets the entire Disc, undoing all the damage done by the magical war that had taken place.
Dean Koontz has been known to abuse it as well, you get the impression he likes to kill his heroes a few times before letting them off. Tom Clancy 's novel Red Storm Rising features a large-scale conflict between the Soviet Union and the NATO countries, but a treaty at the end essentially reestablishes the status quo, without any major changes. Although there are still a lot of dead people and ruined naval vessels and so forth, so it's really just a political reset button.
There is a giant "reset to reality" after The Bear and the Dragon deleting everything that happened in the last four books in the Ryanverse series. Lafferty has a literal reset button, called a Dong Button; if you've made a major blunder, you can press the Dong Button to go back and correct your mistake. One scene makes use of the fact that, since losing all your money on an ill-advised gamble is a major mistake, it would be useful to have a Dong Button in a casino, and always make the largest bet you can make.
Wells 's "The Man Who Could Work Miracles" is a vintage example, in which the title character chooses to undo all the damage he's caused by willing that history re-set itself to just before he discovered his powers, at which point he'll lose them forever. In Before I Fall , Samantha's day restarts every time she dies or falls asleep, whichever comes first, until the seventh day, when she dies for good. In Those That Wake , this seems to have been pushed in regards to Laura in the sequel.
What really happened was that her memories were erased. So if you should find that your actions in the past result in a Crapsack Future , a quick hop in and out will restore the timeline you remember. He resets that change, and then decides that the universe can bloody well suck up the minor changes that will result if he seeks out the love of his life in the past. It's imperfect because they don't have perfect memories and can only reset the world to what they remember to be, not to what it actually was.
While humans can't tell the difference, Magic Gods can. However, by using Imagine Breaker which is unaffected by reality warping as a reference point, a perfect Reset Button can be achieved. This happens during the Magic God Othinus arc. A dramatic example in the last chapters of the The Three-Body Problem series: the entire universe is a ruin ravaged on the most fundamental possible levels by innumerable wars between countless Sufficiently Advanced Aliens.
The speed of light? Used to be infinite. Three dimensions? Used to be twelve. The only hope anyone has for the damage to be undone is the Big Crunch, which will cause an entirely new universe, hopefully better, to spring from the ruins of the old. In the first case, when they still don't arrive in time, she is somehow able to reverse time for herself and her captor, but not for the rescuers, resulting in them arriving earlier. Live-Action TV.
At the end, Max and Caroline have sold their lease out to the building's new owners and used the money to pay off their debts Angel pressed the Reset Button and erased the events of the previous 24 hours in the episode " I Will Remember You " in order to save Buffy's life. However, as the events erased including Angel becoming human and having a perfect night with Buffy, and that Angel's price for getting the Reset Button pushed was that he alone remembered everything, it became an instant Tear Jerker.
Mentioned in The Big Bang Theory. After Amy makes a drunken fool of herself, Sheldon suggests "resetting" their relationship to the point it was at previously. Exception: Hoss' mother on Bonanza lasted two episodes.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer does this at least twice: In the season one episode " Nightmares ", everyone's nightmares start to come true, but the effects are erased at the end of the episode. A debatable example, as the Scoobies retain a perfect memory of what happened. A more definite example is the season three episode " The Wish ".
Cordelia makes a wish that propels the show into an Alternate Universe where the vampires have their run of Sunnydale. At the end, Giles destroys the MacGuffin that allowed the demon Anyanka to do this.
The only character who remembers anything is Anyanka herself, who becomes human due to the destruction of said MacGuffin. Although in " Doppelgangland " the events of this episode manage to come back and bite the characters in the ass one last time.
And in the comic storyline Guarded Buffy smashes the hell out of it, going back on helping others through bodyguard work and more than managing financially to remain in Perpetual Poverty and killing vampires. Charmed featured an in-universe example in the Cleaners, supernatural beings who could erase memories and events that broke the masquerade. One episode featured the sisters trying to stop them erasing Wyatt from existence.
The third-season premiere of Chuck managed to reset a goodly bit of the core premises of the series, other than Chuck's power upgrade and his now-willing participation in the spy game.
Averted by the fourth season's end. Not only does Chuck end up marrying Sarah putting a more-than-definite end to their UST , he's quit the CIA and started up his own private security firm.
Oh, did we mention that Chuck no longer has the Intersect, and it's Morgan who has it now? All that paint is cleaned up impossibly quickly at the end of Community episode " Modern Warfare "; the school looks pristine just a few hours after the game ended.
Possibly lampshaded in the tag of the second season finale, where Abed is talking to the janitor with the job of spending the summer cleaning all the paint off the absolutely trashed school.
He is about as thrilled with this job as you'd expect. Cory in the House features a literal Big Red reset button. Established as a Chekhov's Gun early on. Given that its sole appearance was in a Dream Episode, there wasn't much of a mystery as to what it was. DAAS Kapital used this constantly and shamelessly. Whether Tim was turning into a were-cockroach, Richard had been revealed to be an exploding robot, Paul turned out to be a secret alien or rocks fell and everybody died, you could be assured that none of this would affect next week's episode in the slightest.
Dallas infamously retconned a season into being All Just a Dream. A rare example of a Reset Button without Applied Phlebotinum : the fifth season finale of Degrassi: The Next Generation undid nearly everything that had happened that season, in order to get things in position for next season. Character relationships that had taken over a dozen episodes to develop undid themselves in less than ten minutes, and characters revealed that they had never really been that way.
Doctor Who : One important distinction regarding all the Doctor Who examples is that, while a reset button has been pressed, memories of the reset events remain with at least one character naturally, the Doctor and occasionally others.
The Fast Return Switch was never used or mentioned again in the Classic Series although it has come up a few times in spin-off media. Problem is, he's supposed to die, and his survival unleashes the Monster of the Week , which is only defeated by his Heroic Sacrifice , which arguably resets the timeline back to its original state.
Used in the Series 3 finale "Last of the Time Lords" , wherein a year is reset by the destruction of the machine that kept the altered timeline running. This only resets a third of the three-part story, though, taking them back to just before the midpoint cliffhanger.
Only everyone on board the Valiant at the time remembers the year that never happened, which briefly comes into play much later at the beginning of "The End of Time". But there's still fallout, which Rose uses to pass on a message to the Doctor. A crueller example in "Journey's End". While the timeline is not reset at all, Donna herself is reset to her original self as the Doctor's Time Lord knowledge, copied into her brain, was threatening to kill her.
Also, the pressing resets a bit more than the events of the episode, like Amy's parents being restored. Inverted in "The Beast Below" , which features a reset button that several characters deliberately use in order to erase their memories and keep the status quo, and the solution to the plot depends on them deciding not to press it for once. The Doctor and Rory try to save younger Amy from having to wait that long, but they need older Amy's help.
She initially refuses, because it would mean erasing her own existence. He presses the button and the timeline is restored to before the emergency occurred. A wink and a nod to the audience. In Series 9 finale "Hell Bent" , a situation is set up deliberately similar to that of "Journey's End": The Doctor, who is temporarily insane, intends to erase Clara's memories of him and thus her character development so she will be safe from the Time Lords after he saves her from her fixed-point death, which he cannot bear to return her to.
This time he listens to his companion's objections, but they realize one of them has to lose memories as their relationship is now toxic. The pilot of the prematurely canceled remake of Fantasy Island involved a little boy whose fantasy was that his father would turn out to be his favorite superhero. In a very blatant Lampshade Hanging , the boy says that his hero's best superpower is the "reset button" on his video game, which allows him to return from death and undo all his mistakes — which is how the boy undoes all the trouble his wish has caused at the end of the show.
Farscape used this in the episode "The Locket", wherein Chrichton and Aeryn are trapped on a time-accelerated planet for decades. The reset button is in the form of Zhaan and Stark using their combined spiritual powers to allow Chrichton to reverse course, taking Moya back in time. This is only prevented from becoming a time loop by the fact that Zhaan and Stark remember the events of the episode, and get the crew to avoid the mist.
At the end of the episode the two speculate on whether the loop canceled out the events or if they still happened in an alternate timeline; they're mostly worried they may have accidentally erased Aeryn's descendants. Season 1 of Flight of the Conchords ends with Murray finally hitting the big time after his new band releases a massive hit, with the implication that his new found success is causing him to neglect the Conchords. The Season 2 premiere then reveals that he lost everything after it was discovered that his new band plagiarized the song in question, sending him right back to square one.
In the Frasier episode "Bla-Z-Boy", Frasier accidentally or not destroys Martin's ancient chair by setting it on fire and dropping it off a 19th floor balcony. At the end of the episode, he hires a weaver and a carpenter to construct an exact replica based on old photos. The fact that the recliner seen in the rest of the series is a replacement is never mentioned again. The fourth season of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air ended with "The Philadelphia Story", wherein Will and the Banks family visit Philadelphia, and he aims to confront the bully who was the reason he got sent to California to begin with.
The episode ended, somewhat abruptly, with the reveal that Will has decided to stay in Philly and rebuild his life there. The show had actually been cancelled, so this would've functioned as the final episode, but a fan campaign got it Un-Canceled. To return to the status quo, the Cold Open of the fifth season premiere parodied and lampshaded the reset by having an NBC executive visit Will at his new restaurant job , reminding him that the title of the show is "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air ", and kidnapping him to send him back to live with the Banks.
In the Heroes third Volume Villains , some of the characters referred to Hiro as their reset button in case anything went wrong in their battle against Arthur. Unfortunately, Arthur got to him first and regressed him mentally to 10 years old, and later took away his powers completely.
The amusingly literal-minded children's BBC sitcom Hounded sees its protagonist Rufus Hound sucked weekly into a parallel universe where he must face off with an incompetent Big Bad who is such a Card-Carrying Villain he's actually called Dr Muhahahaha , whose preposterous scheme of the week to take over the Earth is invariably foiled by the hero at the end of each episode - in expectation of which Dr Mu has installed a literal big red Reset Button he can press at this point, which rewinds the whole episode's plot back to the start of the day ready for him to have another crack next time With House , M.
House goes through several life-altering events, and it always seems like he's going to change for the better - except he doesn't. The Button itself usually comes in the form of House's Vicodin addiction, and not surprisingly the signal that tells us he's "back to his old self" is usually him taking a pill. Earlier in the series, the resets worked without any discernible button at all. They got together in one episode after Freddie saved Carly's life then broke up based on Sam's questionable idea that Carly's feelings weren't real, leading to a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy when the reset button gets hit and none of the trio ever speak of it again.
They break up for a myriad of reasons and never speak of it again. Not a single line in the 5 episodes even mentions the fact that Freddie was and could easily still be in love with Carly and that Carly and Freddie were an item in the past. In the series finale, a conversation between Freddie and Sam over the phone mentions their previous relationship when the two toyed with the idea of getting back together. The IT Crowd : Parodied: one episode where Jen is in danger of being fired by Ben Genderson ends with the note that "in the excitement they forgot to fire Jen and so that whole Ben Genderson thing didn't really go anywhere".
Subverted with Richmond, the goth living behind a mysterious door in the IT office. The episode ends with a clear reset, with them encouraging him to back into isolation behind the door, but he continues to appear irregularly in later episodes all the same.
The person hosting the Rider Wars, Shiro, uses this card to get the ending he wants, but when he discovers that it's not what his sister wanted , he uses it one last time to revive everyone. Much of Kamen Rider Decade : Final Chapter is about Tsukasa trying to find a way to reset the Kamen Rider multiverse to how it was before the interdimensional collapse and the Rider War that ensued from it. After he presses it with a Heroic Sacrifice , his friends get told that there's no way to bring Tsukasa back, because he fulfilled his reason for existing.
They manage to do it anyway by uniting the thoughts of everyone Tsukasa had helped throughout his journey. Kamen Rider Ex-Aid has a villainous version of this, as well as a fairly literal one thanks to the show's overall theme of Video Games. On the verge of defeat, Cronus curses Ex-Aid's Hyper Muteki , saying that he'd have won if it wasn't for that In the end, this actually hurts Masamune more than it helps him; it undoes several of his own actions like stealing all the other Riders' belts and infecting their ally with a very strong strain of the Bugster Virus that left her with only hours to life.
Ex-Aid gets Hyper Muteki back thanks to Masamune's son Kuroto pulling an all-nighter and literally working himself to death several times; good thing he has extra lives , and to cap it all off Kuroto invents a power-up that "saves" the user's "game", rendering the Reset power useless.
And the Point of Salvation", in which the team were trapped in a building running on video game rules, had Ezekiel who was the "player", and therefore retained his memory maturing over the course of the loop due to seeing his friends repeatedly die, and knowing that he was the only person who could keep track of what was going on, to the point where he eventually performed a Heroic Sacrifice to save the team.
Cassandra was able to being him back by "restarting the game", but this "unsaved" Ezekiel had no memory of anything after the loop started, and didn't really believe the team when they told him because "that doesn't sound like me". The Season 4 Season Finale " And the Echo of Memory" ends first with the Librarians reversing Nicole's reality warp, so that the world reverts to normal. Then Flynn alters Nicole's history, with the result that the entire season gets undone, with time resetting to the tethering rehearsal in the season opener, and only Flynn and Eve remembering anything that happened after that.
Merlin uses the Reset Button a lot. Every time someone sees Merlin use magic, you know they're about to die, leave Camelot, or lose their memory. Also, every time it looks like King Uther might die, change his views on magic, or somehow lose his throne, the effects will be reset within two episodes.
It's annoying, but an amusing game is to try to predict how the writers will get everything back to the Status Quo by the end of the episode. It seems that they broke the reset button in Series 4 though, as both Uther and Lancelot die within 3 episodes. Every time Monk appears to be making progress psychologically, some event in the episode will traumatize him even further. For example: a blackmailer impersonates Trudy; an actor playing him has a psychotic break Or something less big.
Almost all of the filler-episode progress is undone in the last five minutes of that episode. This began to ease off in the eighth and final season, fortunately. The episode of My Favorite Martian where Martin's nephew Andromeda "Andy" shows up, ends with Martin using a time machine as a Reset Button when Andy's success in proving his and Martin's origins starts the neighbors looking for torches and pitchforks.
Of course, it's Played for Laughs and things are back to normal the next episode. Despite being based upon Time Travel , Quantum Leap managed to avoid this trope except in one instance: when Sam first encountered Alia, the Evil Leaper , he managed to eventually talk her down from killing him. This somehow caused her to be recalled retroactively, undoing the damage that she already had done and resetting Sam to when he first arrived in that time period.
In the Red Dwarf episode "White Hole", Lister knocks a planet into the hole to collapse it, causing all time spewed out by it to become null. Kryten explains that the few weeks events leading to this point will not have happened, all the while the decor around them slowly vanishes to a field of stars.
Just as the cast themselves are about to vanish, Kryten takes the occasion to tell Rimmer just how much he hates him, ending with a final "Ha! It's later hinted that Kryten was wrong and they do remember the events of the episode.
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Roxanne Jones: Kamala Harris is every woman who stands up to speak. June Last month, the vice president was criticized by Republicans, along with members of her own party, for comments she made on her first foreign trip to Guatemala.
But I understood that Harris was trying to balance being authentic and honest with being politically correct, all while under the pressure to please everyone on all sides of a complex immigration issue. David M. Perry: The two lessons everyone should learn from this Utah cheerleading photo. In disability social media, where I'm active, this kind of story is common. I live in Minnesota, first found it on the page of a mom who lives in Illinois. We all shared it And fury is appropriate.
July On Tuesday in Tokyo, Simone Biles reminded all of us that while she might own four Olympic golds and 25 world medals -- making her the most decorated gymnast in history -- she is, indeed, human. Peter Bregman and Howard Jacobson: Angry at the unvaccinated?
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