An extraordinary day

We woke today to news of the violent insurrection at the Capitol in Washington. We spent most of the day following events on CNN. Can this really be happening?
 
It feels as though we are living in a significant moment in history. But which way will it go? Will there be sufficient people of good will to say ‘Enough’? More tomorrow.
 
Meanwhile there were no new locally transmitted Covid cases in NSW and Victoria, and we hardly noticed.