inselpeter respectfully disagrees The last week has been so entirely out of the ordinary that talking about events cannot constitute talking about the day-to-day.

you can certainly disagree with any and all of my bloated opinions, but you shan't restate my awad raison d'être . I (speaking personally now) don't come here to vent, except about pet peeves with language (and one notable exception for which I remain unabashedly ashamed). I reserve the other stuff for jackie and a couple of others in PMs.
nor have I said anything which could be construed as a demand to stop it (although we have a couple of newly minted prime examples that might warrant that). I was merely asked, you will recall, for my opinion on the substance and quality of discourse. and that's still what I think.