Good Morning Champion 🏆@ashbarty · #AusOpen · #AO2022 pic.twitter.com/47XQIt1l4e

— #AusOpen (@AustralianOpen) January 30, 2022

Twenty-three long months after the first cases of COVID-19 were detected in South Carolina, there’s reason to hope the current surge of the pandemic may be shorter-lived than previous waves.

While omicron continues to ravage the state, an epidemiologist with the S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control acknowledged this week South Carolina may soon be turning a corner.

“We have begun seeing some incremental decreases in the counts and rates of cases during the surge,” said Brannon Traxler, with DHEC. “While numbers of cases have still been increasing, they’ve been increasing at a lesser rate over the last couple of weeks or so. This is certainly promising.”

Even so, she said, “it may be too early to say that we’ve peaked or are nearing the end of the surge.”

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According to Google Trends, the use of search terms such as "endemic" and "end of pandemic" have risen sharply this past month.

Everyone is clearly ready for this thing to be over. Experts say that doesn't mean it is.https://t.co/4wWeBhqtbd

— The Post and Courier (@postandcourier) January 29, 2022

Holy God, we bless thee for the gift of thy monk and icon writer Andrei Rublev, who, inspired by the Holy Spirit, provided a window into heaven for generations to come, revealing the majesty and mystery of the holy and blessed Trinity; who livest and reignest through ages of ages. Amen.

Today the Episcopal Church commemorates Andrei Rublev, Monk and Iconographer, 1430 https://t.co/4o5bX0raPX pic.twitter.com/OKiRf3mR0J

— The Anglican Church in St Petersburg (@anglicanspb) January 29, 2022

Be a bright flame before us, O God, a guiding star above us, a smooth path below us and a loving shepherd behind us, each day and each night, now and for ever. Amen.

Sunrise plays peek-a-boo beside the Howth cliff walk. pic.twitter.com/1voyEI0WYZ

— Sryan Bruen Photography (@sryanbruenphoto) January 29, 2022

And the LORD appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre, as he sat at the door of his tent in the heat of the day. He lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, three men stood in front of him. When he saw them, he ran from the tent door to meet them, and bowed himself to the earth, and said, “My lord, if I have found favor in your sight, do not pass by your servant. Let a little water be brought, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree, while I fetch a morsel of bread, that you may refresh yourselves, and after that you may pass on–since you have come to your servant.” So they said, “Do as you have said.” And Abraham hastened into the tent to Sarah, and said, “Make ready quickly three measures of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes.” And Abraham ran to the herd, and took a calf, tender and good, and gave it to the servant, who hastened to prepare it. Then he took curds, and milk, and the calf which he had prepared, and set it before them; and he stood by them under the tree while they ate.

–Genesis 18:1-8

WOW! Praise the Lord! #CallawayCounty #Sunrise pic.twitter.com/umh9BUKhzm

— Nicholas Drake (@nicholas_drake) January 29, 2022