The Economist advocates legalizing cocaine, to reduce the danger from contaminants and reduce its corrupting power.

The state of Victoria, in Australia, has plans to build renewable electric generation facilities and produce 95% of the state's electricity from renewable sources by 2035.

The new generating facilities will be owned mostly by the state.

Can you trust an app as a medium for "confidential" communication with psychotherapists or mental health coaches?

Obviously not — cr…apps are made for snooping.

China continues to use enforced quarantines trying to stamp out Covid-19, though the evolution of the virus makes that ever more of a struggle.

Increasingly strict monitoring and restriction over daily activities. When that is used only based on Covid-19 exposure and infection, it's a pain in the neck, but perhaps not worse than what would happen without these controls. But the same computer system is the ideal base for repression.

Is it possible to develop a system that lets you show your Covid status at the door of a building or store, but won't say who you are? It should be inherently anonymous. Of course, China would not use that even if it were available, but other countries could.

The inconvenience of quarantine. I think that is less thsn the inconvenience of being likely to catch rampaging Covid-19.

The harshness of quarantine measures. It sounds like China enforces quarantine without doing anything to cushion the effect. The quarantine may be necessary, but dehumanizing the patient is not.

I wonder how people in quarantine are supposed to get food to eat. Is it delivered to them? All sorts of things can go wrong with such a system, when you are compelled to use it and it is run by people who act hastily and don't respect the people they protect.

Deadly fluke accidents happen in any society; no society can eliminate them. These flukes may draw more attention now because of Covid-19, but that does not make them a major problem for society.

For instance, is the danger of dying from a bus collision in China more today than it was in 2019? I doubt it. If it wasn't a big issue then, it isn't a big issue now.

Lawyers and law firms have come to view their work as an "industry" rather than as a "profession". The consequence, often, is that they unhesitatingly undertake to do the nastiest jobs for the nastiest rich bastards.