US citizens: call on Pepsico to stop funding antiabortion candidates and parties.

US citizens: call on Congress to ban members of Congress from buying and selling stocks while in office.

The UK's Environment Agency threatened to fire staff if they talked with each other about how the agency was neglecting its mission to protect waterways.

The US Environmental Protection Agency has a history of systematic dereliction of duty, going back decades. The corrupter intentionally made it more corrupt, to the point that I called it the Environmental Poisoning Agency.

* In the past half century, North America has lost a fourth of its birds. Earth is now a coalmine, and every wild bird is a canary.*

However, it is a mistake to make too much of the fact that birds are remotely descended from dinosaurs (they split off about 100 million years ago). After all, birds are also descended from fish, around 300 million years ago. Neither of these facts causes a hawk to closely resemble a velociraptor, or a tuna.

A French hospital official proposed charging unvaccinated patients for Covid-19 treatment.

The basic idea that those who go unvaccinated should bear the burden they impose on society is valid, but charging patients is the wrong way to implement it. It is wrong to charge patients for medical treatment. (The US medical system is so bad because it is based on charging patients.)

It is better to punish people directly for refusing vaccination — whether they catch Covid-19 or not.

Also, if hospital facilities are full and it is impossible to treat all the patients at that time, vaccinated patients should have priority.

That situation won't arise if we are careful in precautions to prevent the spread of the disease, so we should all practice them. The main precautions are vaccination, isolation when sick, not spending time close to other people, and wearing good masks. The good masks — FFP2, or even better N95 with its tight head straps — will give you substantial protection.

We must make sure that all workers have paid sick leave available, so that they can afford to stay home when sick.