(satire) *Nation's Next Of Kin Exhausted From Constantly Identifying Bodies.*

The article exaggerates — this sort of burden is limited to states ruled by Republicans.

*How China Uses Contractors to Spread Propaganda on Facebook and Twitter.* It includes spreading false reports to undermine those who criticize or resist China.

Explaining the distortions in a widely circulated article which alleges many kinds of sloppiness in a 2020 clinical trial of the Pfizer vaccine, and exaggerates their significance.

If the facts in the article are accurate, most of them have no effect on the validity of the trial's conclusions. As explained here, they had a small chance of affecting some 1000 — out of 44000 total subjects — in the trial.

That 2020 trial is irrelevant for evaluating the Pfizer vaccine nowadays, because we now have records of hundreds of millions of people who have been vaccinated with it. That is far more evidence than the trial gathered, and shows conclusively that the vaccine does considerable good and hardly any harm.

In the end-Permian mass extinction, 7-10° C of global heating caused microbes to grow faster and turn most of the ocean into a deoxygenated dead zone. Then other microbes, those which could metabolize sulfur, did so and filled the ocean with hydrogen sulfide, which killed most other sea life.

We could be on target to make 7°C of global heating — especially with the help of methane leaking from permafrost. Maybe equally drastic (though different) results will follow.

How many humans could survive that?

*"Foreign criminals" are just an excuse: the Tories are trying to take away rights from all of us.*

The enemies of liberty always find a scapegoat to serve as an excuse.