The connection between the lousy US response to Covid-19 and the laissez-mourir plutocracy of the cult of the invisible hand calls for an investigation, but there is no visible intention to investigate this.

(satire) *L.A. Mayor Prevents His Kid From Lazing About By Installing Spikes On Family Couch.*

Some democrats ask Biden to *support a $25 billion investment in the production of roughly eight billion mRNA vaccine doses.*

Is that what we need? The words are not precise enough for me to tell.

Whatever vaccine production lines exist will surely keep running, producing vaccine, as long as there are people who want to be vaccinated. I expect funds will be found to pay for the vaccine and vaccinate someone or other. Pledging funds towards that will be necessary, but doing so in advance won't speed things up.

The way to funds to speed up vaccinating the world is by increasing the future rate of production: building more plants, sooner. If that's what this plan would do, I'm in favor of it.

So which one are they proposing to do with that money?

If it refers to this proposal, then it would be spent on boosting production. In that case, I'm in favor of it.

The FBI demanded from USA Today the IP addresses of everyone that read a certain newspaper article.

The power to get that information is dangerous to a free society. I take steps to prevent such information from being recorded about me. This is also why I do not identify myself when accessing any online publication, whether text, music, video, or whatever.

Now the Department of Justice says it won't demand reports' phone records for leak investigations.

That is a small change for the better, but what we really need to do is change the Espionage Act and whatever other laws whistleblowers may be prosecuted under.

A business leader says that rich countries must cooperate with vaccinating poor countries in order for poor countries to cooperate with climate defense.

I don't know whether the two issues are linked, but I am not sure it matters. Rich countries must cooperate with vaccinating poor countries. Poor countries must cooperate with climate defense.