*Calling Covid-19 Crisis a 'Wake-Up Call,' WHO Experts Warn Next Pandemic Could Be Even Worse.*

If it is worse, we won't have trouble convincing people to take precautions. Rather, the problem will be the danger to essential workers. That could cause collapse.

Varoufakis: 2020 showed that capitalism — in the sense of a competitive market in which investors are compelled to try to outdo each other, and this makes more wealth — is dead. They no longer need to compete.

The article also presents several other crucial lessons.

In the 1890s, the US suffered from similar concentration of industry, but we had enough democracy to decide to eliminate it. The problem now is that the rich choose the officials, too.

* The Biden Administration must take executive action to promote universal access to safe water for every person.*

The Massachusetts legislature overrode Governor Baker's veto of a bill to reduce obstacles to abortion.

Those obstacles are in laws whose enforcement has been suspended due to the Roe v Wade decision. The bill has been considered now because of the danger that the right-wing extremist majority on the Supreme Court will overturn Roe v Wade and make those laws spring back into enforcement.

Massachusetts abortion law continues to have a major flaw, though it will bite much less often than before. It protects pregnant girls under 16 from the trauma that an abortion sometimes causes, by imposing on them the unending life difficulties that having a baby at that age almost always causes. What in the world are those legislators thinking?

The younger a girl is, the more important it is that nothing hamper her access to an abortion.

Governor Baker is a "moderate" Republican. He does not champion outrageous changes for the worse. Rather, he tries to retard and reduce every change for the better that Massachusetts tries to make. I hope we get a better governor in 2022.

*Why Senators Must Reject Avril Haines for [Director of National Intelligence].*