The UK covers up and disguises sales of arms to repressive states.

China is working very hard to convince people that Sars-CoV-2 did not originate in China.

It is foolish to politicize the place of origin of the virus. This campaign by China is foolish, just as the bullshitter's castigation of China because the virus originated there is foolish.

What China did wrong was to deny for a time that it had detected Sars-CoV-2. But that did not last very long. Many other countries have done much worse things in dealing with Covid-91, including the US.

This year is a La Niña year, which makes Australia cooler, but global heating is stronger and could damage the Great Barrier Reef nonetheless.

Sicily asked Cuba to send doctors.

Virus-denialists in Arizona are delighted to hold an interstate soccer tournament with reportedly 500 teams, which would imply thousands of players.

Some of these benighted fools are so stubbornly loyal to the wrecker's lies that they adamantly deny the reality of Covid until their last words as they are dying of it. Why not bring together thousands of people for a kilospreader event?

The matches will be played outdoors, I expect, which reduces the danger of them. But unless those teams practice firm discipline, players will catch Covid-19 from teammates and locals. It would be a small number compared with the almost 200,000 persons per day that are getting infected in the US, but every little bit hurts.