A US court ordered the USPS to carry out specific special measures to deliver all the ballots on time.

I wonder whether DeJoy found some last-minute form of sabotage to carry out, so as to negate that order. Republicans love defying courts that try to stop their sabotage.

On finding and trying the people who organized the Rwandan genocide.

At 100,000 new cases of Covid-19 per day, the US will have 36 million new cases per year. That is about 1/9 of the population. If herd immunity requires 70% of the population to catch the disease, that will take 6 years.

If the rate of infection increases to half a million per day, we might reach herd immunity by the end of 2021. However, at that rate, most people that get a bad case are likely to die, because most of them won't be able to get hospital treatment (the hospitals will be overloaded).

The way to regain a normal life soon is the way that Taiwan, New Zealand and parts of Australia have used: jump on the virus hard and drive the numbers down, then use old-fashioned contact tracing followed by isolating those who may be infected to mop up the rest. This method is known to work, and it can work in just a few months.

It is true that the US is not an island, but that makes less difference than people think. The number of people that enter the US without permission is minuscule by Covid-19 standards, and most of them surrender promptly to federal agents, which makes it possible to test them and quarantine them.

The Tories' ideology of privatizing government activities is replacing skilled public health professionals with untrained 18-year-olds. The UK allows paying them a lower wage, but have no idea how to do their jobs.

With this approach, failure is built into every plan.

Spotify will invite musicians to compete for publicity by cutting their tiny share of the company's income.

Let's spit out Spotify! We need a system where people can easily and anonymously donate to musicians; GNU Taler can be the base for that.

And we should share copies of music, regardless of what anyone says. In order to share a copy, you need to have a copy. That is another reason to refuse to listen via Spotify, or any other streaming dis-service.