During the great depression of the 1930s, some US states distributed tiny houses where a family member sick with tuberculosis could live and avoid transmitting it to the rest of the family. This was part of FDR's New Deal.

Why not do the same now for Covid-19?

The job would be easier now, since Covid-19 will usually stop being contagious after a few weeks. The state could then retrieve the no-longer-needed tiny house and autoclave it, and provide it to someone else.

The article calls this "learned helplessness", but I think it is intentional sabotage on the part of the Republicans. Then have done plenty to demonstrate their ill will in dealing with Covid-19.

Los Angeles will shut off the water and electricity to mansions that hold large parties, since they threaten public health.

With Covid-19 running rampant in that region, this is justified and necessary.

New York State has accused the National Rifle Association of fraud and seeks to dissolve it.

Sanders proposes a 60% tax on the wealth gains of billionaires.

In principle, income tax ought to be able to do the same job. But they have ways of putting their gains outside income tax. If this method gets the job done, and is simpler to enact, I see no reason not to do it.

*How fibreglass boats have become a global pollution problem.*

I wonder, do we know of any safe way to dispose of fiberglass boats?