In Brazil, where the government has done nothing to try to control Covid-19, some people are having parties where they figure they are risking getting sick.

Perhaps they figure that they will catch it sooner or later so there is no use trying to avoid it.

Well-governed countries such as Taiwan and New Zealand have prevented most of the people from ever catching Covid-19. In such a place, society has a real option to keep most people safe from that illness. In Brazil, Bolsonaro has eliminated that option.

The bully has lost a significant amount of support in his base since Black Lives Matter protest swept the US.

Protesters in the US have faced a series of violent right-wing attacks, using cars and guns as weapons.

*Minneapolis lawmakers vow to disband police department in historic move.*

Starting a new agency with new personnel provides an opportunity to start a different culture, one that doesn't treat the public as an occupied people.

However, the city council does not plan to entirely eliminate the existing thug department, only to make it substantially smaller and have other agencies attend to many of the situations that thugs deal with now.

The staff of a McDonalds in California have been on strike two weeks demanding protective equipment. 11 of them now have Covid-19. It is clear they were spreading it to each other, because they could not help it.

All workers that work in proximity to other people should have protective equipment, and employers should be legally required to provide it,

What about when there is a shortage, as now? We could make the employer pay hazard pay on top of the usual wage, plus the full costs of treatment as well as lost wages to all workers that get sick. Then employers would push our plutocratist government to make sure enough protective equipment gets made.