(satire) *…sweatshop worker Li Chen was devastated to hear Monday that the jacket she worked so hard on was looted. "It breaks my heart that I slaved away for 14 cents an hour in an extremely hot and poorly ventilated factory just to have my hard work stolen from Zara."*

Speaking seriously, I don't think that sweatshops paying so little are found nowadays in China. Wages in China have risen quite a bit in the last two decades. Last I heard, clothing sweatshops are now sited in poorer countries, such as Bangladesh.

Brazil and Mexico are rapidly "reopening" while Covid-19 is nowhere near under control.

*China accuses UK of gross interference over Hong Kong citizenship offer.*

Apparently China's rulers think of Chinese people as "human capital stock", just like some US officials.

Some old Hong Kongers say, "Britain, please take my children instead of me!"

Thugs in Atlanta killed the son of a Ghanaian diplomat, and said he shot at them first. His family say that is absurd.

You can't put total faith in such statements from a victim's family, but they have more credibility than statements from thugs.

Women living near active gas and oil wells tend to have babies with lower birth weight (which bodes ill for the babies' future health).

Wells that were shut down do not show the same effect, so this is not a matter of correlation between poverty and having oil drilling around.