Some kinds of Covid-19 virus tests give up to 30% false negatives. This means that almost 1/3 of the people actually infected will be erroneously judged not to be infected.

There is no Covid-19 vaccine yet, but European countries are discussing whether to require people to get vaccinated, and anti-vaxxers are already campaigning against it.

In the absence of a vaccine that has been tested, and thus in the absence of any information about how effective it would be and what side-effects it would have, there is no way to say anything rational about the question. This dispute reflects conflicting prejudices, nothing more.

If the vaccine is a DNA vaccine, and if it effectively modifies peoples genomes in a heritable way, that will raise an important issue of safety. We must make that decision carefully, not hastily. But if a non-DNA vaccine is developed. this issue won't arise.

Everyone: call on Rio Tinto to leave the Minerals Council of Australia, a planet-roaster lobbying group.

In Virginia you can eat at a restaurant and talk with mannequins.

Hold on there! Everyone else isn't dead yet.

* Climate risks and opportunities need to be incorporated into the financial system as well as public policymaking and infrastructure.*

*We now have the proof: greening the economy doesn't come at the price of prosperity. The investment to rebuild economic activity can be directed towards a green economy and still rebuild economic activity.

The obstacle, as usual, is the control that planet roasters have over several important countries, including especially the US. Doing anything good will require overcoming their political power.