China is moving to impose a repressive "national security" law on Hong Kong.

*Hong Kong’s security laws: what are they and why are they so controversial?*

The big obstacle to contact-tracing in the UK is that the contacts of infected medical workers and nursing home workers are mostly other medical workers and nursing home workers — and if they all self-isolate for a week or two as a precaution, the system will fail immediately.

The first step in fixing this is obvious — give them all sufficient protective equipment — but the UK hasn't got its act together to do that.

Rich people hide their pay as capital gains to pay less taxes. They mostly do not give much to charity, and they have not lost much in the stock market's decline.

Despite Sweden's high Covid-19 death rate, a survey in Stockholm found that it has gone only 10% of the way to herd immunity (7% have antibodies).

Reaching herd immunity without a vaccine entails lots of deaths.

Science advisors of the Obama administration say the US will face a second wave of Covid-19 around September, and must stockpile medical equipment for it.

It is lunacy to have wasted the first stay-at-home period without building up the capacity to follow it with test, trace and isolate. The bullshitter appears to have made this choice this intentionally.