US citizens: phone your senators and call on them not to reauthorize PAT RIOT Act surveillance. The more surveillance power we eliminate, the better.

The world has already begun experiencing short, local bouts of fatal weather.

Fatal weather will kill any unprotected human after a certain time.

These bouts did not last long enough to kill. But the frequency of them has doubled since 1979, and eventually they will last long enough to kill.

*[Right-wing] extremists are using the pandemic to promote themselves as supporters of the community and spread fake information.*

Some US states are reopening businesses but not prepared to handle the consequences. Nebraska is already seeing an increase in new cases.

Extreme distancing practices could in principle eliminate transmission, if people follow the practices very carefully until there are no new cases, and a few weeks longer. But that takes a lot longer than we have practiced them in the US, and we are nowhere near having no new cases.

What purpose can it serve to strict rules and drop them after two months? It can buy time to prepare to use another approach. For instance, to test lots of people and do contact tracing, which need not be automated. South Korea and Taiwan did it just by talking with people.

However, the US has failed to use the time by preparing for that. Or rather, the mass murderer decided not to prepare. The US is not ready to let normal activity reopen.

I hope some states are ready. I hope Massachusetts will be ready soon.

The Lord of the Flies is fiction, but a real group of 6 boys got shipwrecked on a deserted island. They cooperated and took good care of each other for over a year, until someone rescued them.