Poll Shows Tens of Millions of Americans Would Avoid Covid-19 Treatment Over Cost Fears.

I would too, if I had no insurance, or employer-provided junk insurance. If you let Covid-19 go untreated, there is a chance you will die from it; but if you get medical treatment that puts you in penury, your life will be ruined.

No matter how absurd a thing an important official might say, US media are obliged to pretend there is some possibility it is valid.

ALEC is organizing pressure for states to compel low-wage workers to return to work.

Republicans are also organizing to make sure that, if they get sick, they will get no treatment and their families will get no income.

Vietnam eradicated Covid-19 by lots of testing, careful contact-tracing, and strict quarantine.

As to the controversy about travel bans: if a country has few cases and is working hard to block transmission, a ban on entering the country makes sense because that pathway could bring in more cuss than local transmission.

However, for a country in with many cases, and the majority come from local transmission, to ban on entering the country is gratuitous suffering.

*At this perilous moment, the US and Iran need a military hotline more than ever.*

The bully doesn't seek good relations with Iran, nor specific rational concessions. And the same may be true of the Iranian extremists.