How China, with foreign cooperation, quashed an outbreak of plague in 1911.

Then doctors from around the world met to study which methods were effective.

An app for parole monitoring is so buggy that it is very hard for people to keep the requirements. They live in fear of being imprisoned again because something did not work. It needlessly drains the battery, and when the battery runs dry at the wrong time, the user can be imprisoned for that. In addition, it can listen through the phone at any time.

I'd choose an ankle bracelet if I had the choice. However, those don't work in the smooth way you might imagine. Parolees using ankle monitors have to pay for them, also, thought they don't also have to pay hundreds of dollars at the start to buy one. And ankle bracelets too are unreliable, and run out of charge too often, which puts the user in danger of being imprisoned or missing work.

Every portable phone, whether smart of not, can be converted into a full-time listening device. Let's learn to think of every portable phone as a form of virtual prison.

The Mayo Clinic allowed Pence to visit and even meet with a patient without as mask.

His argument, that he is tested "regularly" for the coronavirus and therefore knows he can't transmit virus to anyone else, is not absurd. However, we don't know how frequently "regularly" is. If it is once a week, he might become infected and start transmitting virus between tests.

In any case, there was no reason for the hospital to make an exception for him. I expect the hospital management were afraid of reprisals if they did not.

In reaction to Covid-19, hospitals and individuals are taking a lot more antibiotics.

This will build resistance, and few new antibiotics are being developed. Our neoliberal governments have left the decisions in the hands of business, which mostly considers antibiotics not profitable.

Only 5% of people imprisoned for crimes described as terrorist commit another such crime afterward.

This suggests to me that it is safe to release most of them so they don't catch and spread Covid-19 in prison. But also that a special kind of sentence might be invented that would serve in place of prison and achieve the same results.