Small business and hospital stimulus
vendredi 24 avril 2020 à 02:00Democrats are about to accept another "stimulus" which helps small businesses and hospitals, but none of the poor.
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Democrats are about to accept another "stimulus" which helps small businesses and hospitals, but none of the poor.
Covid-19 is spreading through Singapore's 300,000 migrant workers, who are housed together up to 20 to a room. Now all of them are quarantined in those rooms all day.
Even before Covid-19, they were exploited and cheated.
The UK is considering ordering people over 70 to stay home for months.
I would not obey a rule like that. Since I do not wish to get sick, I go out only occasionally and take care when I do. But I will not live by an absurd zero-tolerance rule that demands I avoid even small risks, regardless of what that does to my freedom and privacy.
For instance, I buy groceries in the supermarket and I pay cash. I will not order them delivered or pay for them in a way that would identify me.
*New research finds 147 million will be hit by floods by the end of the decade.*
An additional dam on the Nile will create a competition over which country gets the water.
This indicates that the population of the region is hitting a resource limit. Whether or not that competition leads to an actual war, people will die as a result.
Showing that you can't overcome resource shortages with dams alone. You need birth control too.