Apple and Google, which do enormous amounts of tracking of users, have become the unlikely guardians of people's privacy by limiting how apps can get data about bluetooth contacts.

In addition to blocking various abusive forms of surveillance, they also prevent any sort of contact-tracing app that accumulates a list of phones that have passed nearby, even if it were up to the user to decide to send it in.

If such an automated recording of nearby-passing phones is an effective method of contact tracing — which some experts doubt — then preventing it from being used seems to be a bad thing.

In addition, governments can do this in other ways, as China does. I think China's app operates by reporting the phones GPS location to the state. If everyone is forced to install that app, the state can figure out which phones passed nearby.

An investigation in the Labour Party showed that its staff, supporters of B'liar, weaponized accusations of antisemitism so as to ensure the party would not win an election under Corbyn. The mainstream media cooperated with this.

Part of the campaign was to demand a zero-tolerance approach to eliminating antisemitism from the party. A zero-tolerance approach to enforcing any rule tends to create dissension and hostility. When people demand that you specify exactly where to draw the line against something, consider answering, "It would be destructive to draw such a sharp line. Zero-tolerance is a scourge!"

With copious testing, contact tracing, and isolation of those infected, it is possible to eliminate Covid-19 from an area, or pretty close. Taiwan and South Korea have done it.

Just waiting won't make ending stay-at-home safe, so how does the US plan to achieve that? If we are waiting for some major change in the situation, what change is it, and how do we plan to make it happen?

Privatized medicine has mostly abandoned rural America, and laws assure a nationwide shortage of doctors, few of whom choose to go there. This causes helplessness in facing any sort of epidemic.

* Polluting industries around the world are using the coronavirus pandemic to gain billions of dollars in bailouts and to weaken and delay environmental protections.*

The extra pollution could do more harm than Covid-19 does.