*The outbreak necessitates heavy government involvement in our lives but this does not mean an overreach is justified.*

"… more people will suffer and even die as a result of the way governments choose to handle the crisis than from contracting the virus."

*Polar ice caps melting six times faster than in 1990s.* *Losses of ice from Greenland and Antarctica are tracking the worst-case climate scenario, scientists warn.*

*The bitter lesson is that what’s essential to community survival can and should be collectively guaranteed by the government.*

Wendell Potter: expect deadly greed from US medical insurance companies including his former employer, Cigna.

Progressive Democrat Marie Newman has defeated right-wing Democrat Representative Lipinski.

Although the Democratic Party machine has lost this battle, I expect it has succeeded in protecting several other right-wing Democrats that could have been replaced. Americans will replace them sooner or later, but with the climate emergency, we haven't got all the time in the world.