Harvard students who are not wealthy have been shafted by the enforced requirement to move out in 5 days and fly home at high expense. Not to mention the loss of jobs they depend on.

The article assumes that on-line courses are fine if only you have high-speed internet available. It pays no attention to the injustice of requiring students to run nonfree programs — which Harvard does. If I were one of the students, the only way I could see the course lectures would be if I could look on with another student.

I admire an activist friend who tried to take a Harvard edX course, but refuses to use imposed nonfree social networking software, so he automatically failed the course.

*Insurance Industry Corrects Trump: Actually, We're Only Waiving Copays for Coronavirus Testing, Not Treatment.*

Low-wage US workers will be able to find out that they are sick, but they won't be able to do anything to protect themselves or others.

Chelsea Manning has been released from jail. The court ruled that there was "no need" for her testimony.

Surely that did not change last week. The "need" must have ceased weeks or months ago. I hope she will tell us soon why she attempted suicide this week rather than waiting a day to see if the court would release her.

She is still saddled with a huge debt that would be difficult for her to ever pay. If she could get enough money to pay it, the idea of working to pay a fine must be bitter. If it were me, I'd be inclined to shun wages and live by barter, just to avoid ever paying any of the fine.

An Italian in the US is desperate to get home, figuring that Italy will protect its people from Covid-19 much better than the US.

British Columbia reduced drunk driving deaths by 50% by focusing on prevention rather than punishment. The province can take away the drivers' licenses and even their cars, rather than putting them in jail.

Under the new system, the fines and the loss of the right to drive can render a person destitute. On the other hand, alcohol addiction can also do that.