US citizens: Tell world leaders: don’t exploit Coronavirus to take away our basic rights.

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US citizens and residents: thank abortion providers.

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Taiwan is containing Covid-19 with no added surveillance: only the system of tracking people through their portable phones.

Taiwan is not applying that surveillance to repress masses of people. It remains a democracy. However, we have no way of knowing that it is not using that system against whistleblowers and a few dissidents.

Phone your congresscritter and senators to push for a bill that would help non-rich Americans cope with Covid-19. The bill would do these things:

• Federally mandated paid sick leave for caretakers and ill people, to stop the spread of this virus by allowing sick people to stay home and avoid infecting others;
• Free coronavirus testing that will allow people to know if they've been infected and health agencies to track the spread of the virus;
• Emergency food aid for low-income pregnant women, young children, senior citizens, and food banks that may become overwhelmed as more people are temporarily out of work and
• Unemployment funding for workers laid off or furloughed because of the coronavirus pandemic.

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Clarifying the conceptual confusions in most press coverage of Covid-19, including measurements of its spread and measures to control it.

In particular, figures about number of cases are not even significant to an order of magnitude at this point — the measurement system is basically broken.

Advice to parents.