The use of low-paid throw-away migrant labor in agriculture has spread around the world. Covid-19 has made many of them suffer more, but it will do nothing to improve the way agricultural workers are treated.

Giving them better treatment, including better pay, will make food more expensive. But that will be a good thing, if the wealthy countries support poor people better. It will make agricultural jobs good enough that citizens will work in them, and make farming more profitable in poor countries so that not so many people will be desperate to migrate for work.

90 people work doing housekeeping jobs in the White House. At least two of them have contracted coronavirus, and were told to hush it up.

It is not a safe place to work.

Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany recklessly endangered reporters' lives by refusing to wear a mask while talking to them.

When she got infected, she did not know right away. In general, you don't know you are infected until some days after you start spreading virus — or perhaps you never find out. This is why you should always protect others by wearing a mask. Her failure to do so was reckless.

Surely the superspreader had told her to follow his example, but that is no excuse.

(satire) *John Bolton was reportedly seething with jealousy Tuesday that President Trump got to become a real-life living, breathing biological weapon.*

The district attorney who asked for prosecution of the thug that killed Breonna Taylor lied about what happened in the grand jury. Recordings show he never asked the grand jury to consider murder charges.

*Peace Groups Blockade Creech Air Force Base to Protest 'Illegal and Inhumane Remote Killing' by US Drones.*