The US does not have enough trained contact tracers to cope with the consequences of reopening business.

Here, I suspect, is where the experience with SARS 20 years ago aided the Asian countries that it hit. They made sure they had a contact-tracing system ready to activate when the next new disease came. Business-dominated countries, where the cult of the invisible hand is the established church, decided to spare the expense.

Sanders continues to press for any Covid-19 vaccine to be free.

5G communication technology from the same contemptuous ISP megacorporations is not a step forward. Let's replace them, instead, with municipal broadband.

To realize the full potential for improvement, municipal broadband should not insist on identifying every user, nor record what internet hosts a user connects to, except under the order of a specific search warrant.

I support municipal broadband because it could provide a good system for connecting to the internet. But if we want an internet that is good to connect to, that's a separate issue. To achieve that, we must eliminate the pervasive injustices of most internet usage: luring or pressuring people into using the nonfree software and online dis-services.

The NHS in England proposes to require each patient to quarantine for 14 days before non-emergency surgery.

I think only a fraction of patients (mainly, the wealthy ones) will have a way to do this; most patients would be excluded.

The news about NHS telemedicine's software is also disheartening. The article mentions that it sometimes fails to work, but I expect it has a worse failing all the time: making users run nonfree software.

I wonder, when I need a medical consultation, how I will be able to get one once my doctor's clinic pushes me to run Zoom — which I will never do.

In part of Australia, a remnant forest serves as a shelter for endangered species, but maybe it will be cut down soon.