Systemic racism is visible in vaccination: blacks and Hispanics face practical obstacles in dealing with the system of vaccination, and the result is that vaccination has reached a smaller fraction of them and a larger fraction of whites.

Some of the companies that publicly support voting rights also help fund the US Chamber of Commerce, which campaigns for the same voter suppression laws.

Greece set up a system for Covid-19 vaccination that depends on a Greek social security number. Foreigners, and Greeks who came home to retire, are excluded in practice.

This seems to bespeak incredible bureaucratic rigidity.

UK is suffering from the problem of giving children less freedom. This shows up in not letting them go outside to play on their own.

*The UK chancellor, Rishi Sunak, must radically overhaul the Treasury’s response to the climate crisis, reforming the department’s longstanding hostility to green spending and resetting its priorities, experts said.*