Covidiot students went to Florida on spring break and acted as if there were no such thing as Covid-19. Many will bring Covid-19 back to school and spread it there.

Last weekend was the Easter holiday long weekend in Italy. Some resort towns in Liguria, on the Mediterranean Sea, closed all stores including supermarkets for the entire long weekend, simply to make sure that vacationers from heavily-infected Milan would not come there this time.

That is a wise policy, placing people's lives and long-term health above profits.

Computerized filtering of job seekers' résumés means that anyone who is capable but unusual is never considered.

*$15 Minimum Wage Would Lift Millions Out of Poverty, Says... Wall Street Giant Morgan Stanley.*

If a big company is against raising the minimum wage, I have to suspect it wants to pay workers little. But if it is for raising the minimum wage, its motive must be more decent.

Medea Benjamin's criticisms of Biden's foreign policy.

I agree with her except on items 3 and 6. Regarding Salafi Arabia, Biden using a kind of pressure that has a chance of bringing about a transfer of power away from Prince Bone Saw.

Regarding China, I regard China as a real threat to the world, especially its threat to conquer and enslave Taiwan.

Unlike many other countries that the US claimed it would "help" — for instance, Afghanistan, Cuba, Honduras, Iraq, and Venezuela — the Taiwanese have a real democracy and want US support to protect it from China.

Since June/July, states governed by Republicans have had higher Covid-19 case/death rates than the states governed by Democrats.