In El Paso, so many people are dying from Covid-19 that the morgues are overflowing and the regular personnel can't cope.

They have to limit the CPR for each sick patient because the ICU staff can't cope either.

These are the predictable consequences of the spreader's policies and he is directly responsible for these deaths. If he had not adopted intentional spreading of the disease, most of them would never have caught Covid-19.

Churches in England are holding large meetings secretly.

This is very dangerous. Large religious gatherings have has caused important Covid-19 outbreaks in South Korea and elsewhere.

People interviewed claim that worship is "essential". That is clearly not so in general; many of us do without it. But if you feel a need to worship, you don't need to do it in a large gathering. You can worship individually with no risk of spreading disease.

Indeed, many pious hermits worshiped in solitude for years at a time.

California state senator Wiener will campaign to decriminalize psychedelics in that state.

We saw in Vietnam how much harm is caused by fighting a war on drugs. Let's not have one in the US.

In the past decade, several government reports have described what must be done to reduce the effects of systemic racism in the UK, but the recommendations have not been implemented and the problem keeps getting worse.

Many Americans are unable even to make a dent in their college loan debts. Of those who borrowed in 2009, over a quarter owe more now than they did at the start.

Eventually the lender concludes the loan is uncollectible and forgives it, but this counts as taxable income, which is taxed at a substantial rate and the poor victim can't possibly pay it.

The tax debt must be smaller than the school debt. It might also be easier to eliminate via bankruptcy, though I don't know.

The lender could reduce the resulting tax debt greatly by forgiving the debt a little every year — as if it were being repaid — because that way it would not put the borrower into a high tax bracket. But I wouldn't assume they care enough to do that.