An oil tanker ran aground on a reef near Mauritius and is breaking up. So far it has spilled 1000 tons of oil, which has polluted coral reefs and mangroves.

The practice of shipping large quantity of oil is a recipe for occasional disaster. An island like Mauritius, which is not rich, cannot afford to be ready to deal with a problem like this in case it happens.

To make a policy of test, trace and isolate function, the state must supply the lost wages of those who are require to isolate.

Every worker needs to have paid sick leave to be able to afford to stay home to avoid infecting others at work.

The Lebanese are demanding the resignation of the government for allowing the deadly and destructive explosion in Beirut.

I have to wonder what people wish the ministers had done. 2700 tons of ammonium nitrate take up around 1.4 million cubic meters. It is not trivial to get rid of so much material.

After receiving on July 20 the report, "This dangerous chemical could explode at any time, but it has been stored here for six years with no trouble yet," I can understand why the ministers did not rush desperately to move it within two weeks. They would have had no plan ready, and figuring out what to do with it would take time.

I wonder why the danger of the chemical was noted only just now, and not earlier.

Lebanon was in economic distress already, and surely can't afford to rebuild its port facilities. But I can think of one country that will offer to pay for it: China.

Amazon heavily promotes medical quackery.

Many farms and food plants in California did little or nothing to protect workers from Covid-19, and kept them in the dark when Covid-19 started spreading among them.