Republican Rep. Gohmert participated in a Congressional committee hearing, and kept taking his mask off. The next day he tested positive for Covid-19, meaning he was probably spreading the disease at the hearing.

I wonder whether he will learn any lesson from this.

One lasting damage done by Covid-19 could be a disastrous drop in trust in anyone or anything.

Many of the institutions people used to trust did not deserve it anyway. (In the US: the justice system, thugs, the military, the economy, the medical finance system.) However, others did deserve trust. (US: science, medicare, CDC, actual medicine, social security.)

By "deserve trust" I do not mean infallibility. Any institution can make a mistake, just as any person can. However, well-functioning institutions do a pretty good job, most of the time.

In a move to cut overtime work, the USPS plans changes that would delay some fraction of mail by an extra day.

I don't see that as a big deal. However, in a few special cases, the extra day's delay could have grave results.

A bigger danger is that the delayed mail might accumulate and lead to longer and longer delays. Will the public find out if this is happening?

The Masks for All Act would increase production of masks and give masks to everyone in the US. It would also provide respirator masks to all health workers that need them.

As the article shows, the Republicans in the Senate will block this from passing. But it will add to the list of evils that Americans can see Republicans are doing.

This article clearly explains the effect of patents on fruit. Its only error, that I can see, is to use the term "intellectual property" to refer to patents and trademarks. Since the article clearly explains trademarks as well. You can see what an error it is to use any term to lump them together.

I have not used the term "intellectual property" even once since 2004. In explaining the various disparate laws that term supposedly "refers" to, that term is never helpful, and the idea of generalizing about those laws is the biggest obstacle.