The US government is signing contracts about possible treatments for Covid-19 and choosing to put no limits on gouging.

House Democrats have proposed a "bold" plan to do a substantial part of the Green New Deal — but nowhere near all of it.

2050 is far too late a target. The target we need, to avoid disaster, is 2020, or perhaps 2010. But since that's impossible, at least make it 2030.

The plan seems to be formulated in terms of "net" emissions, meaning that it will rely on planned "offsets" that are intended to cancel out emissions. However, these plans can fail. You can plant trees, but over thirty years of global heating, the changes in climate can kill them, and whatever carbon they absorbed will be released again.

Gilead Sciences plans to charge $500 per dose for remdesivir.

The company would make a profit selling it for $50 per dose, and if we had a national medical system, it would push the price down to such a level.

The role of government funds in developing remdesivir is not an exception, it is the normal case. Medicine is one of the areas where it is important not to allow patents.

The US government has bought nearly the entire production of remdesivir for July through September, making the drug unavailable to other countries that are subservient to the patent system.

I hope that they will go through with the plan to make compulsory licenses, which are permitted by the WTO treaty. The US has lobbied for decades to convince countries to forego that right. Maybe they are prepared to defy the conman to help their hospitals cope.

The article claims that the US government has tried to keep supplies for treating Covid-19 available in the US, but that's not its usual policy. There are examples where it did the exact opposite, in particular with masks and ventilators. Even now, Fauci says that US medical personnel face shortages.

And the numskull has no wish to ensure there is sufficient testing capacity in the US.

Thus, the purchase of remdesivir is contrary to the usual practice, and makes me wonder what his motive was.

Some economists forecast that 10% of US workers will not get their jobs back even if we eliminate Covid-19. That will amount to a big recession.

Chess: patriarchal or feminist?