*Global Health Experts Alarmed at Signs US Has “Given Up” Fight Against COVID-19.*

Massachusetts has not given up — the R value is less than 1 — but many state governors, as well as the conman, seem to have opened the gates and welcomed the enemy in.

Google says it will delete old search records after 18 months. I am not impressed. That is plenty of time for the NSA to look at them.

Rich countries donate vaccines to poor countries, through a system designed to preserve the exploitative monopolies. It has the effect of preventing the systemic changes we really need, and it keeps the production down so that we're helpless against a pandemic.

Under the influence of Covid-19, 1/3 of US women want fewer children and/or later.

A smaller human population will make dealing with environmental problems easier, and that includes global heating.

Robert Julian-Borchak Williams was arrested and accused of theft specifically because a computer matched a photo of the thief to his face. It was mistaken.

Once the thugs got the computer's answer they believed it with total faith, That often happens with prestigious technical systems.

To be falsely accused is annoying, occasionally disastrous, but it is not a new danger. It happens plenty often without a computer. That is why I believe the main danger of computerized identification of people is not that it may make mistakes, but rather that it may function correctly. Suppose the system correctly recognizes you as a protester, or as a journalist. Suppose the system recognizes you repeatedly as you walk along the street.

Suppose businesses set up millions of cameras and recognize everyone.

We must ban face recognition, and systematic tracking of people, not only by the state but by any entity whatsoever.