*After Coronavirus, Let’s Never Forget: Republicans Recklessly Put Our Lives In Danger.*

They have done worse than that, and they are still doing it. Cancelling the measures to prepare for any future epidemic was certain to kill people some day. But their relentless efforts to force the world into global heating disaster are certain to kill hundreds of millions (at least).

A toilet connected to an artificial intelligence system could monitor your health daily and keep a host of corporations informed.

The only way people should trust such a system is if all the software is free and various community organizations maintain versions that they check for respect for privacy.

One aspect of the system is an advance for privacy: the use of analprints to recognize people is far superior to the more commonly fingerprint and face recognition. You don't leave an analprint behind every time you sit down, and your ass can't be identified from its analprint as you walk on a sidewalk or a lobby.

*School closures have little impact on spread of coronavirus — study.*

The USDA's new policy of letting slaughterhouses decide which carcasses to inspect is ideal for smoothing the path for new diseases to jump from pigs to humans.

They call it NSIS, which perhaps stands for (Almost) No Swine Inspection System. It demonstrates plutocratists' ideological opposition to anything that regulates business for the public good.

Michael Atkinson: "It is hard not to think that the president's loss of confidence in me derives from my having faithfully discharged my legal obligations as an independent and impartial Inspector General, and from my commitment to continue to do so."