*We Don't Need Return to Normalcy — We Need President Bernie Sanders.*

The madman is planning to escalate the fighting with an Iran-aligned militia in Iraq.

This could result in direct war between the US and Iran.

The lockdown response to Covid-19 may lead to a big undercount in the US census, perhaps favoring the Republican efforts to exclude unauthorized immigrants.

Florida's governor wants to stop the cruise ships Zaandam and Rotterdam from docking, saying that since they are "foreigners" they should all get sick and die.

That's right-wing extremists for you — they never miss an opportunity to demonize the scapegoats-du-jour and inflict cruelty on them.

International concentration of the industry that makes making medical equipment, supplies and drugs is a false economy — it optimizes profit for normal circumstances and prevents ramping up production when there is an epidemic. Instead it leads to competition between countries for something they all need.

I think that countries should agree that each will maintain production facilities that can be ramped up when needed, for a wide variety of medical needs.

One danger of relying on private hospitals, as the US heavily does, is that they may shut down just when they are most needed.

Private equity funds are buying up small companies in certain US medical fields, consolidating them, and making them gouge people.