*'Amazon Putting Lives of Workers at Risk': Omar and Sanders Press Bezos on Alarming Lack of Coronavirus Protections.*

People who enter Taiwan are subject to a strict quarantine, tracked by their Stalin's Dream devices (portable phones). If the device ever does not respond (such as, out of power), enforcers go after you immediately.

The strict quarantine may be necessary, but the specific method of enforcement is intolerable. I wonder what they would say to a person who has no Stalin's Dream device and refuses to have one.

The tracking of my movements would not matter if I were forbidden to leave the apartment. It would only show I did not leave. But it is also a listening device, and I would protect myself from that one way or another.

What worries me most is how I would get food. I buy things only anonymously. I do not give my name or address and I pay only cash. Under those quarantine rules, I might not be able to buy any food.

14 days without eating would not kill me, but it would be extremely unpleasant — enough to convince me to do as Paul Huang did, and stay away.

For me personally, that is all theoretical. Travel for speaking is not feasible if entering a country requires a 14-day quarantine, regardless of the details of how it is enforced. But the issues of freedom posed by the enforcement affect everyone, not just me.

KUOW public radio will no longer transmit the bullshitter's daily propaganda speeches about Covid-19. The station says they are likely to spread misinformation.

Bravo!

Whenever the bullshitter starts speaking in any program you are watching or listening to, I suggest you switch it off and do something else.

If his utterances contain, by chance, any valid information, you will find it elsewhere — you can't trust it if it comes from him. Whatever he says about what he will do, he will probably change anyway.

Arguing with his words is ineffective for convincing his supporters. So don't waste your attention on them — switch off.

Telling a broadcaster that you switch off when he comes on might do some good.

The "stimulus" slush fund authorizes bailouts for non-US companies. This could include cruise ship companies which avoid US taxes and environmental laws.

*American Small Businesses Are on Edge of Extinction Event and Congress Is Not Doing Enough.*

Italy seems to be doing a great job of helping society, as well as individuals rich and poor, survive.

The US is exceptionally vulnerable to Covid-19 because of decisions and policies that make it insecure — due partly to accepting a narrow military definition of what it means to be "secure".

At least one teenager has died, apparently from Covid-19, because an "urgent care" clinic refused to treat him. He was one of the 8% of Americans who have no medical insurance.

The US is underreporting deaths from Covid-19 by attributing them to other causes.

*'We Need Medicare for All': Massive Coronavirus Job Losses Expose Obvious Failure of Employer-Based Insurance.*