A car company's vision of travel in the future is total surveillance. Your snooper phone will let you combine all sorts of transportation modes, and Big Brother/Big Tech will follow you everywhere.

It's not too late to stop this, but we must start pushing. There are two ways to push against a product that mistreats you: condemn it so others will see you, and refuse to use it.

If New Zealand has eliminated Covid-19, what should it do to keep it eliminated?

The idea of developing a special bluetooth device for contact tracing, rather than trying to adapt snoop phones to that purpose, offers the possibility of making it properly respect privacy. This means that unless and until you test positive and are quarantined, the device gives no data to anyone. Anything less will have loopholes that will be used for purposes unrelated to public health.

*US and UK 'lead push against global patent pool for Covid-19 drugs'.*

Murder of tens of millions to extort from a few hundred millions.

Britons are demanding, and getting, the elimination of memorials to rich slave owners that are found in the cities where their wealth bought them local admiration.

People comment on the pulling down of one slave-trader's statue.

Quebec's government hesitates to require masks for disease protection, in the name of personal liberty. It should apply the same principle to masks worn for other purposes.

In particular it should apply to hiding one's identity from face recognition and other tracking.