Some ventilator manufacturers have been pressured into publishing their repair manuals.

We should not have to depend on companies to make concessions. To reduce plastic waste, we need laws to require that manufacturers design products to be repairable (and recyclable) — and to cooperate in all ways with that repair and recycling.

US internet access companies have eliminated the data caps that they claimed were necessary to keep their networks from crashing due to heavy load. However, no such problem has occurred.

Perhaps that was just a fabricated excuse to charge more.

US unions attack the business bailouts for supporting businesses as those businesses shaft workers.

Republicans want to give businesses complete immunity for imposing working conditions that favor transmission of Covid-19.

This goes with a plan to keep meat-packing plants open without giving the workers protective gear.

It would be unreasonable, perhaps even harmful, to demand too much. If not enough protective gear is available made, when medical personnel have trouble getting them, we must not blame an employer for not getting some -- or insist it outbid the hospitals for them. Some companies might get gear by bribing the conman, and medical personnel might get sick as a result.

However, it would be a mistake to jump to the opposite extreme. For instance, if unsophisticated masks will prevent most transmission in the work place, companies must get them and provide them. There is no sense in giving businesses license to be totally careless with employees' health.

*Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, (D-N.Y.) announced a new joint proposal on Tuesday to halt mergers and acquisitions during the coronavirus pandemic.*

I agree, but why allow them again afterwards?