Category Archives: Pandemic

Despite Federal Moratorium, Eviction Rates Returning to Pre-Pandemic Levels

The eviction process is restarting, even when it is premature under the law. What will the collateral damage be?

CDC Recommends Masking for School Staff, Accepts Aerosol Transmission (Without Using the Word)

CDC inches toward complete acceptance of aerosol transmission with improved Covid prevention strategies for schools.

In the Tales Told by Sewage, Public Health and Privacy Collide

Sewage epidemiology has been embraced in other countries for decades, but not in the U.S. Will Covid change that?

Slack in the Economy, Not Inflation, Should Be Bigger Worry

Despite fear-mongering about inflation, unemployment remains elevated and stimulus is needed to prevent a collapse in demand.

Growing Cotton: One Small Sustainable Solution to the World Plastics Problem

The Khamir NGO demonstrates that kala cotton can be grown without copious use of water, pesticides, and chemical fesrtilizers.

Big Tech Goes All In to Thwart Right to Repair Initiatives

The FTC and more than two dozen states mull right to repair initiatives; Big Tech companies mount a ;pbbying offensive.

Charging Indians for COVID Vaccines is Bad, Letting Vaccine Producers Charge What They Like is Unconscionable

India’s vaccine policy has opened the flood gates for a vulgar form of predatory capitalism to take the stage amid a raging human tragedy.

Why Your Dentist Might Seem Pushy

During the pandemic, many have deferred visiting their dentists, increasing pressure on dentists to push unnecessary expensive treatment.

An Indictment of US Covid Policy

How US Covid policy is producing far more deaths and disability here and around the world than necessary.

Put People Before Profits for Covid Progress

More discussion of Covid vaccine, testing and treatment apartheid, thanks to private sector profiteering.

Biden Administration/CDC “Mission Accomplished” Mask Reversal: Hubris? Incompetence? Toadying to Business?

Why the policy-making part of the CDC should be burned to the ground: it’s highly politicized yet not very good at politics.

Costco Is Mean to the Disabled and Elderly

Costco is not nice.