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America’s Obesity Epidemic Threatens Effectiveness of Any COVID Vaccine

Politicians and the public rest their hopes on emergence of a safe and effective COVID-19 vaccine. Will it work on the obese?

Hubert Horan: Can Uber Ever Deliver? Part Twenty-Three: Uber’s Already Hopelessly Unprofitable Economics Take A Major Coronavirus Hit

The press is still refusing to depict Uber accurately, as a rotting corpse.

CalPERS Digs Its Ben Meng Defenestration Hole Deeper: Claims Knowledge of Abuse Months Ago; Notice for Emergency Closed Session Legally Invalid Unless CEO Frost’s Job Is on the Line

CalPERS is bizarrely unable to control its bad impulses.

COVID-19 Survivors Face Lifetime of Disability

Funny how other countries are willing to acknowledge that Covid-19 can do very bad things without killing you, and not the US.

Wind Farms Built on Carbon-Rich Peat Bogs Lose Their Ability to Fight Climate Change

Wind farms provide sustainable energy but must be properly sited, so not to destroy the carbon sink characteristsics of peat bogs.

Larry Wilkerson: The Danger of War With China is Real and Insane

Col. Larry Wilkerson explains that China and the U.S. must work together on the climate crisis, but the militaries and security states on both sides make that impossible.

Why Capitalism Is in Constant Conflict With Democracy

A high level, if flawed, critique of democracy American style.

Covid in TN, NC, AL, AL, and IL ~ Party on ~ School reopening ~ Biden’s foreign policy team ~ Biden’s Republican Hispanic whisperer ~ Biden’s Corvette ~ A second Civil War ~ Employment situation ~ Adam Tooze ~ Hydroxychloroquine ~ Covid, sleep, and music ~ “Officer-involved shooting” deprecated