SMART: Walmart, Target, Publix, Whole Foods among stores designating shopping time for seniors.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Professors fear shift to online classes will let students share lectures with ‘right-wing sites.’

Update (from Charlie): I suspect there are a lot of professors who should fear that. But as a lot of you know, I do a lot of on-line tutoring, and I’m seeing something else troubling: a number of students who want to hire me to “tutor” them online while they take an online exam. I won’t, but I wouldn’t be surprised if others do.

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DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES: Stanford Professor: Data Indicates We’re Severely Overreacting To Coronavirus.

Why We Are Not Doing Enough To Stop the Pandemic (in Simpler Math).

Coronavirus Shows Our Reliance On The ‘Precautionary Principle’ Has Ruined Our Ability To Manage Risk.

UPDATE: More from Richard Epstein.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: In Walmart We Trust During Troubled Times. “The Big Bad Capitalist Behemoth that has long been derided for making too much money now has the money to help people in a time of true crisis.”

MEDIA FINDS THE REAL ENEMY IN FIGHT AGAINST CORONAVIRUS: Donald Trump. “All the media criticism is starting to sound a little hollow. It doesn’t resonate as much because people are more concerned about the pandemic than partisan attacks.”

Earlier: [Watch] Lefty Reporters Squirm as Journalist Asks Trump Why Media Echo Chinese Communist Propaganda.

ANALYSIS: TRUE. Trump blames China for coronavirus pandemic: ‘The world is paying a very big price for what they did.’

AGENTS OF INFLUENCE: Biased Press Does China’s Bidding on COVID-19.

HE’S NOT WRONG: Trump blames China for virus: ‘Whole world is suffering because of it.’

And it’s revealing to see who’s standing up to defend China.

DISPLAYING ADAPTABILITY: Coronavirus: Deaconess asks public to sew CDC-compliant face masks for staff.

ECONOMY: In Congress, coronavirus mission now turns to preventing mass layoffs. Minority Whip Steve Scalise praises bipartisanship, says imminent goal is keeping businesses cash flush to save jobs.

ABUSE OF POWER? Schiff claims ‘immunity’ in bid to keep impeachment phone subpoenas secret: Judicial Watch is seeking to obtain subpoenas the House Intel Committee issued during the impeachment inquiry to get Americans’ phone records.

SCENES FROM THE WORLD’S SECOND-OLDEST COUNTRY: Italian death toll overtakes China’s as virus spreads.

ABUSE OF POWER? Tucker Carlson calls on Richard Burr to resign and face prosecution if he cant explain stock selloff.

TREATMENT: Bayer donates three million malaria tablets to U.S. for potential use against coronavirus.

Bayer AG said on Thursday it has donated 3 million tablets of the malaria drug Resochin to the U.S. government for potential use to treat COVID-19.

Resochin, made of chloroquine phosphate and an approved treatment for malaria, is being evaluated in China for its potential use against COVID-19, the disease caused by the fast-spreading coronavirus.

Bayer said the drug is currently not approved for use in the United States and the company is working with appropriate agencies on an emergency use authorization for its use in the United States.

U.S. President Donald Trump, speaking at a news conference on Thursday, called on U.S. health regulators to expedite potential therapies such as Gilead Sciences Inc’s Remdesivir and the generic antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine, aimed at treating COVID-19.

Faster, please.

WUHAN CORONAVIRUS TESTING: A thread from Nicholas Christakis.

TRUMP VS. THE BUREAUCRACY: Trump Sought to Expand Virus Drug Tests Over FDA Objections: Plan would have expanded use of investigational drugs for coronavirus.

ECONOMICS: U.S. jobless claims may reach 2.25 million, Goldman Sachs economist estimates.

GOOD: Tom Cotton Debuts Plan to Take Pharma Production Back From China.

HE SHOULDN’T BE TOO SHOCKED; THE MEDIA HAPPILY SHILLED FOR COMMUNISTS EVEN WHEN THERE WASN’T ANY MONEY IN IT: Trump on coronavirus: “The only thing we weren’t prepared for was the media.”

CHRISTIAN TOTO: HBO’s After Truth Perfectly Captures Why Journalism is Dying.

A talking head in HBO’s documentary tackling Fake News says the quiet part out loud.

“The worst part of 2016 is what we did to ourselves,” Georgetown University “disinformation expert” Molly McKew says about the subject in hand, revealing, well, everything.

We’ve seen the mainstream media, along with Hollywood and the Democrats, throw a three-plus year long tantrum over Donald Trump’s electoral victory.

Three-plus years!

And, given the very existence of “After Truth: Disinformation and the Cost of Fake News,” it’s not over yet.

Read the whole thing.

THE DESIRE NAMED STREET CAR: Mass Transit, The Pandemic Petri Dish The Left Loves.

(Classical reference in headline.)

MY LAW SCHOOL ISN’T ONE OF THESE, THOUGH SOME OF MY LAW STUDENTS ARE HOPING: Law Schools Adopt Pass-Fail Grades As They Move Online Amid COVID-19.