WHAT IT IS THAT MAKES ZOOM CALLS SO EXHAUSTING.

OH TO BE IN ENGLAND, AIRSTRIP ONE: We need Big Brother to beat this virus.

Orwell’s 1984: A warning for the rest of us; a user’s guide to…past speechwriters for Boris Johnson and David Cameron?

STUDY: Nearly all NYC coronavirus patients had underlying health conditions. “94% had at least one additional ailment. 88% had more than one.”

ALIENS: The Composition of Interstellar Comet 2I/Borisov Is Much More Alien Than We Thought.

HARSH, BUT FAIR:

Beijing lied. People died.

KING OF COMEDY UPDATE: Jussie Smollett’s Countersuit Against Chicago Thrown Out by Federal Judge.

(Classical reference in headline.)

SOUND AND FURY, SIGNIFYING IMPOTENCE: Barack Obama, Who Botched Two Pandemics, Criticizes Response to Coronavirus.

WE SHOULDN’T BE TURNING FOOD INTO ETHANOL: ‘Instead of Coronavirus, the Hunger Will Kill Us.’ A Global Food Crisis Looms. A friend on Facebook comments: “The irony is that famine weakens the general health. The young become weak as the old. The hale develop debilitating conditions. The Four Horsemen never ride separately but together. People knew this once.”

BORIS’S DIFFICULT DECISION: when should lockdown be lifted?

TEXAS: Harris County Democratic Judge Lina Hidalgo: I Decree That All Subjects Wear Masks. HPD Union: GET STUFFED! “The Houston Police Officers Union has decided to use discretion by not enforcing an illegal decree.”

Discretion is the better part of valor, you know.

IT’S HARD TO FIND A GOOD CLOVIS RESTAURANT ANYMORE: Hunter-gatherers developed culturally distinct cuisines 7,000 years ago.

SAME REASON THE SCORPION STINGS THE FROG: The Liberal Cheating Factor In American Elections. “If the left is so great and their ideas are so fantastic, then how come they often have to cheat to win elections?”

FLASHBACK: AGENTS OF INFLUENCE:

Related:

Also:

And:

Plus, assumes facts not in evidence:

And, harsh but fair:

Finally:

Flashback: During all the Russia hacking hype, China is rising in influence: While Russia’s role in the 2016 election dominates the news, China’s spying and alarming influence within our borders is too little noticed.

IT’S ALL ABOUT WHO IS WIRED INTO STATE GOVERNMENT AND WHO ISN’T: Why weed and booze are ‘essential’ but not your cigar.

4.4 MILLION AMERICANS FILED FOR UNEMPLOYMENT LAST WEEK, BRINGING CORONAVIRUS JOBLESS CLAIMS TO OVER 26 MILLION.

SUSPECTED OF DISTURBING PUBLIC ORDER: Sounds like a charge Adam Schiff would level at Deven Nunes. Or Instapundit. Chinese citizen journalist Li Zehua was actually detained and quarantined for allegedly disturbing public order.

From the BBC:

Li Zehua is a citizen journalist who went to Wuhan in February, after another journalist, Chen Qiushi, went missing. In his first video from Wuhan he explained why we was there.

“Before I entered Wuhan, a friend who worked in the Chinese mainstream media told me… all the bad news about the epidemic has been collected by the central government.

“The local media can only report the good news about the patients’ recovery and so on. Of course, it remains uncertain whether that’s true, because this is just what I heard from my friends.”

His stories included an alleged cover-up of infections, and a busy crematorium. They were watched millions of times on Chinese platforms, YouTube, and Twitter.

Read about his dreadful February 26. Li has reappeared. Other citizen journalists have not, including Chen.

RELATED: The saga of Dr. Li Wenliang, who died of Wuhan virus on February 6, is a revealing and brutal introduction to the CCP’s Public Security Bureau. If you haven’t read it by now (I linked to it yesterday and again this morning), my latest Creators Syndicate column essays the CCP’s Imperial World Order. The sagas of Dr. Li and citizen journalist Li demonstrate the CCP-IWO is just another tyrannical police state. Except it’s got cash and operates a global agitation-propaganda network that can slick Western media sensationalists and other useful idiots.

ANSWERING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: The Cure’s “Just Like Heaven” — What Makes This Song Great?

THERE SHOULD BE NO BAILOUTS FOR CALIFORNIA, NEW YORK, OR ILLINOIS UNTIL THEY AGREE TO SPLIT OFF THE RED PARTS INTO SEPARATE STATES: NYC politicians haven’t begun to face facts about coronavirus fiscal crisis.

UH-HUH: Biden Flip-Flops on Fracking, Now Says He Won’t Put 1.7 Million Workers Out of a Job.

CORONAVIRUS RESPONSES: “Everyone in the world right now, from the most sage public health expert to the wisest head of state to the anxious citizen shopping for groceries, is tip-toeing through that dark unfamiliar house.”

HERE’S THE VIDEO OF MY FOX NEWS APPEARANCE THIS MORNING.

NOT JUST CORONAVIRUS: Communist China’s Coronavirus Disinformation Campaign May Be Bigger Than We Realized.