A STUDY IN HYPOCRISY: What Biden’s recent endorsers said about Kavanaugh and #MeToo.

GOOD TO KNOW: Bill Gates Praises China’s Response to Coronavirus, Slams U.S.

MORE ON THE COVID-19 QUEEN OF MEAN: Paul Rahe: Gretchen Whitmer Doubles Down. “Thanks to the lady’s punitive instincts, her penchant for posing and preening before the cameras, and her desire that Joe Biden make her his running mate, we in Michigan are committing suicide for fear of death.”

YOU HAVE TO HAVE A HEART OF STONE NOT TO LAUGH LIKE AN HYENA:  Out Of Their Hands.

IS ANYONE SURPRISED? Bill de Blasio’s new low: blaming the Jews.

YOUNGER SON AND HUSBAND DO THIS:  Sick of Woke Shows? Binge These Korean TV Dramas Instead.

THIS LITTLE BLOG KEEPS DOING THE JOB NEWS STATIONS WON’T DO:  COVID19 update, Yom HaAtzma’ut edition: “Coronahotels” for mild cases in Israel; pathology professor discusses what can be learned about COVID19 from autopsies.

OUR LITERATURE DID ITS JOB TOO. AS DID EDUCATION, OR PERHAPS WE SHOULD CALL IT INDOCTRINATION:  Viral Hysteria Exposes how Postmodernism has Trained Us to Tolerate Tyranny.

YOU TUBE ADMIRES CHINA. THEY’LL WELD THE DOORS OF THE DEPLORABLES IF THEY COULD:  YouTube Yanks Viral Video of California Docs Questioning Extreme Social Distancing Measures.

LIBERAL PRIVILEGE: THE ABILITY TO LIVE IN A COMPLETELY MADE UP WORLD AND FEAR IMAGINARY THINGS, WHILE THE REST OF US ARE WORRIED ABOUT WHERE FOOD WILL COME FROM THIS WINTER:  The Chicom News Network.

REALLY? THEN WHY DON’T YOU LIMIT YOURSELF TO YOUR CONSTITUTIONAL JOB, YOU WIND BAG?  STOP WITH THE CENTRAL CONTROL THING. COMMUNISM IS A LIE. THE END IS ALWAYS DEATH. BE TOLD:  Cuomo on COVID-19 in Nursing Homes: ‘It’s Not Our Job’.

DON’T AVERT YOUR EYES. COME OUT FROM UNDER YOUR BED AND BE THE AMERICA HONG KONG THINKS YOU ARE:  The Struggle for Democracy in Hong Kong Continues.

ON THE CONTRARY. THEY PRETEND TO BE BLIND:  Nobody Don’t Know Nothin’.

MAN’S BEST FRIEND:  Dogs could ‘revolutionize’ coronavirus testing by sniffing out the disease.

I’M SHOCKED, SHOCKED, SHOCKED. LOOK HOW SHOCKED I AM:  Coronavirus side effect: 911 calls for domestic abuse up.

ARE THEY OUT OF THEIR MINDS?  Serial Murderer One Vote Shy of Release.

SOMEONE TELL THE UN THAT’S NOT THE PUBLIC. THAT’S THE VOICES IN THEIR HEADS:  “Global public tells the United Nations: Take action on climate change and the environment”.

OKAY. THE UNIVERSE IS WHIMSICAL AND HELD TOGETHER BY NARRATIVIUM:   New findings suggest laws of nature not as constant as previously thought.

QUESTION ASKED: When would Biden reopen the country? “Biden can credibly be accused, as Byron [York] suggests, of setting conditions he knows can’t be met for months in order to justify keeping the country shut down. If, in November, voters are more focused on the economy than on the virus, Biden may have said enough to hurt his electoral prospects.”

BREAKING: Governor Gavin Newsom to Close All State Parks and Beaches Across California.

Bill Melugin of Fox11 News in LA is reporting that his sources in the governor’s office tell him Gavin Newsom will be sending a memo to police chiefs across the state informing them all state parks and beaches will be closed as of May 1st.

“Developing,” as they say.

UPDATE: “Between this and the announcement Cuomo made that they are just now going to start sanitizing the subway…I’m starting to feel like the rock star governors aren’t actually doing that good a job. It’s too late to do something like this. It’s time to go in the other direction,” Karol Markowicz tweets.

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VITAMIN D UPDATE: Patterns of COVID-19 Mortality and Vitamin D: An Indonesian Study. A Facebook friend’s succinct summary of the findings in this study: “Just under half (49.7%) of cases had normal vitamin D status, and only 4% of them died. Just over a quarter (27%) had insufficient vitamin D status, and most of them (88%) died. Just under a quarter (23%) had deficient vitamin D status, and almost all of them (99%) died.”

The study calls anything over 30 ng/ml as normal Vitamin D; my doctor prefers in the neighborhood of 60. No guarantee from these data, though, that more is better, but I wouldn’t be surprised if that were the case. On the other hand, you’d expect lower death rates in Italy and Spain than Germany, then, wouldn’t you? Or are that many Germans going on winter holidays in the Greek islands?

DE BLASIO’S NEW YORK: Dozens of bodies found in U-Haul trucks outside NYC funeral home.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: The Coming Gap-Year Gap: The entire economic model of campuses could be undermined. “Nearly one in six graduating seniors, according to a poll by the Baltimore-based Art & Science Group, now indicate that due to the coronavirus pandemic, they will likely revise their plans of attending a four-year college in the fall and take a gap year.”

That will be an economic debacle for higher ed if it happens.