WHERE DID ALL THE MASKS GO? How Obama’s failure to resupply respirators in federal stockpile created a 2020 crisis. The stockpile’s 100 million supply of N95 respirator masks was never fully replenished after 2009 swine flu pandemic, experts say.

Flashback: The Obama-Biden Administration Repeatedly Sought Millions in CDC Cuts.

HUH: Evidence that cats (but not dogs) can be infected with the coronavirus.

Now I know why one of our dogs always goes so crazy when the neighbor’s cat wanders into our yard.

OF COURSE HE DOES: Biden Plugs Labor Ally’s Charity In Face of Corruption Probe.

EVEN MORE GOOD NEWS: Coronavirus Delays Key Global Climate Talks.

The session, known as the Conference of Parties, had been scheduled to take place in Glasgow for a week and a half in mid-November. It was postponed to 2021, the world body’s climate agency and the host government, Britain, confirmed late Wednesday.

“In light of the ongoing, worldwide effects of Covid-19, holding an ambitious, inclusive COP26 in November 2020 is no longer possible,” the British government said in a statement.

The conference venue in Glasgow, an arena where tens of thousands of delegates from around the world were to have gathered, is being turned into a field hospital for people with Covid-19, the disease caused by the virus. Covid patients are also being housed in the convention center in Madrid where the Conference of Parties took place last December; Spain has one of the world’s largest outbreaks.

Coronavirus keeps environmentalists off of private jets — is there anything it can’t do?

DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: UVA Deciding Whether To Force Student To Withdraw From Law School Because Her National Guard Unit Was Called Up.

AND, OF COURSE, ALL THE BEST PEOPLE WERE MOCKING HIM ON TWITTER FOR IT: Tom Cotton was both the first and the loudest voice in Congress to sound the alarm about the looming pandemic.

SLOW BOAT TO NOWHERE: Coast Guard Tells Cruise Ships With COVID-19 Cases To Stay Away From U.S. Ports.

YOU COULD’VE JUST STOPPED AT “THE FBI CAN’T BE TRUSTED.” The FBI Can’t Be Trusted With the Surveillance of Americans: An inspector general report finds that the bureau has been systematically unscrupulous.

IT WAS FUNNY, BUT IT WASN’T FUNNY-FUNNY: Biden’s Offer to Call Trump to Give Coronavirus Response Advice Is the Best April Fool’s Joke Ever.

I DON’T EVEN KNOW WHAT TO SAY ABOUT THAT:  Astronauts could use their own pee to build moon bases.

WE ARE ALL HOMESCHOOLERS NOW: COVID-19 will bring about an education reevaluation, if not revolution.

BUT BUT BUT… I THOUGHT THE EXPLANATION FOR WHY LATIN AMERICA ISN’T DYING IN DROVES IS BECAUSE THE VIRUS DOESN’T THRIVE IN HOT AND HUMID CLIMATES?  Florida Issues “Stay at Home” Order.

IT’S GOING TO GET CRAZIER:  Prosecutors: Engineer deliberately ran train off tracks in attempt to smash the USNS Mercy

AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN “THERE AIN’T NO SUCH THING AS A FREE LUNCH”:  Destroyed Lives.

IT WAS ALWAYS A SHAM:  Spain and Italy have been abandoned by the EU.

THEY LOOKED LIKE IDIOTS THEN:  Everyone Who ‘Celebrated’ America Leading the World in Coronavirus Cases Looks Like an Idiot Now, Especially Hillary.

BECAUSE THE REST OF US UNDERSTAND MATH AND KNOW THIS:  How deadly is the coronavirus? It’s still far from clear.

OH, PLEASE. IT’S NOT THE WINNIE THE FLU THAT SCARES US. IT’S NOT EVEN THE HORDES OF CRIMINALS RELEASED BECAUSE APPARENTLY IT’S TOO HARD TO ISOLATE THEM IN PRISON. NO. WHAT IS HAPPENING IS THAT WE’RE TAKING A LONG HARD LOOK AT OUR GOVERNMENT:  March Shatters Monthly Gun Sales Record as U.S. Faces Down Threat of Coronavirus.

YES. SOME OF US HAVE SEEN THIS MOVIE BEFORE:  How a Police State is Born.

YEAH. I ALSO THOUGHT OF AGATHA CHRISTIE IMMEDIATELY:  The mysterious case of the people who ate fish tank cleaner.

YES. EITHER REPEAL THE ABILITY TO DECLARE THESE EMERGENCIES, OR ATTACH VERY HARSH PENALTIES TO THEIR BEING CALLED IN CIRCUMSTANCES THAT WORSEN… WELL, EVERYTHING, FOR EMERGENCIES THAT IN THE END PROVE TO BE A SHADOW ON THE WALL:  Hayek on Emergency Powers of Government.

OH, I HOPE!  Are People Catching On?

WELL, IN COLORADO, WE HAVE PEOPLE WHO IMPERSONATE POLICE OFFICERS FOR THE PURPOSE OF BERATING THEIR NEIGHBORS FOR BEING OUT WITHOUT NECESSITY:  Coronavirus Brings Out the Worst In France.

To be clear, these are people who stop their neighbors not to rob or assault them, which at least would be understandable motivations, but for the purpose of berating them and telling them to stay home.

I wish I could believe we’re living in Puppet Masters, but I’m increasingly more and more afraid these tin-pot Stazi officers are wholly human.

THEY HATE IT WHEN THEIR PLANS BACKFIRE:  Media Feverish About Trump’s Covid-19 Briefings.