NORMAL FOR CORONA VIRUSES, WHICH IS WHY REPULSIVE STATISTS LIKE NOISOME ARE MAKING A VACCINE A CONDITION TO LETTING THEIR HOSTAGES GO:  ‘Significant’ coronavirus mutation discovered, could make vaccine search ‘futile,’ study says.

ANY MODEL THAT IGNORES THE DIFFERENCE AMONG HUMAN CULTURES AND SUBCULTURES EVEN, AND PURPORTS TO BE ACCURATE FOR THE SPREAD OF AN INFECTIOUS DISEASE IS NOT MERELY INACCURATE. IT’S CRIMINAL:  Israeli Professor Shows Virus Follows Fixed Pattern.

Further, any scientist who, with insufficiency of data panics countries into full lock down which will damage the economy and cause a lot more lives lost than could be shaved with the lock down is either stupid or malicious.  Though frankly, there’s always the popular “both” option.

THIS TOO HAS BECOME A PATTERN:  Suddenly, the Chinese lab origin theory of COVID-19 becomes more than a baseless right-wing conspiracy myth.

HOW ABOUT NO? HOW ABOUT WE OPEN THE ECONOMY BY OPENING IT? WE DON’T NEED A PLAN. WE NEED TO REASSERT OUR RIGHTS:  Reopen The Economy By Making Plans Instead Of Talking In Circles.

NOW DO THE UN. IT’S TIME TO STOP FUNDING OUR ENEMIES:  World Health Organization Kicked to Curb by Trump,

THAT… SEEMS LIKE A GOOD IDEA?  Matt Gaetz to NIH: End Funding of Wuhan Lab.

THE RALEIGH PD IS NON ESSENTIAL:  Raleigh PD: Peaceful Assembly Is “Non-Essential”.

KILLING THE REPUBLIC IN ORDER TO SAVE IT?  COVID19, April 15, 2020 update: Cytokine storm — the immune system “killing the patient in order to save him”.

GERMANY’S PLAN FOR REOPENING (IN GERMAN, TRANSLATIONS OF PARTS BY A FRIEND — I AM NO LONGER FLUENT ENOUGH TO TRANSLATE):  Beschlüsse gefällt – Das ist der Fahrplan für die nächsten Wochen.

• • Stores up to 800m^2 (8,800 sq,ft) can be opened starting Monday April 20, with hygiene and distance restrictions

  • Also can reopen then: bike and car stores regardless of size, as well as libraries, archives, zoos, botanical gardens

  • Bavaria, which has been the hardest hit, wants to wait a little longer

That last line?  Yeah….. All within the state, nothing outside the state.  I sense the shape of this mess, don’t you guys?  SCHOOLS can open, but not churches? (Spits.)

SO THIS SEEMS TO BE A GROWING PHENOMENON: Kentucky: Protests erupt outside Capitol over Beshear’s handling of pandemic, disrupting briefing.

SINK ‘EM ALL: VID/PICS: 11 Iranian ships almost collide with, harass 6 US warships in international waters.

Seriously, why are we putting up with anything from these losers at this point?

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ARKHAM ASYLUM RELEASES ALL INMATES AMID CORONAVIRUS FEARS.

(From Gotham City’s Newspaper of Record, of course.)

FACEBOOK “FACT-CHECKING” AT WORK:

OPEN THREAD: On the road as I returned
was a green and yellow sign,
saying “See the way it used to be”,
and I took my place in line.

LET THEM EAT JENI’S: Nancy Pelosi Struggles Through Coronapocalypse With Her Fancy Designer Ice Cream.

This is something every single American can appreciate, and it’s not at all tone-deaf. Those containers of Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams you saw packed into Pelosi’s freezers are only $12 per pint, so you can buy literally 100 of them with your Trump check. Almost as many as Pelosi has. Now that’s what I call bipartisanship!

Which she keeps cold via a good $20K+ worth of refrigeration:

And it’s all Biden approved! Even more tone-deaf: Joe Biden compliments frost queen Nancy Pelosi on her great taste in ice cream.

Related: Nancy Pelosi has deleted the video from February 24th encouraging people to come to Chinatown. Good thing the internet is forever.

MORE BAD NEWS FOR MICHIGAN GOVERNOR GRETCHEN “HALF” WHITMER: Michigan’s Emergency Stay-at-Home Order Is a Hot Mess. Now 4 Sheriffs Say They Won’t Be Enforcing Parts of It.

RETAIL: Here’s What Americans Are Buying More — and Less — of During the Coronavirus Crisis.

Interesting to see that generators are outselling hair coloring. That bespeaks a pessimistic outlook.

THIS DOES NOT SURPRISE ME AT ALL: MIT study: Subways a ‘major disseminator’ of coronavirus in NYC.

PROGRESS: Johnson & Johnson will have 600-800 million coronavirus vaccines by 2021.

FROM AMERICA’S PAPER OF RECORD: Obama: ‘Biden Has Touched Us All.’ “Many were worried Obama wasn’t going to endorse Biden, but he came through for the DNC establishment, telling everyone how deeply and personally Biden has touched everyone he has ever worked with.”

KANYE WEST DECLARES HE’S VOTING FOR TRUMP BECAUSE THE CURRENT ADMINISTRATION IS ‘BETTER’ FOR HIS REAL ESTATE PORTFOLIO, ADDING HE DOESN’T WANT TO BE ‘TOLD BY WHITE PEOPLE WHICH WHITE PERSON I CAN VOTE FOR.’

STUPID FOOL. DOESN’T HE KNOW REMY MARTIN IS A FAR BETTER CORONAVIRUS FIGHTER? Kenyan governor blasted over plans to include Hennessy in coronavirus care packages.

GOV. NORTHAM SAYS VIRGINIA SHOULD BE KEPT COMFORTABLE WHILE LAWMAKERS DEBATE WHETHER TO KILL IT: Virginia Governor Orders Residents to Stay Home Until June 10.

Related: List: When stay-at-home orders are set to expire in all 50 states.

Earlier: Virginia is gone; Gov. Ralph Northam of ‘blackface’ and ‘Klan robes’ infamy signs far-left agenda into law.

(Classical reference in headline.)

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