SHOCKER: Higher daily step count linked with lower all-cause mortality.

DON’T SQUEEZE THE CHARMIN SUPPLIES: This is why everyone is hoarding toilet paper.

ENDORSED: Abolish the World Health Organization. The WHO has become another pointless organization pandering to the world’s worst actors.

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HMM: Coronavirus Could Be a ‘Chimera’ of Two Different Viruses, Genome Analysis Suggests.

JIM TREACHER: The Virus Is a Fire, and the Arsonist Is China.

I stand with the United States of America, no matter who’s president. We did not do this. Every scrap of evidence points to the government of China. I will not say otherwise, no matter how anyone lies to me and tries to manipulate my emotions. You can’t shame me, because I’m not ashamed of the truth. You can’t gaslight me, because my powers of reason are stronger than your desire to destroy them.

Put the blame where it belongs. #ChinaLiedPeopleDied.

Read the whole thing.

CHRISTIAN TOTO: ‘Hunt’ Producer Jason Blum: ‘Hollywood Out of Touch with America.’ “There shouldn’t be Red State, Blue State movies. There should be good movies.”

IT’S COME TO THIS. ‘This Is Ridiculous:’ AOC’s Ex-Top Aide Saikat Chakrabarti Torches Pelosi For Coronavirus Stimulus Games.

Related: “House was in this morning at 10 a.m. and 42 seconds. Out at 10:02 and 37 seconds No business of note. No resignations, etc. Back in tomorrow at 11 a.m.,” Jake Sherman of the Politico tweets.

More: Democrats Have Misread the Moment.

SHAMEFUL: With Lives and the Economy on the Line, Nancy Pelosi Stalls Wuhan Coronavirus Relief Bill.

SOCIAL DISTANCING HAS ALWAYS BEEN PART OF ASTRONOMY: Why Right Now Is the Perfect Time to Learn Astrophotography.

IF YOU WONDER WHY APPLE, FACEBOOK, ETC. HAD ALL THOSE MASKS THEY DONATED: Tech Companies Weren’t Hoarding Masks, They Were Protecting Employees From Wildfire Smoke.

THE SOFT BIGOTRY OF LOW EXPECTATIONS: Stay Alive, Joe Biden. “Democrats need little from the front-runner beyond his corporeal presence.”

Unhinged:

In all likelihood, the desire to oust Trump will be piercing in the coming days, as death and chaos escalate. The president has been reckless, duplicitous, and morally hazardous in his leadership during a pandemic that is likely to be the defining event of a generation—forget about a campaign cycle. But the many union members looking at their closed casinos and the mothers in lockdown with their children and the students forced off their campuses and the older Americans living in complete isolation may find it impossible to imagine that their earlier fears about another four years of Trump have abated, or that the ferocity of their desire to get him out of office has lessened. Indeed, the emotion of this moment may displace any that has come before it.

Biden’s team appears to understand this, and to believe that what matters most now is keeping their candidate alive in the American imagination as an alternative to Trump. His appearances these days have an almost parallel-universe quality to them: Biden’s audience-less remarks from his home in Delaware have the suggestion of an Oval Office address, and their content seems intended to offer a glimpse into the twilight zone where someone else, someone more empathetic and capable, is president. It’s as if Biden is telegraphing to his public: You have already imagined that I can beat Trump; now imagine what it will be like when I am president.

The Atlantic published this column from CBS News’ Alex Wagner, and in almost 20 years of blogging I’ve never read so many words bearing so little relation to reality, all to promote a Weekend at Bernie’s-style Democratic White House.

POWERLINE TRIPLE PLAY: Tinker steps on third, fires to Evers at second who relays to Chance at first?. No, but Scott Johnson once again outs his local left-wing rag, The Minneapolis Star Tribune on behalf of a friend.

From Part 1: “Kevin Roche: My Struggle With The Star Tribune: “Kevin Roche was general counsel of UnitedHealth Group in Minneapolis, then founder and CEO of its Ingenix division. Since leaving UnitedHealth he has invested in and sat on the boards of a number of health care companies…”

The issue:

Kevin wrote a column on the current Coronavirus panic that he sought to place as an advertisement in the Star Tribune on Monday. He titled the column STOP THE ECONOMIC SUICIDE. It is consistent with much of what we have written on Power Line and is well within the scope of respectable opinion, yet Kevin has not yet succeeded in placing the ad.

The struggle to understand why his opinion ad was rejected continues in Part 2 and Part 3.

But the kicker, a Part 3 update: “Kevin advises that the Star Tribune accepted his ad this morning (“not sure why”).”

Heh. Read the email exchanges between Roche and the newspaper’s reps and you’ll know why they caved. Now, when will the Star Tribune honestly report on Ilhan Omar’s crimes?

STAY OUT OF BIDEN’S LANE, HILLARY: It appears that Hillary Clinton plagiarized her Trump-eclipse joke from Bill Maher.

NOT A MOMENT TOO SOON: It’s working: 96% practice social distancing, 82% would ‘shelter-in-place.’

MEETINGS IN THE TIME OF CORONA: Look better on video calls using pro photography techniques.

COMMUNIST CHINA’S VIRAL PROPAGANDA CAMPAIGN: Like, “China is a face culture, but the CCP’s face culture has Mafia rules.” At one point the column directly confronts the White House press corps, asking the stuffed suits this question: “Is St. Louis encephalitis a slur on the city of St. Louis, the state of Missouri and St. Louis Cardinals baseball fans?” And there are several follow-ups in the same epidemic vein, like this one: “West Nile virus — West Nile is a province in Uganda, Washington Post. With regard to West Nile virus, where’s your outrage on behalf of West Nile’s Alur ethnic group?”

For your own health, I suggest you read the entire column. Full disclosure: I have been to West Nile province. I stayed for a week in an Alur village near the town of Nebbi.

UH OH: Is Pelosi about to torpedo the coronavirus relief agreement?

Related: We will remember Dems’ stimulus holdup.

FOR LAW STUDENTS, GOOD NEWS AND BAD NEWS: 2019 Summer Associate Offers (98%) Hit All-Time High, But Coronavirus Casts Shadow Over 2020 Summer Programs.

ZOMBIE SEE, AND ZOMBIE DO, HE’S HERE FOR ME AND YOU: Let’s just say it, shall we? Joe Biden is probably not okay. “You can watch the wheels come off of his presentation in this video that Breitbart posted to their Twitter feed. Things seemed to be going fairly normally for a little while as Biden obviously recites some remarks while reading them off the teleprompter. But then the prompter obviously must have failed. At that point, Joe went to full ramble mode. The video is only a bit more than thirty seconds in length, but it feels a lot longer. Frankly, it’s pretty uncomfortable to sit through, but make sure you have the sound on for this.”

HERE WE GO AGAIN:  “Major U.S. Universities Ban Saying ‘Chinese virus.'” The University of California’s Council of Chief Diversity Officers says “[D]o not not allow the use of these terms by others.”

JOHN FUND:  Dump Biden, draft Cuomo?

MY USA TODAY COLUMN: 5 tips to keep you sane during the coronavirus crisis. #1 is “thank your grocery clerk.”