AND BLAMING EVERYONE ELSE FOR HIS MISTAKES: Preparing for the Wrong Emergency. Focused on climate change, Mayor Bill de Blasio failed to equip New York for the coronavirus.

CHINA LIED, PEOPLE DIED: China Concealed Extent of Virus Outbreak, U.S. Intelligence Says.

BLUE STATE BLUES: LA County Fires Sheriff as Head of Emergency Ops Center … During an Emergency.

ROGER SIMON: Should We Postpone the Presidential Election One Year?

BUREAUCRACY KILLS: America Could Import Countless More Face Masks if Federal Regulators Would Get Out of the Way: Markets are trying to meet spiking demand for face masks, but importers are stymied by the FDA and CDC. “According to the CDC’s own data, it takes an average of 95 days to approve new certifications for face mask suppliers. That’s far too long, even at the best of times.”

The CDC and the FDA have not covered themselves with glory in this crisis.

WHAT A STRANGE THING FOR A COUNTRY TO DO AFTER THEY HAVE NO NEW CASES: Chinese Backed Company Raids Australia’s Medical Supplies, Ships Them Back to China.

#JOURNALISM: “Tight white polo shirts,” “perfectly weathered face”: Holed up in coronavirus quarantine, love-starved NYC female writers churn out Andrew Cuomo bodice-rippers. “Like a velveteen gravity blanket for my soul, the second I see this man’s perfectly weathered face and tousled curls, the moment his Pacino-like accent fills my living room with its mafia-like authority, my blood pressure drops, my breasts seem to perk up on their own, and a tingly feeling of optimism washes over my imprisoned body as I think to myself… I think we’re gonna be okay….”

YALE CONTRIBUTES JUST BY EXISTING, AND ALLOWING NEW HAVEN TO BASK IN ITS GREATNESS: New Haven residents criticize Yale’s municipal contributions during coronavirus pandemic.

CHINA LIED, PEOPLE DIED: Birx: Initial Western COVID-19 response handicapped by “missing a significant amount of the data” from China.

ANALYSIS: TRUE. If you claim that calling it ‘Wuhan coronavirus’ is racist, you are part of the cover-up.

GOOD: Bend it like the Bay Area: Doctors see flatter curve after 2 weeks of social isolation.

CHANGE: Students say campus activism at a standstill as national groups cancel events.

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KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Down the Coronavirus Classic Sports Rabbit Hole. “I spent much of the day reliving my favorite moments from that Super Bowl on the NFL YouTube channel. To my surprise, the trip down Memory Lane was just what the quarantine doctor ordered. Revisiting happy sports moments was a nice respite from coronavirus news.”

PJMedia VIP Gold members can join Kruiser and me for an Ask Me Anything-style video live chat today at 4pm Eastern.

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Actually, Farhad Manjoo is one of their more sensible writers . . . .

UPDATE: “No evidence.”

TEACHERS URGE GOVERNMENT TO REOPEN SCHOOLS BEFORE STUDENTS LEARN TO THINK FOR THEMSELVES.

From, not surprisingly, America’s Newspaper of Record.

FINALLY, SOME GOOD NEWS: Coronavirus is killing the Biden campaign — and making him look like a fool.

It is hard for anybody to compete with the president of the United States — regardless of what party he or she is in. That’s why the responses to the State of the Union addresses usually fall flat. So Biden and his campaign were admittedly fighting an uphill battle going up against Trump. Compounding this challenge is the need for sensitivity — it is important for Biden to criticize the president, but he can’t seem petty, small or overly political in a moment when the people crave real leadership.

This would be a major challenge for a Winston Churchill or Franklin Roosevelt. For Biden, it turned out to be impossible. His public statements this week have been unfocused, error-ridden, full of awkward gaffes. They ran directly contrary to the message that his campaign is trying to convey: that he is battle-tested and ready to handle any crisis. Unsurprisingly, the Biden campaign canceled a major address.

Biden is clearly not working for the Biden campaign.

So what is his team going to do? Probably very little for now. The news is all coronavirus, all the time. If Biden doesn’t have anything productive to add to that conversation, he isn’t going to be involved in it.

As I wrote last week, Biden couldn’t even handle a fake press conference that somehow took four days to set up.

OK, LET’S GET THIS ONE OUT OF THE WAY BEFORE PALM SUNDAY: Easter is coming, so expect to hear in the mainstream media and cable entertainment channels objections to the Resurrection among the intellectualoids, one of the most common being that Jesus didn’t really die on the cross. He escaped and fled to India or Japan (and no, that’s not an April Fools Day joke, there are people who actually believe it).

One of three big reasons that’s beyond far-fetched, according to retired LA detective and cold-case expert J. Warner Wallace, is that Roman executioners knew dead bodies when they saw them. Something to think about as Americans mark the holiday for the first time ever while staying at home.

PAUL BEDARD: Historian: Trump best to handle virus crisis, ‘born for this moment.’

It’s been just shy of three months since the administration took its first action to fight off the coronavirus spread, and historians are already sizing up President Trump’s leadership.

Most have focused on what they view as his “offensive” use of the term “China virus.”

But author, historian, and former presidential adviser Doug Wead, who has followed every president since Gerald R. Ford, has been doing a back-of-the-envelope comparison of how the seven most recent presidents would have handled the crisis — and if they would have been successful.

The current fight favors a president quick to decide, willing to let businesses help out, friendly with the media, and with “a deep desire to do it right,” said Wead, whose latest book is Inside Trump’s White House: The Real Story of His Presidency.

Of the seven, he told us none had everything going for them, but two had three of four needed traits: Trump and Bill Clinton.

Hmm.

MAN IN BROOKLYN ARRESTED FOR Black Market Sales of Masks, Gowns. “The arrest comes after President Trump claimed that some medical supplies were being swiped from New York City hospitals, which Mayor Bill de Blasio dismissed as insulting.”

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ALL THE NEWS THAT FITS THE NARRATIVE: Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) explains the lengths to which The New York Times will go to deny President Donald Trump was illegally targeted by elements of the Obama administration using the intelligence community, the Department of Justice and the FBI.

SHE KNOWS WHO HER CONSTITUENTS ARE: Party of the Working Man? Pelosi Proposes Something That Will Give Millionaires Billions in Benefits.