THEY’LL ALSO START LEAVING HOME BEFORE THE GOVERNMENT TELLS THEM TO: Most Americans stayed home before government COVID-19 mandates. “Most Americans voluntarily stayed at home during the early days of the COVID-19 tsunami, before states began issuing official ‘shelter-in-place’ orders, new research indicates. Why? Because statewide emergency declarations coupled with news — of first infections, first fatalities and school closures — were motivation enough to get folks to stay home. This was more motivating than quarantine mandates imposed weeks later, say investigators.”

People are thinking for themselves, which is problematic.

CHRISTIAN TOTO: Meet the ‘Let Them Eat Cake’ Celebrities. “These stars mock lockdown protesters suffering the most due to the crisis.”

Fun fact: “It’s worth noting that Colbert’s annual salary, according to Business Insider, is $15 million.”

HUH, THIS USED TO BE “ALTERNATIVE HEALTH” STUFF: A combo of fasting plus vitamin C is effective for hard-to-treat cancers, study shows.

CLASSIC: Trump campaign website’s new 404 error page pokes at Biden.

THIS IS CNN: CNN Virus Townhall Features Greta Thunberg for Some Reason. “If you want to compare the pandemic to the Kennedy assassination, Greta Thunberg is the new Vaughn Meader. Current events gave her an instant career, and then took it away. So what’s a girl to do? Go on CNN as a virus expert, that’s what!”

BOMBSHELL: Obama’s CIA Director John Brennan Suppressed Intel That Russia Wanted Hillary to Win 2016 Election.

BAD NEWS FOR BUZZFEED WRITERS: Male coronavirus patients with low testosterone levels are MORE likely to die from COVID-19, German hospital finds.

Related: Buzzfeed Crew Shocked To Learn They Have Low Testosterone Levels.

CHANGE: Manhattan Faces a Reckoning if Working From Home Becomes the Norm. “Even after the crisis eases, companies may let workers stay home. That would affect an entire ecosystem, from transit to restaurants to shops. Not to mention the tax base.”

#JOURNALISM: Beyond parody: CNN taps Greta Thunberg for expert coronavirus panel.

In case you didn’t realize how hard the writers at the Babylon Bee have to work to surpass reality.

UPDATE: Yep.

IF IT’S NOT CLOSE, THEY CAN’T CHEAT: Republican Mike Garcia Takes Commanding Lead in Race to Fill Katie Hill’s Seat.

(Classical reference in headline.)

IT’S GOOD TO BE THE NOMENKLATURA: Hillary’s Longtime Aides Got Pay Bumps From Her ‘Resistance’ Group Even as Revenues Plummeted.

MICE GET ALL THE BEST TREATMENTS FIRST: Experimental gene therapy prevents obesity, builds muscle, without exercise or dieting. Of course they also get the worst ones first.

JOHN STOSSEL: When Government Programs Do More Harm Than Good.

I’m a stutterer. Stuttering is now among disabilities covered by the Americans with Disabilities Act.

I wonder, had the ADA been law when I started in TV news, would I have struggled as hard to overcome my stutter? Would I have had the career I’ve had? Probably not.

The TV station wouldn’t have hired me. Once the ADA passed, my stutter makes me a member of a “protected class.” The station, reasonably, would have viewed me as potential poison.

That’s because if they fired me because I didn’t work out, I might sue. I could have accused them of failing to “accommodate the disabled,” as the law requires. Even if I didn’t win, the lawsuit would be expensive. It’s safer for employers to avoid members of “protected classes.”

Far-fetched? Look at the stats:

Before the ADA passed, 59 percent of disabled men had jobs. After it passed, the number fell to 48 percent. Today, fewer than 30 percent have jobs.

Once again, a law that was supposed to help people did the opposite of what politicians intended.

Dependency is a feature not a bug.

NEITHER THE MODELS OR THE MODELERS HAVE COVERED THEMSELVES WITH GLORY, BUT THE EXPERT CLASS AS A WHOLE HAS BEEN A PANTLOAD OF FAIL UNDER COVID-19: Can we trust Covid modelling? More evidence from Sweden.

When people finally got to look under the hood of the famous Imperial College study, they found twisted and tangled code. And most of the model’s predictions bear little resemblance to what is actually happening. Some defend the models by saying that their predictions turned out to be wrong only because governments imposed harsher restrictions than the coders expected.

If so, we have a perfect experiment. Sweden did not close borders, shut down schools, businesses, restaurants, gyms or shopping centres and did not issue stay at home orders. So it should be the one country where the models fit. Let’s see. . . . At this moment, when the models suggested that Sweden would have 30 to 40 patients fighting over every available ICU bed, there is spare capacity in beds, equipment and personnel of around 30 percent.

Pantload.

I’M SENDING COVID-19 PATIENTS TO NURSING HOMES, BUT ALSO I’M PULLING MY MOM OUT:

This month a consortium of Mid-Atlantic newspapers under the USA Today Network detailed the policy in Pennsylvania and other states that’s ordering nursing homes to admit medically stable residents infected with the coronavirus.

Spotlight PA, a partnership between the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, and Harrisburg’s PennLive, also found evidence the Pennsylvania Department of Health drafted a quick strike plan to protect nursing homes in March, but never fully implemented it.

In the meantime, some facilities have become death traps. . . .

Levine was asked by a reporter Tuesday about her mother being moved out of a long-term care facility, Levine said she was allowing the wishes of her 95-year-old mother to move from a personal care home to a hotel.

Death is for the little people, and their parents.

CUOMO SIGNED, OLD PEOPLE DIED: New York’s chief executive signed a coronavirus response order sending coronavirus-positive people to nursing homes that weren’t prepared to care for them. The result has been catastrophic. Issues & Insights digs into the how & why.

FLASHBACK: Look Outside Of Politics For Heroes.

RUSSIAGATE: What We Do And Don’t Know About ‘How Obama Knew.’

NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG: GOP sweeps congressional special elections.

HERE’S THE TWO KEY GOOFS THAT PRODUCED A NATIONAL LOCKDOWN: You may not agree with the conclusion, but the two mistakes are hard to ignore.

WHY AN ADDED MONTH OF LOCKDOWN WILL DEVASTATE NEW YORK SMALL BUSINESSES.

RED TAPE AND LAWYERS: Covid-19: Regulatory Obstacles to U.S. Recovery. How the FDA prevented Covid victims from making vital  health measurements on their smartphones, and how to stop legal vultures from feasting off the pandemic.

THIS IS WHY THE CCP IS MORE DANGEROUS THAN THE USSR: The Epoch Times’ documentary unit is out with an excellent production entitled “The CCP Method: The Chinese Communist Party’s Global Agenda.” Hong Kong is the canary in the coal mine. The videos of police and thug attacks on innocent Hong Kongers are truly scary.