IDENTITY POLITICS HAS NEVER BEEN MORE IRRELEVANT: The Covid-19 crisis has exposed just how self-indulgent the identitarian left has become.

True, but expect them to ramp up even more online as the Big Shutdown grinds on. As Woody Allen said in Manhattan, people “are constantly creating these real unnecessary neurotic problems for themselves, because it keeps them from dealing with more unsolvable, terrifying problems about the universe.”

Related: Orwell & SJWs: “Of course [Social Justice Warriors] going to find ways to use this crisis to their advantage. They go around inventing problems or dramatically exaggerating or misinterpreting small problems to push their agenda; why wouldn’t they do the same in a situation where there’s so much chaos and thus so much going wrong. My experience so far is that people are really underestimating how much of this there will be and how much of it will be institutionalized while we’re busy doing other things like tending to the sick and dying and trying not to lose our livelihoods and/or join them ourselves.”

UM: FDR As Conservative Champion.

CORONAVIRUS INFECTION FATALITY RATE ONLY 0.66 PERCENT? Estimates of the severity of coronavirus disease 2019: a model-based analysis.

This is a more complicated mathematical model for what people have been reading in the medical literature if they read past the headlines. See, for example, Anthony Fauci in the New England Journal of Medicine:

If one assumes that the number of asymptomatic or minimally symptomatic cases is several times as high as the number of reported cases, the case fatality rate may be considerably less than 1%. This suggests that the overall clinical consequences of Covid-19 may ultimately be more akin to those of a severe seasonal influenza (which has a case fatality rate of approximately 0.1%) or a pandemic influenza (similar to those in 1957 and 1968) rather than a disease similar to SARS or MERS, which have had case fatality rates of 9 to 10% and 36%, respectively.2

CLOSE QUARTERS: Aircraft carrier captain pleads for help after more than 100 crew are infected with coronavirus.

THE SAME PEOPLE WHO CHEERED ON IMPEACHMENT ARE NOW BLAMING TRUMP FOR NOT BEING LASER-FOCUSED ON THE WUHAN CORONAVIRUS IN JANUARY: Mitch McConnell told Hugh Hewitt on Tuesday that in the early days of the global coronavirus pandemic, the government was distracted by impeachment.

They’re also the same people who called Trump a racist and a xenophobe for banning flights from China back then.

DISPATCHES FROM THE GREATEST GENERATION: Oregon veteran, 95, beats coronavirus: ‘I survived Guam, I can get through this bulls–t.’

THIS IS WHY DEMOCRATIC OPERATIVES AND THE MEDIA — BUT I REPEAT MYSELF — WANT THEM TAKEN OFF THE AIR: Eight in 10 have heard Trump virus press conferences.

DECOUPLING, YOU’RE DOING IT WRONG: Spain’s foreign minister hopes health crisis can lead to closer ties with Chinese medical equipment suppliers.

Seems to me like Spain could use a foreign minister who knows which country she’s supposed to be ministering to.

THE HISTORY OF SOAP: Now that we’re all washing our hands repeatedly throughout the day, check out The History Guy’s account of how we got soap. Did you know archeologists discovered a recipe for soap in the ruins of ancient Babylon, circa 2200 BC? BTW, is The History Guy Tucker Carlson’s older brother?

QUESTION ASKED: Why are the airlines still flying out of New York?

SOMEONE NEEDS TO EXPLAIN TO HIM THAT HE HAD HIS TURN AND IT’S OVER: Chicken Little Obama Frets About Trump’s ‘Climate Denial’ Amid Coronavirus Pandemic.

I’D CALL IT A CLOWN SHOW EXCEPT THAT IT’S NOT FUNNY: IG Horowitz Found ‘Apparent Errors or Inadequately Supported Facts’ in Every Single FBI FISA Application He Reviewed.

NEWS YOU CAN USE!  Does It Flush?

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: A Third Of MBA Admits May Defer; 43% Want Tuition Lowered If Classes Are Online.

CHINA’S HUAWEI GAMBIT: Beijing spies with a 5G virus?

USNS COMFORT ARRIVES IN NEW YORK CITY: The Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Comfort arrives in New York City in support of the nation’s COVID-19/Wuhan virus response efforts. In 2010 the USNS Comfort deployed to Haiti. Here’s a snapshot of the ship anchored off Paita, Peru (taken in 2011).

RELATED: From 2006, a post discussing the USNS Mercy‘s deployment to Indonesia and the diplomatic pay-off. Here’s a photo of the USNS Mercy and one of its “band-aid boats.” The photo was taken in 2008 in Nha Trang, Vietnam.

JUST DON’T HOLD YOUR BREATH WHILE YOU WAIT FOR BUREAUCRATIC APPROVAL:  Mercedes Formula 1 engineers help develop coronavirus breathing aid.

NEWS YOU CAN USE, IF YOU’RE EVER ALLOWED TO WORK AGAIN:  You can’t get fired for having the coronavirus, but your boss can take your temperature — how the COVID-19 pandemic is reshaping workplace laws.

OKAY, OKAY, I KIND OF FELL SHORT ON THIS ONE. UNHINGED ENEMIES OF THE PEOPLE:  MSNBC Just Keeps Getting Kookier .

ENEMIES OF THE PEOPLE ABOUT COVERS IT:  Madness and Maddow.

LIKE THE UN, THE WHO IS ABOUT AS HELPFUL TO US AS AN ACCORDION IN A BATTLE FIELD:  We Can Fight Pandemics Without The Communist-Allied World Health Organization.

WHAT? SCRATCH FACE WITH MIDDLE FINGER OBAMA? CLASSLESS? SO, BASICALLY DAY ENDING IN Y? NOTE THAT ALL THE “TONE” ENFORCERS LOVED HIM, THOUGH:  Obama’s Use Of Wuhan Flu To Push Politics On Twitter Is Shameful.

AND AGAIN, LOOK AT HOW SHOCKED I AM:  Virginia Governor Bans Worship But Considers Abortions ‘Essential’ During Months-Long Virus Lockdown.