MAP: Covid deaths per capita worldwide and by state.

ANDREW CUOMO CONTINUES TO MOVE AT BREAKNECK SPEED: Cuomo finally orders biweekly coronavirus tests for nursing home workers.

Cuomo waited until April 30th to order subways to be shutdown at night for train interiors to be cleaned.

In sharp contrast, though this story will likely remain trapped on the Fox News side of the political spectrum: Dr. Marc Siegel: Coronavirus and nursing homes — Florida sets example with these steps to protect elderly.

Earlier: New York has mismanaged COVID-19 from top to bottom. So why is Andrew Cuomo’s popularity at an all time high?

CALIFORNICATION: CA Assemblywoman Tweets ‘F*ck Elon Musk’ After He Threatens to Move Tesla Out of California Over Health Restrictions.

Good move. That’ll make him want to stay.

Of course, this isn’t just any assemblywoman, it’s the sponsor of AB5, the bill that impoverished so many gig workers in California. She shouted profanity at them, too.

Why are Dem politicians so thoughtlessly rude and mean?

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THE DANGER ON THE ROCKS IS SURELY PAST. STILL I REMAIN TIED TO THE MAST. Time to end Coronavirus restrictions?

UPDATE: Undoing the knots — Boris Johnson speech: PM announces first easing of lockdown and sets out three-step plan.

YA THINK? Tracking COVID-19 With the Internet of Things May Put Your Privacy at Risk.

THE OTHER 25% ARE IDIOTS, OR ON THE PAYROLL: Nearly 3 in 4 Americans Blame the Chinese Government for America’s High Death Rate.

REMINDER: China has near-total control of the world’s antibiotic supply. Is America at risk as a result?

NO, BLUE STATES DON’T DESERVE EXTRA AID: Givers and Takers. Democratic governors’ arguments that their states are “donors” doesn’t hold water.

NEW SOCIALIST “IT GIRL” CONTINUES TO PAY DIVIDENDS: AOC Cites Kids In Cages In Supporting Biden Ignores He And Obama Began Practice.

FAKE HISTORY: Ms. Judging Mrs. America. A compelling new series on Phyllis Schlafly’s battles against leading feminists makes some legitimate criticisms—while also distorting facts and indulging in plenty of blue-state condescension.

HOW BADLY IS GAVIN NEWSOM’S PERMA-SHUTDOWN GOING? WILLIE BROWN IS SAVAGING HIM IN THE CHRONICLE: This can’t go on. California has to figure a way out. “When people were asked to shelter in place, they did so in amazing numbers and with no plan. But nobody envisioned the shelter-in-place would last this long.”

UPDATE: When Willie Brown and Mary Katharine Ham are on the same side:

ANOTHER UPDATE: From the comments: “Brown was probably the ‘best’ politician of his generation (at least in CA), and he appears to be giving the OK for rats to leave the sinking Newsom ship. I wonder if Newsom is smart enough to get the hint. Probably not.”

GET WOKE, GET SICK: The Glory–and Risk–of Cities.  From the beginning, urban density has yielded opportunity while also posing the danger of contagion. “Sewer socialists” and other leftists used to focus on public hygiene, but today’s urban progressives tolerate homeless encampments that are breeding grounds for diseases more dangerous than coronavirus.

HMM: Report claims cellphone data suggests Wuhan virus lab shut down for two weeks in October.

A private analysis of cellphone location data purports to show that a high-security Wuhan laboratory studying coronaviruses shut down in October, three sources briefed on the matter told NBC News. U.S. spy agencies are reviewing the document, but intelligence analysts examined and couldn’t confirm a similar theory previously, two senior officials say.

The report — obtained by the London-based NBC News Verification Unit — says there was no cellphone activity in a high-security portion of the Wuhan Institute of Virology from Oct. 7 through Oct. 24, 2019, and that there may have been a “hazardous event” sometime between Oct. 6 and Oct. 11. . . .

One U.S. official who has seen the document said the data “looks really weak to me and some of the conclusions don’t make sense.”

Earlier, U.S. intelligence agencies received reports based on publicly available cellphone and satellite data suggesting there was a shutdown at the lab, two U.S. officials familiar with the matter say. But after examining overhead imagery and their own data, the spy agencies were unable to confirm any shutdown, and deemed the reports “inconclusive.”

Hmm. Like most stories on this virus, it’s hard to be sure what’s going on.

GERMAN INTELLIGENCE: China’s Xi Asked the WHO to Cover Up Coronavirus.

THE CDC HAS BEEN A PANTLOAD OF FAIL THROUGHOUT THIS WHOLE AFFAIR: Birx said ‘there is nothing from the CDC that I can trust’ in a White House coronavirus task force meeting.

“HISTORY” IS INCREASINGLY PROPAGANDA: In 1933, FDR issued a dictatorial executive order banning Americans from owning gold and ordering them to turn their gold in to the Federal Reserve. Violators were subject to jail terms of up to ten years, plus a fine. Here, by contrast, is how a leading historian of FDR and the New Deal portrays it:

IT WOULD NOT BE UNREASONABLE, IN THIS CRISIS, TO DEMAND THAT ADMINISTRATORS’ SHARE OF THE BUDGET BE ROLLED BACK TO 2000 LEVELS: Require administration layoffs before colleges get any more higher ed bailouts: scholars.

THE LAWFARE BLOG HAS BEEN A DISAPPOINTMENT AND A DISGRACE IN THE TRUMP ERA: Buckle UP! Byron York takes entire premise of Lawfare Blog’s pearl-clutching Flynn piece APART in brutal thread.

THE MEDIA’S PREDICTIONS HAVE BEEN ESPECIALLY ONE-SIDED AND BAD.

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HIGHER EDUCATION IS NOT NOTED FOR ITS FRUGALITY WITH OTHER PEOPLE’S MONEY: Higher ed experts concerned colleges could blow through coronavirus aid.