SAN FRANCISCO HARDEST HIT: Coronavirus: scientists identify possible new mode of transmission in human faeces. Well, that’s a plentiful vector in China that’s much less so — outside a few progressive Blue Rule cities — elsewhere, so I hope it turns out to be the most significant.

HMM: Uber Mexico suspends user accounts of 240 Mexicans after drivers possibly exposed to coronavirus.

NYT REPORTER LEAKS DM HE RECEIVED FROM COLLEGE FOOTBALL COACH WHO CALLED OUT HIS CREDIBILITY, SAID HE SHOULD INVESTIGATE BIDEN.

[Coach Vinny] Marino’s Twitter is now locked.

Really nasty and vile move by [Times reporter Michael] Schmidt, and it pretty much proves Marino’s point that some in media are not to be trusted. Hope no one ever trusts giving this guy a tip ever again as it’s clear he doesn’t respect anyone’s privacy, has no ethics and is truly a petty human being, in addition to pushing propaganda.

But fortunately, most people are sane and blasted Schmidt.

Earlier: Twitter At Its Worst: Wapo Journalist Cancels Kobe Bryant.

Somebody really needs to write a book about the virus-like nature of social media.

WHEW: U.S. evacuees ‘relieved’ about quarantine on military base.

“Everybody was very relieved” about the quarantine order, McCoy said by telephone. “We wanted to make sure all the tests were done first.”

At the military base about 60 miles (97 kilometers) east of Los Angeles, the evacuees are staying in hotel-style housing and have spent time walking and exercising, some wearing masks, said Jose Arballo Jr., a spokesman for the county’s public health agency.

As of Friday, none of the evacuees had shown signs of illness, he said.

Good.

ICYMI: Gallup Reports Americans’ Satisfaction with Race Relations Has Increased 14 Percent Since Trump’s Inauguration. Well, to be fair, Trump doesn’t traffic in open racism the way Obama did.

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RICHARD FERNANDEZ: A Thousand Ways to Get Sold Out.

Whatever the legal relevance of excluding Hunter Biden’s connection to Burisma Holdings from Donald Trump’s impeachment may be, the saga of a political scion getting a cushy foreign job on the strength of his name plays to the populist narrative of elite betrayal almost as if it had been written by a Hollywood scriptwriter. The 2019-nCoV outbreak poses a potential political threat not just to the Chinese Communist Party but the entire One World project. If virus spreads unchecked, the public will be looking for someone to blame and it won’t just be the Chinese apparatchiks.

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THE CONFLATING OF OLD-FASHIONED HOOKING WITH “SEX TRAFFICKING” IS MOSTLY A TOOL FOR NGOS AND COPS TO RAISE MONEY FROM SUCKERS: How the War on Sex Work Crushes Underprivileged Women.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: “Western elites are perpetually aggrieved. But the next time they direct their lectures at a particular target, consider the source and motivation of their outrage.”

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WHAT HAVE THE BRITISH EVER DONE FOR US? They Invented The Modern World.

ANNALS OF LEFTIST AUTOPHAGY: Michael Moore Versus the Democrats. Or Is It Vice-Versa?

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GOOD: Ajit Pai: Carrier sales of phone-location data is illegal, FCC plans punishment.

DON SURBER: Media Frankensteins hate their creation.

The media wanted President Donald John Trump impeached. The House impeached him. Now as his acquittal nears — painstakingly slow-walked at a turtle’s pace by Mitch McConnell — the media valedictorians ask themselves what have we done?

Choose the form of your destructor.

NICK GILLESPIE: Mike Bloomberg Just Lost My Vote With His Super Bowl Ad. “The billionaire former three-term mayor of New York panders to Democratic loyalists rather than laying out a vision for a prosperous, tolerant America.”

His ads are awful on both substance and style. They’re mostly low-information anti-Trump, and when Bloomberg speaks he has zero charisma. Hard to believe a titan of industry — in media no less — can be so unappealing even when groomed and set up for the camera. They come across like the morale-boosting videos a CEO might do for employees after cutting their vacation time.

SURE, THAT MAKES SENSE. A new Russian-built research station that operates without oil or natural gas will be located in the heart of Moscow’s greatest concentration of natural gas in the Arctic, officials said.

ANALYSIS: TRUE. Bloomberg Just Gave Gun Owners 60 Million Reasons To Get Involved This Year.

THE CORBYNIZATION OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY CONTINUES APACE:

Related: Neera Tanden: Rashida Tlaib’s booing of Hillary at Sanders rally just another example of ‘white male rage and misogyny.’ 

Somebody set up us the bomb!

NEWS YOU CAN USE: What to Watch For in the Super Bowl.

Related: CNN examines how the Kansas City Chiefs came to have such a loaded name.

TO BE FAIR, WE KNOW THAT WORLD WAR III BEGAN WHEN A MAN NAMED ALBERT SHANKER GOT HOLD OF A NUCLEAR WARHEAD: The City Council’s mad meltdown over…keeping nuclear weapons out of NYC.

(Classical reference in headline.)

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Student op-ed urges tampons in men’s campus restrooms.

CAN I GET ME A HUNTING LICENSE HERE? Open Mouth, Insert Foot: John Kerry Rails Against the Horrible ‘AR-16 With a Long Clip.’