FASTER? PLEASE! The First COVID-19 Vaccine Was Made in ‘Record’ Time and Phase 1 Trials Have Begun in Seattle.

CHAOS: Ohio Gov DEFIES Court Ruling That Primary Must Go on, Orders Polls CLOSED on Tuesday.

I HATE THOSE THINGS: How do we stop people from blinding other drivers with aftermarket LEDs?

NO FREEDOM, PLEASE, WE’RE IVY LEAGUERS: LGBTQ activists demand restrictions on Harvard Law’s new religious freedom clinic.

I doubt the Harvard Law administration will give the proper response.

GOOD: White House advisor Peter Navarro: I’m bringing an executive order to Trump that would reduce US foreign dependency on medicines.

MIDDLEBURY HAS REALLY BECOME A GARBAGE PLACE, BECAUSE OF ITS GARBAGE STUDENTS: Middlebury students tear down local bar’s American flag, ‘vandalize’ campus amid national crisis.

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KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: My Starbucks Is Closed and I Want All of You to Visit Me In Prison Because Reasons.

Just to make things interesting, I decided to go to the Whole Foods Market across the street and see how that hot mess was playing out.

Turns out, not so messy at all.

Americans were out shopping in a grocery store acting like normal Americans shopping in a grocery store.

No panic.

No hoarding.

No shoving each other about.

Just people shopping.

IT WAS GLORIOUS.

That’s been my experience, too.

UPDATE (FROM GLENN): As I’ve noted before, and as scholar Kathleen Tierney has documented, the press always emphasizes stories of panic and chaos, but the panic-and-chaos response to disasters is actually pretty rare.

SHOULD WE BE PRAYING THROUGH THE CORONAVIRUS CRISIS? Well, there is good evidence of the efficacy of prayer regardless of one’s view on the ultimate question, which ought to be a good thing for everybody concerned. Also, looks like Capitol Hill aides want to do their praying from home. Or at least their working.

CNN SLIMES: Trump Is ‘Emulating’ Propaganda of North Korea on Virus.

And yet, CNN is still free to bash Trump non-stop, in sharp contrast to how they “report” on North Korea.

PLAY IN THE SUNSHINE: Why you MUST get outside even when you are supposed to be social distancing.

SHOCKER: No, The White House Didn’t ‘Dissolve’ Its Pandemic Response Office. I Was There.

ROGER SIMON: Looking at the Bright Side of a Pandemic.

I know—it’s hard to look at the bright side of a pandemic. But take it from someone who has self-quarantined for the better part of fifty years, it’s not always so bad.

That’s what professional writers do, sit alone in a room and work (or try to) for hours on end.

I didn’t realize at roughly age fifteen when I fell in love with the likes of Ernest Hemingway and Raymond Chandler that the writer’s life was one of loneliness. I thought it was about attracting Bennington undergrads at cocktail parties by bragging about your (unfinished) novel when you weren’t dreaming up your Oscar speech.

I learned quickly.

Anyway, a life of working alone at home (with the exception of a three-year stint at Universal Studios and seven years as CEO of PJ Media) has taught me a few things that might prove useful in the present environment.

Read the whole thing.

Earlier: I Work From Home. Here Are Some Tips To Make It Easier.

SEEN ON FACEBOOK: “It took Germany and Canada until yesterday to ban incoming flights from China. Donald Trump did it 47 days ago.”

CINEMA VERITAS: Regal Cinemas Closing All U.S. Theaters Due to Coronavirus.

FLASHBACK: Blockbuster Video at Home. “I might have more titles on hand than your typical Blockbuster. Back when Blockbusters were typical, that is.”

Now who’s the crazy one?

HEH. SEEN ON FACEBOOK:

BLUE ON BLUE: Bernie Bros Warn Of A ‘Mass Exodus’ If Joe Biden Gets The Democratic Presidential Nomination.

JIM TREACHER: Watch: Chinese Government Encourages Italians to Fight Coronavirus Racism by Hugging Strangers.

Titled “Italian residents hug Chinese people to encourage them in coronavirus fight,” the brief video shows a handsome, casually dressed young Chinese man standing in a busy pedestrian area in Florence. He’s blindfolded and wearing a surgical mask, next to a handwritten sign reading the following in Italian and Chinese: “I am not a virus. I am a human being. Free me from prejudice.” Then, as stirring electronic music swells, passersby hug him and touch his face to remove his blindfold and mask.

So much for “social distancing.”

This was released on February 4, 2020. Six weeks later, Italy now has more active coronavirus cases than anywhere else in the world, and the entire country has completely shut down.

Again, this video was released by the Chinese government. Someone who’s far more paranoid and conspiratorially minded than I am might wonder why the ChiComs stifled information about a viral outbreak within their own borders, silencing doctors and others who tried to warn the outside world, while at the same time releasing treacly, upbeat propaganda videos encouraging Europeans to come into direct physical contact with random Chinese people or else they’re racists.

Related: The American media is in a Chinese finger-trap. Outlets shilling for the PRC fully deserve to be dubbed ‘enemies of the people.’

ANALYSIS: TRUE. We Are in This Crisis because of the Decisions of the Chinese Government.

NOW OUT FROM ALAN HIRSCH: A Short History of Presidential Election Crises: (And How to Prevent the Next One).