WHEN THE FEDS RAIN CASH A LITTLE SPILLAGE IS TO BE EXPECTED. HOWEVER I KNOW MANY HOSPITALS ARE ALSO IN DEEP TROUBLE:  Hospitals flush with cash got billions in coronavirus bailouts.

AS WE ARE RELIABLY ASSURED SUCH THINGS NEVER HAPPEN YOU’D THINK THAT WAS BIG NEWS IN A “MAN BITES DOG” MODE:  Sherikia Hawkins, Southfield city clerk, charged with altering ballots in 2018 midterm elections.

PLEASE OPEN UP THE GATES AND LET ME OUT OF HERE. TOO MANY PEOPLE HAVE DIED IN THE NAME OF SAFETY, SO LET ME OUT OF HERE:  Does This CDC Study Deliver the Knockout Blow in the COVID Lockdown Debate?

Isn’t it funny to see lefties support the government doing things they were afraid churches would do? And by funny I mean vile and despicable to the point of invoking disbelief?

HE MIGHT BE RIGHT, YOU KNOW?  This Plague Psychodrama is Peak Postmodernism. Its Retreat Will Lead to Remodern Renewal.

THIS APOCALYPTIC PLAGUE L(ive)A(ction)R(ole)P(playing)ING GROWS MORE ABSURD BY THE MOMENT:   Low virus rate leaves Oxford vaccine trial with ‘only 50% chance’.

THIS IS NOT SO MUCH A BLOG POST AS A PRE- COFFEE BULL SESSION ON MY BLOG. I WAS TRYING TO COLLECT THOUGHTS FROM WHICH, EVENTUALLY, COLUMNS MIGHT ORIGINATE:  Nothing to Live or Die for.

BOB MCMANUS: Andrew Cuomo managed to kill grandma — and New York’s economy, too.

YOU WENT FULL KAREN. NEVER GO FULL KAREN: Video of white woman calling cops on black man in Central Park draws outrage.

OPEN THREAD: No tears and no hearts breaking, no remorse.

GOLD’S GYM IN VENICE CALIFORNIA IS BEGINNING TO FALL APART AS HOMELESS FLOCK TO CLOSED FACILITY.

OH, TO BE IN ENGLAND: One in five English people believe COVID is a Jewish conspiracy – survey.

RIP: Jimmy Cobb, the jazz drummer and last surviving player on Miles Davis’s seminal 1959 album Kind of Blue has died from lung cancer at age 91.

Flashback: The 60th Anniversary of Kind of Blue: Miles Davis’ Masterpiece, over at Ed Driscoll.com.

SPACE: SpaceX and NASA are ready to launch astronauts. Here’s the 10-year journey it took to get here.

HEATHER MAC DONALD: “Fear is gripping the American public health and media establishments: they are losing control.”

AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD: Governor Whitmer Orders Citizens To Barbecue Indoors.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Where You Can Buy Hertz Cars At Huge Discounts. “After 102 years of operation, Hertz is now bankrupt and with $25 billion in debt, it just made the list of the 25 biggest bankruptcies in history. And with creditors now looking for creative ways to recover as much of their investment as possible, the Hertz fleet of just over 506,000 vehicles is a hot commodity for what’s left of the company.”

Ace of Spades co-blogger Arthur Kimes tweets that “the real bargains are in the entry/mid level range where Hertz will unleash a deflationary neutron bomb that will cripple the used car market for years to come.”

In other motoring-related news: Lock your cars! Vehicle theft spikes in COVID-19 pandemic.

ONCE AGAIN, THE NARRATIVE SEEMS TO HAVE BEEN MORE ALARMING THAN THE FACTS JUSTIFY: Asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 Carriers Are Not Very Contagious. “If someone doesn’t feel bad and exhibits no symptoms of disease, he can generally go about his business without harming others. If you feel bad, you should stay home. If you feel bad, stay home. If you feel okay, report to school or work. So what have we learned in this study that our mothers didn’t teach us?”

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ILHAN OMAR DECLARES #METOO MISSION ACCOMPLISHED. Ilhan Omar: I Will Vote for Biden Even Though I Believe Tara Reade.

NO, A LOCKDOWN WOULDN’T HAVE HELPED: Understanding the Deaths in Stockholm. Proponents of lockdowns have seized on the large number of deaths in Stockholm’s nursing homes to criticize Sweden for not shutting down its economy. But it’s doubtful that a lockdown would have made much difference. Residents in nursing homes are particularly vulnerable to infection, as Chris Pope has explained in City Journal, because they live in a group setting and require so much hands-on care from health-care workers who are treating other people. They also typically suffer from other chronic illnesses that make them likely to die in less than a year once they enter a nursing home in Stockholm, as Charlotta Stern and Daniel Klein calculate. The researchers conclude:

Most Covid-19 victims had already been in the nursing home for some time. The disease tends to strike down the most vulnerable, and the disease takes some time. From all considerations, it is reasonable to say that those who died of Covid-19 in Stockholm’s nursing homes had a life-remaining median somewhere in the range of 5 to 9 months. . . .

The overall number of deaths of people in nursing homes in Sweden has not, in fact, been much elevated, compared to recent years. Over the period January through April 2020, the number of deaths among those in nursing homes was about 11,000, whereas for the previous year it was about 10,000. And that previous year was unusually low, partly because the 2019 flu season was relatively mild. It is possible that come 2020 the nursing-home population was even more vulnerable than usual.

Sweden’s approach is looking better and better.

WAR IS PEACE, FREEDOM IS SLAVERY: Antifa protests against ending the lockdown in Germany.

THE CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE’S EFFORT TO BRING BACK RACE AND SEX PREFERENCES: John Fund believes the Cal legislature’s effort to engineer the repeal of Proposition 209 may be a strategic blunder for Democrats.

Unusually high numbers of Asian Americans are neither Republicans nor Democrats. In California, about 40 percent are independents — the classic swing voter. In 2018, their swing to the Democrats was behind the party’s narrow capture of several ancestrally Republican House seats in Orange and Los Angeles Counties.

But they can swing back, as the special-election victory by Republican Mike Garcia for a vacant House seat in Los Angeles proved this month. Garcia won a ten-point victory, including a majority of independents.

Already Asian-American grassroots organizations are planning anti-ACA-5 town halls across the state (via Zoom).

It’s funny.  Most (though not all) of the national organizations that claim to represent Asian Americans are against us.  But they are usually funded by foundations, not by members.  Actual Asian Americans are opposing ACA-5 with a passion.  It really exposes the gap between the elites of the identity politics world and the people they purport to represent.

Read the whole thing.

TONY KATZ: A Virus Worse Than COVID-19. “The Times uses dead Americans as a prop to move the Narrative. Does anyone doubt this conceptual art piece on the front page of the Times isn’t saying, ‘Look! Look at all the people Trump killed’?”

What a garbage publication the NYT is.

THE MANCHURIAN MASCOT: Greta Thunberg is Being Exploited. She’s immune to criticism—which is why China and the climate radicals are so happy with her work.

WATCH: A Social Distancing Burial at Arlington Cemetery.