ROGER KIMBALL: COVID-19, the Elephant, and the House Cat.

HEH: COVID-19 Kills Plans to Eventually Meet Neighbors.

SEN. AMY KLOBUCHAR SAYS HER HUSBAND HAS TESTED POSITIVE FOR CORONAVIRUS: “After a persistent temperature and a ‘bad, bad’ cough, [John] Bessler began coughing up blood, Klobuchar [D-MN] said, prompting him to get a coronavirus test and a chest X-ray. He checked into a hospital in Virginia and ‘now has pneumonia and is on oxygen but not a ventilator,’ Klobuchar said.”

SARAH HOYT’S SHOCKED FACE COULD NOT BE REACHED FOR COMMENT: China May Have Massively Underreported Coronavirus Deaths.

UGH: Israeli Doctor in Italy Says They No Longer Allow Those Over 60 Access to Respiratory Machines.

Considering the median age in Italy is 47, that’s an awful lot of people being denied care.

WELL, IT CERTAINLY ISN’T SOCIALISM OF THE INTERNATIONAL VARIETY: MSNBC Anchor: Universal Health Care Isn’t Socialist.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE, KANGAROO-COURT EDITION: Judge says Syracuse may have ignored its own evidence standard to judge student a rapist.

WHEN DO TRAVEL RESTRICTIONS NOT WORK? HERE’S A HINT: NY Times Discovers Travel Restrictions In China Didn’t Work — When They Were Not Implemented.

The punchline is that the NY Times is claiming travel restrictions didn’t work, based on the quick spread of the virus when there were no travel restrictions.

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HMM: The doctor who helped defeat smallpox explains what’s coming.

COLLUSION: Chinese-owned app TikTok taps US professors for ‘content advisory council.’

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KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Virtual Happy Hours Will Get Us Through This. “Honestly though, if last week was any indication, some of my friends may need to begin some virtual happy hour action at breakfast time just to avoid needing to be scraped off of the walls. We may need to do some social distance hiking, the weather is finely right for it here. We can walk six feet apart — the desert is big — and not share any trailmix.”

With no school to get the kids off to, every morning is a Bloody Mary Sunday Morning.

WHEN WILL THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA REPORT GOOD NEWS ON CORONAVIRUS? There are significant signs of hope amid the endless gloomery.

KURT SCHLICHTER: The People Our Loser Elite Look Down Upon Are Saving Our Bacon.

Here are some people who are useless, especially now: Performance artists, diversity consultants, magic crystal healers, sociology TAs, members of the mainstream media, and gender-unspecified entities who brew kale kombucha.

Here are some people who matter, especially now: Soldiers, nurses, truckers, cops, the guy who stocks the shelves at Ralphs, farmers, and that dude rebuilding your roof.

The Chinese Bat Soup Flu has certainly clarified some of the blurred lines between what is important and what is frivolous garbage.

Indeed it has.

WELL, YES: FEMA chief acknowledges medical supply shortage, says ‘global problem.’

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THAT SEEMS LIKELY: Coronavirus may cause disruptions for a year, experts say: The disease could resurface in the fall.

CHANGE: No national quarantine as states move on their own.

#JOURNALISM:

TAKING SIDES: CNN’s Jake Tapper under fire after admitting he didn’t fact-check AOC on Trump-coronavirus claim.

I REMEMBER WHEN JAKE TAPPER AT LEAST PRETENDED TO BE NEUTRAL:

The reason for the “advice,” of course, is that Trump is wrecking their narrative.

MATTHEW CONTINETTI: Coronavirus Tests America’s Social Capacity.