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KURT SCHLICHTER: Economic Illiterates Are Running Amok. “One particularly terrifying consequence of the Chinese Bat Soup Virus that is not yet getting the attention it deserves is how this situation is making already stupid liberals even dumber, especially when they sound off about economics. In the wake of this pandemic, we’ve been subjected to a series of mind-numbing insights from the pinko blue check brain trust that reaffirms the clichéd but true observation that our elite is anything but elite. Leave it to our liberal betters to take a bad situation and seek to make it exponentially worse.”

STEVEN HAYWARD: A “Cannonball Run” for the Economy?

HE’S NOT WRONG:

“DISCONCERTING.” COVID-19 Patients Given Unproven Drug In Texas Nursing Home In ‘Disconcerting’ Move.

A friend on Facebook comments: “Washington (Kirkland) nursing home: No hydroxychloroquine, 35 deaths out of 120 residents. Texas nursing home: Treatment WITH hydroxychloroquine, 1 death out of 135 residents.”

Maybe what’s “disconcerting” is the prospect that Trump might be right.

OPEN THREAD: Worldly wise, I realize that everybody’s crazy.

IT’S NOT THAT COVID-19 IS PHONY. IT’S THAT MOST OF THE DRACONIAN MEASURES PUT IN PLACE TO FIGHT IT DON’T HELP. AND SOME ARE ACTIVELY WORSENING SPREAD:  The Covid-19 Phony War.

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SPACE: Space Acquisition Council to consider new actions to help aerospace industry cope with pandemic.

IF I COULD WALK THAT WAY, I WOULDN’T NEED THE TALCUM POWDER: Boston suburb’s coronavirus order: Only walk against traffic. “On some street in the city of Beverly, you have to walk this way: Against traffic, or you could face a fine. The Beverly Board of Health is ordering people on Lothrop Street only to walk on the side of the road opposite the direction that cars are going.”

PROGRESS: Michigan Medicine will not open field hospital due to curve ‘significantly flattening.’

TAMARA KEEL: Surprise! It turns out that you’re the zombie bikers. “Bugging out’ to your survival retreat has been a staple of prepping since back when it was still called ‘survivalism’. Put into actual use, the cracks in the plan are starting to show.”

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DAN MITCHELL: Coronavirus and the Tradeoff Between Big Government and Competent Government.

There are some glaring inaccuracies in Milbank’s column, starting with the absurd notion that big-spender Trump (he increased domestic spending at a faster pace than Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, or Barack Obama) is somehow connected to the principles that animated the Tea Party.

More relevant, he wants readers to believe that anti-government activism somehow blocked the production of a “rudimentary test” for the virus, yet I’ve repeatedly documented that the actual problem has been mindless red tape from bureaucracies such as the Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control.

Speaking of which, Chris Edwards has rigorously debunked the notion that those bureaucracies, along with the National Institutes of Health, somehow have been starved of resources.

Here’s his chart showing funding for NIH and CDC.

Well, Dana Milbank.

‘CROSSED THE LINE:’ BAN-HAPPY MICHIGAN GOVERNOR GRETCHEN WHITMER BLASTED FOR ‘INSANE’ OVERREACH IN RESPONSE TO CORONAVIRUS OUTBREAK . Including the banning of car seat purchases, purchasing seeds to grow foods, and forbidding residents from driving between residences they own. “Two activities that can certainly be done while maintaining proper social distancing are landscaping and golf, and those things are — you guessed it — also forbidden.”

I CAN’T SAY I FIND THIS ESPECIALLY SURPRISING: Bangladesh’s water teeming with drugs, chemicals, study says.

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NOT ANTI-WAR, MERELY ON THE OTHER SIDE: Ted Cruz Slams Dianne Feinstein: Trying To Send Millions To Iran, While Blocking Relief To American Businesses.

MORE ON NITRIC: Clinical trial to investigate nitric oxide for COVID-19 treatment.

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Flashback: America’s Tradition of Federalism Leaves Progressives Puzzled.

Wait until Stelter discovers that even Mr. Progressivism himself, Woodrow Wilson, was even more hands-off during the 1918-1919 Spanish Flu pandemic.

CHURCHES ARE FIGHTING TYRANNICAL GOVERNMENT FOR THE RIGHT TO CELEBRATE EASTER WHILE SOCIAL DISTANCING: “On Saturday, U.S. District Court Judge Justin Walker granted a temporary restraining order preventing Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer from blocking On Fire Church from holding drive-in services on Easter.”

XI’S GOTTA HAVE IT: Spike Lee Blasts Trump, Praises Cuomo, Claims Coronavirus Is Earth’s Revenge.

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#HIMTOO? Flashback: Lady Gaga Joins Biden for MeToo PSA.

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