I’M SORRY, I THOUGHT THIS WAS AMERICA. Maryland police: Remember to wear pants while checking the mail.

CHRISTIAN ADAMS: Welcome Back to History America.

Civilization has always hung by a thread. The Founders of this country knew that, and that’s why they crafted a constitutional order best suited to nurture domestic tranquility and the general welfare.

It is also why they included a Second Amendment.

Perhaps we are appreciating in concrete terms the value of stable homes, industrious values, and faith.  A nation that was abandoning God might reconsider.

Get your kids and grand-kids The Long Winter by Laura Ingalls Wilder.  They had it worse than your kids do, at least for now.  If you think Zoom school is bad, if you are growing weary of beans and rice, try heating your freezing house with twisted wheat and eating grain porridge for every meal.

This was what befell huge tracts of America just 140 years ago where the Twins, Brewers, Cubs and Tigers should be playing right now.

Welcome to history.  We had it so good for a spell. It was a bounty of the superfluous.  Sociology degrees and safe spaces.  Preferred pronouns and Disney cruises.  Hipster brunch and guaranteed futures.  It was the land of milk and honey.

Now it’s the land of 33,325 deaths, and climbing.

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MEANWHILE, AT THE PJMEDIA MOTHERSHIP: Friday VIP Gold Live Chat with VodkaPundit, Victoria Taft, and Matt Margolis.

THIS IS NICE: American Flag projected onto Matterhorn in Swiss Alps in show of coronavirus solidarity.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Coronavirus lockdown: Lessons from Hokkaido’s second wave of infections.

WHO ARE YOU TRYING TO KID? WHO recommends limits on alcohol consumption during lockdowns.

SOMEONE TELL GAVIN NEWSOM: Fewer Than Half of LA County Residents Still Have Jobs Amid Coronavirus Upheaval.

TEXAS. GOV. GREG ABBOTT ANNOUNCES TEAM TO RESTART THE ECONOMY, LOOSENS SOME RESTRICTIONS.

UGH: Massachusetts Man Arrested for Trying to Blow Up ‘Jewish’ Nursing Home During Coronavirus Pandemic.

LIFE IN DEBLASIO’S NEW YORK: NYC nurse who beat coronavirus pummeled, robbed by group of thugs.

25 YEARS ON: REMEMBERING THE OKLAHOMA CITY BOMBING — AND HOW THE MEDIA ERRED.

THEY DESERVE A BACKLASH: China Faces Backlash Abroad and Raises Coronavirus Death Toll.

Widespread reporting has shown that the Chinese authorities initially mismanaged and concealed the extent of the epidemic before eventually swinging into action in late January to halt the spread of the virus. Beijing maintains that it has been transparent in its communications about the epidemic from the beginning. . . .

In the past week, officials in France, Britain and nearly two dozen African nations have rebuked Chinese government actions. China has been accused of hypocrisy, hubris and obfuscating the virus’s origins.

Japan has pledged to help companies move production out of China because of concerns about the country’s reliability. And President Emmanuel Macron of France questioned whether China’s heavy-handed methods were a model for democracies to follow.

No. It’s not even clear that they’ve worked for the Chinese, since we can’t trust their numbers.

Plus: “The European Union’s top foreign policy official, Josep Borrell, recently accused China of stoking a ‘battle of the narratives’ and stigmatizing Europeans. After member nations complained about substandard medical supplies bought from China, the bloc made a point of thanking Taiwan for its donation of masks, a gesture that would previously have been considered too risky for fear of offending Beijing.”

RISE UP: Americans Demand Return to Dead-End Jobs.

CHANGE: Georgia Democrat State Rep Endorses President Trump, Credits Work For Black Community.

NOT THE BABYLON BEE: Upcoming 1776 Revival to Feature Entirely Female, Nonbinary, Trans, Genderqueer Company.

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HMM: Cracks in the Wall: CBS, PBS Finally Cover Joe Biden Sexual Assault Accuser.

INTERESTING: Antibody research indicates coronavirus may be far more widespread than known: Of 3,300 people in California county up to 4% found to have been infected. “The first large-scale community test of 3,300 people in Santa Clara County found that 2.5 to 4.2% of those tested were positive for antibodies — a number suggesting a far higher past infection rate than the official count. Based on the initial data, researchers estimate that the range of people who may have had the virus to be between 48,000 and 81,000 in the county of 2 million — as opposed to the approximately 1,000 in the county’s official tally at the time the samples were taken.”

(Update: The URL above is broken now. This one worked at 15:57 EDT Antibody research indicates coronavirus may be far more widespread than known.)

JAMES LILEKS ON THE DURATION: Things of Which I Am Mightily Tired.

GOOD: Majority of Positive Coronavirus Cases on U.S. Aircraft Carrier are Symptom-Free.

BUT ORANGE MAN BAD OR WHATEVER: Coronavirus Reveals China’s Horrific Racism Against Black People.

SHE LED WITH HER CAREFULLY WAXED CHIN ON THIS ONE: GOP Mocks “Nancy Antoinette” Pelosi’s Quarantine Stash Of Expensive Ice Cream In A Very Expensive Freezer. “As this clip from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s interview on CBS’s ‘Late, Late Show’ began to circulate around the internet on Tuesday, the Trump campaign rapid response director Steve Guest pointed out that she is ‘eating $13 dollar a pint ice cream out of her $24,000 fridge.'”

HERO DOG: Inside story of Cairo, the dog that helped catch Osama bin Laden.

IT’S A LEGITIMATE CONCERN: Most Americans Worried Country Closed By Coronavirus Will Reopen Too Quickly, Poll Finds.