NEWS YOU CAN USE: EPA releases list of approved disinfectants to kill coronavirus, and why homemade sanitizer won’t work. “Hand sanitizer with at least 60% alcohol can also reduce the number of germs on your hands to a lesser extent, but CDC said products that are alcohol-free or have a lower percentage of alcohol are not as effective.”

Most booze is only 40% alcohol, and you’re better off using it internally, anyway.

HEH: Biden: ‘I Am The Only Candidate Who Can Beat Ronald Reagan.’

TO BE ENFORCED WITH AS MUCH EVENHANDEDNESS AS EVER: Twitter expands hateful conduct rules to ban dehumanizing speech around age, disability and now, disease.

IT WAS MY UNDERSTANDING THAT THERE WOULD BE NO MATH: MSNBC’s Brian Williams, New York Times’ Mara Gay Make Embarrassing Math Error.

“Somebody tweeted recently that actually with the money that he spent, he could have given every American a million dollars,” Gay said.

Williams’ show aired the tweet on national television.

“I’ve got it. Let’s put it on the screen,” Williams said. “When I read it tonight on social media, it kind of all became clear.”

Williams then read the tweet: “Bloomberg spent $500 million on ads. The U.S. Population, 327 million. He could have given each American $1 million and have had lunch money left over.”

“It’s an incredible way of putting it,” Williams said.

It sure is…

WEIRD HOW HE COULDN’T BUY AN ELECTION: Bloomberg Was “Never Prouder” Than When He Supported the Ground Zero Mosque.

EMORY LAW UPDATE: Emory Law Prof Suspended For Using N-Word In Class Will Retain Tenure But Is Prohibited From Teaching Mandatory Courses Before Fall 2021.

BUT HEY, AT LEAST SHE GOT SOME SHINY GLASS BEADS, RIGHT?  Warren Returns To Tribe In Shame After Failing To Take Land Back From The Pale Faces.

I’M NOT SURE THERE IS A THIRD WAY. I’D ARGUE A QUICK SWAT ON THE BEHIND IS MUCH LESS TRAUMATIZING THAN PSEUDO-PSYCHOLOGICAL EXPLANATIONS. ALSO, PLEASE REMEMBER, KIDS AND DOGS ONLY HEAR VERY SIMPLE STATEMENTS. OH, AND “SELF ESTEEM EDUCATION” HAS BEEN PRETTY THOROUGHLY DEBUNKED:  Correcting Behavior.

I GUESS THIS IS MY SHOCKED FACE…. AGAIN?  No, Fidel Castro Didn’t Improve Health Care or Education in Cuba

FALLOUT…  WELL, THE DEMS ARE PRETTY RADIOACTIVE:   Super Tuesday Fallout.

ANOTHER CONTAINMENT WE’RE TOO LATE ON.  HONESTLY, WE SHOULD HAVE BUILT A WALL ISOLATING CALIFORNIA TEN YEARS AGO. AND THEN MY STATE WOULDN’T BE IN THIS… STATE:  $50,000-a-day fines and other things to know about Colorado’s new public health insurance option bill.

NEWS YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED WHILE OUT STOCKING UP ON TOILET PAPER:  Clashes breaking out at Greece-Turkey border as migrants continue push attempt into Europe.

DUH. WHICH IS WHY HEARING DOMESTIC LEFTIST CUSTARDHEADS FLAP GUMS ABOUT HOW IF ONLY WE HAD SOCIALISM/MORE GOVERNMENT CONTROL/COMMUNISM, WE WOULDN’T BE IN DANGER OF THIS VIRUS MAKES ME WANT TO REACH THROUGH THE SCREEN AND BEAT SOME SENSE INTO THEM:  How China’s coronavirus crisis exposes the Achilles’ heel of Communist Party power.

OH, AND…. THIS IS MY SHOCKED FACE:  Censored Contagion.

NO, SERIOUSLY, TOILET PAPER DOESN’T COME FROM CHINA. IT COMES FROM CANADA. NOW, I KNOW CANADA IS PRETTY LEFTY, BUT NO MORE THAN CALIFORNIA. WE CAN PROBABLY COUNT ON THEIR SUPPLIES FOR A WHILE:  Amid coronavirus panic, Australian newspaper prints extra pages because of toilet paper shortage.

This one really, truly isn’t rational. It’s just panic.  And the run on TP is going on all over the civilized world from Japan to Europe, to your corner store  On a rumor that it comes from China.

It reminds me of what I did after 9/11 and making sure the kids were safe at school: I went to the grocery store and filled the entire back of my Expedition with groceries and cleaners and toilet paper.  You know why? Because I’d learned from crisis that I needed to have everything I needed and hole in.  Because, you know…. That’s PTSD. It’s not rational. I have friends who work at grocery stores and they’re getting pretty tired of the crazy runs on things that are not in danger of running out.

We’re going to have a problem with Apple products (duh), some other electronics — I’ve heard people mumbling about power supplies — and some medicines.  Oh, clothes and shoes, at least some brands.  And there’s probably other stuff we’re going to find out is made in China when we suddenly need it.

Toilet paper is not that.

HONESTLY, THE PROBLEM IS NOT EVEN THAT WE’RE PANICKING. IT’S THAT WE’RE PANICKING ON PRACTICALLY NOTHING BUT SURMISES AND WHISPERS. FOR INSTANCE, GIVEN THAT INCUBATION CAN BE UP TO 30 DAYS, AND THAT MOST CASES HAVE NO SYMPTOMS AT ALL, LET ALONE THAT CHINA TRIED TO HIDE IT, WHAT MAKES YOU THINK BY THE TIME WE STOPPED FLIGHTS IT WASN’T ALREADY ALL OVER?  The big danger of coronavirus is that we panic ourselves into a greater crisis.

For instance, do you understand that we actually have no idea how many people are infected, because there are very few tests?  And btw, to all the lefties screaming there are few tests because we need more centralized control: PFUI.

So, we actually have no idea. For all we know, that really bad cold everyone has had, the one that keeps coming back? Might very well be it.

In which case what we SHOULD be doing is NOT containment and isolation. It’s preparing to look after the truly vulnerable who will be hit by this: people who are health-compromised and the elderly.  Because those are the ones who are in danger.

Locking the barn door after the horse has fled AND driving down the economy is NOT actually going to help anyone.  Well, except maybe the democrats, but I think they’re beyond help.

HAPPY 30TH ANNIVERSARY: Mike Kerrigan: ‘The Hunt for Red October’ has this timeless message for Americans today.

NEWLY RELEVANT TODAY: My 2005 column on the importance of telecommuting.

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BERNIE SANDERS, USEFUL IDIOT: As Bernie Sanders Pushed for Closer Ties, Soviet Union Spotted Opportunity: Previously unseen documents from a Soviet archive show how hard Mr. Sanders worked to find a sister city in Russia when he was a mayor in the 1980s. Moscow saw a chance for propaganda.

THIS ISN’T ENCOURAGING: Coronavirus: ‘recovered’ patient dies as China reports discharged cases falling ill again.

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HILLARY CHABOT: Woe is Elizabeth Warren’s staff after their candidate bails; As Liz bails, team gets bitter on Twitter. “Woebegone Elizabeth Warren staffers — heartbroken and adrift after the Cambridge Democrat tearily ended her presidential campaign Thursday following on ignominious Super Tuesday showing — cried, drank, sought comfort dogs and made personal fundraising pitches as they faced sudden unemployment.”