AMAZON DECIDES WHAT YOU’RE PERMITTED TO THINK: Amazon Shareholders Endorse Viewpoint Discrimination Against Conservatives.

YOU KNOW WHO OWNS YOU BY WHAT YOU’RE NOT ALLOWED TO SAY: YouTube Censorship and That Which May Not Be Said About Chinese Propaganda.

Just for future reference, the magic words are 五毛党 or just 五毛. They mean “paid commenter”.

UPDATE: (Charlie) YouTube got back to me. A spokesperson said: “This appears to be an error in our enforcement systems and we are investigating. Users can report suspected issues to troubleshoot errors and help us make product improvements.”

VICTORY FOR CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE: Minnesota Gov. Loosens Church Restrictions After Catholics, Lutherans Unite.

WHERE DOES SARAH KEEP HER SHOCKED FACE? I NEED IT: Deceptive Editing? Norma McCorvey From Roe v. Wade Didn’t Reject the Pro-Life Cause, Former Lawyer Says.

TREASON IS A DANGEROUS WORD: When You Accuse Someone of Treason, Be Careful What You Wish For.

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QUALIFIED IMMUNITY TO BE CONSIDERED BY SCOTUS? Supreme Court Will Soon Decide Whether To Reconsider Qualified Immunity.

This kinda seemed like Glenn’s meat, but it was too good.

DIED FROM? OR DIED WITH? The Mystery of Patricia Dowd: First COVID-19 Death?

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LIVE COVERAGE: LIVE: Trump’s Chinese Coronavirus Press Conference.

MALICE OR INCOMPETENCE? [WATCH] Tom Cotton Condemns China’s ‘Deliberate Evil Act That Unleashed This Pandemic on the World’.

Just to be clear, it’s pretty easy to see how China could have gotten into this mess originally by trying to cover up like a cat on a tile floor. But once they started not reporting cases and pushing propaganda about it really being a US virus, they were well into the second choice.

I’M NOT A LAWYER BUT THIS SEEMS LIKE A FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUE: Organizing an Anti-Quarantine Protest on Facebook? Your Event Might Get Deleted if Government Complains.

BRUSH UP YOUR COBOL: Brush up your COBOL: Why is a 60 year old language suddenly in demand?

The topic of COBOL has come up here before. Here’s what it’s about.

COBOL is, in a lot of ways, an antiquated, bad programming language. But for its particular domain, it’s better than anything else.

UPDATE: I have to admit, I found writing COBOL for this article oddly soothing.

SADLY, THE SPLC CAN’T BE IGNORED — YET: Trump Campaign Slams SPLC’s ‘Division and Fearmongering’ Amid Coronavirus Crisis.

MEGAN FOX ON THE RADIO: This is a little late getting to me, but Megan Fox is on the radio right now, on the Mark Griffith Show.

The Mark Griffith Show airs weekdays at 1 p.m. in the Denver Market on 560 KLZ on the AM dial. Online at www.klzradio.com. Folks can call the show at 303-477-5600.

CORONAVIRUS INFECTION FATALITY RATE ONLY 0.66 PERCENT? Estimates of the severity of coronavirus disease 2019: a model-based analysis.

This is a more complicated mathematical model for what people have been reading in the medical literature if they read past the headlines. See, for example, Anthony Fauci in the New England Journal of Medicine:

If one assumes that the number of asymptomatic or minimally symptomatic cases is several times as high as the number of reported cases, the case fatality rate may be considerably less than 1%. This suggests that the overall clinical consequences of Covid-19 may ultimately be more akin to those of a severe seasonal influenza (which has a case fatality rate of approximately 0.1%) or a pandemic influenza (similar to those in 1957 and 1968) rather than a disease similar to SARS or MERS, which have had case fatality rates of 9 to 10% and 36%, respectively.2

THE NEW NORMAL: Surreal: Samaritan’s Purse Sets Up Coronavirus Field Hospital… in Central Park.

WHY WE DON’T TRUST THE MEDIA # 6,423,782: What The Media Isn’t Telling You About The United States’ Coronavirus Case Numbers.

NOW WE GET TO FIND OUT WHAT’S IN IT: Congress Practices Social Distancing in Passing COVID-19 Stimulus, as Members Spill Out Into the Gallery.

WHAT’S ONE WEEK OF MANEUVERING IN AN ECONOMIC CRISIS? Senate Passes Coronavirus Bill, Proving Pelosi Gambled With Americans’ Lives and Lost.

Somehow, Pelosi and the Democrats have got to pay for this.

SAME SCAM, NEW VERSE: SPLC Blames Trump’s ‘Racist, Anti-Asian Epithets’ for Coronavirus-Related Anti-Asian Harassment.

China’s massive propaganda effort has no connection, of course.

KEEP YOUR EYES OPEN FOR THE BUNNIES: ‘Great American Resurrection’: Trump Wants America Open and ‘Rarin’ to Go’ by Easter.

I think hoping to completely get rid of restrictions by Easter may be a little over-enthusiastic. But it’s going to be fun to watch the Megalithic Media start arguing for economic collapse.

I THINK THIS IS A RHETORICAL QUESTION: Are Democrats Trying To Steal The 2020 Election With Pelosi’s New Coronavirus Bill?

DATA! GIVE ME DATA! DATA IS MY PRECIOUS! I’ve been recommending the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Dashboard, that is Coronavirus COVID-19 Global Cases by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University (JHU), as a source for real data on the Chinese coronavirus。 There are a number of other data dashboards being built using the same data. A Medium article COVID-19 Open Source Dashboard today by Christoph Schönenberger shows a particularly nice one. For the geekly among you, it’s open-sourced so you can have fun modifying it.

BUT THAT WAS, OF COURSE, DIFFERENT: FLASHBACK: The Obama-Biden Administration Scrapped WH Health and Security Office in 2009.

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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CIAO, NO KISSING PLEASE: Italy, Numbers, and Confusion: Why is Italy the Hotbed of COVID-19.