LET ME TRANSLATE THIS FOR LEFTISTS AND THOSE ON THE RIGHT WHO MIGHT HAVE FORGOTTEN. MONEY IS NOT JUST MONEY. NONE OF US IS PILING MONEY IN TO SWIM IN, LIKE UNCLE SCROOGE. MONEY IS LIFE. YOU TRADE YOUR LIFE FOR MONEY WITH WHICH YOU BUY THINGS TO SUSTAIN AND ENHANCE THAT LIFE.  THIS IS GOING TO DESTROY LIVES. IS ALREADY DESTROYING LIVES. AND IT WILL COST US LIVES: IN POVERTY, DESPAIR AND OUTRIGHT SUICIDE:  More economic disasters due to government imposed shut downs.

STOP THIS INSANITY. YOU DON’T KILL A RESPIRATORY VIRUS WITH LOCKDOWNS:  More than HALF of Los Angeles workers are now unemployed just one month into coronavirus lockdowns.

(“Not working” might be more accurate, but all the same, devastating.)

IT’S TIME:  Liberation From Lockdown Now.

FROM NITAY ARBEL:  Operation Flash, Episode 3: Spring Awakening.

The third installment of the alternate history series where Hitler and Himmler were assassinated in March 1943.
A desperate military situation forces Carl Goerdeler’s Emergency Reich Government (ERG) to make a bargain with the devil.
Across the Channel, Winston Churchill plays for time as he pursues a separate peace with Goerdeler.
Two old acquaintances make the first steps on a long march toward national atonement.
And meanwhile, the ERG’s deadliest enemy lurks within its gates.

YOU MEAN, THE SCIENCE WASN’T SETTLED?  (AS IF SCIENCE EVER WERE):  Star spotted orbiting black hole backs up Einstein theory.

YES, THAT’S ABSOLUTELY WHAT WE NEED WHEN WE’RE ALL SUPPOSED TO BE TERRIFIED OF THIS FOREIGN VIRUS. YOU’RE RIGHT:  COVID-19: Democrats demand end to border wall construction and migrant detention, calling for illegals to walk free.

(Do I need to point out I’m being sarcastic?)

NO. AND THEY ALSO WON’T PROTECT YOU FROM ANY OTHER VIRUS, MANY OF WHICH ARE FAR MORE DANGEROUS: Will eyeglasses or contact lenses protect you from coronavirus?

If you’re that scared, I suggest you wear one of these:

LOOK, THIS IS WHY PLANNED ECONOMIES FAIL, AND IT ALL ENDS IN LACK OF TOILET PAPER, AND A HUNDRED THOUSAND SHOES, SIZE 2 FOR THE LEFT FOOT. EVEN WITH THE BEST INTENTIONS, NO ONE CAN KNOW WHAT THE POPULATION OF A CITY WANTS OR NEEDS, MUCH LESS THE POPULATION OF A STATE. THIS IS ALL INSANITY. AND IT’S HEADED TO VENEZUELA BY FALL UNLESS THE LOCKDOWN ENDS YESTERDAY:  The surprising businesses countries do and don’t deem essential.

WHAT TO WEAR WHEN YOUR GOVERNOR IS AN AUTHORITARIAN D*CKHEAD:  Mom selling penis face masks has raised $56K for charity.

WHAT’S GOING ON IN SOME COUNTRIES:  COVID19 update, April 16, 2020: Germany’s exit roadmap; brief Belgium update; UPDATE: Switzerland’s time table.

SO HE’S TOO DUMB TO READ THE CONSTITUTION HE SWORE AN OATH TO PROTECT. WELL DONE, NEW JERSEY, ELECTING THIS MORON. AS GRANDMA WOULD SAY “YOU MUST BE SO PROUD. GO AHEAD AND WIPE YOUR HANDS ON THE WALL”:  New Jersey Governor: Bill Of Rights Above Pay Grade.

ANYONE USING THE PHRASE “NEW NORMAL” TO DESCRIBE THE CURRENT MADNESS SHOULD BE PELTED WITH ROTTEN VEGETABLES. CALL IT WHAT IT IS THE ILLEGAL ABNORMAL:  Beware Andrew Cuomo’s Proclaiming “New Normal”.

AS WE’RE SEEING OVER AND OVER AGAIN:  Top Israeli prof claims simple stats show virus plays itself out after 70 days.

LET THEM EAT ICE-CREAM:  Payroll Protection Program out of money as Nancy Pelosi still demands additional unrelated spending.

AND YES, I KNOW, A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE VIEWING TRUMP’S DECLARATION AS A HOPEFUL SIGN. I SEE IT AS HIS CONTINUING TO ALLOW US TO BE GOVERNED BY SCIENTISTS WITH PRETTY CHARTS. BECAUSE THAT WORKED SO WELL FOR THE USSR:  Trump bows to bureaucrats, unveils a never-ending 3-phase program to end shutdowns.

They didn’t close us gradually. They can reopen like they closed.

Also, am I the only one who still remembers this was ALL about “bending the curve” which apparently auto-bent (because three weeks of isolation would be when it started to bend, but instead it never spiked. Even with all the dubious diagnostics and highly exaggerated “deaths.”)

SERIOUSLY people go outside. Being locked indoors with the MSM leads to strange amnesia and hysteria.

HONEST, I THINK UNLESS THE TAKE OVER OF OUR ECONOMY AND TURNING IT INTO A PLANNED ECONOMY IS NOT REVERSED YESTERDAY, WE’LL HAVE BLOOD ON THE STREETS:  Freedom Is Starting to Break Out.

I’VE BEEN SCREAMING THIS FOR A MONTH NOW:  We Are Needlessly Devastating Our Country.

To quote 1776, the musical, “Is anybody there? Does anybody care?”

FROM C. CHANCY:  A Net of Dawn and Bones.

Blood rituals, black magic, and broken masquerades. Names to run away from really fast. And maybe the end of the world….
Welcome to Intrepid, North Carolina. Where autumn brings leaf season, tourists, and bloody sacrifice.
Twenty years have passed since the Dark Day brought creatures of horror onto the evening news. Now vampires run nightclubs, alchemists deal potions on the street corners, and werewolf gangs lay claim to shady alleys. The honest cops of Intrepid enforce human laws on supernatural evil, and pray. Because the turn of the leaves brings Halloween, tourists… and the return of a serial killer who’s plagued Intrepid for over two decades.
Yet the night holds darker secrets than even the best detectives have unearthed. Somewhere in Intrepid, a demonic sorcerer plans to bring Hell on earth. And the Demongate is almost complete.
In the midst of a stakeout gone wrong, two mysterious wanderers drop into Detective Church’s life. Aidan, who moves like flames and holds secrets in his shadows… and Myrrh, a holy warrior born of ancient Alexandria. Enchantress. Heretic. Hell-raider.
Welcome to Intrepid.
Evil’s in for a hell of a night….

I HAVE A STORY IN THIS WRITTEN WITH MY FRIEND LAURA MONTGOMERY (of Ground Based Space Matters, a space law and policy blog.):  Overruled.

ORDER IN THE COURT! A new anthology of science fiction stories that explores what the future of jurisprudence might well be like, with thrilling, hilarious, and downright entertaining results! So much fun, it oughta be illegal! Stories by Robert A. Heinlein, Clifford D. Simak, Sarah A. Hoyt, and more.

Lawyers—pardon me, attorneys—may be portrayed in fiction as the good guys (and gals) or as greedy conniving shysters.

In mundane fiction, the former are represented ably by Earle Stanley Gardner’s Perry Mason and by Harper Lee’s Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird (we’ll pass over her other novel, Go Set a Watchman, with a less inspiring portrait—consider it obviously set in a parallel world). The less favorable view was expressed by Edgar Rice Burroughs in his SF classic, A Princess of Mars, in which his doubly immortal John Carter observes that the Martians are very fortunate in that, while they may behave with savage cruelty, and are constantly at war, at least they have no lawyers.

Both views of the legal profession have been explored in science fiction and fantasy since John Carter set foot on the Red Planet, as well as looking into possible ways that future punishment for crimes may change, not necessarily for the better. Some of science fiction’s greatest talents are included in this book, including classics by Robert A. Heinlein, Larry Niven, Clifford D. Simak, Robert Silverberg, and more, and newer stories by Sarah A. Hoyt, Alex Shvartsman, and Alvaro Zinos-Amaros, and still other stellar talents bringing down the judge’s gavel with a verdict of excellent entertainment.

THE THING THEY DON’T UNDERSTAND IS THAT WE’RE NOT LOCKED IN HERE WITH THEM. THEY’RE LOCKED IN HERE WITH US:  State governments announce demands before releasing citizens from house arrest.

We’re Americans. Millions for defense, not a cent for tribute. And that includes to enemies domestic.  I can sense the time coming and it’s not very far when Americans will have obeyed their last irrational order.

I think I’ve said this before: I’ve lived through lock downs and curfews before. Not once was the reason given the real reason.  The real reason was always “fear of the governed.”  Now you know. Proceed accordingly.

BEHOLD, MY SHOCKED FACE:  NYC Officials Now Counting Deaths of Those Who ‘Never Tested Positive’ in Coronavirus Totals.

NORMAL FOR CORONA VIRUSES, WHICH IS WHY REPULSIVE STATISTS LIKE NOISOME ARE MAKING A VACCINE A CONDITION TO LETTING THEIR HOSTAGES GO:  ‘Significant’ coronavirus mutation discovered, could make vaccine search ‘futile,’ study says.

ANY MODEL THAT IGNORES THE DIFFERENCE AMONG HUMAN CULTURES AND SUBCULTURES EVEN, AND PURPORTS TO BE ACCURATE FOR THE SPREAD OF AN INFECTIOUS DISEASE IS NOT MERELY INACCURATE. IT’S CRIMINAL:  Israeli Professor Shows Virus Follows Fixed Pattern.

Further, any scientist who, with insufficiency of data panics countries into full lock down which will damage the economy and cause a lot more lives lost than could be shaved with the lock down is either stupid or malicious.  Though frankly, there’s always the popular “both” option.

THIS TOO HAS BECOME A PATTERN:  Suddenly, the Chinese lab origin theory of COVID-19 becomes more than a baseless right-wing conspiracy myth.

HOW ABOUT NO? HOW ABOUT WE OPEN THE ECONOMY BY OPENING IT? WE DON’T NEED A PLAN. WE NEED TO REASSERT OUR RIGHTS:  Reopen The Economy By Making Plans Instead Of Talking In Circles.