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.

NOW DO THE UN. IT’S TIME TO STOP FUNDING OUR ENEMIES:  World Health Organization Kicked to Curb by Trump,

THAT… SEEMS LIKE A GOOD IDEA?  Matt Gaetz to NIH: End Funding of Wuhan Lab.

THE RALEIGH PD IS NON ESSENTIAL:  Raleigh PD: Peaceful Assembly Is “Non-Essential”.

KILLING THE REPUBLIC IN ORDER TO SAVE IT?  COVID19, April 15, 2020 update: Cytokine storm — the immune system “killing the patient in order to save him”.

GERMANY’S PLAN FOR REOPENING (IN GERMAN, TRANSLATIONS OF PARTS BY A FRIEND — I AM NO LONGER FLUENT ENOUGH TO TRANSLATE):  Beschlüsse gefällt – Das ist der Fahrplan für die nächsten Wochen.

• • Stores up to 800m^2 (8,800 sq,ft) can be opened starting Monday April 20, with hygiene and distance restrictions

  • Also can reopen then: bike and car stores regardless of size, as well as libraries, archives, zoos, botanical gardens

  • Bavaria, which has been the hardest hit, wants to wait a little longer

That last line?  Yeah….. All within the state, nothing outside the state.  I sense the shape of this mess, don’t you guys?  SCHOOLS can open, but not churches? (Spits.)

TO BE FAIR, MOST PROFESSORS WEREN’T PREPARED FOR THIS AND ARE WINGING IT:  Many College Students Unimpressed With Online Classes.

ANYONE ORGANIZING ONE OF THESE FOR COLORADO? BECAUSE IT’S TIME:  Operation Gridlock: In-Vehicle Protest To Jam Lansing (MI) Protesting Gov. Whitmer’s Insane ‘Stay-At-Home’ Overreach.

AND THEN THERE’S THIS. THIS IS GOING TO MAKE IT HARD FOR ME TO SLEEP AT NIGHT:  First Amendment Fail — Raleigh Police: “Protesting is a non-essential activity”.

WHEN THE NUMBERS ARE COOKED NOBODY KNOWS ANYTHING:  A Quick COVID Research Roundup.

IN THE MIDDLE OF ALL THIS, I GOT 15 MINUTES OF FAME. AS USUAL THESE COME WHEN I’M DOING DISHES, OR SOMETHING EQUALLY GLAMOROUS:  On Losing Respectability.

NOT AS DEPRESSING AS MINE, BUT CLOSE ENOUGH:  Random thoughts about the current American condition.

THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU GIVE STATES AND HOSPITALS INCENTIVE FOR FUDGING THE NUMBERS BY HAVING THE FEDS PAY FOR WINNIE THE FLU CASES:  Literally no one has any idea how many people COVID-19 has killed.

AS DO THE REST OF US:  Tucker Carlson asks an important question about the shutdown’s end.

DUH:  Why Is New York Hardest Hit?

COMMIES GOT TO COMMIE:  Ralph Northam Shoves Virginia To The Left.

YOU MEAN, THEY WEREN’T BEFORE?  Media Burned By Own Words, CNN Goes Full TDS.

OKAY, GUYS, BUT AS ANYONE WHO HAS EVER STUDIED THIS STUFF KNOWS, (YES, I HAVE BECAUSE I CATCH EVERYTHING) WITH A RESPIRATORY VIRUS YOU NEED HERD IMMUNITY. NOTHING ELSE WILL WORK:  COVID cases trending down, states without lockdowns do better.

And the way to get herd immunity is to concentrate on keeping the at-risk from catching it, while letting as many of the non-at-risk as possible catch it and get over it, so that this will protect the at-risk.

What we’re doing instead, besides violating the basic rights of Americans and destroying the economy and giving us famine (bet you! I know what happens when the government declares who can and can’t work. There’s always missed steps and slips in the distribution, and sooner or later famine.) as a second order effect, is also bloody stupid from an immunological perspective. Quite possibly the stupidest thing we could do short of shooting everyone through the head, because that would save them.

SIGNS OF LIFE:  Southeast Kansas town backs off cruise night ban.

FROM KAL SPRIGGS:  Fenris Unchained (Rising Wolf Book 1).

The Wolf is Loose.

Ten years ago, after her parents were killed in a terrorist attack, Melanie Armstrong walked away from a military officer’s career to raise her orphaned brother. Since then she’s been captaining a tramp freighter – shuffling from world to world, scraping to barely get by, but content that she’s made the right decision.

But when her ship crashes, authorities make her an offer: take a fifteen-year sentence on a prison world where the average lifespan is a third of that. Or take part in a mission to stop an ancient, and until-now forgotten, robotic warship, the Fenris, from completing its hundred-year-old task of destroying a planet, killing millions.

SURE. WHY NOT?  ALSO IT WOULD BE FUNNY. (BUT THEN IT’S THE BEE):  Poll Finds More People Would Trust Fauci If He Wore One Of Those Giant Doctor Disk Thingies On His Head.