DON’T TREAD ON US: Fed-Up Michiganders Stage Massive Protest Against Whitmer’s One-Size-Fits-All Lockdown.

TYLER O’NEIL COVERS President Trump’s Chinese Coronavirus Press Conference.

ANTISOCIAL DISTANCING: Man Released From Jail to Prevent Spread of Coronavirus Accused of Murdering Someone the NEXT DAY.

THE GHOST OF HUGO CHAVEZ COULD NOT BE REACHED FOR COMMENT: Obama Says Bernie Sanders’s Ideas Are ‘Critical’ to ‘Rebuilding Our Economy.’

BECAUSE OF COURSE HE DOES: Sen. Chris Murphy Exonerates China from Blame for COVID-19.

Fellow traveler? Useful idiot? Stooge?

UPDATE (FROM GLENN): As I keep saying, you can see who’s on the payroll, or at least on the team.

‘MURICA: 93-year-old woman using powers of the internet to keep beer stocked during pandemic.

LIVING HISTORY: How the ‘Greatest Rock and Roll Band in the World’ Got Its Logo.

MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: Free Money! Dems Team Up to Give Away the Farm, Barn & Outhouse. “For a not-untypical family like mine, that comes out to a stipend of $60,000 a year — even though my wife and I are still working fulltime at our pre-coronavirus jobs. The program would last for six months or until the unemployment rate returns to the pre-plague rate of 3.5%, whichever comes second. Bear with me here while I take you through some back-of-the-envelope math to figure out how much all this Emergency Money is going to cost…”

AND LATER TODAY: VIP Gold Live Chat with VodkaPundit and Kruiser at 3:30 Eastern.

PARTY OF THE LITTLE GUY: Weed Up, Hoes Down in Whitmer’s Michigan. “Critics say Democratic governor’s stay-at-home order is arbitrary and favors big businesses.”

KIRA DAVIS: Governor Gavin Newsom Unveils Six Creepy Conditions California Must Meet Before Reopening the Economy.

THERE SEEMS TO BE MORE AND MORE THERE THERE: Questioning The Official “Wet Market” Origin of the Wuhan Coronavirus Part 1: The Video.

GOOD: President Trump Announces a Halt to US Funding of WHO, Pending Review.

PUNCH BACK TWICE AS HARD: Shady Leftist Group Weaponizes Consumer Protection Law to Silence Fox News, Network Fights Back.

CHINA: Coronavirus runs roughshod over debt-laden belt and road projects.

BRI countries such as Montenegro, already deeply indebted to Beijing, face mounting difficulties related to the pandemic as commodity prices plunge, trade falters and exchange rates shift.

“A debt crisis with Chinese characteristics?” warned Germany’s Kiel Institute for the World Economy in a report last year citing growing default risks.

Adding to the challenge of managing mounting global indebtedness is Beijing’s characteristic lack of transparency.

“The Chinese government considers the details of its overseas lending programme a state secret. No one really knows the numbers,” said Brad Parks, executive director of AidData, part of the College of William & Mary in Virginia, and co-author of a study on Chinese lending practices released last month by the Centre for Global Development (CGD).

Experts estimate that developing countries’ “hidden debts” to China totalled US$380 billion well before the crisis, more than their obligations to the Paris Club, a group of 19 wealthy creditor nations, combined; the World Bank; or the International Monetary Fund.

“If you owe the bank $100 that’s your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that’s the bank’s problem.”

China has a problem.

THREAD: 2yrs ago, US diplomats warned about safety problems at the Wuhan virology lab and said lab’s work on bat coronaviruses could become a new SARs pandemic.

I’ve known John a long time, and this is an important read.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Is a Coronavirus Shutdown Exit Plan Beginning to Emerge? “If we’re lucky, he’ll keep California and New York closed for a couple of years.”

He’s joking. I think.

BULLIES: Radical trans rights activists threaten journalist for writing Animal Crossing article.

Erina Rose, a young gaming journalist at the Australian startup Sausage Roll, wrote on how the mega-hit Animal Crossing had been censored for the western market to cater to LGBT groups. Her piece, published March 24, outlined how the game had changed “gender” with “style” in the title screen to avoid upsetting social justice warriors who didn’t want to identify as either male or female in the game.

Rose used evidence from three international versions of the game, which demonstrated the only edition where “sex” is censored is in the English one.

In a screenshot from Rose’s article, she demonstrates that in the Japanese version, “boy” or “girl” is still an option to be selected. But in the English version of the same game, the gendered terms have been replaced with “style.”

She also claims a source who worked at Nintendo on the Animal Crossing development team admitted to her the game had been changed to not upset LGBT groups.

Following the publication of the article, Rose began receiving horrific threats and abuse to her Twitter account and email.

Luxury beliefs like this one — and the bullying attitudes they engender — need to be pushed out on an ice floe to enjoy the retirement they deserve.

I THOUGHT THIS WAS AMERICA: Popular streaming site Twitch has introduced new guidelines regarding how much cleavage its users can show to their online fans.

NICE: Stuck At Home With Your New Gun? Some Gun Owners Want To Help You Stay Safe.

Jon Ogawa, a sales associate at Grandpa’s Pawn & Gun in Longmont, Colorado, says sales in the past few weeks have been higher than ever.

“More first-timers than, generally, we’ve ever seen before,” Ogawa said. “They’re worried about looters, people breaking in, looking for toilet paper, food, water…”

It’s vital that new gun owners understand what they’re getting into, Ogawa says.

“It’s a little bit concerning because it tends to be uneducation or ignorance that ends up being the reason why people end up getting hurt,” he said. ”It’s important that we all understand the responsibility.”

Ken Constantine, the owner of Elk River Guns in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, described his sales as “skyrocketing.”

“The majority of customers coming in the door in this increase are new customers,” Constantine said. “My guess is that many of these first-time buyers are people who had been thinking about it for a while, on the bubble as to whether or not to spend money, and now they’re coming in because of this virus and they’re nervous. They’re deciding to spend the money on personal protection.”

New gun owners represent an opportunity for the gun rights community, eager both to keep people safe and to add to its ranks.

Not only are firearms a constitutionally protected right, but shooting is fun — and I’ve never met nicer or more generous people than I’ve met at the range.

HARSH BUT FAIR: A Remedial Explanation Of Federalism For Jonah Goldberg. “It’s unclear whether Goldberg understands this or if he was just trying to be funny, but praising federalism on the one hand and calling out the abuse of power on the other isn’t contradictory, it’s complementary. If I say I like whole milk, and then complain that I hate spoiled milk, I’m not contradicting myself. Sometimes milk goes bad and you have to throw it out.”

GOOD: Trump DOJ Steps Up to Defend Christians Fined $500 for Drive-In Church Service.

UGH: Virginia pastor who defiantly held church service dies of coronavirus.

IT CERTAINLY OUGHT TO: Biden’s Weakness on China Could Prove to Be His Downfall. “Biden has downplayed the economic threat from China for years. Not understanding the hazard the repressive Communist Party regime has for the world is a dereliction of duty, especially for a seasoned candidate who held a top position in the White House for two terms. Biden is either hopelessly outclassed or playing politics in a generational crisis. Both are certainly unacceptable in the world that we live in today.”

FLASHBACK: 6 facts about Hunter Biden’s business dealings in China.

In December 2013, Hunter landed in Beijing aboard Air Force Two, accompanying his father on an official visit to China. Less than two weeks later, Hunter’s company, Rosemont Seneca, became a partner in a new investment company backed by the state-owned Bank of China.

Christening the new firm Bohai Harvest RST (BHR), the partners set out to raise $1 billion for the new fund.

Representatives of the Biden family have denied any connection between the vice president’s visit and Hunter’s business. However, a BHR representative told The New Yorker earlier this year that Hunter used the opportunity to introduce his father to Chinese private equity executive Jonathan Li, who became CEO of BHR after the deal’s conclusion.

It isn’t so much that Biden is weak on China than it is that he and his sole surviving son are inextricably intertwined with Beijing.

CHANGE: Some Americans Are Starting To ‘Give Up’ On Toilet Paper. Literally. “Bathroom product companies and review websites have been seeing increased interest in bidets, and some companies have reported a dramatic increase in sales.”

OH FER CRYIN’ OUT LOUD: You Might Go to Prison for Singing in a Livestream Church Service in This California County. “Banning music sounds like something out of a dystopian nightmare, but in a northern California county, singing or playing wind instruments — even a harmonica — during a livestream video event can get citizens fined or thrown in prison.”

These petty local tyrants are the very definition of non-essential.