POLITICIAN. Both shades. But especially blue: What’s the word for how to kill a country?

THE MARIANA TRENCH ISN'T DEEP ENOUGH: How low can the Democrats sink? Here are the details.

Republican Senators Mike Lee [UT], Mitt Romney [UT], Rick Scott [FL], and Cory Gardner [CO] should immediately return from self-quarantine to the Senate, and if that isn't sufficient to give the few remaining sensible Democrats some spine, then Rand Paul [R-KY], the sole Senator who actually tested positive, should return.

Then quarantine the whole damned Congress, send them home without phones or internet connections, and get back to living.

[THANKFULLY FORMER] PRESIDENT OBAMA CELEBRATES HIS GREATEST FAILURE; demands Democrats finish failing. Republicans should offer to help.

ISSUES & INSIGHTS: Should you be an airplane vigilante?

Absolutely. And not just on airplanes; anywhere and everywhere.

DOOMED:

They're doing their damnedest to fail spectacularly. I wish them every success.

WHY DON'T WE JUST TRY THROWING THE BUMS OUT? It's time to afflict the comfortable in higher education.

OUR RULING CLASS IS SO INFATUATED WITH THEIR 'EXPERTISE' THAT IT TAKES A HEAD SHOT WITH A 2X4 TO INJECT SOME COMMON SENSE: Virus response threatens our ability to 'stay together as a society'.

Ya think?

WUHAN FLU [CORONAVIRUS] UPDATE: 99.935% of Americans still have not been infected.

More sickness; more deaths; trends remaining stable. Government at all levels still in a panic.

'Get over it' still appears to be weeks away.

IF TRUMP DOESN'T ACT, people will die. Why? Where has Mayor (Whiny) DeBlasio been for the last two months?

HOW'S THAT WORKING OUT FOR YOU? My ill-fated foray into homeschooling.

The bright side is that homeschooling does make it a little more difficult for the progressives to indoctrinate your kids....

COVID-19, the elephant and the house cat.

Here’s something special: a headline in The Economist that speaks the truth: “In Europe, and around the world, governments are getting tougher.” You betcha. Last week, I wrote with contempt about San Francisco’s mayor who had just announced she would “legally prohibit residents from leaving their homes except to meet basic needs.” “Well,” I thought, “It’s California, what do you expect?”

But now several other states, including New York, Connecticut, and Illinois, have issued “shelter-in-place” orders. They closed all “nonessential” businesses (nonessential to whom? To the people who work there?) and are throwing their weight around in other ways.

Restaurants: closed, except for take-out and delivery. Gymnasiums: closed. Museums: closed. Concert halls: closed. Public fraternization: essentially prohibited.

Why? Because of the biggest threat to mankind that the world has ever seen: the COVID-19 virus, also know as the Chinese flu, which to date has killed—are you ready—276 people in the United States, almost all of them over 80, almost all with serious co-morbidities.

Two-hundred-and-seventy-six people! And yes, that frightening number will rise. It will be 400, 500 before you know it. Maybe when all is said and done, we’ll see 1,000-1,200 identified who have died from complications that can be traced to this respiratory illness.

Meanwhile, somewhere between 22,000 and more than 50,000 people have died from the seasonal flu in the United States this year. Why is there no panic about that?

The Wuhan virus is a bad bug. But far more lethal than the “pandemic”—it sounds so much scarier to say “pandemic” than “epidemic,” even if the term is not justified—far more lethal, I say, are two other “P” words: panic and passivity.

With that introduction, go and read it all.

FACTS? WE DON'T NEED NO STINKIN' FACTS: Los Angeles County health officials telling doctors to give up on testing patients in the hope of containing the outbreak and instructing them to test patients only if a positive result could change how they would be treated.

Call me cynical, but I suspect testing wasn't showing enough cases to warrant shutting down all business activity in LA county.

IF YOU HAVE TO ASK THE QUESTION, you don't want to know the answer.

Especially if the government has anything to do with it.

NOT ME.

Not now. Not ever.

ON BUSINESS: Restocking in the age of coronavirus:

[T]he supply chain is built for some disruption, and there's cushioning for it. Our food system can deal with the current demand; it just has to relearn how to distribute the supply.

As long as farmers can keep farming, truckers can keep driving, packaging can be made and supplied and grocery stores can stay open, the empty shelves should be just a temporary inconvenience.

But only as long as our 'ruling elites' can be held off from fucking things up more than they already have....

KURT SCHLICHTER: "Never have so many with so much unwarranted self-regard spread so much bullSchiff so shamelessly."

If anything, he's understating....

WUHAN FLU UPDATE: As of 9 am EDT this morning, 99.989% of Americans have not been infected by the coronavirus.