WUHAN FLU [CORONAVIRUS] UPDATE for April 9, 2020. Here's tonight's update.

Comments tomorrow: 99.29% of Americans are still coronavirus-free.

THE GREAT VICTOR DAVIS HANSON STRIKES AGAIN: The coronavirus is not invincible, and it’s exposing who’s irreplaceable.

[W]ho now is more important than the trucker who drives 12-hours straight to deliver toilet paper to Costco? Or the mid-level manager of Target who calibrates supply and demand and is on the phone all day juggling deliveries before his store opens? Or the checker at the local supermarket who knows that the hundreds of customers inches away from her pose risks of infection, and yet she ensures that people walk out with food in their carts? The farmworker who is on the tractor all night to ensure that millions of carrots and lettuce don’t rot? The muddy frackers in West Texas who make it possible that natural gas reaches the home of the quarantined broker in Houston? The ER nurse on her fifth coronavirus of the day who matter-of-factly saves lives?

Do we really need to ask such questions of whether the presence of the czar for diversity and inclusion at Yale is missed as much as the often-caricatured cop on patrol at 2 a.m. in New Haven?

Do social justice student protestors who surround and heckle the politically suspicious now in ones and twos also scream in the faces of the incorrect plumber who unclogs their locked-down apartment drain?

It's damned sure not the arrogant, narcissistic, self-important, virtuous degreed urban sophisticates who clog our streets....

WHY COVID-19?

The coronavirus is ... the third and final installment of its trilogy of doomsday scenarios that rounds out the Russia collusion and Ukrainian quid pro quo narratives. Only this time, after years of seeing their collective efforts to take down the president of the United States fail, they've hit the jackpot. The elitist ruling class and self-appointed gatekeepers of our society and culture — academia, Big Tech, the entertainment industry, and the mainstream media — have finally found a way to make themselves relevant again, have finally found a mechanism to gain back some of the direct control over the lives of average Americans they'd so frustratingly lost under President Trump.

And they're losing again.

MORE REASON TO VOTE AGAINST ANY AND EVERY DEMOCRAT: Biden adviser and ObamaCare architect Ezekiel Emanuel warns of 18-month national lockdown over coronavirus.

And here's an interesting -- and perhaps relevant -- factoid: Emanuel, doctor and architect of Obamacare, is well known for saying that he doesn’t care to live past the age of 75.

[H]ere is a simple truth that many of us seem to resist: living too long ... renders many of us, if not disabled, then faltering and declining, a state that may not be worse than death but is nonetheless deprived. It robs us of our creativity and ability to contribute to work, society, the world. It transforms how people experience us, relate to us, and, most important, remember us. We are no longer remembered as vibrant and engaged but as feeble, ineffectual, even pathetic.

Biden is 77.