THE WASHINGTON POST HAS BECOME TRULY PATHETIC. But that’s not news. This is.

IT’S HIGH TIME FOR AMERICA TO RETURN TO LIVING — before there’s nothing worth living for in America.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: The thin facade of authority. And after reading it all, you might seriously consider what could happen when the facade finally cracks. As it most certainly will.

WUHAN FLU [CORONAVIRUS] UPDATE for April 15, 2020

Here's today's update after yesterday's royal New York political screw-up from yesterday. The Coronavirus Dashboard's change from posting Serious cases to Tested cases didn't help any, although it (thankfully) didn't screw up the charts. I've deleted the April 14th data (black vertical arrows), since it was clearly bad (for example, total U.S. deaths today were less than yesterday, so some New Yorkers have come back from the dead), and the data for the 15th (today) has had to be interpolated. Nevertheless trends (to the extent you can believe them) are still down, though I won't fully trust them until I have another 3-4 days of consistent data.

The projected deaths chart is still the declining trend (although the numbers for the 14th and 15th had to be interpolated to be consistent with the plots). It won't be trustworthy again for at least another 3-4 days, assuming other states don't follow New York's lead and massage their own datasets.

By the way, 99.03% of the U.S. population is still coronavirus free.

YOU'LL NEVER HAVE TO SAY YOU'RE SORRY: It's good to be a Democrat.

YOU THINK IT'S BAD TODAY: I lived through this a mere 50 years ago.

And we didn't cower in our basements....

FINALLY, A PLEASANT THOUGHT: Attorney General Barr just signaled that things are about to get ugly for the Russia collusion team.

DEMOCRATS might find it better to concede 2020 to Trump.

We'd certainly be better off....

THE ECONOMIC SHUTDOWN could will kill more Americans than the coronavirus.

The academics and public health officials who have concocted models of the virus's spread are telling us that we have to continue the shutdown to save thousands of lives. But none of their models considers the deaths that will be caused by unemployment.

Before the virus hit, America's unemployment rate was 3.5%, the lowest in 50 years. Now Goldman Sachs predicts unemployment could spike to 15% by midyear. A St. Louis Federal Reserve economist grimly predicts 32% unemployment -- worse than during the Great Depression.

No model or guesswork is required to foresee the deadly impact. Job losses cause extreme suffering. Every 1% hike in the unemployment rate will likely produce a 3.3% increase in drug overdose deaths and a 0.99% increase in suicides according to data provided by the National Bureau of Economic Research and the medical journal Lancet. These are facts based on experience, not models. If unemployment hits 32%, some 77,000 Americans are likely to die from suicide and drug overdoses as a result of layoffs. Scientists call these fatalities deaths of despair.

Only we'll never be told by our ruling class. Read it all anyway.

TODAY IN AMERICAN HISTORY:

Questions?

ADAM SCHIFF AND HIS IMPEACHMENT FAIRIES go full Wuhan.....

This won't be over until the Republicans retake the House of Representatives. Or 2024, if that comes first.

HORRORS! Vicious tyrant Trump wants to let people leave their homes.

From America's News of Record.

HERE'S A 'YA THINK?' PIECE: If colleges owe students refunds, it’s not because of the pandemic: It’s because they’ve abandoned their mission as places of learning.

NO SHIT, SHERLOCK: Los Angeles sheriff fears danger from inmates released due to coronavirus.

Maybe there's a reason why they were incarcerated?

POWERLINE: the new bookburners.