CHICAGO BUSINESS OWNERS: "under attack and under siege".

MORE CALIFORNIA CRAZY: A San Diego Councilwoman wants to actually start arresting people for not wearing masks and for standing too close together. The video (mercifully short) is at the Twitter link.

Batshit crazy.

SURPRISED? The case for masks, school closings, & social isolation just collapsed!

All that stuff we were told about how super-contagious COVID-19 is was just as much BS as the garbage about its unprecedented deadliness. In fact, if Anthony Fauci and CDC director Robert Redfield wanted us to know the facts rather than to scare us out of our wits and the press weren’t so corrupt and incompetent, we all would have known the former way back in March just like the latter.

It collapsed long ago, but Americans are just not coming to the realization that they've been had by the HealthScare^TM hucksters.

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION sued for failure to enforce federal law and prevent highway protests.

Easily solved. Let the big rigs run over the 'protestors'.

HUH? The “math is neutral because 2+2=4” trope “reeks of white supremacist patriarchy.”

Remind me to never cross a bridge built by these twits.

THE OUTDOORS IS RACIST: It’s going to take all of us coming together to topple these racist systems … of camping. Twitter responds hilariously.

WELL.... The DNC’s ratings enter dumpster fire territory.

AMERICA'S NEWS OF RECORD: Kamala Harris humbled to have been chosen exclusively for her race and gender.

I'm sure she'll be humble when she's on stage tonight.

THIS IS WHY REGULATORS (AT ALL LEVELS) MUST BE REGULATED OUT OF EXISTENCE: The petty tyrants in your shower.

'Out of existence' may be a bit strong; I can live with decimation. As a start....

"WOKE" is just a synonym for "stupid and crazy."

WELL, 'I IDENTIFY AS ...' IS DE RIGUEUR IN DEMOCRAT CIRCLES: DNC includes Elizabeth Warren in Native American caucus.

MAYBE TONIGHT: Democratic convention viewer wishing they would just get to the part about all the free stuff.

Or tomorrow....

Sorry, Democrats, but it's the Babylon Bee.

INSANITY WRAP: Do face masks prevent the spread of computer viruses? For the answer, click through.

And remember, Insanity Wrap is a daily feature at PJ Media. Follow through daily.

SO NOW the homeless in their 'urban campgrounds' are racist?

THE DIPLOMAD goes heavy.

A SNAPSHOT of America's dying cities.

I'm glad I used to live in Austin.

CHICAGO BOYZ: Covid-19, remote work, and offshoring.

UNEXPECTEDLY? New York police department union endorses Trump. Democrat apparatchiks unhappy.

"NYPD union endorsed Trump. I’m sure this is part of their neighborhood outreach plan,” tweeted Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez,

I'm sure it is and I suspect it will work.

HAS THE DEEP STATE WALL OF SILENCE FINALLY BEEN PENETRATED? Criminal plea hints more hoax conspirators will be charged.

WE SHOULD BE SO LUCKY: de Blasio warns 22,000 NYC public employeees could be laid off by fall.

Hopefully he'll start with himself and work his way down from there....

DISTRICT ATTORNEY TAKES THE SIDE OF RIOTERS OVER COPS, Oregon State Police abandon Portland.

As they should.

AMERICAN GREATNESS: Eradicating the other, much more important, public health crisis.

Three guesses as to what the crisis is - and the first two don't count.

RATHER THAN REOPEN, it’s time to rethink government education. Follow the link to the full post, but be sure to read the comments at the Instapundit link as well.

LOON is obviously a Democrat.

WUHAN FLU [CORONAVIRUS] UPDATE for August 18, 2020:

Well, I'm back to my usual Tuesday/Friday reporting (except I forgot to post this last night) and it's pretty much same old, same old. Daily deaths are still high, but appear to be stable - and other data I watch but don't plot suggests that the rate is beginning to move back to it's old level of 500/day or so.

My estimates of the number of uninfected Americans and daily death rate continue to decline, now at 5.107% and 0.0557% respectively. The rather dramatic drop in my number of uninfected Americans suggests that (finally) herd immunity is beginning to kick in.

Georgia's coronavirus caseload has shown a clear peak and is beginning to drop significantly. Daily deaths appear to have peaked and show signs of beginning to drop as well.