Americans are finding creative and humorous ways to pass the time while in coronavirus lockdown. A woman named Nancie Wight has been entertaining Facebook users with videos of her dog Pluto giving advice about surviving through it all. Here’s Pluto: Pluto has received over 1 million views on Facebook, and NPR’s Deborah Amos discussed the […]

That’s right, hard as it is to believe, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, backed by Sen. Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and just about every Democratic Senate colleague, demanded that the national coronavirus rescue package include airline emission standards. Really? With much of the U.S. in isolation and shutdown due to coronavirus, the rescue package needs to […]

What did the long delay in the rescue package accomplish? Despite delaying “much-needed aid for days, while businesses closed and people died,” little was accomplished. The new deal is much the same as the old deal, based on the just-released draft, explains Christopher Bedford at The Federalist. Here’s what is included: Direct payments: Americans will […]

In an effort to limit exposure to coronavirus in the Florida Keys, Monroe County Sheriff’s Office is implementing southbound traffic stops (mile marker 112.5 on U.S. Highway 1 and Card Sound Road) to restrict access to the Florida Keys and to reinforce the island chain’s closure to visitors and non-residents. Only residents, property owners, and those […]

Is there a household in America that isn’t praying it won’t run out of toilet paper? Apparently from the empty shelves in the paper goods section of any big/little store, the country desperately wants reassurances that TP will be back in stock on a regular basis. But as the editors in the WSJ write, Senator […]

As of St. Patrick’s Day – only six short days ago – there were 5,000 cases of the Wuhan flu in the U.S., reports Roger Kimball in Spectator.us. As Mr. Kimball notes, 95 people have died from it. “Ninety-five.” Over 25% of Deaths from One Place Of those 95 deaths, 25 are associated with one […]

All right, we are entering day whatever of lockdown, thanks to the C. virus. And with movie theaters pulling the plug on popcorn machines across our fair land, Joe Morgenstern advises gifting ourselves a subscription to the Criterion Channel, “a rich resource for American and international classics.” Mr. Morgenstern reviews a number of contagion-based films […]

Good advice from the Brits during WWII and good advice in 2020 as the world faces a pandemic, Daniel Henninger reminds WSJ readers. Given what we’re up against, “flatten the curve” sounds like a useful rule of thumb—not only for the health-care system but for the economy, politics and even our social and psychological well-being. […]