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Trump extends guidelines to April 30
U.S. becomes INSIDE
world leader No postponement for Nov. vote
President has no authority to cancel election. A6
in virus testing Protecting workers
after slow start Retailers take extra steps for employees. A7
BY ROWAN SCARBOROUGH
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
The U.S. has conducted nearly
900,000 coronavirus tests across the
country after fumbling at the start be-
cause of too few tests and faulty kits, the
federal government says.
The increased numbers give the
White House a chance to shift policy to
allow more tests to surveil the popula-
tion while retaining diagnosis as the No.
1 priority, officials say.
The Federal Emergency Manage-
ment Agency provided a statement to
The Washington Times that said more
than 685,000 tests had been completed
in state and local public health and com-
mercial laboratories. The White House
said 90% of tests are now conducted in
private labs.
The 50 states, the District of Colum-
bia, Guam and Puerto Rico have a total
of 92 testing sites.
“U.S. Federal officials and the U.S.
Public Health Service are working
closely with state, local and private sec-
tor partners to bolster testing capabilities
and supplies,” FEMA said in a written
statement. “We’re working to make test-
ing more easily accessible to high risk
populations: healthcare facility workers,
and first responders.”
President Trump touted the uptick
Saturday while sending off the hospital
ship USNS Comfort from Norfolk, Vir-
ginia, to New York City.
“What we’ve done in building sys-
tems, we’re now the No. 1 tester any-
where in the world, by far,” Mr. Trump
said. “We’re testing more in one day than
other countries are testing in weeks, in
months.”
South Korea, at more than 300,000
» see TESTING | A5
ECONOMY
Mnuchin ushers rescue bill
past steep political hurdles
BY DAVE BOYER
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Alfredo Ortiz, president and CEO of
the conservative Job Creators Network,
didn’t recognize the number on his ringing
cellphone, so he didn’t answer.
The voicemail surprised him. It was
Treasury Secretary Steven T. Mnuchin,
who was seeking his input as the Trump
administration and Congress scrambled
last week to assemble a $2 trillion pack-
age to fight the economic fallout from the
COVID-19 pandemic.
“I thought it was actually a scam call,”
Mr. Ortiz said. “I listened to the voicemail,
SENATE SAVANT: Former Sen. Tom Coburn, an Oklahoma
Republican and legislative virtuoso who railed against federal
earmarking, died early Saturday after a battle with cancer.
POLITICS
Gun shops declared
essential during
virus outbreak. A4
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Shuttered gym sued for continuing billing. A6
Virus garners attention for obscure saint. A7
Virtual volunteers offer connection to strangers. A7
Expert sees coronavirus, SARS similarities. A9
WHITE HOUSE UPDATE: President Trump said
Hogan predicts New York-like conditions. A12 Sunday during a coronavirus task force meeting that
Americans will need to hunker down another month.
FOR BODY AND SOUL: Sandra Lockhart, a church member and nurse, screened Brandy Floyd and her son Codey, 8,
as they arrived for Sunday worship service at the Union Springs Baptist Church in Rutledge, Georgia.
and it was like, ‘Hey, Alfredo, this is Steven,
you know, the Treasury secretary, just try-
ing to get a hold of you. Give me a buzz
back when you get a chance.’ ”
Mr. Mnuchin is sometimes viewed
warily by conservatives who consider him
a Democrat in President Trump’s inner
sanctum. But the 57-year-old former Wall
Street executive is getting high marks for
his round-the-clock efforts to rescue the
economy and serve as a liaison between
the president and House Speaker Nancy
Pelosi, California Democrat. The presi-
dent and the speaker haven’t spoken in QUICK THINKING: Treasury Secretary Steven T. Mnuchin is rushing
aid to Americans and small businesses dealing with the coronavirus
» see MNUCHIN | A5 fallout. “This doesn’t do people any good if it takes a long time,” he said.
CONGRESS
Coburn leaves lasting legacy for taxpayers
Former senator known for wit, ‘Wastebook’ and decency dies at 72
BY STEPHEN DINAN
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Tom Coburn’s reputation preceded him
throughout the Capitol. He was a cantanker-
ous troublemaker who was tough to work with
and more interested in blowing things up than
getting things done — and that reputation was
completely wrong, just about everyone who
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worked with him quickly came to realize.
While he was willing to stand in the way of
spending that he thought unnecessary, he was
also a master legislator.
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BY TOM HOWELL JR. AND DAVE BOYER
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
President Trump on Sunday said he wants
Americans to stay at home until April 30, abandon-
ing his hope of opening up businesses by Easter as
modeling suggested the U.S. coronavirus death toll
could reach tens of thousands and peak two weeks
from now.
He said the White House will release a new
strategy for states by Tuesday and hopes to have the
economy on its way to recovery by June 1.
It’s a sudden and somber shift for Mr. Trump,
who on March 16 said he wanted Americans to
work and learn at home, avoid nonessential travel
and use takeout instead of entering restaurants
through March 31.
Now, faced with the highest case count in the
world with more than 137,000 infections and over
2,400 deaths, he said the peak death rate isn’t ex-
pected until mid-April, so he extended his mitiga-
tion strategy through the end of the coming month.
“You’re talking about a potential of up to 2.2 mil-
lion [deaths], and some people said it could even be
higher than that,” he said at a White House briefing.
“And so if we can hold that down, as we’re saying,
to 100,000 — it’s a horrible number, maybe even
less, but to 100,000. … We all together have done a
very good job.”
Members of his coronavirus task force said mod-
eling is based on a variety of issues and “extremes,”
so people shouldn’t panic.
The coronavirus that causes COVID-19 was
» see VIRUS | A10
IMMIGRATION
Border wall hits
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full speed as rest
of U.S. hobbles
BY STEPHEN DINAN
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
The coronavirus has shut down much of the
country, left Capitol Hill a ghost town and even
sidelined aircraft carriers. But it hasn’t been able
to dent construction of the border wall.
Since the virus was first detected on U.S. soil in
January, the government has completed about 40
more miles of border fencing, according to Border
Patrol data, with more than half of that coming
since early February, about the time Mr. Trump an-
nounced a second wave of cash was being funneled
from the Pentagon toward wall building.
Acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf,
amid his virus duties last week, signed off on six
waivers to speed wall construction in sections all
across the boundary line, and contracts were an-
nounced for new segments of the wall.
“Border security is national security,” said Rusty
Payne, a spokesman for Customs and Border
» see IMMIGRATION | A10
With a single amendment to a bill in 2010, he congressional history.
saved the government $262 billion and count- To those who knew him best, Mr. Coburn’s
ing. He made a cottage industry out of spotting virtuoso legislative abilities were exceeded by
ridiculous-sounding spending items, such as the his decency.
“Bridge to Nowhere” project in Alaska. His work “I’ve never met another politician like him.
on the Senate’s oversight committee brought His honesty, devotion to facts and reason, his
down the largest Social Security disability fraud strength, his intellect and his genuine warmth
ring in history. will always be with me. His true friendship will
Mr. Coburn, a medical doctor turned politi- be a gift I will treasure forever,” said Erskine
cian who served six years in the House and Bowles, who was chief of staff to President Clin-
a decade in the Senate, died Saturday at age ton and got to know Mr. Coburn while working
72 after a lengthy battle with cancer, leaving
one of the most substantial legacies in recent » see COBURN | A8
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KEEP YOUR DISTANCE (FROM THE MEDIA) THE ABORTION IRONY

We already know that a wide variety of major print, broadcast
and online news organizations continue to produce coverage
meant to undermine President Trump and his administration as
the teams do battle against the coronavirus pandemic. The official
efforts are an evolving, quick-moving process with promising re-
sults, the public updates delivered with considerable candor from
those monitoring every facet of the response.
In other eras, U.S. presidents and public officials would have
received support from the press through helpful, fair and honest
coverage meant to keep the public informed and engaged.
But not this time around.
Here’s some pertinent advice from a Fox News Channel host
Greg Gutfeld regarding the coronavirus crisis and the liberal news
media’s unending bias and animosity against Mr. Trump and the
White House coronavirus task force.
“We can hold this country together with or without the me-
dia’s help, and believe me they are not helping much, if at all,” Mr.
Gutfeld told his audience over the weekend, with a warning about
what appears to be the media’s own malaise.
“I have no doubt we will exit this dark period stronger and
better than before. Jobs will return. The economy will roar back.
The truth will come out. And we will have saved many lives. And
the only sickness that lingers, the one that seems impervious to
drugs, is the media’s own incurable bias. Best to keep your distance
permanently,” said Mr. Gutfeld.
A HANDY SUMMATION
No wonder Democrats are nervous.
“Despite the relentless attacks from Democrats and the media,
a strong majority of America is behind President Trump’s leader-
ship during the coronavirus pandemic,” advises Steve Guest, rapid
response director for the Republican National Committee, who
supplies this handy summation of public opinion polls conducted
in the last week:
“ABC/Washington Post poll: 66% express confidence in the fed-
eral government’s ability to handle the outbreak,” Mr. Guests said.
A Gallup poll revealed 60% approve of the president’s response
to the coronavirus. The Gallup poll also showed an increase in the
president’s approval rating among independents and Democrats.
Another Hill-Harris poll found that 61% of voters say Mr. Trump is
taking strong measures to slow or stop coronavirus spread while
an ABC/Ipsos poll: revealed that 55% of the public approve of the
president’s management of the crisis.
And finally, a CBS News poll found that 53% say Mr. Trump is
doing “a good job of handling the outbreak.”
GETTING CRANKY
“President Trump’s approval Is spiking, and the Left can’t stand
BELTWAY
INSIDE THE
BY JENNIFER HARPER
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Fox News host Greg Gutfeld advises the public to “keep their distance”
from the media, and the many news organizations who continue to
criticize President Trump’s response to the coronavirus pandemic.
it,” writes David Marcus, a columnist for The Federalist.
“You would think that most people would view this as good
thing, I mean, in the middle of a crisis, having faith in leadership
is better than not having faith in leadership, right? For many on
the left, though, these numbers are cause for consternation,” Mr.
Marcus writes.
He cited CNN analyst Ana Navarro-Cardenas who was per-
plexed by a recent ABC poll with a 51% approval rating for the
president.
“Who are these 51% of Americans who approve of the way this
lying, narcissistic, science-denying, petty, partisan, infantile, intel-
lectual wasteland, lame excuse for a President with the vocabulary
of a 4 year-old (apologies to 4 year-olds), is mishandling this crisis?
Really,” the analyst wrote in a tweet.
Mr. Marcus said that “for Trump supporters, this is all obviously
delicious. But that really isn’t the point. The point is that in a time
of national crisis, Trump has changed his behavior and risen to the
challenge. Our friends on the left either can’t or refuse to see this.
But the American people do. And they are the ones who decide the
fate of Trump’s reelection chances, not the bobble-headed pundits
that people PBS, CNN, and MSNBC.”
Abortion awareness has taken on a new meaning during the
coronavirus pandemic, particularly when House Speaker Nancy
Pelosi and other pro-choice factions insist that funds for the proce-
dure should be considered a vital part of the $2.4 trillion national
coronavirus aid response.
“You know you live in a healthy society when its ‘elite’ journal-
ists demand even more dead bodies than those being produced by
a pandemic. That’s precisely what the New York Times editorial
board asked for in their recent piece that called for even ‘more’
abortions during the coronavirus outbreak. Imagine that; even
as normal life has been interrupted all around us, lefties need
abortion mills to be one of the few constant and sure things still
operating,” writes Gabriel Hays, a Media Research Center cultural
analyst.
He cites a recent op-ed titled “Make Abortion More Available
During the Pandemic — Not Less” in which the Times made the
case that abortions were an “essential” component of comprehen-
sive health care.
“Ah, yes, killing kids is as essential as the ER doctor saving lives.
This is just a dark Orwellian leftist game. The notion that someone
wanting an abortion is an equal emergency to someone’s imminent
death from coronavirus or a heart attack is not convincing,” writes
Mr. Hays.
Our old friend “Deep Woods“ — a longtime political com-
mentator who indeed lives in the dense woods of the Northeast —
agrees with the analyst.
“Does anyone else see the irony of spending $2 trillion to save
the lives of adults and elders, yet spend another $600 million to
kill a million babies a year?” he writes from a “hunker bunker” up
north, in a terse note to Inside the Beltway.
POLL DU JOUR
⦁ 79% of U.S. adults say they are “probably behaving appropri-
ately” during the coronavirus pandemic; 79% of Republicans, 77%
of independents and 80% of Democrats agree.
⦁ 9% overall say they are not taking the risks of coronavirus
seriously enough; 7% of Republicans, 11% of independents and 9%
of Democrats agree.
⦁ 8% overall say they are overreacting to the virus threat; 9% of
Republicans, 4% of independents and 10% of Democrats agree.
⦁ 64% overall say they are worried about personally “experienc-
ing” coronavirus; 56% of Republicans, 61% of independents and
74% of Democrats agree.
⦁ 37% overall say they are not too worried or not worried at all
about the virus; 45% of Republicans, 39% of independents and 26%
of Democrats agree.
SOURCE: AN ECONOMIST/YOUGOV POLL OF 1,500 U.S. ADULTS CONDUCTED MARCH 22-24.
⦁ Kindly follow Jennifer Harper on Twitter @HarperBulletin.

PUBLIC HEALTH

POLITICS
INSIDE
SOCIAL MEDIA
Twitter criticized for banning LifeSiteNews
Twitter is coming under pressure on the right
to restore a pro-life account that was deactivated
after posting a tweet that referred to a transgen-
der activist as “him.”
In an open letter, Media Research Center pres-
ident Brent Bozell called on Twitter to unlock the
LifeSiteNews account, which was shut down over
a Dec. 8 tweet that said, “Trans activist Jonathan
‘Jessica’ Yaniv ‘shocked … confused’ gynaecolo-
gist won’t see him.”
“We maintain this tweet was perfectly le-
gitimate and appropriate and the LifeSiteNews
account should not have been deactivated as a
result,” said the letter, which was also signed by
John-Henry Westen, co-founder and editor-in-
chief of LifeSiteNews.com.
Copies of the letter have also been sent to At-
torney General William Barr and the U.S. House
and Senate Judiciary Committees.
LifeSite said it filed an appeal, but was told
that the only way to restore the account would be
to “remove the offending tweet.”
The Canadian activist last year filed a human-
rights complaint against 15 beauticians who
refused a genital-waxing request.
— Valerie Richardson
WHITE HOUSE
Trump picks mobilization oversight chief
President Trump has appointed trade adviser
Peter Navarro to become coordinator of national
defense policy production, signaling a new
phase in the fight against the novel coronavi-
rus as the president for the first time ordered a
private company, General Motors, to produce
ventilators.
“My administration is marshaling the full
power of the federal government,” Mr. Trump
said. “I know he’s going to do a fantastic job.”
Mr. Trump ordered GM to make ventilators
under the Defense Production Act, hours after
slamming the company for not moving quickly
enough to manufacture the devices.
The order came hours after GM said it would
build ventilators with Ventec Life Systems at a
plant in Indiana.
Mr. Navarro, who has been working on emer-
gency supply production for weeks, said most
companies are cooperating voluntarily, but “we
did have a problem with GM and Ventec.”
— Dave Boyer
CORONAVIRUS CRISIS
De Blasio on his downplaying words: Now not the ‘time for hindsight’
For weeks, New York City Mayor Bill de Bla-
sio encouraged New Yorkers to “go about your
lives” as fears of the novel coronavirus spread,
advice that has come back to haunt him as the
pandemic takes a deadly toll on the Big Apple.
Asked Sunday about whether his mes-
sage was in part to blame for the virus’s rapid
spread, however, Mr. de Blasio told CNN’s Jake
Tapper that this was no time for hindsight.
“Well, Jake, we should not be focusing in my
view on anything looking back on any level of
government right now,” Mr. de Blasio said on
“State of the Union.” “This is just about how we
save lives going forward everybody was work-
ing with the information we had, and trying of
DEMOCRATS
Super PAC to attack Trump over virus
Priorities USA, a Democratic super PAC
pouncing on President Trump’s past comments
about the novel coronavirus, intensified its efforts
Friday in the face of potential litigation.
Days after Mr. Trump’s reelection campaign
threatened to sue TV stations that run a Priori-
ties USA advertisement highlighting the presi-
dent’s previous remarks about the coronavirus,
the super PAC shared a Spanish-language version
of the spot being geared toward Hispanic voters.
“The Trump campaign is doing everything
possible to prevent us from seeing this announce-
ment,” said Daniela Martins, the super PAC’s
national Hispanic media director.
Priorities USA said on Tuesday that the spot
would be shown on stations in Florida, Michigan,
Pennsylvania and Wisconsin — four battleground
states that be critical to Mr. Trump securing a
second term in office — as part of a $6 million
campaign TV and digital ad buy.
— Andrew Blake
New York City Mayor
Bill de Blasio said
Sunday this was no
time for hindsight
in response to
whether his
message for weeks
of encouraging New
Yorkers to “go about
your lives” was in
part to blame for the
coronavirus’ rapid
spread.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
course to avoid panic.”
In late January, Mr. de Blasio said, “It’s
important just to go about your lives, continue
living as you have,” a message that he repeated
in February with statements such as, “This
should not stop you from going about your life,
should not stop you from going to Chinatown
and going out to eat.”
As late as a March 11 press conference, the
mayor said that “if you’re not sick, then you
should be going about your life.”
Such advice has not aged well, especially
since Mr. de Blasio has since accused President
Trump of being slow to react.
— Valerie Richardson
CORONAVIRUS CRISIS
Rivera compares Trump to Gen. Patton
Geraldo Rivera lumped praise on President
Trump over his handling of the coronavirus pan-
demic by likening him to George S. Patton, the
late U.S. Army general who commanded Ameri-
can troops during World War II.
Mr. Rivera, a former talk-show host and Fox
News contributor admittedly friendly with Mr.
Trump, drew parallels between the president and
Patton in a social-media posting.
“Trump-haters clearly frustrated that the
American people-many of whom did not vote for
him-approve of the epic job @realDonaldTrump
is doing to mitigate the #coronavirus catastro-
phe,” Mr. Rivera tweeted.
“He’s flamboyant & unrestrained, but he’s like
General Patton, the right warrior for the fight,”
Mr. Rivera tweeted.
Mr. Rivera, 76, made the comparison as the
confirmed number of cases in the U.S. of COVID-
19 continues to surge.
— Andrew Blake
Public health ad
campaign irks
state lawmaker
BY VALERIE RICHARDSON
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Oregon Gov. Kate Brown isn’t pulling any
punches with her state’s newly launched coro-
navirus public-awareness campaign promoting
social distancing.
A 30-second ad for the state’s Stay Home, Save
Lives campaign says that “1.4% of all Oregonians
could die” during the coronavirus pandemic, which
would be about 60,000 people just in that state.
According to the ad, the average person knows
600 people, “which means five people you know
could lose their lives.”
“It’s up to you how many people live or die,”
says the ad released over the weekend. “Don’t ac-
cidentally kill someone.”
The campaign by the Portland agency
Wieden+Kennedy, which was done pro bono,
includes the thumbnail, “Did you accidentally kill
someone today?”
“We are facing an unprecedented crisis. None
of us have been through anything like this before,”
said Ms. Brown in a statement. “The single most
important thing each of us can do to protect our
community and frontline workers, and to save lives
right now, is stay home.”
Not everyone was a fan.
Republican state Rep. Bill Post blasted the cam-
paign and countered with a two-minute video post
that included positive messages like, “You’re doing
great, Oregon!” and “Wash your hands … a lot!”
“This is going TOO far. Just. Stop. It. Oregonians
get it. We’re doing the right thing. We don’t need
to be shamed,” tweeted Mr. Post.
Another 30-second spot highlights the work of
“essential workers,” including health care provid-
ers, first responders, delivery drivers and grocery
clerks.
Jason Bagley and Eric Baldwin, executive cre-
ative directors at Wieden+Kennedy Portland, said
they “created this campaign with the governor
because we don’t want to look back and wish we
had done more.”
“We have a lot of heart for Oregon and all who
live here, and we know that staying home will save
lives,” they said in a statement. “This campaign
provides clarity and conviction around what stay-
ing at home means — and how we all have a role
to play to help our community.”
The ad campaign is scheduled to appear on local
television, radio, social media and online.

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Politics “He did promise ‘America First.’”

— Two-time presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, in response to the macabre news
that the U.S. had surpassed China in the number of COVID-19 deaths

CAMPAIGN 2020

Ads target Burr’s

alleged insider
trading over virus
North Carolina Republican
not up for reelection until 2022
BY RYAN LOVELACE
THE WASHINGTON TIMES

MoveOn is waging an adver-

tising war against Sen. Richard
Burr for reportedly profiting
off non-public information be-
fore the stock market cratered
in response to the coronavirus
outbreak. 
The North Carolina Republi-
can is not up for reelection until
2022, but the liberal group’s ad
campaign on Facebook and in
ASSOCIATED PRESS
the Raleigh News & Observer
aims to force Mr. Burr from office Sen. Richard Burr was targeted
immediately. The ads feature a in a series of ads on Facebook
black-and-white photograph of from MoveOn about reportedly
ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS
Mr. Burr with a hand shaded in profiting off of the virus pandemic.
The Department of Homeland Security ruled commercial gun sellers are protected by the Second Amendment and can remain open. red to show he was “caught red
handed.”
GUN RIGHTS Mr. Burr, chairman of the Sen- profiting off the stock market
ate Select Committee on Intelli- tanking amid the coronavirus

Trump administration rules gence, reportedly sold about $1.7

million in stock after learning
of the coronavirus’ potentially
calamitous impact before the
outbreak. Sens. Dianne Feinstein,
California Democrat; Kelly Loef-
fler, Georgia Republican; and Sen.
James Inhofe, Oklahoma Republi-

gun shops as ‘essential’

information available to him be-
came public knowledge. He also
reportedly shared warnings with
private donors while publicly es-
pousing America’s preparedness
can, all are facing accusations of
impropriety. 
Ms. Feinstein told the Los An-
geles Times the transactions in
question were made by her hus-

Move comes amid lawsuits filed to keep stores open
BY JAMES VARNEY
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
In the midst of some state and local
authorities moving to close gun shops dur-
ing the coronavirus emergency, the Trump
administration stepped in Saturday to make
clear that such outlets are “essential.”
The Second Amendment, which guar-
antees private gun ownership as a consti-
tutional right, also extends protections to
commercial gun sellers, according to the
Department of Homeland Security’s Cyber-
security and Infrastructure Security Agency,
which issued the guidance.
Under the section on “law enforcement,
public safety and other first responders,”
the list includes, “workers supporting the
operation of firearm or ammunition product
manufacturers, retailers, importers, distribu-
tors and shooting ranges.”
In largely Democratic states such as
California and New Jersey, state and local
authorities cited the lack of clear DHS guide-
lines as one reason they were moving to shut
down the purchase and, in some cases, the
manufacturing of firearms.
Some legal challenges have already been
filed against such actions. On Friday, the
NRA filed a federal suit in California to stop
instances where local officials interpreted
Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom’s “shel-
ter in place” orders as making gun stores
“non-essential.”
The NRA and other Second Amendment
groups depicted the targeting of gun stores as
an attempt to realize political goals under the
cloak of emergency public safety measures.
“NRA members recognize these unlaw-
ful power-grabs for what they are, and the
National Rifle Association is proud to stand
and fight alongside fellow Second Amend-
ment groups who recognize it as well,” said
Brian Xia, 44, picks up his gun at a gun store in Arcadia, California. Gun sales have been
exceptionally brisk during the coronavirus pandemic.
Jason Ouimet, the executive director of the
NRA’s Institute for Legislative Action.
The lawsuit named as defendants Mr.
Newsom and Los Angeles County Sheriff
Alex Villanueva, who moved Friday to shut-
ter the city’s gun stores.
On the other side of the left-right po-
litical divide, abortion groups have also
sued to keep their facilities open in Texas,
where authorities deemed providers of the
procedure “non-essential” and ordered
their closing. The three abortion clinics in
Louisiana also shut down following “shelter
in place” orders March 22.
Gun sales have been exceptionally
brisk during the coronavirus pandemic,
according to multiple reports, and some
states had carved out an “essential” ex-
ception for gun stores prior to the DHS
guidance.
That guidance came on the heels of a
Friday letter to the Trump administration
from the Gun Owners of America (GOA)
and Gun Owners of California (GOC),
which requested such classification.
“It is very encouraging to see CISA
include the firearms industry as essential,”
GOA senior vice president Erich Pratt said
in a statement. “In these uncertain times, the
ability to protect yourself — and to acquire
firearms, magazines and ammunition —
should not be ignored.”
to combat the virus.  
“In public, Sen. Burr mis-
leadingly reassured voters about
America’s novel coronavirus pre-
paredness, parroting the Trump-
GOP party line. But behind the
scenes, he was selling off up to
$1.7 million in personal stock
holdings,” the MoveOn ad on
Facebook reads. “Sen. Burr was
caught red handed using pri-
vate information for his personal
profit, at our expense — it’s time
for him to resign.”
MoveOn ran its ads to “take
over” the homepage of the Ra-
leigh News & Observer website
on Thursday, and splashed ban-
ner ads across the newspaper’s
digital articles as well. MoveOn
has spent as much as $2,000 on
anti-Burr ads that began running
on Facebook on March 21, accord-
ing to the Facebook Ad Library.  impropriety against Mr. Burr and
Many of Mr. Burr’s conserva-
tive allies also have called for his
resignation. Fox News personal-
ity Tucker Carlson has suggested
he resign, and fellow Republican
lawmakers have pressured Mr.
Burr, including Rep. Matt Gaetz
of Florida who requested the
Senate immediately remove Mr.
Burr from leadership of the intel-
ligence committee. Mr. Gaetz also
has called on Sen. Thom Tillis,
North Carolina Republican, to
refer Mr. Burr to the Justice De-
partment for prosecution.  Ms. Loeffler is running to keep
Mr. Burr’s office pointed to his
statement saying that he relied on
news reports to make his stock
moves and has requested the
Senate Ethics Committee review
his actions.  be held in 2022. The next election
Mr. Burr is not the only senator
facing accusations of improperly
band. She said she did not attend
a private Jan. 24 briefing for sena-
tors about the coronavirus before
the stock moves were made.
Mr. Inhofe told The New York
Times he canceled the transac-
tion in question after he became
aware of it, and he said the trans-
action was made by a third-party
adviser.
Ms. Loeffler tweeted on
March 20 that she was not in-
volved in the decision-making of
the trades in question, nor was
she in communication with her
third-party financial advisers. Ms.
Loeffler’s husband, Jeffrey Spre-
cher, is chairman of the New York
Stock Exchange and founder and
chairman of the Intercontinental
Exchange. 
MoveOn has run ads focus-
ing on accusations of financial
Ms. Loeffler. The group did not
respond to requests for com-
ment about its ads and why it is
not targeting Mr. Inhofe or Ms.
Feinstein.
The Facebook Ad Library
shows MoveOn began running
ads against Mr. Burr and Ms.
Loeffler on March 20. Within one
week, MoveOn rendered its ads
against Ms. Loeffler inactive on
Facebook while expanding its ads
against Mr. Burr in the Raleigh
News & Observer. 
her seat in a special election
in November, with a potential
runoff election for the seat fol-
lowing in January 2021, and then
a regular election for the seat will
for Mr. Burr’s seat does not arrive
until 2022.

What we need is a Wayne Gretzky approach to fight the coronavirus

W
ayne Gretzky The Trump administration’s its restrictions on National Guard troops may have been helpful two or Gotham Mayor Bill de Blasio
would not be decision to impose a half- European travel to keep New Yorkers three weeks ago, it is now just was recklessly encouraging resi-
impressed with hearted ban on travel between — which, like the out. (An effort some about pointless. Florida has dents to go out and about.
America’s feckless China and the United States (it alleged China flight have suggested should thousands of cases. The corona Mr. Gretzky also once ob-
response to the coronavirus. exempted Americans, though ban, do not apply to have begun years genie will not be put back into served that “hockey is a unique
Wayne Gretzky, the great- they can carry the disease just Americans — it was ago for altogether the bottle. sport in the sense that you need
est hockey player in history, is as easily as any foreigner) was already March 12. By different reasons.) Speaking of Florida, the Sun- each and every guy helping
reputed to have skated to where made in late January, weeks that point, more than Florida’s governor, shine State has finally closed each other and pulling in the
the puck was going — not after COVID-19 had begun 1,000 Italians had Ron DeSantis, has many of its public beaches — a same direction to be successful.”
where it was. rampaging through the Asian died of the disease
ETHAN ordered anyone ar- week or two after thousands If Americans help one

The United States govern-
ment’s inept response to the
coronavirus epidemic, by
contrast, has been decidedly
anti-Gretzkyian. From the
federal government on down to
feckless local officials, U.S. au-
thorities, with rare exceptions,
have skated not even to where
the puck is now, but where it
was two weeks ago.
Begin at the federal level.
country and sickening tens of
thousands.
During that period, as the
pneumonialike ailment brought
China to its knees, about 14,000
people a day were flying from
China to the United States.
Ditto for the supposed
Europe flight ban, a case study
in showing up a day late and a
dollar short. When the Trump
administration announced
EPSTEIN
and cases and fatali-
ties were increasing
exponentially.
Closer to 1,000
are dying each day in
Italy now, and still there are two
daily flights from Rome to New
York.
Current attempts at curtail-
ing the travel of New Yorkers
are similarly belated. The state
of Rhode Island is enlisting
riving from New York
to self-quarantine for
two weeks.
President Trump
over the weekend
tweeted that he, too, was mull-
ing a quarantine order for the
tri-state area — likely causing
thousands to flee who other-
wise wouldn’t have — only to
shy away from the action.
But as much as quarantine
swarmed them for spring break.
New Orleans issued a stay-
at-home order — after hordes
of tourists packed the streets
for Mardi Gras.
New York officials shuttered
bars and restaurants — after
they were packed with St. Pat-
rick’s Day revelers on the week-
end before the famously social
holiday. Making matters worse,
even as the coronavirus spread,
another and pull in the same
direction by practicing social
distancing, we have a chance
of reducing the still-rising rate
of infections. But our record of
following Gretzskian precepts
leaves much to be desired.
⦁ Ethan Epstein is editorial
editor of The Washington Times.
Contact him at eepstein@wash-
ingtontimes.com or on Twitter @
ethanepstiiiine.

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MNUCHIN with the White House,” Mr. Ortiz said.

From page A1
five months.
“He’s even-keeled,” said a Republican
familiar with the exhaustive negotiations.
“He was spending long hours and really
late nights at the Capitol, going between
the minority and majority leader’s office.”
A Democratic aide said of Mr.
Mnuchin, “You can deal with him.”
The president said his Treasury sec-
retary “lived over in that beautiful build-
ing,” and Mr. Mnuchin agreed that he
spent about five days in the LBJ Room,
an ornate, frescoed space near the Sen-
ate chamber.
American Conservative Union Chair-
man Matt Schlapp said of Mr. Mnuchin,
“He had a big week, but more impor-
tantly, he did his country a lot of good.”
Mr. Trump signed the rescue pack-
age Friday.
Mr. Mnuchin now is working to make
sure that direct payments of $1,200 to
most Americans and billions of dollars
in loans to small businesses are delivered
rapidly.
“This doesn’t do people any good if
it takes a long time,” Mr. Mnuchin said
Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation.”
Mr. Ortiz, whose network represents
small businesses, did call back after that
missed phone call last week to emphasize
to Mr. Mnuchin the need to get govern-
ment loans to small business owners
quickly.
He also urged Mr. Mnuchin to extend
aid to “gig” workers and independent
contractors, who usually don’t qualify
for help.
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Responding to House Speaker Nancy
Pelosi’s prayer quoting Pope Francis,
Treasury Secretary Steven T. Mnuchin
said he would quote the stock markets.
In the same week, a record 3.2 million
people filed for unemployment benefits.
“We talked on multiple occasions,
despite the world basically collapsing
around him and trying to get the left
and the right together on ideas to work
“He sounded cool, calm and collected.
He took the time he needed to listen to
our ideas, and not at one moment did I
ever feel rushed by him. If anything, I felt
like I was taking too much of his time.”
A partner at Goldman Sachs from
1994 to 2002, Mr. Mnuchin later estab-
lished himself in Hollywood for bankroll-
ing several successful and some medio-
cre movies, including “American Sniper”
in 2014 and “The LEGO movie.” He got
an acting credit for playing himself in a
nonspeaking role as a Wall Street banker
with Warren Beatty in “Rules Don’t
Apply,” a film that also featured his future
wife, Louise Linton.
When Mr. Mnuchin became national
finance chairman of Mr. Trump’s presi-
dential campaign in the spring of 2016,
many conservatives didn’t share Mr.
Trump’s confidence in him.
“He comes from the banking world,
and he had a reputation for being a Dem-
ocrat,” Mr. Schlapp said. “He obviously
earned a lot of respect and credibility
from all of us with the amazing job he did
on finance for the president’s election in
2016, and he’s figured Washington out.”
The massive cost of the rescue
package, including four months worth
of unemployment benefits that will
pay many workers 100% or more of
what they were earning in their jobs,
isn’t sitting well with many conser-
vatives. Mr. Schlapp also pointed to
“dandelions” in the package such as
$25 million for the Kennedy Center
for the Performing Arts in Washington
and $75 million for the Corporation
for Public Broadcasting, which funds
National Public Radio.
“This is odious and unfortunately
typical of the Democratic Party,” he said.
“No conservative likes the price tag.”
Mr. Mnuchin said the administration
needed buy-in from Democrats at a criti-
cal moment for the country.
“There’s never a deal until it’s done,”
he told Fox News host Sean Hannity.
“We were negotiating through the whole
period. We took out anything having to
do with wind [power] and the environ-
mental issues. The president cut lots and
lots of things out of this deal.”
He added, “When I do business deals,
it’s win and win. But here, we needed
bipartisan support. There was a price
to pay.”
Mr. Schlapp said most conserva-
tives are withholding their criticisms,
for now, because they understand that
the pandemic created unprecedented
economic challenges.
“I think most conservatives realize
that never before has the government
so broadly swiped away American eco-
nomic rights, and for good reason,” Mr.
Schlapp said. “Literally, not allowing
people to go to work, not allowing people
to operate their businesses — that’s an
economic taking, and the government
shouldn’t be allowed to do that without a
financial settlement from those who had
the economic loss. That’s predominantly
what we’re seeing here.”
One of the stickiest negotiating points
with Democrats was a $500 billion fund
to provide loans to distressed corpora-
tions. Democrats wouldn’t support the
package until the White House agreed to
a special inspector general to review how
the administration allocates the loans.
But Mr. Trump notified Congress
after signing the aid package that he will
insist on presidential “supervision” of
the yet-to-be appointed inspector gen-
eral. The development rankled Demo-
crats, who said it was a retreat on the
bargain struck by Mr. Mnuchin.
Mrs. Pelosi said Sunday that Demo-
crats won’t allow the president to have
unilateral control over the loan process.
In an appearance on CNN’s “State
of the Union,” Mrs. Pelosi also seemed
to bristle at Mr. Mnuchin’s focus on the
harm inflicted on financial markets dur-
ing the economic shutdown. She recalled
a meeting with Mr. Mnuchin a week ago
Sunday in the office of Senate Majority
Leader Mitch McConnell, Kentucky
Republican.
“I said to them, since this is Sunday
and the churches are closed, I want to
begin bipartisan meeting with a prayer,”
Mrs. Pelosi said. “And I quoted Pope
Francis’ word of prayer under this cir-
cumstance. And he said, ‘I pray that God
would enlighten those who are respon-
sible for the common good, that they
would take responsibility for those in
their care.’ And Secretary Mnuchin said,
‘Well, since you quoted Pope Francis, I
will quote the markets.’ And so that has
taken us to another area of values, to me,
about this.”
The president, who hasn’t spoken to
Mrs. Pelosi since a frosty meeting Oct.
16 as the Democrats’ impeachment in-
quiry picked up steam, summed up Mr.
Mnuchin’s value to his administration
and to the nation.
“He’s a fantastic guy, and he loves our
country,” the president said. “And he’s
been dealing with both sides — Repub-
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CAMPAIGN 2020

Legal experts:
Trump can’t delay
general election
President’s authority also
doesn’t extend to canceling vote
BY DAVID SHERFINSKI to postpone an election during
THE WASHINGTON TIMES emergencies, neither the Consti-
tution nor Congress provide any
The rash of states postponing similar power to the president or
or modifying their primary elec- other federal officials to change
tions because of the coronavirus this date outside of Congress’s
raises a question: Can President regular legislative process,” the
Trump delay or cancel Novem- report said.
ber’s elections and extend his Other legal experts agree that
presidency because of the crisis? Mr. Trump can’t unilaterally can-
In a word, no, according to cel the election. They say he could
legal experts who say such powers try to use some of his discretion
ASSOCIATED PRESS
lie outside the scope of presiden- to set rules on where people can
A MoneyGeek survey’s results underscored the deep economic shock the coronavirus and its concomitant business shutdowns have tial authority. vote depending on how big of a
delivered. As of Friday, 22 states had issued “shelter at home” rules, which have closed many businesses. “The president has no power risk the coronavirus is posing to
on this score,” said Samuel Is- public health in the fall.
ECONOMY sacharoff, a constitutional law “People are already talking
professor at the NYU School of about Trump canceling the elec-

Americans feeling a bit more at ease after Law. “It should be the last thing tion in November, which is some-
that we do in a democracy to thing that he can’t do,” said Rick
cancel elections.” Hasen, a law professor at the

relief package finalization, survey says
BY JAMES VARNEY
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
The congressional relief package final-
ized Friday appears to have moved the
needle slightly positively among Ameri-
cans when asked whether they have lost
or would lose wages during the ongoing
coronavirus pandemic, as nearly half say
they are unable to work from home, ac-
cording to a new survey from an online
financial service.
MoneyGeek surveyed 1,257 Americans
nationwide between March 22 and 25, with
36% of the surveys completed on the day the
Senate and White House announced they
had agreed on a $2.2 trillion relief package.
Before March 25, MoneyGeek that “54%
who are currently employed have lost or ex-
pect to lose wages due to the coronavirus.”
That number dropped to 49% among those
surveyed on the 25th, said Doug Milnes, one
of the survey’s two creators.
The survey saw a less positive move in
the employment landscape. On the 25th,
35.6% felt it was “‘very likely’ or ‘completely
likely’ that they will lose their employment
in the next 12 weeks,” compared to 37.9%
who thought so before that date.
“I think a good way to put it is there
was a small improvement in outlook from
the time we started fielding on the survey
to the time we finished,” Mr. Milnes said.
“When you see so many people worried
about missing payments or losing their jobs,
it just brings home the impact of all this.”
The survey results underscored the
deep economic shock the virus and its
concomitant business shutdowns have
delivered. As of Friday, 22 states had issued
“shelter at home” rules, which have largely
closed businesses not deemed “essential”
by government and politicians.
Some businesses, such as restaurants,
have managed to continue on a take-out or
delivery basis, but that would only let them
stay open with a skeletal crew compared
to their pre-coronavirus workforce. Other
businesses, such as movie theaters, most
retail stores and others have been shuttered
or reduced to drive-by status in which small
numbers of workers hand out preordered,
prepaid items.
In the survey, 47% said they are unable
to perform their job from home, a major
contributor to the shaky feelings about
employment going forward, said Hillary
Adler, who partnered with Mr. Milnes on
the project.
Despite the grim outlook, 57% of those
Gym sued for continuing to charge
for membership while being closed
BY ALEX SWOYER
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
A New York woman launched a class-
action lawsuit against her gym last week
in federal court, saying it is refusing to
suspend memberships but is remaining
closed due to the spread of COVID-19.
Mary Namorato sued New York
Sports Clubs, owned by Town Sports
International LLC and Town Sports Inter-
national Holdings Inc., on Thursday after
the club did not respond to her inquiries
about suspending her membership.
Town Sports International operates
clubs in the Northeast and has more than
600,000 members.
Ms. Namorato pays about $70 a month
and has been a member since January
2019. After the clubs closed under the
direction of state authorities on March
16, she wanted to explore her options
to save money. The club last billed Ms.
Namorato on March 1.
She filed a complaint with the New
York attorney general’s office, which ac-
cording to court papers, told her: “New
York Sports Club is not automatically
freezing or canceling memberships, is
only permitting members to freeze or
surveyed said they expected to be able to
pay their bills, a number that showed little
change on March 25, Mr. Milnes said. The
same majority — 57% — predicted the
emergency would last 8 weeks or less.
In terms of consumer spending, 45% said
they had put off making a purchase with an
additional 23% saying they expected to start
delaying purchases soon. Slightly less than
one-third — 33% — said the bug has not had
an impact on their spending.
The median amount Americans re-
ported spending to stock up on coronavirus
supplies was $150, although a handful said
they had spent $600 or more.
While representatives from all 50 states
were included, MoneyGeek said the sample
size was too small to draw clear conclusions
about different regional patterns. Answers
tended to be the same among men and
women, Mr. Milnes and Ms. Adler told The
Washington Times.
Not every part of the country is on the
cancel their membership by mail, and
freezes and cancellations are subject to
certain fees.”
A number of members have taken
to social media to complain about the
payments.
Jim King commented on the club’s
Facebook page that it needs to address
locker-rental fees.
“Are you temporarily freezing all
memberships and suspending fees until
you reopen? Why is this information not
included in the announcement about
temporarily closing?” Mr. King wrote.
Other gyms like Crunch and Equinox
have frozen member accounts upon clos-
ing their doors during the coronavirus
pandemic, according to multiple reports.
The 23-page lawsuit alleges the club
is denying members the option to cancel
and has breached its contract since the
company cannot offer its services.
The CBS News affiliate in New York
reported that the club says it will address
members’ concerns over dues once it
reopens.
A spokesperson for the fitness com-
pany did not immediately respond to a
request for comment from The Wash-
ington Times.
same timeline in terms of coping with
the virus, which first infected humans in
Wuhan, China, last year before marching
across the planet. Washington state, for
example, was hard hit by the virus in early
March but its experiences have since been
eclipsed by more populous states such as
New York and California.
One finding that surprised both Ms.
Adler and Mr. Milnes was that more than
four times the percentage of Americans said
they would clean as opposed to “working
out” during this unanticipated and unde-
sirable downtime — 18.4% to 4.5%. The
single biggest way Americans said they are
passing the time was predictably watching
TV at 37.5%.
“The cleaning one, that really surprised
me,” Ms. Adler said.
It remains to be seen, they noted, if the
U.S. may see a surge in birthrates at the end
of 2020 similar to what New York City ex-
perienced after suffering a blackout in 1977.
U.S. law doesn’t have any pro- University of California, Irvine.
visions allowing a president to “Although I am concerned that
stay in office after noon on Jan. he could issue orders that would
20 even in the case of a national close polling places.”
emergency, according to a report Several states have postponed
this month from the Congressio- their presidential primaries
nal Research Service. amid the coronavirus pandemic,
If no other avenues for picking with officials saying the public
a new president shouldn’t be
have worked, asked to put their
the rules of suc- “It should be safety at risk.
cession to fill a the last thing On Friday,
vacancy would Ohio Gov. Mike
kick in, the report
that we do in a DeWine signed
said. democracy to legislation that
If there isn’t a cancel elections.” moves his state’s
president or vice primary to a
president to per- — Samuel Isaacharoff, largely vote-by-
form the duties NYU School of Law mail election,
of the office, the with limited in-
speaker of the person options
House — a post currently held on April 28 for people with dis-
by Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Cali- abilities or people who don’t have
fornia — would act as president. a home mailing address.
If the speaker can’t serve, the Mr. DeWine invoked a last-
president pro tempore of the minute public health emergency
Senate — currently Sen. Chuck ahead of his state’s scheduled
Grassley of Iowa — would step in. March 17 primary to delay in-
The U.S. presidential election person voting. He had previously
is unique in that under the Elec- advocated moving in-person vot-
toral College system voters who ing to June 2.
head to the polls in November Derek Muller, a professor at
aren’t technically voting for can- Pepperdine’s Caruso School of
didates, but rather “electors” who Law, said states approving such
gather in December to formally delays lucked out in the sense
pick the president. that former Vice President Joseph
“The presidential electors are R. Biden has all but clinched the
selected in the manner state legis- Democratic nomination, which
latures shall set, and the Congress lessens the practical political ef-
and the Senate are elected in such fect of the postponements.
a manner as the Congress shall “That’s not a luxury you get in
set,” Mr. Issacharoff said. November,” he said. “So maybe
While the Constitution grants people feel a little bit better about
power to the state legislatures to pushing back primaries, but there
appoint electors, states operate is really no sort of failsafe in
under a system in which their November.
Electoral College votes go to the “The Constitution says that the
winner of the popular vote of terms of members of Congress
their state. Maine and Nebraska end Jan. 3 and the term of the
operate under a modified system president ends Jan. 20th, so you
in which they use both the state- could end up with no House and
wide popular vote and the vote two-thirds of a Senate and that’s
in each congressional district to it,” he said.
distribute their electoral votes. Mr. Biden said Mr. Trump
Since 1845, Congress has re- doesn’t have the authority to post-
quired states to choose their elec- pone the election — though he
tors “on the Tuesday after the first added that the president could
Monday in November,” though start a “drumbeat” saying that it
if states can’t meet that deadline should be postponed.
it would fall to their legislatures “Democracy and dealing with
to work out another date, the this crisis have to be able to be
Congressional Research Service done at the same time,” the former
report said. vice president said in a recent ap-
“Unlike the practice of some pearance on ABC’s “Jimmy Kim-
states that allow the governor mel Live.”

IMMIGRATION

Judges ordering release of high health risk illegals from ICE custody
BY STEPHEN DINAN
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Federal judges have begun to
order release of high health risk
illegal immigrants from ICE cus-
tody amid the coronavirus crisis,
saying the agency is showing
“callous disregard” by keeping
them in group facilities where
they are at risk of infection.
One judge in New York or-
dered 10 people released immedi-
ately on Thursday, and a judge in
California ordered two others set
free late Friday. Broader cases are
still pending in other courts that
could spur release of thousands
more people.
The Trump administration
has opposed the releases, ar-
guing there’s no major danger
and assuring the courts that U.S.
Immigration and Customs En-
forcement has plenty of experi-
ence working with migrants who
have highly contagious diseases.
Judges have not been
convinced.
“This is an unprecedented
time in our nation’s history, filled
with uncertainty, fear, and anxi-
ety. But in the time of a crisis, our
response to those at particularly
high risk must be with compas-
sion and not apathy,” wrote Judge
Terry Hatter Jr., in the Central
District of California. “The gov-
ernment cannot act with a callous
disregard for the safety of our
fellow human beings.”
He ordered release of two peo-
ple from an ICE contract facility
in Adelanto, California: One was
a 58-year-old with kidney stones,
arthritis and a hernia. The other
is a 23-year-old who is recovering
from a facial fracture.
Judge Hatter, a Carter appoin-
tee, said the Adelanto facility has
been dinged by the Homeland
Security inspector general for
health and safety risks in the
past, and COVID-19 heightens
those risks.
He said the government can-
not ensure that no one at the facil-
ity has, or will contract, the virus.
In New York, Judge Analisa
Torres ordered release of 10
migrants from an ICE facility
in New Jersey after the agency
acknowledged two coronavirus
case facilities in the state.
ICE had indicated it was al-
ready working to release some
of the migrants, but Judge Torres
ordered it sped up, saying she
wanted no mistakes or oversights.
The Trump administration,
in one court filing in California,
argued mass releases aren’t well-
thought out, particularly when it
comes to children.
“ICE and ORR are taking ex-
traordinary actions to protect
children in their custody from
harm,” the government said, re-
ferring to the two different agen-
cies in Homeland Security and
the Health Department respon-
sible for juveniles at different
points in the process.
Those actions include follow-
ing CDC guidelines, the govern-
ment said.
But judges in several cases
said it seems impossible to imag-
ine that a 6-foot social distancing
recommendation can be main-
tained in confinement, so condi-
tions are inherently risky.
Judge Torres said ICE was
showing “deliberate indifference”
to migrants’ medical situation.
One federal judge in Washing-
ton earlier this month rejected a
request for coronavirus-related
releases, though he suggested
he is willing to reconsider. Other
cases are still pending from
Maryland to California.
In one major test, a federal
judge ruled that illegal immigrant
children must be released more
quickly to get them out of harm’s
way. But Judge Dolly M. Gee, an
Obama appointee to the court in
the Central District of California,
said she wouldn’t order an im-
mediate release, saying that could
produce chaos as the government
searched for sponsors to take
custody.
Instead, she ordered
Homeland Security and the
Health Department, which each
have authority over some juve-
niles, to explain why it’s taking
them too long to release some of
the minors.
Amnesty International said
it wants the children released
now, saying even measures to
care for them in custody, such as
quarantine, can be traumatic for
juveniles.
“This treatment of children
should make every single per-
son in the United States sick to
their stomach. At a time when
protecting public health rests on
access to care for all, inaction by
ICE endangers not only these
children’s health but also jeop-
ardizes the public,” said Denise
Bell, a researcher for Amnesty
International USA.

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Nation “Don’t be too scared, it’s going to be all right. God loves you.”
— Country music legend Dolly Parton, in an Instagram video encouraging people to “keep the faith” amid the coronavirus

TECHNOLOGY

Volunteers offer
connection, aid
as participants
stay safe at home
BY MARIAM FAM
ASSOCIATED PRESS

WINTER PARK, FLA. | Sitting cross-legged in her living

room, Donna Borak rested her palm on her heart as she
guided a small group of virtual participants in meditation
and deep breathing. Notice where you might be holding
tension, she instructed.
“Send your attention to your head … maybe acknowl-
edging it’s OK if you’ve been worried and scared,” she
told them “Maybe finding comfort that we are all in this
together.”
From her Washington, D.C., home, Ms. Borak has been
hosting a free virtual meditation class daily for anyone who
wants “a respite during such a moment of uncertainty.”
Attendees are encouraged to bring children, loved ones
or pets. “Even your plants.”
“Inhale, maybe even a little bit more deeply this time,
slowly letting the air out of your mouth.”
As social distancing has emerged as a key tool to
staunch the spread of the coronavirus, ordinary people
around the globe have turned to technology to overcome
ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS
physical barriers. In ways big and small, they are forging
A wears a face shield and gloves while standing behind a plexiglass shield as she scans items at grocery store in Oklahoma City last week. new connections and comforting others inundated by
bad news about the virus or burdened by unpaid bills.
RETAIL Ms. Borak wanted to carve out a space for together-
ness — for a stressed-out parent, a manager or a laid-off

Retailers take extra steps to protect employee to take a break. So far, attendees joining her class
on Zoom video conferencing have mainly been friends
and family, and she’s been sharing sessions on Instagram.
“While a meditation class for 15 minutes doesn’t solve

workers, customers from coronavirus financial stress or help to explain what will happen next
or address serious health care concerns, to me, it’s an
opportunity to not be alone and to not exist in isolation,”

Precautions include rigorous cleaning, special hours, distancing signs
BY SHEN WU TAN
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Retailers have implemented extra precau-
tions for customers and employees as they
struggle to provide goods and services during
the coronavirus pandemic.
Cleaning more rigorously, hosting special
hours for vulnerable customers, extending paid
sick leave and putting up signs about social dis-
tancing are some of the steps stores have taken
to ease anxiety for consumers and workers.
“We’re taking any and all measures to ensure
the well-being of our customers and associates.
To that end, we remain in contact with the CDC,
as well as respective state health departments,
and are taking every precaution necessary to
keep our stores safe, cleaned and sanitized,”
said Charles Crowson, senior communications
manager for Walmart.
Walmart stores adjusted operating hours to
help employees restock shelves and sanitize
surfaces, and provided a voice-activated app
for workers to use for cleaning guidance.
The retail giant has installed plexiglass
“sneeze guards” at pharmacy lanes, and will
set up these barriers at regular registers over
the next three weeks. It also has placed floor
decals at entrances and in checkout lanes to
help customers gauge proper social distancing.
Target said it will station staff members at
store entrances to make sure carts are clean
for customers. Employees will clean checkout
lanes after each transaction and alternate the
use of lanes to allow deep cleaning of those
not in use. Target will stop accepting in-store
product returns and exchanges for the next
three weeks, but will honor returns that expire
within that time period.
For now, Target is pausing the sales of reus-
able bags and is asking customers who shop
with these to bag their own items at checkout.
Paper and plastic bags will be available, and
any local fees will be waived during this time.
The stores are expanding dedicated shop-
ping hours for seniors and those with exist-
ing health problems, reserving Tuesday and
Wednesday mornings for vulnerable customers
Social distancing is indicated on the floor at the checkout line at Oklahoma City grocery store last
week to remind customers to stay apart because of concerns over the COVID-19 virus.
starting this week. CVS, its partnering phar-
macy, also will open early to accommodate
these shoppers.
Grocery store chain Trader Joe’s temporar-
ily has closed some of its stores in New York,
New Jersey and Maryland, where staff members
tested positive for COVID-19, for cleaning and
restocking. The store in Elkridge, Maryland,
which closed due to a suspected COVID-19
case, reopened Friday.
Trader Joe’s is limiting the number of cus-
tomers in a store at one time, exercising social
distancing practices, cleaning carts and baskets
and suggesting shoppers limit their purchases
to two per item. The grocery chain is stressing
that its employees stay home if they are sick
or feeling unwell, offering an additional seven
days of paid sick time. For staff quarantined for
or diagnosed with coronavirus, Trader Joe’s is
providing up to two weeks of paid leave.
Customers will not be charged for Trader
Joe’s paper bags, and the grocery stores are
installing plexiglass at registers.
Whole Foods is adjusting its hours and
opening its stores to customers who are 60
years and older one hour before opening to the
general public. The natural and organic market
is working under Amazon to expand free, two-
hour delivery and door-drop services for Prime
members in more than 2,000 cities and towns.
It also is trying to expand pickup services to
all markets in a shorter time frame.
Dr. William Schaffner, an infectious disease
specialist at Vanderbilt University, said stores
could check their employees’ temperature be-
fore work as another precaution. He also offered
some shopping tips:
⦁ Order groceries online or by phone, then
pick up the items at the store to minimize
contact.
⦁ If groceries or other items are delivered,
wash your hands after handling packages and
wipe down cardboard boxes.
⦁ Visit the store during non-peak hours.
⦁ When shopping during “seniors only”
hours, be aware of long lines and observe the
6-foot rule of social distancing.
⦁ Use self checkout when possible.
she said by phone. “I didn’t want anyone to feel alone.”
For most people, the virus causes only mild or mod-
erate symptoms, such as fever and cough. For some,
especially older adults and people with existing health
problems, it can cause more severe illness, including
pneumonia. The vast majority of people recover.
A journalist whose work stints included The Associ-
ated Press and who had been attending yoga teacher
training, Ms. Borak draws lessons from such testing times.
“Going forward, for every time that we opted out at
the last minute of attending an event or a happy hour or
a dinner, we’ll hopefully feel differently about it when we
come back together again,” she said. “We need each other.”
In Austin, Texas, Catherine Woodiwiss has also gone
online to provide relief of a different kind. She knew that
the cancellation of South by Southwest — a film, music and
technology festival that attracts hundreds of thousands to
Austin — could hit artists and small business owners hard.
Her first instinct to help by buying local wasn’t going to
work amid the social distancing and various shutdowns. So
she encouraged those who lost income to reach out online.
“I can’t give a ton, but I can give something, and will
as much / for as long as I can,” Ms. Woodiwiss tweeted.
She said takers included an 18-year-old pregnant
woman who works as a cashier and said her store would
be closed for a month and a musician whose shows would
have covered rent and other expenses.
She used Venmo to send money directly after doing a
“light vetting” of recipients by looking at their accounts.
“I’m comfortable erring on the side of being of help,”
she said. “In a moment of need, I am comfortable giving
to who asked for it.”
There are “times that I have been very much in need
of financial support from other people,” Ms. Woodiwiss
said in a phone interview. “I am very lucky to be at a
moment … where that’s not true.”
She’s been setting aside money for a while to help with
different causes. Now coronavirus is her cause — and
she’s part of a bigger effort. On her social media feeds,
she’s seen people come together in new ways, holding
“singing circles” or sharing self-quarantine recipes.
Ms. Borak and Ms. Woodiwiss are among an army of
virtual volunteers worldwide donating time and money.
Some have used the Internet to set up food-delivery
services to the elderly. One mother issued an interna-
tional call for help celebrating the birthdays of her self-
quarantined children.
“People are trying to figure out how to belong with
each other … when we are physically separate,” Ms.
Woodiwiss said. “In this moment of real, relatively
unanticipated crisis, it’s been really great to see people
show up.”

RELIGION

Virus pandemic garners attention for obscure Catholic St. Corona

BY CHRISTOPHER VONDRACEK
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Of all the notable figures the
coronavirus pandemic has thrust
into the spotlight — Anthony
Fauci, Deborah Birx, Tom Hanks
— none is more unexpected than
a little-known Catholic saint, a
martyr of the 2nd century who
seemingly shares the name of
the deadly virus.
St. Corona typically has not
been beseeched as a patron saint
of cures or contagions (falla-
cious internet stories to the
contrary), but as a benefactor
during times of economic crisis,
according to the Catholic News
Service.
“Over the centuries, St. Co-
rona was often prayed to by
people seeking her help in times
of trouble, be it heavy storms
or livestock diseases,” the news
agency, run by the U.S. Confer-
ence of Catholic Bishops, said
Thursday in an online post.
“People believed she had a posi-
tive influence regarding money
matters, with ‘coronae’ (crowns)
being the name given to coins.”
The story of St. Corona is
murky, with experts disagreeing
over whether she born in France,
Syria or Sicily. She is believed to
have been the 16-year-old wife of
a Roman soldier, who either was
or was a comrade of St. Vincent,
in Damascus circa 160.
For his Christian beliefs in
violation of Roman law, Vincent
was tortured and beheaded. Co-
rona provided comfort to him
during his tortures and was mar-
tyred herself: Tied between bent
palm trees, she was ripped her
apart when the trunks snapped
erect.
She was given her saintly
name Corona, (Latin for
“crown”), to imply that she
had lived a richly spiritual life.
Coronaviruses are so named be-
cause the spiky germs resemble
a crown under a microscope.
But during the current pan-
demic, some faithful are conflat-
ing the names and praying for
the saint’s intercession:
⦁ Earlier this month, Vienna-
based Gloria TV posted an ar-
ticle describing St. Corona as the
“patroness of pandemics.”
⦁ On March 18, the Diocese
of Lansing, Michigan, posted an
article to its website calling on
Saint Corona — “Patroness of
Pandemics” — to intercede for
the congregation.
⦁ On Wednesday, a headline
on a web article by The Hill
read: “German cathedral pre-
pares showcase for relics of Saint
Corona, patron of epidemics.”
Meanwhile, officials at Ger-
many’s Aachen Cathedral, one
of Europe’s oldest, are displaying
relics of St. Corona. But contrary
to a Reuters report, she has not
historically been referred to her
as an intermediary for “resisting
epidemics.”
Still, her intercession could
be of aid in the ongoing health
emergency, say scholars.
“In view of how COVID-19
has triggered an economic crisis,
with many people fearful about
money matters looming ahead, it
might not be at all far-fetched for
them to call on the saint for sup-
port,” the Catholic News Service
said in its post.
The news service added that
St. Corona’s feast day — May
14 — may prove a more reason-
able time for emerging from the
shadows of stay-at-home orders
for many Americans than Easter,
as has been promulgated by the
White House.

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MICHIGAN
Study: Little asbestos found
after Detroit house demolitions
Cost-savings and public safety
benefits by swiftly demolishing dan-
gerous vacant houses in Detroit could
outweigh the risk of asbestos exposure
to people in neighborhoods, accord-
ing to researchers at the University of
Michigan.
A study of 25 emergency demoli-
tions found small to undetectable
concentrations of asbestos, which has
been linked to cancer, mesothelioma
and other illnesses.
Of 101 air samples analyzed, 54
showed a measurable “amount of dust
of any kind,” said Rick Neitzel, associ-
ate professor of environmental health
science and principal investigator on
the study.
But only one microscopic asbestos
fiber was found in samples from each
of two houses.
“Frankly, I was expecting to find
more asbestos,” Mr. Neitzel said. “We
were extremely surprised, and it
was great news from a public health
perspective.”
The average cost to tear down a va-
cant house in Detroit is about $12,600,
according to the Detroit Land Bank
Authority.
Nearly, $4,000 of that cost goes to
removing asbestos before demolition,
as required by federal rules.
The study suggests that money in-
stead could be spent on tearing down
more houses.
“Crime and things associated with
blighted homes likely pose a much
bigger impact from a public health per-
spective,” Mr. Neitzel said.
But city officials noted that federal
requirements would have to change for
them to stop doing abatement.
“We are encouraged that this study
shows our environmental protocols
during demolition have effectively
protected residents,” Detroit Demoli-
tion Director LaJuan Counts told The
Associated Press. “Unless there is a
change at the federal level, we will
continue to include abatement as part
of our standard demolition protocols.”
The exception being emergency
demolitions when “abatement is not
possible due to worker safety con-
cerns,” Mr. Counts said.
COBURN
From page A1
on a commission to cut the deficit.
Mr. Coburn won election to the U.S.
House as part of the Republican sweep in
1994, when he captured a Democrat-held
seat. He served three terms and then left
to keep his term limit pledge. The seat
was promptly won by a Democrat.
Four years later, he sought Oklaho-
ma’s open Senate seat. Republican lead-
ers worked against him in the primary,
but he won. In the general election, he
beat Rep. Brad Carson, the Democrat
who had taken over his House seat.
Alan Frumin, who was parliamen-
tarian in the Senate during most of Mr.
Coburn’s tenure, said people warned him
of the impending storm after Mr. Co-
burn’s election in 2004. He was prickly
and tough to work with, the story went.
“Suffice to say it, they were wrong,”
Mr. Frumin said.
“We developed such respect for
his way of doing business, and respect
morphed into affection, and I say that
as somebody who, he certainly put us
through our paces,” Mr. Frumin said. “He
was dogged, he was thorough and he was
good to his word on everything. He was
a force to be reckoned with.”
Setting aside the late Sen. Robert C.
Byrd, the West Virginia Democrat who
literally wrote the book on the history
of the Senate, Mr. Coburn was in a class
of his own when it came to learning and
deploying the chamber’s rules.
Few senators bother to pay attention
to the rules. Of those who do, some
delegate to their staff while others learn
it all themselves. Mr. Coburn did both.
‘I’m not coming to Washington
to make friends’
By his own measure, Mr. Coburn
failed in 2010 when the Senate was debat-
ing yet another debt limit increase and
he came to the floor with an amendment
demanding $120 billion in spending cuts.
He figured government had at least
enough duplication that agencies should
be able to sweat out that much.
Democrats who controlled the
chamber resisted, and so did some
Republicans.
Mr. Coburn settled for a study, and
Congress ordered the Government Ac-
countability Office to produce a report
on redundancies.
Yet that failure may be the single
most successful act of budget-cutting
in decades. That Republican study be-
came known as the duplication report,
a yearly page-turner of government
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Six injured as tornado tears through Arkansas college town
From combined dispatches
JONESBORO, ARK. | A tornado ripped
through northeast Arkansas on Satur-
day, leaving six people hurt after hitting
commercial and residential areas in the
college town of Jonesboro.
The six people reported injured
were taken to a local hospital with
minor juries, Jonesboro E-911 Director
Jeff Presley said. The tornado did major
damage at the Mall at Turtle Creek and
Jonesboro Municipal Airport.
Like much of the rest of the world,
Jonesboro is working to fight the spread
of COVID-19. Because of that, most
stores in the Mall at Turtle Creek were
closed Saturday to fight the coronavirus
pandemic.
Severe weather could have been
much worse if not for that, Mr. Presley
said.
“At 5 o’clock on a Saturday afternoon
that place would’ve been packed, and
at this point there was hardly anyone
in there,” he said. “It’s a blessing in
disguise.”
Power was out in sections of the city,
which affected the city’s traffic lights.
Wreckage tossed about by the twister
also blocked roads. The mayor issued
a 7 p.m. curfew, and authorities asked
people not to drive around.
The storm also derailed a train,
Mr. Presley said. Crews were examin-
ing damage and trying to determine
Mayor Mike Duggan’s administra-
tion has torn down about 19,000 vacant
houses in Detroit since 2014.
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CALIFORNIA
Garth Brooks, Trisha Yearwood
to take requests in live special
LOS ANGELES | Country power cou-
ple Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood
will be taking viewer requests during a
live prime-time show this week filmed
at their home.
CBS will air the special, “Garth and
Trisha: Live!” on Wednesday at 9 p.m.
Eastern.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Former Sen. Tom Coburn bucked right-
wing views on homosexuality and was a
champion for HIV/AIDS patients.
redundancies that as of last year saved
$262 billion — “and counting,” said Gene
Dodaro, who, as comptroller general, is
head of the GAO.
The GAO’s duplication webpage has
been viewed more than 280,000 times.
The reports have more than 165,000
views on PDF and have been down-
loaded nearly 45,000 times.
When the next report is released
this spring, the $262 billion figure will
be even higher.
“The gift that keeps on giving, and
it will for a long time,” Mr. Dodaro said.
One of Mr. Coburn’s principles drilled
into staff was that they shouldn’t be
afraid to fight and lose. Sometimes you
won the war by losing a few choice
battles.
But they were also drilled to always
treat legislative opponents with respect,
to try to find common ground and to
outwork everyone else.
“When I met Dr. Coburn in Novem-
ber 1994, he got right up in my face and
said, ‘Are you sure you want to work for
me? I’m not coming to Washington to
make friends,’ ” recalled Roland Foster,
Mr. Coburn’s legislative director. “After
being elected to the Senate, a Senate
staffer advised me not to work for him
because no one was going to work with
him. After irritating nearly everyone
in Washington for 20 years, he left the
Senate at a time of extreme partisanship
but with more friends on both sides of
the aisle than nearly anyone else left in
politics.”
Coburn staffers figure they wrote
more than 1,000 amendments to cut
spending during his 10 years in the
Senate.
Most of the amendments were eas-
ily defeated or, more often, never even
got a vote.
One of those failures was the Bridge
to Nowhere, a span in Alaska that was
to be built to reach Gravina Island, with
a permanent population of perhaps 50.
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ARKANSAS
A group of people help clear debris and salvage items from Pawn Depot after a
tornado touched down Saturday in Jonesboro, Arkansas.
whether there it had been hauling any-
thing hazardous.
The National Weather Service
tweeted a video from the Arkansas
Department of Transportation that
showed a large tornado dropping from
storm clouds in Jonesboro.
Rep. Rick Crawford, who represents
In an announcement Sunday, CBS
said the country stars will perform “an
intimate concert for viewers look-
ing for the comfort and shared joy of
music during this difficult time.”
The inspiration came from a live
show that Mr. Brooks performed from
his studio last week that attracted mil-
lions of viewers and caused Facebook
Live to crash multiple times.
With millions of Americans staying
at home to try to stop the spread of the
coronavirus, performers are turning
to live streamed concerts to reach fans
and lift spirits. John Legend, Keith
Urban and John Mayer are among
the stars who have performed virtual
Alaska’s congressional delegation in-
serted an “earmark” into a bill directing
$223 million to the project. The Alaskans
said the bridge was needed to replace a
less reliable ferry service.
After Hurricane Katrina slammed
the Gulf Coast, Mr. Coburn called on
Congress to cut the bridge money and
use it to rebuild a bridge in Louisiana. His
amendment was crushed by a 82-15 vote.
But the bridge was never built. Mr.
Coburn had made the project too toxic.
Several years later, Alaska Gov. Sarah
Palin canceled the project and said the
money would be used elsewhere.
Earmarks never recovered from the
bad press and were eliminated by 2011.
Silly science and other crusades
Mr. Coburn made “shrimp on a tread-
mill” famous when he highlighted a
federally funded science research project
that involved running shrimp on a spe-
cially built treadmill designed to test how
shrimp absorbed oxygen under stress.
When a video of the shrimp surfaced,
Mr. Coburn pounced and dubbed it a
waste of taxpayer money.
The Washington Times reached out
to the study’s author but got no response.
Mr. Coburn also challenged the Social
Security disability of a man who lived as
an “adult baby” who slept in diapers in an
adult-size crib and collected government
benefits, even though he acknowledged
he had some computer and woodwork-
ing skills.
When Democrats called a press con-
ference to complain that Mr. Coburn was
blocking a bill that they wanted Congress
to pass, he showed up and sat in the front
row alongside the press.”I’m going to
enjoy the festivities,” he told reporters.
Mr. Coburn was the chief sponsor of
Sen. Barack Obama’s biggest legislative
accomplishment: the Federal Funding
Accountability and Transparency Act of
2006. Mr. Obama attended the ceremony
at the White House where President
George W. Bush signed it into law. The
measure created USASpending.gov,
which is still the best way to track gov-
ernment contracts and disbursements.
Already famous in Washington, Mr.
Coburn gained national attention with
his annual “Wastebook,” which high-
lighted silly spending. Late-night come-
dians ate it up.
Those who worked with Mr. Coburn
said he was never cheap. He gave his best
and expected that of those around him.
“I loved working with him. He ac-
tually made it easy to do so,” said Mr.
Bowles, who worked with Mr. Coburn
on a committee to make suggestions for
cutting the deficit.
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much of eastern Arkansas, tweeted
that a tornado tore through “the heart
of town” and asked for prayers for first
responders. Mr. Crawford said his staff
and family were safe.
Jonesboro is home to Arkansas State
University. The university tweeted that
campus was not damaged.
concerts.
CBS says the special will be filmed
with a minimal crew that will take
social distancing precautions.
— Associated Press
MAINE
Whales face more ship
collisions as waters warm
PORTLAND | Climate change is im-
periling the world’s largest animals by
increasing the likelihood of fatal col-
lisions between whales and big ships
that ply the same waters.
Warming ocean temperatures are
causing some species of whales in
“From Day One, he was completely
transparent, honest and straightforward
with me. But he didn’t just give me his
trust; it was something I had to earn
over time,” Mr. Bowles said. “But once
he did feel confident that Al and I were
as committed to real fiscal responsibility
and reform as he was, he educated us,
directed us and led us to ideas and solu-
tions we would never have found without
his direction, guidance and expertise.”
The outsider
That’s not to say Mr. Coburn wasn’t
willing to mix it up.
Most freshman senators are content
to lie low and get a feel for how the Sen-
ate operates. Some wait months before
delivering their maiden speeches on
the floor.
Mr. Coburn didn’t bother with a
maiden speech. He just began block-
ing other senators’ bills. Within a few
months of taking office, Roll Call, a
Capitol Hill newspaper, said Mr. Coburn
had put a “hold” on hundreds of pieces
of legislation.
Don Ritchie, historian emeritus for
the Senate, said Mr. Coburn probably
holds the all-time record for holds.
Some of Mr. Coburn’s friends on
Capitol Hill seemed to misunderstand
him and labeled him a hard-liner. The
reality was far more complex.
He was a champion for HIV/AIDS
patients, though in his own way, said
Scott Evertz, who was Mr. Bush’s director
of AIDS policy.
“Being concerned about an epidemic
or a pandemic, and being fiscally conser-
vative, are not mutually exclusive,” Mr.
Evertz said. “I don’t think there was any-
one that could quarrel with the fact that
he cared about people living with HIV.”
Mr. Evertz recalled a meeting of the
president’s advisory AIDS council where
Mr. Coburn passed out a book, “Sexual
Ecology,” written by a gay rights ac-
tivist. The book was rather graphic
and stunned liberal and conservative
members. Mr. Evertz said Mr. Coburn
found the book scientifically sound and
therefore deemed it worthwhile.
In 1996, when Republican presiden-
tial nominee Bob Dole was refusing a
campaign donation from the Log Cabin
Republicans, whose members advocate
for gay rights, Mr. Coburn spoke at the
group’s event, Mr. Foster said.
Mr. Foster said Mr. Coburn had skep-
ticism of big business as well as big
government. Among the measures he
sponsored were bills to prohibit insur-
ance companies from canceling policies
for those who sought HIV tests. He also
teamed up with Sen. Bernard Sanders,
MONDAY, MARCH 30, 2020
Forecasters with the Storm Predic-
tion Center in Norman, Oklahoma,
warned that a severe weather outbreak
was possible later Saturday for much of
the central U.S.
In Iowa, severe storms damaged an
apartment building in the northeast
portion of the staet Saturday night and
knocked down power lines in the area.
A tornado that was spotted in Oel-
wein, Iowa, tore off part of the wall of
a 12-unit apartment building and dam-
aged the siding of a second building in
the complex. Oelwein police said no
serious injuries were reported.
In Illinois, a tornado touched down
late Saturday in northern part of the
state, damaging homes and uproot-
ing trees, weather officials confirmed
Sunday.
The tornado touched down in Ogle
County just outside the city of Oregon
around 9 p.m. Saturday, according to
National Weather Service meteorolo-
gist Gino Izzi. It was on the ground for
roughly 10 minutes.
No injuries were reported.
One home appeared to have lost its
roof and windows, officials said. Survey
teams planned to assess the damage
Sunday.
Reports of possible tornadoes Sat-
urday in Illinois also cropped up in
Peoria County, where there were power
outages, and Henry County.
pursuit of food to stray more often into
shipping lanes, scientists say.
The phenomenon already has
increased ship strikes involving rare
North Atlantic right whales on the
East Coast and giant blue whales on
the West Coast, researchers say.
The number of strikes off California
increased threefold in 2018 — to at
least 10 — compared to previous years.
When whales are killed in a ship
collision, they often sink and don’t
always wash ashore.
So scientists and conservationists
say fatal ship strikes are dramatically
underreported.
— Associated Press
Vermont independent, on legislation
to allow Americans to access prescrip-
tion drugs sold at lower prices in other
countries.
“The real reason he was so dangerous
is because he was so independent and
had his own opinions and solutions on
everything,” Mr. Foster said.
Those solutions showed up in Mr.
Coburn’s oversight reports. One report
exposed the massive Social Security
scam run by Eric C. Conn, a lawyer in
Kentucky who filed thousands of bogus
disability applications. Had the fraud not
been stopped, it could have accounted
for $1 billion in lifetime benefits that
shouldn’t have been paid.
Conn is now in prison serving a
12-year sentence for the fraud and a
15-year sentence for escaping home
confinement.
‘A special, special man’
Many members of Congress, when
they come to Washington, go through a
transformation. For the first few years,
when they talk about “we,” they usually
mean their constituents back home.
Eventually, when they say “we,” they
mean themselves and other members
of Congress.
Mr. Coburn didn’t succumb to that.
He made a three-term pledge when
he first ran for the House in 1994 and
stuck to it. He left the chamber after the
2000 election.
When he ran for the Senate, he im-
posed a two-term pledge on himself. He
ended up staying just 10 years and left
early because of poor health.
“Tom Coburn was a special, special
man,” said Sen. Ben Sasse, Nebraska
Republican. “He was a Christian and a
father and a husband, and all of those
identities were much more important
to him than where he got his paycheck.”
Mr. Coburn took pains to keep his ties
to his Oklahoma life while in Washington
— including delivering babies as part of
his doctor’s practice.
That sparked another of his fights
against the Washington establishment.
The Senate ethics committee ruled that
Mr. Coburn was violating conflict of
interest rules by holding an outside job.
Mr. Coburn then stopped taking pay-
ment and said he would work pro bono.
The committee rejected that plan, saying
he was working at a for-profit hospital so
it presented a conflict of interest.
He ignored the committee and con-
tinued his practice.
A little-known fact, according to a
longtime aide, is that one of the babies
Mr. Coburn delivered was future “Ameri-
can Idol” winner Carrie Underwood.
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NORTH KOREA
Pyongyang tests new missiles
as tensions rise on peninsula
SEOUL | North Korea on Sunday fired
two suspected ballistic missiles into the
sea, South Korea and Japan said, con-
tinuing a streak of weapons launches
that suggests leader Kim Jong-un is
trying to strengthen domestic support
amid worries about a possible coronavi-
rus outbreak in the country.
South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff
said it detected the projectiles flying
from the North Korean eastern coastal
city of Wonsan into the waters between
the Korean Peninsula and Japan on
Sunday morning. The projectiles flew
about 143 miles at a maximum altitude
of 19 miles
The military described the launches
as “very inappropriate” at a time when
the world is battling the coronavirus
pandemic.
— Associated Press
GERMANY
State minister believed to be
a suicide over virus despair
BERLIN | The state finance minister of
Germany’s Hesse region, which includes
Frankfurt, appears to have killed himself
and the state’s governor suggested
Sunday that he was in despair over the
fallout from the coronavirus crisis.
The body of Thomas Schaefer, a
54-year-old member of Chancellor
Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic
Union, was found Saturday on railway
tracks at Hochheim, near Frankfurt.
State governor Volker Bouffier
said Mr. Schaefer was worried about
“whether it would be possible to suc-
ceed in fulfilling the population’s huge
expectations, particularly of financial
help.”
— Associated Press
PHILIPPINES
American, Canadian among
dead as plane explodes
MANILA | A plane carrying eight
people, including an American and a
Canadian, burst into flames Sunday
while attempting to take off from Ma-
nila’s airport on a flight bound for Japan,
killing all those on board, officials said.
The Westwind 24 plane, which was
carrying six Filipino crew members and
the American and Canadian passengers,
was bound for Tokyo on a medical mis-
sion when it caught fire near the end of
the main runway.
Officials declined to identify the vic-
tims until their families were informed.
The airport had only minimal staff due
to air travel restrictions owing to the
coronavirus.
— Associated Press
POLAND
Music world mourns death
of composer Penderecki
WARSAW | Krzysztof Penderecki, one
of the world’s most popular contempo-
rary classical music composers whose
works have featured in Hollywood films
like “The Shining” and “Shutter Island,”
died Sunday. He was 86.
Mr. Penderecki was best known
for his monumental compositions for
orchestra and choir, like “St. Luke Pas-
sion” and “Seven Gates of Jerusalem,”
though his range was much wider.
— Associated Press
MILITARY
Report sees persisting problems in privatized military housing
BY MIKE GLENN
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
The Defense Department needs to take on a
larger oversight role in the management of priva-
tized housing for the troops to make sure complaints
about substandard conditions like mold, leaks and
rodents are dealt with, according to a new report
by auditors from the Government Accountability
Office.
The report comes amid lawsuits and mounting
concern on Capitol Hill over the conditions for
many service personnel and their families since
the Pentagon increased its reliance on private
contractors to provide housing.
In 1996, Congress enacted the Military Housing
Privatization Initiative to bring in private sector
developers and property management companies
to take over virtually all military housing — more
than 200,000 residences.
“Over the last few years, reports of the pres-
ence of lead-based paint and other hazards, such
as mold and pest and rodent infestation, have
“This is not the time to gather followers. This is not a time for political war.”
— Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, under fire for the heavy toll the coronavirus pandemic
has had on his country, appealing for unity at a Cabinet meeting Sunday as authorities reported
another 123 deaths, pushing Iran’s overall toll to 2,640 dead and 38,309 confirmed cases
U.S. officials said they turned over operations, as well as some $1.1 million in equipment, to Iraqi Security Forces
at K1 Air Base, making it the third Iraqi outpost U.S. and allied forces have left just in the past month.
IRAQ
U.S. turns over third military
base in 1 month to Iraqi control
Consolidation comes amid tensions with Iran
BY GUY TAYLOR
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
A key northern Iraqi military base that was at the
center of recent tensions between U.S. and Iran-backed
forces in the area became the face of a widening Ameri-
can drawdown from Iraq on Sunday.
U.S. officials said they turned over operations, as
well as some $1.1 million in equipment, to Iraqi Security
Forces at K1 Air Base near Kirkuk, making it the third
Iraqi outpost U.S. and allied forces have left just in the
past month.
Amid reports claimed the Trump administration
is clandestinely preparing a military offensive against
Iran-backed militants in Iraq that have clashed with
American and allied forces, there was no indication
Sunday that the movement of some 300 U.S. and
other international forces from K1 was tied to such
preparations.
U.S. officials instead inside that the troop movements
were planned months ago and were set in motion by
the U.S.-led international coalition has had in breaking
the Islamic State’s hold on territory in Iraq and Syria.
A statement Sunday by the U.S.-led coalition in Iraq
insisted the pullbacks “are not related to recent attacks
by Iraqi Shiite militias — which U.S. officials say were
planned in coordination with Tehran. The statement
said they are also unrelated to coronavirus develop-
ments in Iraq, and fit with U.S. plans to consolidate the
deployments of an estimated 5,000 U.S. troops in Iraq.
U.S. Brig Gen. Vincent Barker noted that the base
near the Kurdish city of Kirkuk was essential to the
fight in recent years against Islamic State safe havens
in the nearby Hamrin Mountain. Kurdish forces in
recent months have said Islamic State remains active
in the region.
But K1 was also the target of a rocket strike in late
December that killed an American contractor, trigger-
ing a series of tit-for-tat attacks that included a deadly
U.S. drone strike on senior Iranian commander Gen.
Qassem Soleimani and an Iranian retaliatory salvo
that left over 100 U.S. service personnel with lingering
brain injuries.
The attacks nearly put Iran and the U.S. on the path
to open conflict, and leading politicians allied to the
Shiite militias have stepped up a campaign demanding
at all U.S. forces withdraw.
raised questions about [the Defense Department’s]
management and oversight of privatized military
housing,” according to the report by the congres-
sional watchdog group.
The GAO said individual service members said
they would refuse to live in private housing and that
the conditions were so poor in some instances that
it influenced their decision on whether to reenlist.
While acknowledging the military services
have increased their monitoring of base housing
conditions, the GAO report issued late last week
found that military officials lack reliable data on
housing maintenance or resident satisfaction. Sen.
Mark Warner, the Virginia Democrat who pushed
for the report, said the conclusions support what
military families have been telling him.
The Defense Department “has not done enough
to protect service members and their families, who
have been forced to put up with unacceptable living
conditions in private military housing for far too
long,” Mr. Warner said. “It’s about time to even out
the power imbalance between our service members
and privatized military housing companies.”
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The New York Times reported Friday that the
Pentagon has ordered U.S. commanders to prepare a
campaign to destroy the leading Shiite militia, Kataib
Hezbollah, which has carried out attacks against Ameri-
can troops. The top U.S. commander in Iraq, Lt. Gen.
Robert P. White, reportedly strongly advised against
such a clash, the newspaper said.
None of the options facing the White House are
optimal, according to Kirsten Fontenrose, a former
top National Security Council adviser in the Trump
administration who now heads the Scowcroft Middle
East Security Initiative at the Atlantic Council.
“The number of violent attacks on U.S., Iraqi, and
international troops and civilians by Iran-directed
paramilitary groups in Iraq has escalated in the past
two weeks at an alarming rate,” Ms. Fontenrose wrote
in an analysis published by the think tank last week.
She said uptick was likely ordered by Iranian leaders
seeking to use the coronavirus pandemic as cover to
make advances inside Iraq, and that Tehran should be
wary of how Washington may respond.
“Tehran is betting that the world is too consumed
with managing a pandemic to hold them accountable
— and that the U.S. administration is unwilling to stay
the course in Iraq because it is too gun-shy in an elec-
tion year and too financially strapped by the coming
burden of U.S. unemployment,” Ms. Fontenrose wrote.
“[But] the implications of a global pandemic make that
a risky bet.”
“The one variable that the regime in Tehran may not
have considered is this: their assumption that [Presi-
dent Trump] is loath to start a war with Iran is based
on conditions that pre-date coronavirus,” she wrote.
“With U.S. unemployment skyrocketing, the prospect of
ramping up military engagement begins to look like an
economic stimulus package and federal jobs program.”
U.S. commanders in Iraq on Sunday said coalition
forces are being consolidated in Baghdad and at the Ain
al-Asad Air Base. Forces have already withdrawn this
month from the Qayyara base in Nineveh province and
the Qaim base near the border with Syria.
U.S. Army Col. Myles Caggins, a spokesman for
the coalition, said troops have so far been relocated to
other bases and some will head home in the coming
weeks. He said additional withdrawals are planned “in
the coming days.”
⦁ This article is based in part on wire service reports.
The GAO officials made several observations
during a yearlong investigation of a number of
military bases across the country.
While the services were using performance
metrics to monitor the housing companies, those
standards didn’t result in any meaningful informa-
tion about the conditions the troops were living in.
While maintenance data was being collected by
the military and the housing companies, it wasn’t
done in a reliable or consistent manner.
The GAO also found that information in some
of the reports the Department of Defense sent to
Congress over the years also was not reliable.
In their report to Congress, GAO investigators
made 12 recommendations, including improving
performance indicators, maintenance data and
resident satisfaction reporting. The Department of
Defense also should study what impact the initia-
tives might have on project finances.
The Defense Department “generally concurred
with the recommendations and identified actions
it plans to take to implement them,” GAO officials
said in their report.
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COVID-19,
SARS share
similarities,
expert says
Novel virus ‘does
mimic its sibling’
BY BILL GERTZ
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
COVID-19 closely resembles the virus that
caused the outbreak of the SARS epidemic in China
17 years ago and was not a surprise to experts in the
field, according to a specialist at a leading research
center that studied the virus.
Kenneth Plante, a director at the World Refer-
ence Center for Emerging Viruses and Arboviruses,
a repository of viruses at University of Texas Medi-
cal Branch in Galveston, has been studying the virus
since early February.
Both the 2003 SARS virus and the new strain
this year originated from bats in China and mutated
in ways that allowed infections in humans, he said.
“The interesting thing about this virus is that it
does mimic its sibling, the standard SARS corona-
virus,” Mr. Plante said.
Researchers so far have learned much about the
new virus and are working to validate how close its
characteristics are to SARS.
“Some people have been hypothesizing this virus
coming out for years,” Mr. Plante said. “And when
it finally did come out, it came out pretty close to
what people would expect it to emerge as.”
Mr. Plante said there are signs the virus is mutat-
ing from its original form.
“This virus has been actually remarkably stable
in our hands,” he noted. “But there is a possibility
that we could see some further mutations that could
change the [characteristics] of this virus.”
Researchers believe the current virus was trans-
mitted from bats to another animal host and then
to humans. Another mutation allowed it to spread
rapidly among humans.
China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology, after ini-
tially agreeing to provide virus samples to the cen-
ter, declined to supply any samples, Mr. Plante said
in the interview late last week. The first U.S. samples
were obtained by the Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention from a patient in Washington state
and sent to the Texas virus center on Feb. 6.
The center has sent the samples on to more than
100 research and diagnostic centers mainly in the
United States. The best researchers in the world are
working on determining how the virus functions,
how it spreads and how it can be stopped.
“We already have infectious clones; we already
know the receptor,” he said in an interview. “There
are animals already in place and with laboratories,
repositories that are being collaborative, we are
getting a lot of work done very quickly.”
The similarities to the earlier SARS virus, which
spread to around 8,000 people worldwide and killed
almost 800, are still being studied.
By contrast, the new virus has infected over
680,000 people and caused nearly 32,000 deaths
worldwide.
“Thankfully, the case fatality rate is lower with
this virus, though it does seem to be more transmis-
sible,” Mr. Plante said.
The origin of the virus is still unknown and
according to the National Academies of Science,
Engineering and Medicine, the president of the
Chinese Academy of Sciences initially agreed that
the Wuhan Institute of Virology would share virus
samples with the Texas center. But after some dis-
cussions, the provision of samples, “never actually
happened,” Mr. Plante said.
Mr. Plante dismissed the one theory about the
virus — that the virus was being researched at
a laboratory in Wuhan, and may have escaped
through mishandling of infected animals, or an ac-
cidental infection of a lab worker. It also undercuts
a Chinese-pushed conspiracy theory that somehow
a U.S. Army team participating in the World Mili-
tary Games in Wuhan last year brought the virus
with them.
“There’s a lot of conspiracy theories that this
came out of a biocontainment facility and things
of that sort,” he said. “But these viruses are closely
related to bats.”
“I’ve seen no evidence this is a virus that came
out of a lab,” he added. “This appeared in an area
where it was hypothesized to appear. Close contact
with animals that have zoonotic virus and people
like we’re seeing in these wet markets are prime
places for these zoonoses to emerge into human
populations.”
Zoonosis is a disease transmitted from animals
to humans.
On China’s lack of cooperation, Mr. Plante said
China recently has been slightly more forthcoming
but that tight political controls have limited more
cooperation.
“Samples… are notoriously difficult to get out
of China,” he said, noting the political climate and
regulations.
Data sharing among nations outside of China
picked up as the virus spread as the nations un-
derstood the severity of the outbreak and need to
respond rapidly.
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discovered in Wuhan, China, in De-
cember. The disease killed thousands
in China before the epicenter shifted to
South Korea and then Europe and the
Americas.
Italy has the worst death toll, with
nearly 11,000, followed by Spain, with
over 6,800.
New York City is the epicenter of
the crisis in the U.S., which has reported
over 33,000 cases of the coronavirus and
nearly 680 deaths, according to the Johns
Hopkins University tracker.
The president noted that he grew up
in New York and had never seen anything
like the devastation hitting the city, as
refrigerated trucks take away bodies.
“You see the black body bags. It’s
not supplies; it’s people. I’ve never seen
anything like it. These people are doing
a fantastic job,” Mr. Trump said.
Even as he described the horror, the
president questioned the tremendous
use of medical masks at an unnamed
hospital in New York, noting that use
surged from 10,000 to 20,000 to 300,000
in recent days.
“Where are the masks going? Are they
going out the back door? How do you go
from 10,000 to 300,000? And we have
that in a lot of different places. Because I
just don’t see a practical standpoint how
that’s possible to go from that to that,
and we have that happening in 10 places,
not to that extent. That was the highest
number I’ve heard,” Mr. Trump said.
professionals who are working around
the clock, at great personal risk, to help
people dying from COVID-19 in the
hardest-hit part of the U.S.
“Something’s going on. And you
ought to look into it as reporters,” he said.
Governors are pressuring Mr. Trump
to use the full weight of his powers to
expand the production of medical equip-
ment and protective gear for health care
workers on the front lines.
Mr. Trump’s response to the crisis has
been dogged by questions about a lack of
supplies in select states and the delayed
start to robust testing.
Mr. Trump on Sunday was combative
and hit back at those who said he still was
not doing enough. He railed against media
outlets that are leery of carrying his brief-
ings live and Democratic governors who
have criticized his administration’s efforts.
“When they’re disrespecting me,
they’re disrespecting the government,”
Mr. Trump said.
Officials said the U.S. had performed
894,000 tests for the coronavirus infec-
tion as of the close of business Saturday.
The rate of testing is far better than it
was in the early days of the pandemic, as
commercial testing comes online, though
the administration is still prioritizing
those who are hospitalized.
Mr. Trump also said General Motors
and other companies will be producing
three times more ventilators over the
next 100 days than they typically produce
in a year.
At a meeting with supply chain execu-
tives, Mr. Trump said the pace of pro-
duction will depend on companies that
he is asking — or compelling through
the Defense Production Act — to pri-
oritize federal orders for the lifesaving
machines.
Ventilators are machines that help
people breathe. COVID-19 causes respi-
ratory distress, so ventilators are consid-
ered the most vital piece of equipment
for hospitals battling the pandemic.
Mr. Trump said two major insurers,
Humana and Cigna, have waived costs
for coronavirus treatments and he hopes
other insurers do the same.
The pandemic has upended Ameri-
can life, with masses of adults balanc-
ing telework with home-schooling and
church services on YouTube. Local wa-
tering holes have shuttered, while essen-
tials such as grocers, gas stations and, in
some places, liquor stores remain open.
Major cities including Detroit and
New Orleans reported spikes in the
number of cases over the weekend,
through New York City remains the key
worry spot.
Mr. Trump on Saturday said he was
considering a quarantine of the tri-state
area around New York City, though it was
unclear what authority, if any, he had to
institute one.
Instead, the Centers for Disease Con-
trol and Prevention urged people in
New York, New Jersey and Connecticut
to refrain from nonessential domestic
travel for 14 days.
The president said he doesn’t think he
scared anyone by floating the quarantine
and that, instead, it compelled people to
stay home.
The decision-making on Saturday
was the latest turn in America’s unpre-
dictable bout with the virus.
On Feb. 26, Mr. Trump said the num-
ber of COVID-19 cases “within a couple
of days is going to be down to close
to zero. That’s a pretty good job we’ve
done.”
“We’re going very substantially down,
not up,” he said.
On Sunday, Mr. Trump again spoke of
the possibility of “massive depression,
meaning mental depression” and “large
numbers of suicides.” He also raised the
likelihood of more drug addiction.
“You will see drugs being used like
nobody ever used them before,” he said.
Mr. Trump signed a $2 trillion bill
from Capitol Hill on Friday to catch an
economy in freefall, though he is already
looking at additional measures.
The president said he ordered his
Treasury and labor secretaries to look into
restoring the tax deductibility of meals
for corporations whose workers frequent
restaurants, saying he developed the idea
after talks with high-end chefs such as
Thomas Keller, Wolfgang Puck and Daniel
Boulud who operate in New York.
Eateries are among the hardest-hit
businesses in the crisis because they
operate on tight margins, and many
restaurant workers have been laid off.
Mr. Trump also said he wants to get
cruise lines and other industries going
again.
“We had the greatest economy in
the history of the world three weeks
ago,” said Mr. Trump, who had hoped
to highlight the economy as part of his
reelection bid this year.
Mr. Trump defended his approach
to the epidemic in Florida, a state that
is pivotal to his election bid.
He said Florida’s requests for supplies
have been fulfilled because they are
“very aggressive.” But he quickly pivoted,
saying all governors should be happy.
“Florida has been taken care of,
Michigan has been taken care of,” Mr.
Trump said.
In the same breath, he said he “doesn’t
like” the Democratic governor of Wash-
ington state, Jay Inslee, and that’s why
he gets Vice President Mike Pence to
call instead.
“I want them to appreciate the incred-
ible job we’re doing,” Mr. Trump said.
The president said New York Gov.
Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, is pleased
with the speed at which the Army Corps
of Engineers and Federal Emergency
Management Agency managed to build
2,900 hospital beds at the Javits Center in
Manhattan, to free up space for COVID-
19 patients at traditional hospitals.
“People have never seen anything like
that,” Mr. Trump said. “Everyone’s trying
to figure out how they did it.”

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Protection. He said construction remains on track
to meet the target the president laid out. “We have
completed 142 miles of new border wall system, and
we have another 197 miles under construction. In
addition, there are 414 miles in the preconstruction
phase. We remain confident we will have 450 miles
completed by the end of 2020.”
Brandon Judd, president of the National Border
Patrol Council, said it makes sense to keep building.
“Today is not the time to play politics with the
lives of U.S. citizens. Walls have proven to stop il-
legal entries into the United States; therefore, they
are an essential law enforcement resource which
will undoubtedly help in reducing the spread of
COVID-19,” he told The Washington Times.
Mr. Trump in several press conferences last
week connected the wall to the coronavirus that
causes COVID-19.
“We’re up to over 150 miles of wall on our
southern border, which is now turning out to be
even more important than we originally thought.
But I always thought it was very important having
borders,” he said one day.
administration officials, saying the wall is a distrac-
tion amid the virus crisis — or, worse, a potential
vector for its spread.
They point to California, where the governor
has issued a “shelter in place” order instructing all
residents not to go out unless they’re engaged in
essential activities.
“In the border communities we represent, these
extraordinary actions by the federal government
are quite literally endangering the lives of border
residents,” Tricia Cortez, executive director of
the Rio Grande International Study Center, said
in a statement joining other activists in opposing
construction.
Some Trump opponents have called for him to
return back to the Pentagon billions of dollars he’s
siphoned away over the last two years to direct to
wall-building.
Jay Field, a spokesperson for the U.S. Army Corps
of Engineers, which is overseeing the construction
effort, said they’re exempt from coronavirus shut-
down orders because they are engaged in essential
national security work, though they are taking the
virus threat seriously.
“We are taking deliberate and prudent steps,

subscribe. The next day he returned to the issue when

asked whether the U.S. would join a global effort
to reduce tariffs.
The president seemed to dismiss the idea, saying
the U.S. has strong borders and he wants to keep
it that way.
“Before I came here, we weren’t into borders,”
he said. “Now we’re up to almost 164 miles. Think
of that: 164 miles of wall. Big, beautiful wall. And in
those areas, it’s very, very tough to come in. We’ve
been very tough on the borders. I mean, where we
have the wall built, nobody is getting through. Now,
they’re going around, but that’s a long trip. If they’re
going around, that’s the way they get through.”
As of March 20, some 656 miles of the border
now had a barrier — just 2 miles more than the 654
miles when Mr. Trump took office. But 128 of those
miles have been upgraded from old dilapidated
washingtontimes.com or outdated construction, and another 11 miles of
secondary wall set back off the border have been
upgraded. One new mile of secondary wall has
been constructed.
following all government and CDC guidelines, to
continue operations at the southern border,” the
spokesperson said. “We are committed to fulfilling
our responsibilities as a project-executing agency to
help secure the nation’s southern border.”
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which is
overseeing the construction effort, didn’t respond
to a request for comment on what justification it
is citing for continued construction, though Cali-
fornia’s shelter in place order specifically deems
construction an essential service.
Even as wall construction continues, the Trump
administration has taken steps to try to reduce the
flow of people attempting to enter without autho-
rization across the southwest border.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
triggered a part of public health law that the admin-
istration is using to immediately turn back illegal
immigrants who show up at the border.
Mr. Wolf said in an interview with Fox News last
weekend that it had cut unauthorized crossings by
50% in its first day.

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Hogan predicts New York-like conditions for region
Number of virus
cases growing
exponentially
BY VALERIE RICHARDSON AND SOPHIE KAPLAN
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan said Sun-
day he doubts the state will be able to
loosen its coronavirus restrictions in the
next two weeks, saying the Maryland-D.C.-
Virginia area at that point will be “looking
a lot more like New York.”
“No, we don’t see any way that we’re
going to be opening back up in a couple
of weeks,” Mr. Hogan said on “Fox News
Sunday.” The case load in the Washing-
ton area “has quadrupled in the past
week, and we see that continuing to grow
exponentially, and we think in two weeks
around Easter, we’re going to be looking
a lot more like New York.”
As of Sunday night, the region has
recorded 41 deaths and over 2,500 cases
of COVID-19, with 401 in the District, 890
in Virginia and 1,239 in Maryland. The
District has 106 cases and Maryland 39
cases that are in recovery. The Virginia
Department of Health did not “have that
information to share at this time.”
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser also an-
nounced Sunday that the District has
received a disaster declaration from
the Federal Emergency Management
Agency because of the coronavirus
pandemic.
“The declaration will provide
Quarantine shows value of spending more time with your family
B
ack when America was marked
by cottage industries, people
worked in their homes or
on their land, coordinating
with neighbors to produce goods and
services.
Fathers passed down trades to
their children, and mothers often
taught school lessons and cooked from
“scratch.” Families had two or three
meals together nearly every day, and
spent their evenings reading something
called “books.”
Sadly, those days also were known
for rampant diseases, filth and
hardship.
In the era known as the Industrial
Revolution, factories began to spring
up, and laborers abandoned low-paying
jobs in their homes for low-paying jobs
on assembly lines.
As transportation and technol-
ogy advanced, more and more fathers
started working in any place but the
home. Soon, mothers started leav-
ing their homes in massive numbers
too. Incomes started to increase, and
wonderful inventions made life more
convenient and comfortable. Medical
MARYLAND
FREDERICK
Officials: Man led deputies
to wife’s body in creek
A Frederick County man was ar-
rested in the killing of his wife after
leading investigators to her dead body
in a creek bed near their home.
Thomas Anthony Lehan, 37, was
charged Thursday with first-degree
murder in the death of Katie Lehan,
34, after he told investigators where
she was buried, the Frederick County
Sheriff ’s Office said.
Multiple county and state teams had
been searching for Ms. Lehan since her
disappearance on Sunday. Mr. Lehan
became a suspect after investigators
found inconsistencies in his statements,
and more evidence was discovered in a
search of their home, deputies said.
— Associated Press
ST. MARY’S COUNTY
Man charged with setting
fire to vacant home
A man has been charged with arson
in connection to a fire set at a vacant
home.
The Maryland Office of the State
Fire Marshal said Friday that investi-
gators responded to a fire at a vacant
home in a residential area of St. Mary’s
County. Investigators determined that
the fire was set by Devon Tyler Lee, 18.
Mr. Lee was arrested at his resi-
dence in a nearby neighborhood and
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“Virginians are finding ways to help their fellow citizens and address critical needs in the
battle against #COVID19. We are #OneVirginia family, and together we will get through this.”
— Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam, on Twitter
“No, we don’t see any way that we’re going to be opening back up in a couple of weeks,” Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan said. Mr.
Hogan said that he doubt that the state will be able to loosen its coronavirus restrictions.
assistance to the District’s Emergency
Response Services and to residents and
businesses that have been severely im-
pacted by COVID-19,” the city said.
The D.C. Department of Health an-
nounced Sunday night four additional
deaths from the coronavirus — all men,
three of them over the age of 65.
Miss Bowser has already requested
emergency assistance through the
advances and the
abundance of
food produced by
modern farm-
ing techniques
resulted in people
living longer and
healthier lives.
REBECCA But as time
HAGELIN went on, ever
more moms and
INSIDE dads rushed
THE through their
CULTURE mornings, carted
even the youngest
of babies off to daycare, and children
headed off to long hours at school and
“after care.” Family members spent
their days splintered from one an-
other. Children became warehoused in
colossal schools, while moms and dads
became warehoused in separate, sterile
office buildings.
By the time COVID-19 hit us, we had
become so consumed by the busyness
of life that the average family spent
only a few waking hours a day together.
The number of family meals had
plummeted to three hurried dinners
BRIEFLY
THE METRO AREA
taken to a hospital for treatment of
injuries unrelated to the fire.
He’s been charged with several
counts including arson, and is being
held in the county jail.
— Associated Press
FORT MEADE
Historic graves could be
moved for federal facility
Graves at a century-old family cem-
etery on the grounds of Fort Meade
could be moved to make way for a fed-
eral government building on the land, a
newspaper reported Friday.
A state district court ruled last week
that the U.S. government could obtain
the 418-square-foot burial ground at
Fort Meade to build national security
computing facilities there, according
to The Capital Gazette. The cemetery
lies within a National Security Agency
Cyber Defense Campus.
— Associated Press
VIRGINIA
RICHMOND
State parks announce
further restrictions
Virginia State Parks are restricting
access and services even further in the
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declaration to address immediate threats
to public health and safety, medical care
and sheltering, logistics and supplies.
In the District, two male inmates at
the D.C. Jail in their 30s tested positive
over the weekend, bringing the facil-
ity’s total cases to four, according to the
Department of Corrections.
Officials had moved both men Thurs-
day from the Correctional Treatment
per week, many of those spent with
iPhones in hand.
No one is advocating a return to the
challenging days of cottage industries.
But when this virus crisis has passed,
should we automatically return to the
mass warehousing of family members
away from each other? Maybe it’s
time to harness what is best from both
worlds.
Recent weeks have seen families
spending lots of time together, even
if under stressful conditions. COVID-
19 aside, the majority of that stress
is because the American family has
forgotten how to be together. Sadly, the
reality is that most have never known
togetherness in the first place, so there
was really nothing to forget.
But something is happening in
homes across the country that is
positive. Parents are opening their
children’s textbooks and providing
guidance while they study online.
Imagine that: Parents engaged in their
kids’ education, learning for themselves
what is actually being taught at school.
Many are even beginning to wonder if
there’s something to home schooling
wake of the coronavirus epidemic.
The Richmond Times-Dispatch
reported that overnight facilities and
restrooms at state parks will be closed
starting Friday. The closures will last
through April 30.
The facilities include all cabins and
campgrounds, as well as restrooms and
bathhouses. Visitor centers and other
indoor facilities also are also closed.
Visitors are asked to follow social-
distancing guidelines. Those who are
sick or who have been exposed to
people who are sick have been asked to
stay away.
— Associated Press
ALEXANDRIA
Judge rejects appeal from
man convicted in terror plot
A judge again rejected a request
from a Northern Virginia man who
sought to overturn his life sentence for
joining al Qaeda and plotting to assas-
sinate then-President George W. Bush.
Ahmed Omar Abu Ali was con-
victed in 2005. He filed a motion last
year for a new sentence, arguing that
journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s murder
shows that Saudi Arabia lies about the
brutality of its security forces.
Key evidence against Abu Ali came
from a confession he gave in Saudi cus-
tody. Abu Ali said the confession was
tortured out of him by Saudi Arabia’s
internal security agency. Saudi agents
testified under assumed names at Abu
Ali’s trial, denying any torture.
— Associated Press
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Facility to a quarantine unit after the
confirmation of the jail’s first coronavirus
case, the corrections agency said.
In a court filing, the District’s Public
Defender Service has asked for the re-
lease of all inmates serving sentences
for misdemeanors, the Washington City
Paper reported.
A public defender requesting the re-
lease of a client wrote in a motion that the
after all.
When the virus mayhem passes,
every parent should focus on how they
can become and remain deeply involved
in the education of their sons and
daughters.
All of us should pledge to abandon
our old habits of spending massive
amounts of time with everyone but the
people we love the most. If we harness
the potential of new technologies with
a focus on strengthening our families,
America can advance to the next golden
age.
It’s time to redo the way we do busi-
ness in America.
The fact is that we live in an era
where more jobs can be done at home.
I’m not sure when we developed the
idea that “real work” only occurs within
the four walls of an office building, but
our nation has suffered from that mind-
set because our families have suffered.
Of course, not every job can be done
at home, but some portions of nearly
every position can. By allowing em-
ployees to telecommute at least part of
the week, companies can save costs on
office space, equipment and electricity.
VIRGINIA
Man works to restore historic
black cemetery in Richmond
BY C. SUAREZ ROJAS
RICHMOND TIMES-DISPATCH
RICHMOND | Over the summer, the
United Nations recognized Richmond’s
historic Evergreen Cemetery as a sacred
site containing the memories of thou-
sands of formerly enslaved and freed
blacks from the 19th and 20th century.
The cemetery, established in 1891, is
home to luminaries such as Maggie Lena
Walker, the first black woman in America
to charter a bank, and John R. Mitchell
Jr., a civil rights pioneer and editor of the
Richmond Planet.
Many final resting places had been
overtaken by a tangle of trees, brush and
kudzu as the site was neglected over the
decades. It’s a wrong that Marvin Harris
is working to right.
“I tell ya I’m a tough guy, but I teared
up when I came out and saw this mess,”
said Mr. Harris, executive director of the
Evergreen Restoration Foundation.
Overgrown trees and vegetation still
cover more than half of the 60-acre site,
obscuring gravestones. But efforts to
restore and maintain the site have gained
momentum in the past five years, thanks
in large part to the work of Mr. Harris
and volunteers who have cleared about
20 acres.
The site no longer has battle vines and
MONDAY, MARCH 30, 2020
Department of Corrections (DOC) is not
following coronavirus protocols issued
by the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention.
According to the court document, the
CDC recommends having a stock of medi-
cal supplies, personal protective equipment
(PPE) and hygiene supplies, but DOC
General Counsel Eric Glover was unable to
provide a list of materials currently in stock.
The CDC also recommends social dis-
tancing in corrections facilities at meals,
in common areas and at group activities,
but the agency has not confirmed it has
implemented such measures, and the jail’s
population of about 1,700 inmates makes it
unlikely it will be able to do so, according
to the court document.
Meanwhile, Metro officials said Sunday
that, beginning Monday, subway riders no
longer will be able to board the front or
rear subway cars in order to create a buffer
between operators and the public.
“Despite the fact that rail ridership
is down about 93 percent, Metro will
continue to operate all 8-car trains — the
longest possible length — to allow plenty
of room for safe social distancing in the
remaining six cars,” officials said.
Metro also will continue its reduced
service for essential travel only through
April 3. Metrorail will be open from 5
a.m. to 11 p.m., with trains running every
15 minutes on the Red Line and every 20
minutes on all other lines.
Seventeen stations remain closed.
Metrobus will run on a modified Sun-
day schedule. Fare collection has been
suspended as Metro is asking most bus
riders to use only the rear door.
And workers? The savings in gas,
wasted time commuting and the reduc-
tion of the stressful daily grind can
greatly improve their overall satisfac-
tion with life. Studies show that happier
employees equals better employees.
What boss doesn’t want that?
When we are again free to roam
as we please, the challenge is to resist
resuming a chaotic lifestyle. Whether
you are looking for a new job or return-
ing to an old one, fight for more time
with your family, even if it means less
income. Remember, although your chil-
dren might beg for the latest gadget or
coolest clothes, what they really crave is
more time with you.
In the meantime, take advantage of
the opportunities that come with home
quarantine. Rediscover those things
called “books,” play games and create
warm memories. Let each of your fam-
ily members know that you don’t want
things to return to normal, you want
things to be better. And that starts with
your commitment to spend more time
with them from this day forward.
⦁ Rebecca Hagelin can be reached at
rebecca@rebeccahagelin.com.
thorns. New stewardship and volunteer
efforts have given hope that the com-
munity can restore a cemetery that in the
past has been compared to the illustri-
ous Hollywood Cemetery, where ornate
graves of U.S. presidents and Confederate
leaders are well-maintained.
“He has sweated through summers
and winters in conditions that were
pretty beastly at times while keeping his
eyes on the goal of returning Evergreen to
the glorious African-American cemetery
that it was designed to be,” said George
Nixon, one of Mr. Harris’ volunteer part-
ners who began working with him three
years ago.
Mr. Harris, 71, does not have any
relatives buried at the cemetery, but he
began working at the site regularly about
five years ago in preparation for his high
school class’s 50th anniversary.
A 1967 graduate of Maggie L. Walker
High School, he and several classmates
had coordinated volunteer efforts to clean
up the site in honor of their school’s
namesake.
“We realized that basically life had
been good to us, that most of us have done
well. And we wanted to give back,” he
said. “At that time, we knew it was a mas-
sive project. But putting it in your brain
and coming out here and implementing
it are different things.”
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President Trump vs. Joe Biden on the coronavirus crisis

Despite the predictable critics, Trump’s popularity remains high
By Allan H. Ryskind damage, according to the president’s medical experts,
was to block potential carriers from entering our

D
id Donald Trump blow
the coronavirus crisis?
My Never Trumper
friends keep telling me
that he was wrong from
the git-go, that he called
the disease a “hoax,” that
he refused to act quickly,
that he failed to follow
the science, etc, ad nauseam.
But the president never called the coronavirus a
hoax. Not even close. It was The Washington Post’s
Dana Milbank who made this accusation, tweet-
ing on Feb. 28: “Remember this moment: Trump, in
South Carolina, just called the coronavirus a ‘hoax.’“
But this “scoop” didn’t contain, as Barack Obama
liked to say, a “smidgen” of truth. Even fact-checking
organizations on the left viewed it as bogus. But
the Milbank libel, which still rides the Internet, is,
alas, emblematic of why so much of the public is
misinformed.
How about the obscene fable that he never fol-
lows the science? The answer to that is to listen to Dr.
Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute
of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and now a media
star. Dr. Fauci heatedly insists that the president has
never, ever overridden the advice on the science of-
fered by his advisers.
That may change if the president modifies the
lockdown in certain areas of the country, but Dr.
Fauci, while skeptical, hasn’t flatly rejected the idea
either. He’s also sympathetic to the president’s di-
lemma — saving lives and saving the economy.
The president’s foes are right to say he played
down the virus’ contagious quality early on, but that
was based on what his highly qualified science advis-
ers were telling him. On Jan. 31, key members of the
president’s Coronavirus Task Force briefed the press
on the current situation. Dr. Robert Redfield, director
of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,
noted the “serious health situation in China,” but
stressed “the risk to the American public currently
is low.”
He said that in the United States “we have
confirmed six cases” of the virus which had not yet
produced a single death, repeating that the current
risk “to the American public is low.” (Question for the
Never Trumpers: If the president reflected the CDC’s
and the task force’s optimism, how was he ignoring
the science?)
Nevertheless, the administration planned to
quarantine and test people who had been to China
— the main source of the disease — and temporarily
suspend entry of ”foreign nationals who pose a risk”
of transmitting it.
But that was far too aggressive an approach for the
president’s current critics and even the World Health
Organization (WHO), which had just declared the
outbreak a global emergency. The blogosphere ex-
ploded with harsh condemnations of the travel ban.
The website STAT headlined its lead story:
ILLUSTRATION BY GREG GROESCH
“Health experts [from WHO] warn China travel
ban will hinder coronavirus response.” Not to be
outdone, the Democratic Party’s likely nominee, Joe
Biden, who Never Trumpers think should replace
this president, erupted: “This is no time for Donald
Trump’s record of hysteria and xenophobia … to lead
the way instead of science.”
But what do we now know with the luxury of
hindsight? That President Trump’s health experts
proved wiser than WHO’s health experts (and Mr.
Biden’s). At the moment Mr. Trump announced his
policy, the sole known source of the coronavirus
was China and the most effective way of limiting its
borders. The entire world now seems to accept the
policy, with Dr. Fauci arguing that thousands of lives
have been saved as a result.
Just for the record, Taiwan, despite millions of
Chinese visitors yearly, produced spectacular results
a month before the Trump policy kicked in by stop-
ping flights from China, quarantining suspicious
cases and examining the symptoms of passengers
of all direct flights from Wuhan, the epicenter of
the disease. As of mid-March, this island nation,
with its “xenophobic” policy, as Mr. Biden might
put it, had just 48 cases and one virus-related
death, according to the Journal of the American
Medical Association.
Despite the unceasing attacks, the president’s
approval ratings have levitated nicely as a result of
regular press briefings where he’s surrounded by
a vast army of health specialists who have per-
suaded the public that the administration is doing
everything possible to end the virus and keep the
economy afloat.
What the public sees on TV is the administra-
tion mobilizing federal, state and local govern-
ments, the entrepreneurial class and a brilliant
selection of epidemiologists and virologists to find
solutions to this dread disease. Those briefings
have had, momentarily anyway, a calming effect
on the nation, with the ABC/Ipsos March 20 poll
reporting that 55 percent of respondents now
approve of President Trump’s management of the
health crisis.
Even Democratic governors are getting along
with the president these days and Nancy Pelosi,
though sullen, is embracing the president’s poli-
cies. There is also a slight thaw in a tiny portion
of the media, with Dana Bash, the CNN anchor,
saying that the president, because of his message,
and more sober tone, is “being the kind of leader
that people need and want and yearn for in times
of crisis and uncertainty.”
Maybe the Never Trumper crowd should sit
down with Ms. Bash and Dr. Fauci, at a social
distance, of course, to get a better read on what
the administration is accomplishing.
Allan H. Ryskind, a former editor and owner of
Human Events, is the author of “Hollywood Trai-
tors” (Regnery, 2015).

Two Orthodox Jewish approaches to the coronavirus

The principle of living by religious laws but not dying by them is integral to Jewish practice
By Devorah Goldman communal study and prayer provide
physical and spiritual benefits to par-
n recent days, a stark distinction ticipants and the world. The suspension

I between two groups of Orthodox

Jews made national news. Rabbi
Hershel Schachter, the dean of Ye-
shiva University’s rabbinical seminary,
was unequivocal in stating that religious
of these activities is therefore not only
traumatic and isolating, but can pose its
own dangers.
Modern Orthodox communities
have attempted to fill this void with such
communal gatherings, such as prayer things as online communal prayer ser-
services and study groups, should be vices, though these services are limited ILLUSTRATION BY HUNTER
suspended due to the coronavirus threat. due to the lack of an in-person quorum.
His guidance was issued in early
March and was swiftly followed by
Jewish communities across the United
Many Hareidim spurn Internet use —
for good reason — and so do not have
these options readily available.
‘Why aren’t
States, many of which shut down
synagogues and Jewish schools almost
immediately.
But this is not their only consider-
ation. The way some Hareidi Jews have
approached the generally unquantifi-
we asking
Meanwhile, Rabbi Haim Kanievsky,
an acknowledged Jewish legal authority
among a wide swath of Hareidi Jews in
able coronavirus risk has roots in other
biblical traditions. In the Purim story,
for example, Queen Esther put herself
questions?’
Israel, initially ruled that private schools in apparently grave danger when she We should be asking why
should remain open, though he has approached King Ahasuerus to ask him
since modified his stance to an extent. (It to save her people, and did this only elected officials dismiss positive
should also be noted that other Hareidi after the Jews of Shushan had fasted and
leaders ruled differently, including the prayed for three days straight.
information about coronavirus
chief rabbi of Israel.) In the Book of Daniel, three young
Both Modern Orthodox and Hareidi Jewish princes refused to bow down to By Everett Piper
Jews strictly observe the Sabbath, kosher an idol crafted by Nebuchadnezzar, and

laws and myriad other tenets that govern
religious life, including those regard-
ing daily prayer with a quorum of 10
men. Apart from certain differences in
dress and cultural norms, their religious
worlds are very similar. Yet the philo-
sophical difference in their approaches
to the coronavirus is not a shallow one,
and should be better understood.
For Rabbi Schachter, the decision to
prohibit synagogues and schools from
operating was quick, stemming as it
did from the legal principle of pikuach
nefesh — that saving a life trumps
any other religious act, no matter how
sacred. This principle is rooted in the
Hebrew Bible’s injunction to not only
follow the Almighty’s commandments,
but to “live by them.” (Leviticus 18:5).
If following a commandment entails a
risk of death, then, according to this prin-
ciple, Jews are enjoined to violate that
commandment.
The violation in such cases is viewed
as a virtuous act. If someone is dan-
gerously ill, for example, there is no
question that driving to the hospital on
the Sabbath would be permitted, even
though driving is otherwise prohibited
on that day. Orthodox Jewish doctors
frequently violate Sabbath law in tend-
ing to patients, though such violations
would be unthinkable in other circum-
stances. For Modern Orthodox commu-
nities in America and elsewhere, all this
goes without saying, and is simply part
of religious law.
So why did Rabbi Kanievsky arrive
at a different conclusion? The answer is
rooted in another long-standing line of
religious thought — the idea that fulfil-
ment of the Almighty’s will provides its
own form of protection. This speaks to a
basic religious dilemma regarding how
much control we have over the physical
ILLUSTRATION BY GREG GROESCH
world, as opposed to how much we rely
on G-d.
In some ways, the coronavirus seems
designed to provoke such questions. It
poses a grave threat to many, but some,
like Sen. Rand Paul and certain NBA
players, have tested positive with no
symptoms whatsoever. It has spread
swiftly in Italy, but less quickly in Japan,
for reasons that are yet unclear. Despite
the best efforts of countless health pro-
fessionals, we still have more questions
than answers.
There is also a deeply held belief,
in both Modern Orthodox and Hareidi
circles, that the religious activities of
were thrown into a fiery furnace as pun-
ishment. They emerged unscathed. Lord
Byron wrote a memorable poem, “The
Destruction of Sennacherib,” which cel-
ebrated the triumph of spiritual warfare
in the time of Isaiah.
There is no doubt that the religious
groups who closed shop and turned to
online services were correct. The prin-
ciple of pikuach nefesh, of living by the
laws and not dying by them, is integral
to Jewish practice and belief. But the
idea that suspending normal religious
life presents a spiritual compromise
shouldn’t be summarily dismissed.
There is a perennial tension between
doing our due diligence in guarding
against physical dangers and relying
on God, and trust in Divine protection
is present not only in Jewish thought,
but in all monotheistic religions. As we
move forward day by day, we will have
to make such judgments over and over
again.
Devorah Goldman is a visiting fellow
at the Ethics and Public Policy Center,
and a research analyst at the Tikvah
Fund.
D
r. Eran Bendavid and Dr. Jay
Bhattacharya, professors of
medicine at Stanford Univer-
sity, published an article in
the March 24 edition of The Wall Street
Journal, stating the following:
“Fear of Covid-19 is based on an estimated
mortality rate of 2% to 4% … We believe this
estimate is deeply flawed.”
Drs. Bendavid and Bhattacharya continue:
“The true fatality rate is the portion of
those infected who die, not the deaths from
identified positive cases. The latter rate is mis-
leading because of selection bias in testing.
The degree of bias is uncertain because avail-
able data are limited … If the number of actual
infections is much larger than the number of
cases — orders of magnitude larger — then
the fatality rate is much lower as well. That’s
not only plausible but likely based on what we
know so far.”
After summarizing all presently available
data from China, Italy, Iceland, and the United
States, the authors conclude:
“An epidemic seed on January 1 implies
that by March 9, about six million people
in the U.S. would have been infected. As
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COMMENT & ANALYSIS

Democrats agonistes
Will Cuomo replace Biden?

O
ne of the unexpected con-
sequences of the COVID-19
pandemic has been, for all
practical purposes, suspension of
the campaign for the Democratic
presidential nomination.
Of course, Joe Biden has emerged
from near-oblivion, pulled decisively
ahead of Bernie Sanders in the delegate
count, and appears headed toward the
nomination in July. That’s the conven-
tional wisdom. But the conventional
wisdom is always a mixture of truth
and wishful thinking. It is entirely
possible that Democrats, watching Mr.
Biden shelter in place in his Wilming-
ton basement, are more than a little
disconcerted by his befuddled aspect,
meandering comments and official
To be sure, like most trial balloons,
the idea that divided Democrats — in-
cluding those nervous about Mr. Biden
as standard bearer — would turn to
Andrew Cuomo might drift swiftly
and decisively into oblivion. Yet there
might be some validity here. There is
palpable uncertainty about the 77-year-
old Joe Biden’s fitness for the campaign
against Donald Trump, and his long-
term prospects. By contrast, Andrew
Cuomo is the 62-year-old, three-term
governor of New York whose daily
televised press conferences on the
pandemic project an image of vigor-
ous, well-informed executive action.
(In fairness, Mr. Trump’s daily brief-
ings have had a comparable effect.) BOOK REVIEW
Moreover, Mr. Cuomo has been

declarations intended to mollify the
Sanders wing of his party.
Writing this week about the Sen-
ate’s coronavirus rescue package — or
“slush fund,” as his onetime rival Sen.
Elizabeth Warren calls it — Mr. Biden
declared that “we can’t let Donald
Trump and Mitch McConnell hold
small businesses, workers, and com-
munities hostage until they get their
no-strings corporate bailout.” Neither
Ms. Warren nor Mr. Sanders nor, for
that matter, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-
Miss Manners
shrewd: He’s picked fights with Mr.
Trump when it works to his advantage
but also gives credit to Mr. Trump
when it’s due. He also stands — or in
his case sits — in contrast to the mayor
of New York City (and rival Demo-
weighs in
crat) Bill de Blasio, whose reputation MINDING MISS MANNERS: IN suggesting that the writer is saying
for disorganization and lassitude re- AN ERA OF FAKE ETIQUETTE more about herself than the man who
mains safe. By Judith Martin offends by being what he apparently
So Democrats may well be remind- Andrews McMeel Publishing, $19.99, 240 pages feels is polite gesture and not a com-
ment on the effort involved. And she
ing themselves that the last time a New By Muriel Dobbin hits her stride when dealing with a
York governor was their nominee letter about people who admit such
his name was Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Cortez would have said it differently.
Put another way: If Mr. Biden’s ap-
peal is based on his ability to attract
independent/centrist voters, what are
those voters to make of such remarks?
Such uncertainty may explain an
interesting recent development: The
untethering of the Cuomo Trial Bal-
loon. It may have been prompted
by such pronouncements as quoted
above, or it might have been the cu-
mulative effect of Mr. Biden’s notes
from underground. We don’t know.
But there it is.
Or mindful of history, they might be
thinking of dangers as well. The last
time a senior politician stepped in to
wrest the nomination from a slate
of popular candidates (and without
running in a single primary contest)
it was 1968 — and Hubert Humphrey
was probably fatally wounded by the
bitterness of Eugene McCarthy and
Robert Kennedy fans.
So keep an eye out for Joe Biden
skyping from his basement, and An-
drew Cuomo sitting center-stage in
Albany, and heat up the popcorn.
J
udith Martin has become the high
priestess of politeness for which
we should all be grateful.
In a 200-page book which
ranges from Christmas lists to the
importance of saying please, Ms. Martin
offers sensible advice to the most non-
sensical of her correspondents and the
sharp side of her tongue to those who
transgress the boundaries of etiquette.
She acknowledges in a foreword
that when she “assumed the quixotic
task of civilizing society etiquette was
not a problem.” However, given that
this concept had collapsed in the past
decade, she felt now called upon to
put forward “a radically
different system by which
we would all restrain
ourselves just enough
to keep life from being
a transgression as asking someone
whether their husbands are going to
get them pregnant while conceding
“I’m rude” for such an inquiry.
Miss Manners recommends that the
response should be “Evidently” fol-
lowed by silence.
And she also digs in her heels on
the topic of political correctness and
the current capacity of “venting” to
demonstrate opinions. She admits it is
the American way to speak up against
a wrong “even if we can’t agree about
what it is.” But she announces she is
lodging a protest against public name
calling in the streets or electronically
as a form of protest.” She
notes that she expects to
be called naive and a lot
worse for objecting to
venting.

Maduro in the dock unpleasant.”

She admits it was to
her surprise that people
“But then who isn’t,
these days?” she asks.
Asked by a correspon-
Venezuelan dictator accused of drug trafficking began listening to the dent how to be polite
point that civility “be- without being politically

A
dd international drug dealer to a several indictments made public Thurs- came part of the national correct, she notes that
resume that already includes day against the embattled socialist leader conversation.” She adds those who defend their
bus driver and dictator. Nico- and his inner circle,” the Associated Press tartly, “Politicians won political politeness con-
elections by calling for it tend that they are being
las Maduro, the ruinously corrupt and reported. although not by practic- frank and honest about
inept left-wing leader of Venezuela was Somehow we doubt Mr. Maduro will ing it because that was considered a their views. She emphasizes her dislike
indicted Thursday on some extraordi- be surrendering himself voluntarily. And sign of weakness.” of “hate talk” and questions the use of
narily serious charges. so the United States has offered a reward The book is a delectable collec- some political correctness allegedly
tion of letters to Miss Manners who as part of the right to free speech. Miss
“Nicolas Maduro effectively converted of up to $15 million for bringing him to responds to her “gentle reader” with Manners reminds that obnoxious lan-
Venezuela into a criminal enterprise at justice. (John Walsh was never able to a caustic blend of good humor and guage and name calling are exercised
the service of drug traffickers and ter- offer such generosity on “America’s Most exasperation. To someone who rec- without legal reprisals.
ommends sending itemized lists of pre- “Etiquette relies on voluntary
rorist groups as he and his allies stole Wanted.”)
ferred Christmas gifts to friends who compliance,”she declares.
billions from the South American coun- Get cracking, would-be bounty have “disposable income,” Miss Man- In one of the letters that “ruined
try, the Justice Department charged in hunters. ners especially deplores using children Miss Manners’ day,” a writer described
as the messengers for such a mission. her experience with a friend who
To anyone receiving such a list, she explained her failure to send a Christ-
responds, “If you were as appalled as mas card because she had only bought
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Miss Manners is at helping a child beg,
the best rebate would be to ignore the
25 and no more would be sent to other
friends. Acknowledging the collapse
suggestion.” of her day, Miss Manners suggested
Rebuff Red China’s ‘help’ And she has no patience at all with
those who consider ending using the
that egotism was the root of the kind
of problem that inspired people to tell
In a phone call with President Trump world community, when timely lately Italy) as being the origin of word “please” as part of a request, es- others they were not enough in favor
last Thursday, Chinese President Xi discolsure could have prevented the virus. pecially a parent who discourages the to receive invitations, cards or gifts.
pledged cooperation in combating the virus’ spread to other countries. For goodness’ sake, the United use of please as “begging” by a child. She found it “particularly appalling”
the coronavirus. Chinese Commu- China refused entry to the medical States does not need Red China’s “How eager are you to drop the that this seemed to represent “some
nist Party officials have expelled personnel from the Centers for Dis- help to get a handle on the “Chinese few remaining daily courtesies that sort of social obligation to announce
journalists from The Wall Street ease Control and Prevention, people virus.” We should keep them as far remain?” demands Miss Manners. ‘nyah nyah’ to the excluded ones.”
Journal, The New York Times and considered some of the best in the away as possible; they are not to be “Without the addition of please, a
The Washington Post lately for world. They have retaliated against trusted. The only help the United request becomes an order.” Muriel Dobbin is a former White House
the reporters’ alleged bias when it Li Wenliang, an ophthalmologist States needs from Red China is She is similarly dismissive of writ- and national political reporter for Mc-
comes to the coronavirus — and at Wuhan Central Hospital who reparations for the financial losses ers who complain that they don’t like Clatchy newspapers and the Baltimore
these are largely journalists with a contracted the virus, for blowing to our economy. a man opening a door for a woman, Sun.
liberal slant. the whistle. The doctor mysteri-
The Chinese government de- ously died at age 34. And China JORGE E. PONCE
layed announcing the virus to the has blamed the United States (and Trinity, Fla.

Staying home the best remedy?

All my life I have heard that doc-
tors recommend people get outside
and be active with walking or other
exercise. I learned that this was to
expose people to the sun to increase
vitamin D and to get fresh oxygen. I
was told that high levels of vitamin
D and oxygen in the blood help the
body to fight germs that cause dis-
ease and that low levels of vitamin
D and oxygen in the blood invite
disease. Isn’t ‘sheltering in place’
weakening Americans, making it
easier for them to get sick?
This coronavirus is a new disease
from China that is similar to pneu-
monia or influenza. According to
statistics from the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention, in the 2018-
2019 flu season 16.5 million Ameri-
cans saw a doctor because of the flu,
490,000 were hospitalized because
of it and 34,000 people died from it.
Why weren’t we staying in our homes
and destroying our economy to save
those people? What’s more, “shelter
in place” is the advice Italy followed.
How well did that work?
Check the statistics. Most people
who get the coronavirus survive. The
emerging statistics seem to follow
the ratio pattern similar to other flus.
There are practical things that can
be done to protect people and those
things should be done. But destroy-
ing the livelihood of over 300 million
people is not practical, realistic or
sane. I suspect that our government
leaders are being misled with bad
advice from those who want our
country to become like a laboratory.
That’s not going to work.
WOODROW WILCOX
Griffith, Ind.
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A sober look at COVID-19 How Democrats take advantage

Public policy panic about coronavirus is not supported by the facts of the coronavirus crisis
By Joel W. Hay and Cynthia L. Gong let’s put that in perspective: That is 2.3 deaths per Drafting women into the Army and more people into big government
one million Koreans from a respiratory illness that,

P
oliticians and medical experts assert like the flu, can end in fatal pneumonia.
that: 1) COVID-19 is lethal to many Thus, this so-called COVID-19 pandemic would By Robert Knight was removed in 2015 under President Obama,
beyond those that typically suc- have barely registered among the 170 per one who purposely sent women into battle.

cumb to pneumonia in flu season million deaths in the United States from flu and
(typically up to 60,000 in the United pneumonia. Unfortunately, nowhere in the world
States annually; and 2) COVID-19 were there adequate test kits ready to detect and
is still slowly spreading in major trace the rapid path of this global pandemic. The
industrialized countries, implying lack of statistically valid testing and the absence of
there is still some potential benefit to the enormously serological/antibody testing has led to many false
costly social distancing and economic shutdown conclusions by physicians untrained in the science
measures. of epidemics.
What if they are wrong? What if COVID-19 isn’t All COVID-19 deaths are tragic. Yet, for every
significantly deadlier than regular flu? What if COVID-19 frail or chronically ill person (regardless of age)
has already spread everywhere possible? Are we engaged with underlying medical conditions (whether
known or un-
known) who suc-
cumbs to COVID-19,
there are hundreds
of people, mostly
younger, healthier
students and work-
ing age adults who
will have their lives
ruined for months
or perhaps years
by the economic
collapse ostensibly
created to control
the epidemic. We
estimate that the
economic disrup-
tions will destroy
many more lives
than the social
distancing and
economic shutdown
would save.
Moreover,
our econometric
models, updated
daily, are showing
that new COVID-19
case reports and
death reports are
slowing drastically
everywhere except
in the United States,
where there are
greater variations
in state-level test
kit availability and
significant delays
in case reporting
capabilities. We
project a crest in
U.S. reported cases
ILLUSTRATION BY LINAS GARSYS and deaths in the
next 3-4 weeks with
in the most expensive public health intervention in his- COVID-19 mortality substantially lower than that
tory without any possible payback? for a typical influenza season (although total flu and
Consider four points : pneumonia deaths may rise slightly). https://rpubs.
1. In Italy, where COVID-19 health care plan- com/nzawadzki/covid19-by-country
ning and medical management has been disastrous, It is disappointing that the public officials who
there is a COVID-19 death rate of 124 per million implemented these drastic social distancing and
thus far (which is has now slowed drastically ac- economic shutdown measures show such extreme
cording to our models). By comparison, in a typical concern for slowing the epidemic without under-
year, the United States experiences 170 per million standing the enormous price that all citizens and
deaths from flu and pneumonia. residents are already paying. They have resorted to
2. Countries that haven’t mandated social the most expensive, intrusive and wasteful methods
distancing measures, such as South Korea and the to try to flatten the infection curve, without any
Netherlands, have lower rates of COVID-19 than evidence that such measures work.
China and the United States, who have slammed The Netherlands encourages its young people
their cities and economies shut. Even countries as to mix socially, work and recreate normally, and
culturally and politically distinct as Iran and Italy create herd immunity while using social isolation
have experienced the same measures only for those
30-day epidemic growth Public officials have resorted to the most at highest risk (i.e., elderly
curve flattening, as have
the others.
expensive, intrusive and wasteful methods with comorbid conditions
and the immunocom-
3. The cost per death to try to flatten the infection curve, without promised). In the United
averted from these so- any evidence that such measures work. States, some medical
cial distancing measures professionals already
exceeds $300 million per life prolonged, far greater encourage such measures for chronically immuno-
than the U.S. government’s own valuation of an compromised individuals, such as those undergoing
American life at approximately $7-9 million per life. chemotherapy.
4. The Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles, where Korea uses aggressive contact tracing to find
the poorest, sickest, and frailest children in the and isolate known cases, but no social isolation
United States are treated, has seen no deaths and measures for the general public. Both of these ap-
only one case. If this virus is as lethal to anyone proaches are more effective and orders of magni-
outside of the typical influenza risk groups (frail tude less expensive than sending everyone home
elderly, multiple comorbidities, poor lung function, and shutting down the economy. This is public
etc.) as people claim, we would have already seen policy by panic.
many more cases.
South Korea implemented the most comprehen- Joel W. Hay is a professor at the University of South-
sive viral testing and contact tracing in the world. ern California (USC) School of Pharmacy and at the
The COVID-19 epidemic peaked in South Korea at USC Dept. of Economics (by courtesy). Cynthia L.
the beginning of March and, through today, has had Gong, is an assistant research professor at the USC
131 COVID-19 deaths. While 131 deaths are alarming, Keck School of Medicine.
D
on’t look now, but powerful forces
are maneuvering to subject our
daughters to the draft. It’s part of
the ongoing exploitation of the
current crisis. More about this below.
Right now, our home-grown socialists are
delighted that Uncle Sugar will be handing out
checks to everybody under the sun as part of
the $2 trillion stimulus package.
And why shouldn’t they be? The socialist
goal is to make everyone dependent on govern-
ment, except for them. They’ll be in charge, tell-
ing everyone else how to live and what to think.
If there was any doubt that Democrats would
try to take advantage of the coronavirus crisis
and the stock market crash, Rep. James Clyburn,
South Carolina Democrat, eliminated it.
The House Majority Whip, who almost
single-handedly saved Joe Biden’s bacon in the
Palmetto State’s primary, advised his fellow
Democrats to see this as a “tremendous oppor-
tunity to restructure things to fit our vision.”
This mirrors Rahm Emanuel’s famous
admonition, “you don’t ever want a crisis to go
to waste. It’s an opportunity to do things you
would otherwise avoid.”
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has packed
all sorts of leftist wish list items into the
bailout, despite some Republican Senate
opposition. There’s $50 million for legal
services for the poor; $75 million for federal
arts programs, and $25 million for the Ken-
nedy Center so congressmen won’t miss their
favorite shows.
As of Friday,
it wasn’t clear
how many items
survived in the
final version. The
Dems wanted
federal money for
abortions and fetal
tissue research.
They wanted to
weaken state elec-
tion safeguards by
mandating national
early voting, same-
day voter registra-
tion and absentee
balloting without
voter ID. They also
wanted student
loan forgiveness,
“green” offsets on
carbon and forcing
a “diversity” agenda
on corporations.
Although much
of the bill will help
revive the economy,
it has billions for
massive expansion
of federal welfare
programs without a
clear indication that
these are temporary
fixes. This fits Mr.
Clyburn’s and Mr. Emanuel’s socialist vision
of using a calamity to permanently expand
government.
Government is the left’s religion. It has an-
gels and devils. The high priests of the media
tell us who’s who. Tithes are mandatory, and
paid as taxes, but they come in other forms
as well. Such as turning our daughters over to
the tender mercies of the administrative state.
The National Commission on Military,
National and Public Service, a congressio-
nal panel championed by the late Sen. John
McCain, has seized the moment to advocate
mandatory registration of all young women
for the draft. For years, women have served
admirably in many capacities, just not delib-
erately in direct combat.
Women have been exempted from the
draft, and military women from combat, be-
cause they’re the bearers of life and primary
caregivers. Plus, men are better equipped for
combat.
In 1981, in Rostker v. Goldberg, the U.S.
Supreme Court ruled that because women
don’t serve in combat, they’re ineligible for
the military draft. That civilized distinction
Now comes what the commission calls
a “once-in-a-generation moment” to sweep
aside the ages-old protection of women as
non-combatants.
“At a time when our country is having
extremely important conversations about our
path forward, we should be prioritizing the
recommendations coming out of this com-
mission and working to make them a reality,”
said former Army Gen. Stanley A. McChrys-
tal, known mainly for commanding U.S. forces
in Afghanistan.
Translation: Let’s ram this through while
people are terrified and distracted.
It isn’t just the military. The Deep State has
a profound interest in reframing citizens’ rela-
tionship with our government. Proponents of
mandatory national service, for example, tout
“fairness” to make everyone serve, not just
volunteers.
This flies in the face of the nation’s found-
ing by people who saw government as a nec-
essary evil, not a panacea for all the world’s
problems.
During each major war, from the Civil
War through Vietnam, the national state has
expanded its powers. The same thing hap-
pened during the Great Depression and the
2008-2009 recession.
Growing the state is the primary focus of
leftists, regardless of their particular issues.
People under an all-powerful state can be
forced to lie and to betray their consciences.
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Free people, not so much.
Conflating voluntary service with man-
datory service is a huge lie. The Mormon
church encourages young men to serve as
missionaries for two years, and young women
for 18 months. But it is a voluntary religious
duty. When government mandates behavior,
it can use force, which distinguishes govern-
ment from the rest of civil society.
The healthiest arrangement is subsidiar-
ity, whereby people closest to those in need
know best what’s needed. It starts with
the family, then the churches, synagogues,
neighbors, local community and on up to the
county, state and national governments.
The left has this backwards, preferring to
start with big government. It doesn’t matter
that this often does deep damage to the rest of
civil society. In fact, that’s the point.
Having so many independent, self-governing
folks is deplorable to them. As is exempting our
daughters from the draft.
Robert Knight is a contributor to The Wash-
ington Times. His website is roberthknight.
com.

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of March 23, according to the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention, there were 499 Covid-19
deaths in the U.S. If our surmise of six million cases
is accurate, that’s a mortality rate of 0.01%, assuming
a two-week lag between infection and death. This is
one-tenth of the flu mortality rate of 0.1%. Such a low
death rate would be cause for optimism … If we’re
right about the limited scale of the epidemic, then …
we should undertake immediate steps to evaluate the
empirical basis of the current lockdowns.”
I repeat, “This is one-tenth of the flu mortality
rate of 0.1%”.
Why are we not demanding that our elected of-
ficials tell us why they are dismissing such positive
information?
Why?
Have we really become this intellectually obtuse
and this addled in our social comforts?
Do we not care about our freedom, or at least that
of our progeny, enough to ask a few questions?
For example:
Is it possible that, as we sit stupefied on our
smiling at just how easy it was to control an ideologi-
cally complacent people?
Are Orwell’s oligarchs grinning from ear to ear at
how quickly we all agreed to submit?
Is it possible that the smart folks in Belgium,
Beijing and the Beltway who fancy themselves our
rulers, are watching?
Are they taking notes?
Are they as amazed as
we are at how fast entire
nations of fearful children
were seduced by the tunes
of political Pied Pipers
promising protection
from the “rats” of man’s
mortality?
Why are we not nervous as we watch how easily
an entire planet was brought to its knees by the deci-
sions of so few?
Are “We the People” … a citizenry that is clearly
defined by our eternal liberties and not just our tem-
poral lives — truly this eager to set aside nearly all of
our God-given freedoms for the fleeting promises of
financial protection and personal health?
Is an entire globe of nearly 8 billion people this
willing to be conquered without anyone firing a
single shot?
“Conspiracy theory,” you shout.
Really?
Consider this:
“If we see continued noncompliance [we] will
step in and shut off their water and power. You know
who you are, you need to
stop it. This is your chance
to step up and shut it down
— because if you don’t,
we will shut you down.” —
Los Angeles Mayor, Eric
Garcetti
And this:
“All public and private
in-person gatherings of 10 or more individuals are
prohibited … The authorized punishments for con-
viction are … confinement in jail for not more than
twelve months and a fine of not more than $2,500, ei-
ther or both.” — Virginia Governor, Ralph Northam
And this:
“The COVID19 bill is a tremendous opportunity
to restructure things to fit our vision.” — Democratic
Majority Whip, James Clyburn
And, finally, this:
“We take some pride in the fact that Democrats
in the Senate and the House were able to flip this …
We have some other things we want to do, but first,
we want to take pride in what [we’ve done]. We want
more …” — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi
C.S. Lewis once admonished that before we read
any new books, we should first read a dozen or more
of those that are old. He, thus, encouraged us to set
aside our inclination to “chronological snobbery”
and humble ourselves before the wisdom of the ages.
In that spirit, I close:
“After the Age of Utopias came what we may call
the American Age … Men seemed to have solved
the social riddle … It went with a buoyant optimism
[but], that optimism has [turned] into pessimism.
For, the Slump [has] brought even more disillusion-
ment than the War. A new bitterness, and a new
bewilderment, [runs] through all social life … The
Brave New World is more of a revolution [than]
Utopia.” — G.K. Chesterton (1932)
Everett Piper, former president of Oklahoma Wes-
leyan University, is a columnist for The Washing-
ton Times and author of “Not A Day Care: The
Devastating Consequences of Abandoning Truth”
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TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (March 30). This is a year HUMOR

of uncanny and wonderful connections. Old friend-
ships will be renewed, and new people will feel like
old friends. A transformation on the domestic front
happens as you invest your time, money, creativity and
heart into your home and get back way more than you
put in. A big award comes in July. Aries and Gemini
adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 9, 20, 45, 4 and 16.
ARIES (March 21-April 19). For today, it’s best to get
advice from inside yourself. Don’t let anyone diagnose
your problem, tell you how you should feel or even
suggest your next good move. You are the best judge of
you.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20). There’s no flaw, ob-
stacle or reason holding you back.
You just need to learn a few little
HOLIDAY tricks to get yourself into the hab-
MATHIS its that will pull you unthinkingly
HOROSCOPE forward.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21). The
first step to winning in an envi-
ronment is to choose environments you’re genuinely
interested in. Get excited about going, or go where you
won’t have to fake your enthusiasm.
CANCER (June 22-July 22). Athletes aren’t expected
to play every position, and you shouldn’t expect this of
yourself either. Play to your strengths. You don’t have to
make every point in the game. Just help make a few.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). If you have to guess whether
the message will land right, the mood will be conveyed,
the point will be made, you’re probably on the right
track. It’s the ones who don’t question themselves who
are most likely to miss the mark.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). People you can laugh
with are the treasures of your day. And if you happen
to be the one who’s making this laughter happen, you’ll
feel mightily accomplished.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). Sometimes you feel like
you have no control over your emotions, and some-
times your emotions feel like they have no control over
you. But today, you and your feelings will be on the
same page.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). You’ll feel like keeping
some of your views to yourself. “Those who are able to
see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will
never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses.”
— Plato
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). You’ll be drawn to
focus on those with needs bigger than your own, and
this will unexpectedly brighten you. As your wells of
compassion get deeper, your vibes raise higher.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). Grudges and ill feel-
ings only get more cumbersome as time passes. In the
spirit of lightening up, you’ll let go of some old baggage
that’s been slowing you down.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). What one person
calls education another calls propaganda, advertising,
persuasion and bias. You accept nothing at face value,
as almost everything that has a face has a whole body
behind it.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). Your goal is not to
reach every person. It’s to reach the right people. The
right people like you immediately and without convinc-
ing. If you don’t feel the receptivity, move on.
CREATORS.COM
Laughter a powerful coping mechanism during virus crisis
BY WILLIAM J. KOLE
ASSOCIATED PRESS
BOSTON | Neil Diamond posts a fireside rendition
of “Sweet Caroline” with its familiar lyrics tweaked
to say, “Hands … washing hands.” A news anchor
asks when social distancing will end because “my
husband keeps trying to get into the house.” And
a sign outside a neighborhood church reads: “Had
not planned on giving up quite this much for Lent.”
Are we allowed to chuckle yet? We’d better,
psychologists and humorists say. Laughter can be
the best medicine, they argue, so long as it’s within
the bounds of good taste. And in a crisis, it can be
a powerful coping mechanism.
“It’s more than just medicine. It’s survival,” said
Erica Rhodes, a Los Angeles comedian.
“Even during the Holocaust, people told jokes,”
Ms. Rhodes said in a telephone interview with The
Associated Press. “Laughter is a symbol of hope, and
it becomes one of our greatest needs of life, right up
there with toilet paper. It’s a physical need people
have. You can’t underestimate how it heals people
and gives them hope.”
For most people, the coronavirus causes mild
or moderate symptoms, such as fever and cough
that clear up in two to three weeks. For some,
especially older adults and people with existing
Medical setback causes man to cut ties with girlfriend
DEAR ABBY: I had a boyfriend for two
years until a few days ago. He’s a 40-year-old
easygoing paraplegic (from a car accident
long before I met him), and I’m an easygoing
36-year-old woman with two kids from a previ-
ous marriage.
We had a great connection, a similar out-
look on life and had the same interests in
pretty much everything. He adored my girls.
We would all go to a movie every so often or
to dinner occasionally, but mostly we would
stay in and play games or watch TV when we
were spending time together.
I’m his first girlfriend, so he was new to the
concept of having someone love him in spite
of every little flaw he had (which were very
few). I told him so many times that no matter
what was wrong, I was going to stick by his
side.
Recently, he’s had a medical problem with
a few ulcerated sores. This sometimes hap-
pens to paraplegics. Unfortunately, his doctor
has said he needed to leave his apartment
temporarily and go into a nursing facility to
get round-the-clock care. A few months went
by, with plenty of visits from friends, family,
health problems, it can cause more severe illness,
including pneumonia, and death.
Those are scary words and scary prospects.
But history has shown that its heaviest moments
are often leavened by using humor and laughter
as conscious choices — ways to cope when other
things aren’t working as expected.
“There’s so much fear and horror out there. All
the hand washing in the world isn’t going to clear
up your head,” said Loretta LaRoche, a suburban
Boston stress management consultant who is
using humor to help people defuse the anxiety the
pandemic has wrought.
“Some people will say this is not a time for
laughter. The bottom line is, there is always a time
for laughter,” Ms. LaRoche said. “We have 60,000
thoughts a day and many of them are very disturb-
ing. Laughter helps the brain relax.”
That explains why social media feeds are pep-
pered with coronavirus-themed memes, cartoons
and amusing personal anecdotes.
Here’s Diamond posting a video of himself
singing “Sweet Caroline” with the lyrics altered to
say: “Hands … washing hands … don’t touch me …
I won’t touch you.”
There’s Fox News anchor Julie Banderas tweet-
ing: “How long is this social distancing supposed to
last? My husband keeps trying to get into the house.”
and me and my daugh-
ABIGAIL ters. (He always intro-
VAN BUREN duces us as his family.)
The doctor now says
DEAR ABBY he may need to stay there
for a year, and I know he
became immediately de-
pressed. He sent me a text saying he thinks
we should just be friends, and he doesn’t
want a reminder of what he can’t do anymore.
I feel like this isn’t him, that he’s jumping to
rash conclusions because of stress. I don’t
want to end the relationship. I’m willing to
keep moving forward and get through this
speed bump together.
He won’t answer my calls or texts, and I’m
at a loss about what I should do next. I want
to keep him so badly. My heart aches every
day worrying about this. He may lose a year of
freedom, but I’m losing a lifelong companion.
— HEAVY HEART IN PENNSYLVANIA
DEAR HEAVY HEART: You really have no
choice but to follow this man’s lead, so do as he
has asked. Remember, you promised to support
him no matter what. Agree to be “just friends,”
although it won’t be easy if he wants to remain
And over here, see novelist Curtis Sittenfeld,
sharing a photo of herself eating lunch in her wed-
ding dress after her kids asked her to wear it “and
I couldn’t think of a reason not to.”
For centuries, laughter in tough times has been
cathartic, said Wayne Maxwell, a Canadian psy-
chologist who has done extensive research on
“gallows humor.” The term originated in medieval
Britain, where hangings took place in parks near
pubs and patrons told jokes at the victims’ expense.
“Even in some of the writings of ancient Egypt,
there are descriptions of military personnel return-
ing from the front lines and using humor to cope,”
said Mr. Maxwell of Halifax, Nova Scotia.
But, he warns, there exists a kind of comedy con-
tinuum: While humor can helpfully lighten things
up, too much laughter and flippancy can signal a
person is trying to escape from reality.
There are also questions of taste. No one wants to
poke fun at medical misery or death. Quarantining
and social distancing, though, are fair game, and self-
deprecating humor is almost always safe — though
Ms. LaRoche cautions that humor, like beauty, is
always in the eye of the beholder.
“It all depends on how your brain functions,”
she said. “Give yourself permission to find humor.
It’s almost like a spiritual practice, finding ways to
laugh at yourself.”
incommunicado. In the meantime, stay as active
with other friends as you can. Above all, do NOT
allow yourself to become socially isolated be-
cause he has chosen to isolate himself.
DEAR ABBY: My daughter “Frances” is
currently applying for graduate school and is
dating a man who works in human waste man-
agement. She lives in the dorms at school.
Her brother “Harry” was at a party recently,
and a young lady told him the “poop pumper”
has been trying to get some alone time with
her. I feel I should tell Frances that her guy
is on the prowl. They have been dating since
Frances was 16, and my wife and I have al-
ways thought she could do better. Should we
tell her? — HOLDING MY NOSE IN OHIO
DEAR HOLDING: No, HARRY should tell
his sister about the person he met at the party
and exactly what he was told. Coming from her
brother it will sound less like “I told you so.” As
to your comment that Frances “could do better,”
if you’re referring to the boyfriend’s chosen field,
be aware that people in waste management can
earn a very good living doing a very important
job.
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Foreign athletes weigh staying with going home

BY PAT EATON-ROBB
ASSOCIATED PRESS Worry about missing Wisconsin-Milwaukee women’s tennis player
Lucy Harper, who is from Bolton, England, has

STORRS, CONN. | All but one of Anna Makurat’s
teammates headed home after the NCAA canceled
this year’s postseason basketball tournament and
the school suspended classes amid the COVID-19
pandemic.
For the 19-year-old UConn freshman from Po-
land, the decision was not that easy, especially
with ever-increasing travel restrictions to and from
Europe. She worried about classes restarting while
she was overseas and when — or if — she might be
able to get back to campus.
Makurat is one of more than 20,000 foreign
athletes currently competing at NCAA schools,
according to the organization. With competi-
tion canceled across all NCAA divisions, many
of those athletes face a similar dilemma. Their
campuses are shut down, but the coronavirus
situation in their homeland is worse than it is in
the United States.
The NCAA has advised schools to handle the
situation as they see fit “for the health and safety of
their coaches, staff and student athletes.”
class, travel restrictions
For the last two weeks, Makurat has been one
of about 50 UConn athletes still living at school
with the campus largely a ghost town. She spent a
lot of her time on her computer and phone, video
chatting with family back home. She was able to go
out to dinner one night with coach Geno Auriemma
and teammate Evina Westbrook, who remained on
campus to get treatment for an injury.
Plans changed again after UConn decided to can-
cel all events for the rest of the semester and move
learning online. Makurat was booked Wednesday
on a flight home. She will have to self-quarantine
for two weeks when she gets back.
“Poland has pretty much closed everything so
everyone is staying home anyway,” she said. “I have
a place at home to work out and we have a basketball
hoop outside, so I can get back to shooting. It wasn’t
a hard decision, once I knew it was an option. I think
everyone right now wants to be with their families,
and I’m the same.”
decided to stay in the U.S. for now with a friend’s
family.
“A lot of the flights out to England are getting
canceled and they’ve actually closed two of the
terminals down at Manchester (England) airport,”
she said. “I just made the decision to stay here for
now, because I don’t know sort of when I’ll be able
to come back if I leave. We don’t know how long
this is going to last.”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Most of her team is from overseas. She said about
half the international players have gone home. Anna Makurat was one of 50 athletes still living on
Tennessee’s men’s basketball team has players UConn’s campus two weeks after the school shut
from France, Serbia, Uruguay and Finland, which down until she flew home to Poland on Wednesday.
meant Mary-Carter Eggert, the director of basket-
ball operations, became a travel agent, l ooking for
the best flights. “She was scheduled to leave Friday but that air-
“The fact of the matter is, their parents want line canceled and she was scrambling last minute,”
them home just like I would want my kids home,” Cal coach Charmin Smith said.
coach Rick Barnes said. Evelien Lutje Schipholt, from The Netherlands,
This past week, several women’s basketball is staying with teammate Cailyn Crocker and her
players from the University of California figured family in Southern California. Chen Yue, of Beijing,
out their arrangements. Sara Anastasieski left on is currently with friends near Berkeley as the Bay
a flight home to Sydney, Australia, late Thursday. Area continues its shelter in place order.

HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL

Hyattsville coach dies
from virus complications
Terrance Burke, a basketball coach
and guidance counselor at North-
western High School in Hyattsville,
Maryland, died due to complications
from the coronavirus. He was 54.
“I know this news is devastating
and shocking to many in the North-
western High School community and
all who knew and loved him,” Monica
Goldson, CEO of
Prince George’s
County Public
SPORTS Schools, wrote
BRIEFS in a letter to
the community.
“Please know
that my heart is
breaking with yours and I am praying
for your strength and comfort during
this time.”
Burke, also a veteran of the U.S.
Navy, was one of five new COVID-19
deaths in Maryland confirmed on Sat-
urday, which doubled the state’s total
at the time to 10.
His passing triggered an outpouring
of emotion with messages on social
media from his cousin, fellow coaches
and others in his community:
NFL
Former Redskins assistant
Manusky lands with Kentucky
Former Redskins defensive co-
ordinator Greg Manusky joined the
University of Kentucky’s program as
a defensive quality control assistant,
leaving the NFL after more than 30
years.
Manusky spent four seasons in
Washington, the first as the team’s
outside linebackers coach and the last
three as defensive coordinator.
Kentucky is Manusky’s first college
job. The 53-year-old began his coach-
ing career in 2001 after he played 12
years in the NFL as a linebacker.
Manusky was not retained follow-
ing the 2019 season, replaced by Jack
Del Rio.
Ravens fill void on defensive
line, agree to deal with Wolfe
OWINGS MILLS, MD. | The Baltimore
Ravens have reached agreement on
a one-year contract with defensive
tackle Derek Wolfe, ending his eight-
year run with the Denver Broncos.
Wolfe had seven sacks in 12 games
last season before going on injured
reserve with a dislocated elbow.
The 6-foot-5, 285-pound Wolfe fills
the void left by the unexpected depar-
ture last week of free agent Michael
Brockers, who initially agreed to a
three-year deal with Baltimore. The
sides couldn’t finalize the contract,
however, and Brockers ended up going
back to the Los Angeles Rams.
Wolfe joins Brandon Williams and
newcomer Calais Campbell on Balti-
more’s revamped defensive line.
When healthy, Wolfe has been
an effective run-stopper. He has 299
career tackles and 33 sacks but has
played all 16 games in only three of his
eight seasons.
MCCLUNG
From page B8
pandemic.
The 6-foot-2 guard from Gate City,
Virginia, gained a following when he
began dunking in high school games and
his highlight mixtapes made the rounds
online. A 3-star recruit, McClung origi-
nally chose Rutgers but decommitted
and signed with Georgetown.
McClung also broke the Virginia High
School League single-season scoring
record set by famous former Hoya Allen
Iverson.
Recent NBA mock drafts have not
projected McClung to go in either the
first or second round. Theoretically, Mc-
Clung could go through the draft process
and receive advice about whether to
enter the draft or return to Georgetown
for another year. But the status of the
NBA scouting combine and pre-draft
process are up in the air amid the pan-
demic, and it’s unclear how much of a
look McClung will actually get.
“Not knowing if I will have the op-
portunity to work out for teams, or the
status of the NBA combine make this
process different,” he told ESPN. “I un-
derstand that the NBA draft process will
be different this year given the COVID-19
pandemic around the world. I am looking
forward to getting feedback from NBA
teams, as well as give NBA teams an op-
portunity to get to know me on a more
personal level.
“I feel as if I have an obligation
with the platform I have to remind
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people the importance of ‘social dis-
tancing’ and staying home as much Georgetown guard Mac McClung told ESPN that he is “looking forward to getting feedback from NBA tems, as well as give NBA
as possible.” teams an opportunity to get to know me on a more personal level.”
REDSKINS Then injuries struck. This is the sec-
ond year in a row he’s had to settle for
flexor in December that shelved him for
the rest of the season.
Darby on Instagram, commenting un-
derneath a post about the move.
From page B8 a one-year contract, and this year, his The Eagles spent their offseason re- “Great signing, but I wasn’t worth the
deal is worth less than $8.5 million deal tooling their secondary, and the Red- extra (million),” Dunbar wrote, including
But when healthy, Darby has proven he signed last offseason. skins have done the same. Under Rivera, a laughing face emoji. “Joke.”
to be a serviceable corner. He was even The cut in pay Washington first signed slot cornerback Dunbar is set to make $3.5 million
thought to be one of the league’s top comes on the heels Kendall Fuller (four years, $40 million) in 2020, but requested a trade from
young cornerbacks when drafted in 2015 of a tough year. and then traded Dunbar to Seattle for a Washington after the team halted
out of Florida State. For his first two sea- While he picked fifth-round pick. contract negotiations when Rivera
sons, the former second-rounder starred off two passes and The Redskins also have Fabian was hired.
for the Buffalo Bills before he was traded defended 11 more, Moreau, Jimmy Moreland, Danny John- In comparison to Darby, Dunbar only
to the Eagles in 2017. Darby struggled in son and Greg Stroman to compete with gave up 29 catches for 344 yards on 52
That year, he enjoyed his best sea- coverage — giving Darby for the two starting spots on the targets across 13 games in 2019.
son as a pro — grabbing a career-high up 39 receptions on outside. Washington is replacing both of The Redskins have also signed a
three interceptions while earning a Darby 62 targets for 664 its Week 1 starters at cornerback from number of veterans this offseason with
rating as one of the league’s 20 best yards, according to last season as it released veteran Josh ties to the area. Darby, a native of Oxon
cornerbacks, according to Pro Foot- Pro Football Focus. Norman in February, in addition to mov- Hill, Maryland, belongs in that category
ball Focus. He also won a Super Bowl, He also missed five games due to inju- ing on from Dunbar. — joining Fuller (Virginia Tech), Logan
helping the Eagles hold off the New ries. First, a hamstring kept him sidelined Dunbar, meanwhile, shared his opin- Thomas (Virginia Tech) and Sean Davis
England Patriots. for four weeks. Then he suffered a hip ion about the team’s decision to sign (Maryland).
OUTDOORS seems pretty happy,” Anderson said.
“Everyone seems to be in a good mood.
close to home. Most are heeding that
advice, though one hiker descending
making constant decisions on modifying
operations on a park-by-park basis to
From page B8 We’re in the mountains and that makes Mount Washington last week fell about prevent the spread of COVID-19.
everyone a little bit happier.” 200 feet and had to be rescued. Recently, Yellowstone and Grand
in some turns on the slopes. But then For those not well-versed in back- New Hampshire’s leading conserva- Teton national parks closed their gates.
resorts shut down. country activities, though, an important tion groups on Friday also urged hikers “Six feet of social distancing? On the
Plan B: back-country skiing. message: Check the avalanche report to avoid the most popular spots so they river, you can have six miles,” Klug said.
He’s been hiking to the top of Buffalo for the area. An avalanche is always a comply with the federal guidelines on “We’re the sport that originated social
Mountain — about a three-hour trek — concern this time of year on any snow- social distancing. They urged them to distancing.”
and then skiing down. Anderson and his covered slope 30 degrees or steeper. focus, instead, on the 190 quiet, conserved He said most Americans don’t have to
wife have also been taking their 4-year- In New England, the AMC’s Four forests at 100 towns across the state. go far to find the great outdoors.
old son sledding and hiking. Thousand Footer Committee is calling More and more parks are starting “We forget how amazing everything
“The vibe up here in the mountains on hikers to avoid difficult trails and stay to close. The National Park Service is is right here in our own backyard.”

Lions reach deal with
wide receiver Allison
ALLEN PARK, MICH. | The Detroit
Lions agreed to terms with wide re-
ceiver Geronimo Allison.
The 26-year-old Allison comes to
Detroit from division rival Green Bay.
He caught 34 passes for 287 yards and
two touchdowns last season. Allison
played the past four seasons with the
Packers. Wide receiver was a position
of strength for Detroit last season, with
Kenny Golladay, Marvin Jones and
Danny Amendola each surpassing 60
catches and 600 yards receiving.
From wire dispatches and staff reports.
OLYMPICS
From page B8
spending $12.6 billion to stage the games.
However, a government audit report said
it will cost at least twice that much. All
but $5.6 billion is public money.
The Switzerland-based IOC has
contributed $1.3 billion to organize the
Tokyo Olympics, according to local or-
ganizing committee documents. It has
a reserve fund of about $2 billion for
such emergencies and also has insur-
ance coverage.
Meanwhile, Visa has told its global
roster of Olympic and Paralympic hope-
fuls their sponsorships will be extended
into 2021 after the Tokyo Games were
postponed, providing some financial
certainty amid the disruption caused by
the coronavirus pandemic.
The credit card giant’s Team Visa
scheme features 96 athletes across 27
sports, including soccer star Megan
Rapinoe, gymnast Simone Biles — a
quadruple gold medalist at the Rio de
Janeiro Games — and two-time defend-
ing 800-meter Olympic champion David
Rudisha.
The athletes were contacted on Fri-
day to be given the option of extending
their sponsorship terms with Visa. It is
the first clear commitment by a major
sponsor to extend such sponsorship
support after the unprecedented delay to
the Olympics by a year was announced
last week by the IOC.
“We elected to stand behind our
roster of Team Visa athletes and make
sure they knew affirmatively we were
planning to do so and that we were going
to offer to extend our relationship with
them into 2021,” Chris Curtin, Visa’s chief
brand and innovation marketing officer,
told The Associated Press.
“They’re all dealing with how do
they maintain their training schedules,
discipline and focus at the same time
they’re dealing with what’s happening
with their families and their loved
ones. One thing that we wanted to
do as Visa was to take one potential
point of ambiguity and maybe concern
off their plates, because there should
be none.”
Visa had already filmed some pro-
motional campaigns with athletes for
the Tokyo Games that will require some
reworking. More immediately, they have
spent this weekend filming their own
messages promoting hand washing and
social distancing that will be published
over the next week.

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Georgetown’s McClung Darby deal fits mold of

to test NBA draft waters
Guard doesn’t rule out return to Hoyas
BY ADAM ZIELONKA
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Georgetown sophomore guard Mac
McClung announced Sunday he will
enter the 2020 NBA draft while “main-
taining (his) eligibility” to return to
college.
McClung also told ESPN he signed
with a certified agent.
“First, I would like to thank God
for blessing me with this opportunity,”
McClung wrote in a social media post.
“I would also like to thank my parents,
Coach (Patrick) Ewing, along with his
coaching staff, for believing in me and
helping me become the player I am today.
To the Georgetown faithful, thank you
for giving me a new home!”
As an underclassman, McClung had
until April 26 to decide whether to de-
clare. He can withdraw from the draft
and return to Georgetown next season,
as Maryland guard Anthony Cowan, for
example, did last spring.
In 21 games in 2019-20, McClung led
the Hoyas with 15.7 points per game,
along with averaging 2.4 assists and 1.4
steals. But he missed 10 of the last 11
games of the Big East schedule with a
lingering foot injury.
A tumultuous season for Georgetown
led to a 15-17 overall record (5-13 in Big
East play) and a first-round exit from the
Big East Tournament — the day before
it was canceled due to the coronavirus
» see MCCLUNG | B7
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Georgetown guard Mac McClung has
until April 26 to decide whether he wants
to declare for the NBA draft or withdraw
and return to the Hoyas. He averaged
15.7 points per game last season.
Rivera’s prove-it culture
Signing adds competition at cornerback
BY MATTHEW PARAS
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
It’s not just at quarterback that Ron
Rivera wants see competition.
The new Redskins coach’s first class
of free agents in Washington has shown
that’s he’s trying to deliver a message to
the rest of the roster: Get ready to earn
your role.
The team’s latest signing is another
example.
The Redskins agreed to a one-year,
$4 million deal Sunday with former
Philadelphia Eagles cornerback Ronald
Darby, giving them a former starter who
will compete for a spot on the outside.
Darby’s signing fits the competition-
heavy culture that Rivera is trying to
bring to the Redskins. This offseason,
Washington has added a slew of players
that figure to add depth to the roster and
will battle for playing time.
After trading Quinton Dunbar last
week to the Seattle Seahawks, the Red-
skins needed to address the cornerback
position. Darby, 26, figures to compete
for a starting role, but he’ll have to prove
he can stay healthy.
Over the last three seasons with the
Eagles, Darby has missed 20 of 48 pos-
sible regular-season games to injury.
Most notably, Darby tore his ACL in
2018, sitting out seven games. He also
ended last season on injured reserve
with a hip injury.
» see REDSKINS | B7

REDISCOVERY
BY PAT GRAHAM AND MICHAEL CASEY
ASSOCIATED PRESS
shelter-at-home orders are being
issued — the great outdoors Housebound Americans turn hikers are getting annoyed that
their prized spots are getting
30-year-old, it’s a chance to re-
charge and escape the cabin fever

Jim Klug’s office phone rings

off the hook with anxious anglers
inquiring about the status of their
upcoming fly-fishing trips.
It’s a stressful time for the co-
owner of a fishing travel company
as he postpones and re-books
international and domestic ex-
peditions due the coronavirus
pandemic.
The best way for him to slip
away from the stress — even if
for a brief moment — is to follow
a bit of his own advice: Go fish.
Whether it’s reeling in trout,
hiking, snow activities (until the
snow melts, of course) or any
other endeavor, the call from
the wild delivers a much-needed
respite in these turbulent times.
Typically open — although
national parks are increas-
ingly limiting access and more
provides a natural way to social
distance.
“They may close the borders.
The may close the amusements
and the sports stadiums and any
places that lots and lots of people
gather. But they’re not going to
close the great outdoors and
not going to close the rivers and
streams,” said Klug, founder of
Yellow Dog Flyfishing Adven-
tures in Montana. “It’s something
that always brings inner peace
and calmness.”
In New England, where back-
woods skiing and hiking to 4,000
feet are almost a way of life for
hardier residents, the trails are
more crowded than ever. Hikers
report they are seeing plenty of
newcomers who are hitting the
outdoors due to gym closures.
Those remote places? Not so
remote right now. Many seasoned
to ‘great outdoors’ for escape overrun.
Then again, everyone has the
same thought — get a breath of
fresh air.
“It’s to get that sunlight, some
vitamin D. I know it will make me
feel better. I feel rested,”said Ryan
Smith, the 37-year-old owner of a
media company from Peabody,
Massachusetts, on why he is
still taking day hikes with his
wife, Jennifer, along trails on the
North Shore of Massachusetts
and southern New Hampshire.
Emily Davenport, who nor-
mally works as a wilderness
guide for the Appalachian Moun-
tain Club, has been canceling
group hikes she leads until at least
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the end of April. She’s still hitting
The coronavirus has caused people to turn to the outdoors for the trails in the White Mountains
entertainment and exercise at locations like White Sands National Park near her home in Conway, New
at Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico (top), and Organ Mountains- Hampshire, for day hikes, either
Desert Peaks National Monument near Las Cruces, New Mexico. alone or with a friend. For the
that so many people working
from home are feeling.
“It’s a place that I feel safe. It’s
familiar and you do get away,”
Davenport said, adding that
her day hikes of five to eight
miles are critical for her mental
and physical health. “You can
kind of unplug and not look
at the (computer) screen and
look at the all the news that is
anxiety-inducing.”
Skiers and snowboarders,
meanwhile, are finding ways to
hit the slopes with many ski re-
sorts now closed in the wake of
the new coronavirus.
Drew Anderson, a freelance
videographer from Denver, was
at his condo in Silverthorne, Col-
orado, with the intent of spending
a week — maybe longer — getting
» see OUTDOORS | B7

OLYMPICS

Signs pointing toward summer of 2021 for rescheduled Tokyo Olympics

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Tokyo Olympic organizers seem to
be leaning away from starting the re-
scheduled games in the spring of 2021.
More and more the signs point toward
the summer of 2021.
Organizing committee President Yo-
shiro Mori suggested there would be no
major change from 2020.
“The games are meant to be in sum-
mer, so we should be thinking of a time
between June and September,” Japanese
news agency Kyodo reported Mori say-
ing on Saturday.
International Olympic Committee
President Thomas Bach, after the post-
ponement was announced in Switzer-
land on Tuesday, left open the possibility
of spring dates.
The postponed games were to have
opened on July 24 and closed on Aug. 9.
Mori suggested some decisions could
be made as early as this week when the
organizing committee’s executive board
meets.
Any final decision will be made
by local organizers and the IOC, and
hundreds of sponsors, sports federations
and broadcasters.
Athletes have been left in limbo by the
postponement. Many have been forced
to stop training because of the spreading
coronavirus. Even those who can train
have no idea about how to schedule train-
ing to reach peak fitness at the right time.
Mori and organizing committee CEO
Toshiro Muto have both said the added
cost of rescheduling will be “enormous.”
Early estimates put those costs at be-
tween $2 billion-$3 billion with the sev-
eral levels of Japanese governments
likely to foot most of the bills.
Tokyo organizers say they are
» see OLYMPICS | B7

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