Morning Jolt: Quarantine for Thee, but Not for Me

On the menu today: Certain elites have simply opted out of quarantine rules; wondering how much our news environment should be able to shift to non-virus news; the CDC says you're less likely to catch the coronavirus from touching objects.

One Pandemic and Quarantine for the Elites, Another for Everyone Else

Our fight against the coronavirus is slowly and steadily improving, but . . . we're still a long ways away from out of the woods. From the numbers on Worldometers, 1,552 Americans succumbed to the disease Tuesday and another 1,403 Americans on Wednesday. We're trending down significantly from the roughly 2,500 per day at the beginning of the month, but . . . that's still about a half a 9/11 per day. We're diagnosing about 20,000 to 30,000 new cases a day; we were above 30,000 new cases per day for most of April.

The economic aftershocks have been calamitous. There's never been a higher demand at food banks. Our kids are still ...

WITH JIM GERAGHTY May 21 2020 WITH JIM GERAGHTY May 21 2020 Quarantine for Thee, but Not for Me On the menu today: Certain elites have simply opted out of quarantine rules; wondering how much our news environment should be able to shift to non-virus news; the CDC says you're less likely to catch the coronavirus from touching objects. One Pandemic and Quarantine for the Elites, Another for Everyone Else Our fight against the coronavirus is slowly and steadily improving, but . . . we're still a long ways away from out of the woods. From the numbers on Worldometers, 1,552 Americans succumbed to the disease Tuesday and another 1,403 Americans on Wednesday. We're trending down significantly from the roughly 2,500 per day at the beginning of the month, but . . . that's still about a half a 9/11 per day. We're diagnosing about 20,000 to 30,000 new cases a day; we were above 30,000 new cases per day for most of April. The economic aftershocks have been calamitous. There's never been a higher demand at food banks. Our kids are still ...   READ MORE

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