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  If Life Gives You Coronavirus, Make Face Shields: Doing Good by Doing Good

  April 2 at 4 a.m.

  By now we are all sort of aware of the story of President Donald Trump and General Motors and the ventilator shortage. I haven’t quite kept up with the inner detail. There was a request for GM to manufacture ventilators and then a voluntary consent and then some kind of...

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  Huge Demand, Long Lines and Low Funds: Texas Food Banks Scramble in Pandemic

  April 1 at 4 a.m.

  As layoffs and cut hours because of the coronavirus hit Texas, food banks are scrambling to meet the needs of people who can no longer afford food.

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  A Happy Grandmother, a Poisoned Pig and What Weird Times Are These

  April 1 at 4 a.m.

  These are such strange times. They should be awful, and they are. We know it hasn’t hit yet, not the way it will. I don’t know about you, but I feel fear. But then I also feel something else — an inkling, but I’m not at all sure inkling of...

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  Dan Patrick, Show Us You Mean It. Give a Coronavirus Sufferer a Bath.

  March 26 at 4 a.m.

  Wait. Wait. Texas does not have to do a total, forever Fauci-style face-plant over Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick. There is a respectable, even noble way out of this for us. True, it’s bad. Last week Patrick earned worldwide opprobrium for himself and terrible attention for Texas with what he said...

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  Expert Says Grocery Shortages Easing Already (Except for You Know What)

  March 24 at 4 a.m.

  According to one expert, the grocery store shortages in produce and frozen food are easing already. Canned goods are coming back, but we may just have to learn to live without toilet paper. OK, he didn’t say the last thing. That’s just me trying to sell newspapers. But he did...

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  There Are Laws About Quarantine, but This Time Won’t Be Like Ebola

  March 23 at 4 a.m.

  Norman Siegel, a prominent New York civil rights lawyer who won a well-publicized victory on Ebola quarantines three years ago, has a new message. This is different. I talked to him last week because his quarantine victory in 2017 had an indirect connection with the 2014 Dallas Ebola scare, which...