Morning Links | 23 Apr 20

Good Morning! Riding the downside of week six of the Bat Gumbo Apocalypse, there’s plenty to keep us busy while we wait for the padlocks to rust. CoVID-19 appears to have landed stateside a few weeks earlier than assumed; police departments across the nation are refusing to enforce draconian lockdown measures imposed by their governors; NYC Mayor de Blasio is shocked—shocked, I tell you!—that criminals released because of Covid-19 are committing crimes; the contours of the worst conspiracy in American history continue to fill in; and you know you’re a wealthy society when your most pressing issue is banning plastic straws.