“I don’t take responsibility at all” is such a huge in-kind donation to the Joe Biden campaign that I wonder if Trump broke campaign finance laws in making it. Tweet by Ezra Klein

Everything is changing so fast, almost everything I write, I disagree with a day later. Two days ago, I wrote: We are lucky this is happening with a Republican president. If Obama were president, or God forbid, Hillary, a Republican Senate would never be talking these kinds of regular people-centered solutions and numbers. But it turns out that the Republican Senators weren’t really talking about a people-centered solution, the Senate was just teasing. As soon as word got out that Congress was talking about spending money to mitigate the crisis, corporate lobbyists started elbowing their way up to the head of the line. Airlines, especially, are in trouble and are looking for some sort of handout. Under the Trump tax cut, they used that handout to buy back their stock which has now hurt their liquidity.

Every day, when I get up and look at the news, it feels worse. Yesterday’s counter on the right front page of the LA Times said 1,802 confirmed COVID-19 cases with 35 deaths and 33,276 confirmed cases in the US with 417 deaths and today it reads 2,065 and 40. The governor is no longer talking about people sheltering in place to not catch the virus but sheltering in place to spread out the contagion period so hospitals are not as overwhelmed. The president is now talking about ending sheltering in place because it is bad for business saying “We’re going to be opening our country up for business, because our country was meant to be open.”

And every day, even though it is cold and crummy outside, more flowers bloom.