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Welcome to the commentary magazine Daily podcast. Today is Wednesday, April 22nd, 2020.

I'm John Pajor. It's the editor of commentary with me as always senior editor Abe Greenwald. Hello Abe.

Hi John.

Senior writer Christine Rosen. Hi Christine back after after the partial installation of her.

A heater and a hot water heater. Yes.

Yes, hello. I have hot water again. So I am a very happy person right now.

Congratulations and so say there are no Rothman high Noah.

Hi John.

So I had this idea in my head this morning waking up that I felt a little like a beaver in a trap and I would gladly like na off my limb to get out of the trap, but there is no trap.

Dark thought but nonetheless a sort of interesting phenomenon that you know if you have if you if you sort of entertain fantasies of like escape you know I can't take this anymore I got there's nowhere to go.

I mean that's the interesting aspect of this like there's nowhere to go. It's a global problem.

And so there's really not much you could do except live through it and which leg would you sacrifice.

That's a good question. I would I guess in theory I would sacrifice my my right arm.

You've done a lot of thinking about that. No, no, no, I'm like right arm.

I mean you didn't reject the premise you immediately launched into thinking about which extension you could amputate and you know still navigate your environment.

I'm yes, and it's an improv I'm trying not to say no, no, no, I wouldn't you know I'm trying I'm trying to go along with it I'm trying to.

You need your opposable thumbs so like let the leg go at the leg go really use the principle to this podcast.

Well that is well UCB is closing so the upright citizens for gay the central comedy training ground in New York City announced yesterday that it was basically closing its doors forever due to the virus.

Which is nice. So interesting bits of data overnight.

The New York Times reports that Santa Clara County.

I think it's not a carcassi indicates that they they now believe that the first death from the virus came in their county on February 6th, which would be three weeks earlier than the supposedly first recorded death and that the two people who got it around this time in Santa Clara County.

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