crunching the stats on the last 6 days of WA COVID-19 figures, the peak occurred in late March, the hospitalization trend line shows the best news, the economic news so far is the exact opposite, start with historical unemployment claims, 10X more unemployment claims than normal in WA right now, listener e-mail intends to protest in Olympia this coming Sunday to oppose 'stay home' and 'non-essential job' restrictions, Tacoma's mayor now urging Gov. Inslee to re-open residential construction as an 'essential' job,

a UW medical researcher evaluates the risk of lifting restrictions on some jobs and personal recreation as daily infection stats trend in a good/improving direction, KVI's Lars Larson has litmus test for WA to allow residential construction jobs to re-open as 'essential'.

Trump unveils 3-phase for states to lift virus restrictions and re-open economy,

some Carlsonian advice for the three west coast governors (WA to CA), coffee shortage could be looming due to virus infection fears and restrictions, WA car owners are asking for car tab tax grace period due to lost jobs amid Gov. Inslee 'stay home' restrictions, Gov. Inslee's response to a question about delaying payments on car tab taxes during the COVID virus restrictions is about par for his course, Speaker Pelosi calls lack of payroll/SBA money (known as PPP) a "stunt", GUEST: economist Steve Moore joins the show, why government needs to be cut by 30% in conjunction with the virus restrictions impact on the private sector.

GUEST: Sharyl Attkisson exposes a fake fact-check allowed by Facebook regarding a Chinese lab and COVID-19 virus, she adds that Facebook officials have failed to address this bogus fact-check, Joe Biden's been infected (not with COVID-19 but infected with Bernie Fever)!, mass transit activist wants light rail combined with any West Seattle Bridge fix.

GUEST: US Rep. Denny Heck (D-WA10) pitches his case for Lt. Gov. in 2020, then there's a disagreement about the federal gov't funding payroll protection (PPP) for small businesses hurt by the COVID-19 restrictions, a KVI caller who owns small businesses is very upset about the lack of help for businesses caught up in the economic paralysis we're in right now.

America's empathy gap, unemployment stats released today show it, if you work for gov't you don't perceive how bad the economic/job situation is, consider the division by income level, the itch to exercise more during the 'stay home' orders, new 'stay home' habits allow for starting new exercise habits.

Trump vs. WHO, WHO has gone off track, new report says COVID-19 originated in a Wuhan, China lab not a 'wet' market and China restricted travel within their country but allowed people to travel to other countries, the lab work wasn't started to weaponize a virus, people in six states protest 'stay home' restrictions, urging gov't to re-open schools/economy, another 5.2 million Americans file for unemployment bring 1 month tally to over 20 million.

KVI's Lars Larson trades twitter shots with a Congressional candidate,

West Seattle Bridge shutdown now extended at least 20 months and maybe longer, the bridge is only 35 years old, will anyone in Seattle government be held accountable for this emerging crisis?

GUEST: decorated US Navy SEAL and war veteran turned TX Congressman, Dan Crenshaw, joins KVI to talk about his new book along with the controversy involving China's transparency over virus pandemic that should be something to galvanize our US political division but its not.

KVI's Lars Larson talks about the UW research efforts on anti-body testing to over-come COVID-19, the emerging pushback in other states against 'stay home' orders and economic shutdowns to prevent spread, the top 10 jobs where COVID risk is highest, Tattle-tale nation in the '360',

several Kitsap County business are defying the Inslee order to shutdown non-essential businesses, Utah so far only has 20 COVID fatalities so how are they managing to prevent deaths compared to other similar sized states?, GUEST: Utah Dept. of Health spokesman Tom Hudachko joins the show to explain, Utah's population is relatively young, Utah has a stay home order right now but hasn't restricted as many jobs or recreational activities as WA but their death totals are about 3% of WA current fatalities, Utah seems to show that certain jobs/activities can be re-opened and still prevent COVID problems.

WA numbers continue to shrink for COVID cases, so far Pierce Co. has 1/2 the cases that Snohomish Co. has but their populations are almost identical, new report says COVID-19 origin is at a Wuhan China lab, when China realized it was spread human to human they restricted domestic but not international travel which then infected the globe, how the WHO errantly (or perhaps wantonly) said COVID wasn't spread human to human, compare China's response that made COVID worse to Soviet Russia's response that made the Chernobyl nuclear disaster worse.

GUEST: Dr. Ali Mokdad, one of University of Washington IHME’s senior faculty and a former top official at the CDC joins the show to talk about flattening the curve, how the UW's modeling routinely over-estimated COVID, realizing many (Southern) states are embracing distancing even if not state mandated and its bringing less mortality, how strict the social distancing should be for some outdoor activities/recreation, prudent to get used to wearing a mask just to reduce chances of spread, how IHME is involved in the blueprint of how to re-open businesses/schools/jobs/transit, what's the answer to the disparities in cases (per capita for example) between WA/OR/CA?

Inslee officially signs order beginning release of 950 "non-violent" prisoners and one of the non-violent crimes is exactly what got Harvey Weinstein 3 years in prison.

Democrats inadvertently defending state's rights in their anti-Trump zealotry, Democrats usually demand monolithic federal government control of programs and policies, getting liberals to pay attention to the US Constitution is a good thing, the blatant media double standard over a vague allegation against nominated US Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh and the vague allegation against presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, the NYT publisher's explanation of not reporting on the Biden case is pathetic, look at the reaction to this Biden accusation by actress Alyssa Milano.

Some of the non-violent offenses on Gov. Inslee's list of crimes he's going to allow for early release don't sound non-violent, stealing a gun counts as a non-violent crime according to WA Gov. Jay Inslee, important update to WA's two latest daily death toll numbers connected to COVID-19, the problem of accurate medical reporting by state officials persists, new announcement says no American was ever denied a ventilator who needed one during pandemic response, Trump Vs. WHO, 73 yrs ago today Jack Roosevelt Robinson integrated Major League Baseball. GUEST: Lewis Co. Prosecutor, Jonathan Meyer, disagrees with Gov. Inslee's decision to release 950 prisoners early in the name of COVID spread prevention, Meyer says some sex crimes against minors in WA are listed as 'non-violent', KVI's Lars Larson notes that OR's governor just abandoned a prisoner early release program because of public outcry.

Bernie Sanders's gift to the Republicans as he endorses Joe Biden, lowering the eligibility age for Medicare (to put even greater financial strain on the federal treasury), we're approximately 6 years away from Medicare insolvency, how Pres. Reagan addressed the looming timeline of entitlement insolvency, CNN's Chris Cuomo confesses he's not happy with what he does on his cable talk show. PS- Cuomo's now walking back his comments.

The declining strength of COVID reflected in only 8 deaths in WA yesterday, lowest daily death toll since March 21st, Gov. Jay Inslee says he's working with CA and OR governors to re-open the economy, Trump over-states his authority regarding states rights on lifting pandemic restrictions, Democrats are seizing on this moment, Inslee's coordination with CA and OR but not with Idaho, this on-line poll has only grown in its opposition to Gov. Inslee's decision to grant early release to 950 prison inmates, quick music history over a 1970s hit song that The Beach Boys rejected, a KVI caller dislikes the authority Gov. Inslee has to make decisions in the name of a public health pandemic, the on-going battle between Pres. Trump and several Democratic governors, KVI's Lars Larson has a theory about why Pres. Trump claimed he had ultimate authority to re-open the economy during the pandemic.

Former FDA director compares what COVID-19 pandemic lethality would have been like in 1918 era of medical knowledge/resources, we had so many 'tweets from twits' today we carried some over to the podcast, why you can't blame Trump for the downfall of the USPS,, have their been any mass shootings during the last 6 weeks of COVID restrictions and shutdowns in the US? Producer Phil says it's tough to have a school shooting when all the schools are shutdown as students do distance learning,

a former Obama Cabinet officials discovers that there's way too much government red tape and that's a problem as government has to adjust swiftly in the age of COVID-19 restrictions, bureaucratic dilemmas of COVID-19 restrictions, Bret Stephens discovers how tiny the amount of unemployment claims are by government employed workers.

a hopeful start to the week regarding COVID-19 news and stats, there's good news because its not as bad as projected, why 17 new deaths across WA yesterday is an encouraging sign, how the Carlson family had a socially distanced Easter dinner, LA residents now fined $1000 for not having mandatory masks if they go out in public, a Seattle resident gets kicked out of a park but is told by the city official that the homeless camper in the same location is allowed to stay, the double-standard of taxpayers and homeless people continues in Seattle.

Dr. Anthony Fauci sees some possibilities for re-opening the US economy next month, Carlson takes umbrage with KOMO report characterizing COVID cases as "surging", provides some data to back-up his point about local cases actually slowing, Louisville KY mayor on social distancing church service.

GUEST: R-90 referendum organizer, Mindie Wirth, joins the show to talk about the effort to force a statewide vote on the Legislature's newly enacted Comprehensive Sex Ed Curriculum law, go to ParentsForSafeSchools.com R-90 referendum forms, why the curriculum is too graphic for Kindergarten age.

US Navy reports a first sailor's death on the quarantined air craft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt, celebrity birthdays on this date include an iconic soul singer and a popular board game inventor, PC liberals are complaining about the US Surgeon General for the most ridiculous reason, NY's massive COVID infections more often than not connected to cases of obesity.

the WA daily death count connected to COVID-19 is the lowest in two weeks, why its still too soon to investigate the health/medical experts who were making such dire predictions about 480,000 or 200,000 US deaths from COVID-19, a KY judge over-rules a city mayor who tried to shutdown a church conducting drive-in services where parishioners hear the pastor via low power FM radio signal,

the WA Democratic Party chair applauds elimination of showing picture ID to vote, Bill Maher pummels the politically correct who cry racism for calling COVID-19 Wuhan or China flu, Seattle Parks official who kicks father and his daughter at Greenlake BMX track says city can't kick out homeless person camping in same area the kid is barred from using, Seattle chooses not to enforce law against serial law breakers, Tom Hanks hosts a new SNL (from home) after recovering from COVID-19.

Examining the DC debate about the US ending or drastically scaling back financial support of the World Health Organization (WHO), the WHO actually existed before the other main world body The United Nations, how the WHO has deferred so heavily to China, how geo-politics transformed the attitude within the WHO, why the WHO director general criticized Trump's early response to the COVID-19 contagion, disinformation between China and WHO, the WHO's director general has a prior blemish on his resume about covering up a cholera outbreak.