statewide unemployment now is far more significant than that of the 2008-09 sub-prime mortgage crisis, nationally almost 17 million already filed (with more expected) for unemployment, guess which job sectors are most hardly and least hardly hit by COVID 'stay home' restrictions, Pres. Trump thanks Vietnam for sending PPE which prompts a Carlson reality check about how significantly relations have changed between the US and Vietnam, the famous illustrator and artist from Mad Magazine has died at the age of 91, Gov. Jay Inslee might grant early release to non-violent prisoners as a way to reduce COVID-19 spread in state prisons, Inslee's decision seems to be spurred by a lawsuit from activist attorneys, in a KVI exclusive a Monroe prison guard shares his perspective about the Wednesday night protest by inmates that escalated, Lars...compare WA COVID outbreak to Idaho's right now.

a Colorado police department has apologized for arresting a dad playing t-ball at a park with his daughter during 'stay home' order, a prolific car prowler from Aberdeen WA is ordered to jail for 2+ years for crimes committed at two national parks in WA, the Ellen Degeneres 'jail' joke backlash is another example of the angry left looking for something to protest, GUEST: economist Steve Moore, says the current 17 million unemployed could double if the economy is re-opened very soon, uses the OR and WA divide on restricting some construction jobs during the 'stay home' orders, GUEST: host of Full Measure, Sharyl Attkisson explains the social media spat initiated against her by a CNN contributor earlier this week.

revisiting the Wednesday night fracas involving inmates at the Monroe (WA) state prison over fellow inmates testing positive for COVID-19, a quintessential tweet from a twit...

new poll says Americans are far more worried about their financial health than the bodily health when it comes to COVID-19, NY and other major city streets on Good Friday, the crucifixion reading, story of a company that's growing right now during the COVID-19 restrictions, assessing Dr. Anthony Fauci's suggestion that Americans stop shaking hands to prevent future viral contagion spread.

KVI's morning host (John Carlson) and afternoon drive host (Kirby Wilbur) rejoin forces to talk about the most pressing issues in the news: why its time to re-open parts of the local/national economy, secondary effects of the economic paralysis, balancing public health with the economy, narrow perspective of public health officials, how the news media distorts public perception of the public health and economy duality, three suggestions on re-opening parts of the economy staring this coming Monday, how COVID-19 will solely define the presidential and WA gubernatorial election campaigns all through November.

Passover and Easter changes this week, three reasons to feel good about current direction regarding COVID-19, Gov. Inslee approves shutdown of US Army field hospital at Century Link exhibition center, Monroe (WA) prison guards deploy pepper spray to stop inmates protesting after inmates tested positive for COVID-19, Pres. Trump is asked about the zeitgeist of Netflix documentary "Tiger King" and the exchange is smashingly good,

Dr. Anthony Fauci's comments on Jan 21, 2020 belie the anti-Trump comments about how Trump has handled the pandemic, the young Republican US Senator who has been tenacious in confronting China's transparency problems on COVID-19.

GUEST: Dr. Joel Hay Professor of Health Economics and Policy at USC (in LA), what went wrong with COVID-19 spread in NY, Why COVID-19 continues to have virtually no impact on children, what the COVID-19 pandemic means for future research money allocation in the US, MLB considering some weird changes to re-start ball games and comply with 6 foot social distancing.

GUEST: CEO of airplane maintenance company in Everett, ATS, Matt Yerbick, reports that COVID federal aid money might get diverted to foreign workers rather than American workers, GUEST: Joshua Freed (running for Gov.) responds to Inslee/OSPI decision to shut down schools for remainder of the school year, how he would have made such a decision to cancel school.

GUEST: Chris Corry State Representative (Yakima south to Columbia River) is urging Gov. Inslee to relax shutdown restrictions on construction jobs amid COVID-19 'stay home' order, why this jobs sector can be re-opened with proper precautions, former Clinton Labor Secretary disagrees with re-opening the quarantined US economy,

Carlson reads gospel of Matthew biblical passage about Maundy Thursday before Jesus's crucifixtion, Bernie Sanders suspends political campaign, what this means for Democrats and Joe Biden trying to unseat Pres. Trump, former Congressman Jason Chaffetz: Bernie's never been a Democrat.

Pres. Trump designates a white supremacist group with ties to Russia a domestic terrorist organization, its the first time any US President has made such a terrorist organization designation, the designation proves two flaws in the anti-Trump arguments of political partisans, notice that the mass media coverage of this story is non-existent, the legal professor and blogger Instapundit urges a crack down on China for lack of transparency on COVID-19.

examining the new COVID-19 statistics from NY, NJ and WA, vaunted musician John Prine dies at age 73, one of the first people to discover the underlying problems with the 2008 sub-prime mortgage collapse (featured in the book and movie "The Big Short") is speaking out against the COVID-19 shutdown of the US economy, special needs students who are now struggling with out structured routine of school class days, something about the special needs students who are now struggling without structured routine of school class days, to wear or not wear face masks, some of the original mixed messages about face masks from our various local/national health officials, the 180 turn to urging use of face masks/bandanas.

Breaking news about British Prime Minister's COVID-19 treatment, two big NW grocery stores institute restrictions on how many shoppers can be in the store at any one time, more bad news for reusable grocery shopping bags compared to plastic grocery bags, Washington AG Bob Ferguson is caught up in a hypocritical advisory his office made about scams related to COVID-19 shutdowns.

Gov. Inslee shuts down all schools (public and private) for rest of school year, UW research revises downward expected COVID-19 deaths in our state, CDC director adds to the optimism, what Gov. Inslee and the OSPI have to say about justifying school closure, hypothetical argument of re-opening schools in May, OSPI Chris Reykdal says there's no guarantee school will restart in September.

Trump and a Democratic state lawmaker from Detroit MI are applauding each other right now, sorting out the partisan politics related to Hydroxychloroquine as a possible COVID-19 treatment option, a KVI caller says Japan's school closure has already ended (so why is WA closure expanding?), KVI's Lars Larson opens up the discussion about the mixed messages from WA politicians and the current trends on COVID-19 cases.

White House reporter asks astonishingly dumb question about closing grocery stores,

WA Gov. Jay Inslee takes another swipe at Trump during Meet The Press interview, why Inslee's temper tantrum on MTP is off-base, Queen Elizabeth delivers heartfelt optimistic national address in the face of COVID-19 shutdowns and restrictions.

Growing optimism about US fight against COVID-19, Bill Gates sees positive signs in COVID trajectory, WA Gov. Jay Inslee returns 400 ventilators to the national stockpile, Inslee paradoxical Meet The Press interview after agreeing to send 400 ventilators back to US national stockpile, China reports almost 70 new COVID-19 infections in the last two days, Carlson did a different type of bike riding this weekend, America is consumed with the Netflix documentary "Tiger King".

US Navy aircraft carrier captain fired for going outside the chain of command on COVID-19 concerns, two predictions about next year's flu season from what we've learned from combating COVID-19, over 1-million Americans have been tested for COVID-19 so far, we might be looking at the beginning of the down slope on COVID-19 cases in another week,

retiring Olympia Congressman now says he's running for Lt. Governor, only one moderate Democrat is now lined up to run for the state #2 elected post, why the Lt. Governor position has become such a hot spot for candidates to declare, why King Co. Exec. Dow Constantine (allegedly) decided not to run for Lt. Governor.

four reasons to be positive today about COVID-19 trends/trajectory, GUEST: WPC's Jason Mercier explains the surprising State Supreme Court rejection of Seattle's graduated income tax case, the decision means the latest attempt at instituting an income tax on high income earners has failed, French man who wanted cigarettes wins the award for worst reason to leave home during COVID-19 shutdown, Seattle City Councilwoman refuses to acknowledge Amazon for two big charity contributions in the last week, GUEST: St. Sen. Jaime Pedersen, talks about the legal demise of an attempted state income tax law, how state income tax backers try to use the estate tax as legal rationale for an income tax, how the economic shutdown over COVID-19 may impact WA sales tax collection, a US Navy aircraft carrier captain (Brett Crozier) fired for COVID 19 letter about sailors on board.

A tribute to life long UW Husky student, athlete and football head coach Jim Lambright. One US Senator is arguably the first person in politics to ring the alarm about the concerns of COVID-19.