A normal, boring country.

The White House orders General Motors to manufacture ventilators to help handle the surge of coronavirus patients. 1/22

The $2 trillion relief package passed by Congress is meant to flush the economy with cash, but much of the money will take weeks to arrive. 2/22

The governor of Alabama won’t issue a stay-at-home order because “we are not California.” By population, it’s actually in more trouble. 3/22

In light of the coronavirus, Google presses pause on its tradition of April Fool's jokes. 4/22

Right now, science needs to underpromise and overdeliver. 5/22

The SETI project halts (searching for extraterrestrial intelligence) in order to process the data they’ve got. 6/22

Texas chain H-E-B had been preparing for pandemics since 2005, but it didn’t anticipate the run on toilet paper. 7/22

Iran is in dire need of medical supplies. US sanctions are making it hard for aid to get into the country. 8/22

"My biggest concern is handling money." A drug dealer says people are panic-buying cocaine. 9/22

A movie theater owner is selling curbside popcorn to pay his employees. 10/22

The seeming overnight success of Zoom actually took place over nine years. 11/22

See also: When your friends get married via video-conference. 12/22

Fashion designers are eager to make masks and gowns for healthcare workers, but can't find proper guidance or materials. 13/22

Twenty-eight years ago, Sinead O'Connor tore up a picture of the pope on TV. The time since has been "incredibly isolating." 14/22

A month after filing for divorce, novelist and single mom Leslie Jamison contracts COVID-19. 15/22

In one of the first documentary films made during America’s lockdown, a nervous filmmaker gets advice from C-list celebrities. 16/22

Pre-pandemic, Christoph Niemann visits Estonia, illustrating “a normal, boring country.” 17/22

A profile of the group making “beautiful quarantine songs on a Barcelona rooftop.” 18/22

See also: What famous musicians sound like at band practice. 19/22

Sports commentators are out of work too, so one of them pivots to doing play-by-play of folks on the street. 20/22

A giant round-up of recent coronavirus jokes on Twitter and TikTok. 21/22

Speaking of play-by-play: Join the Tournament of Books crew for another Rooster After Hours! This Sunday, March 29, at 4 p.m. ET. We'll see you here: https://zoom.us/j/418312670 22/22

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