Airborne: With the coronavirus infecting more people in bars, restaurants, offices, markets and other indoors spaces, many scientists have come to the conclusion that the coronavirus floats and lingers in indoor air. 

  A collection of 239 scientists is now in a debate with the World Health Organization, which is clinging to the conclusion that the virus is transmitted in exhaled air, coughs, and sneezes before quickly dropping to the floor. The scientists say the WHO needs to wake up and smell the coronavirus.

  While the number of diagnosed cases in the US is rising dramatically, the number of deaths has gone the opposite direction. In April and May, deaths were as many as  3,000 a day, killing roughly 7 to 8 percent of Americans known to have been infected. A reported 271 people died in the last 24 hours.

  Death trail weeks behind diagnosis, so the recent spike in cases could still lead to increased deaths. 

Patriot Games: Speaking at the White House Saturday night at his “Salute to America” event, Trump said, “In every age, there have always been those who seek to lie about the past in order to gain power in the present.” More prescient and less introspective words were never spoken by a president. 

  As an example, in this same speech Trump said, “tens of billions of dollars are now paid to the United States Treasury” by countries on which he has levied heavy tariffs for their goods by these same countries. No, the tariffs are not paid by China and other countries, they are paid by the American people and companies that buy goods from those countries.

  In a national moment of turmoil over race and police killings, Trump claimed protesters are out to destroy the country rather than improve it. He said, “We will never allow an angry mob to tear down our statues, erase our history, indoctrinate our children, or trample on our freedoms. We will safeguard our values, traditions, customs, and beliefs.”

  Statues depicting figures from Christopher Columbus to George Washington and Stonewall Jackson have been destroyed, defaced, and removed in recent weeks, each with a certain amount of heroism and oppression attached to their history. Remember, George Washington owned slaves.

  Rather than join the national reconsideration of who represents what, and who deserves lasting admiration, Trump said, “Those that are lying about our history, those who want us to be ashamed of who we are, are not interested in justice or in healing. Their goal is demolition.”

The Bulletin Board: Mississippi’s former state flag featuring the Confederate stars and stripes has been sent to exile in the state museum. — Retail analysts say trends in online shopping might lead to the closure of as much as 25 percent of America’s shopping malls within the next five years. — Twice in 24 hours over the weekend, Portland, Oregon police declared that demonstrations had turned into a riot. In Seattle, one demonstrator was killed and another badly injured when a car barreled into protesters on a closed freeway. — In the era and aftermath of George Floyd, some colleges have revoked admissions for incoming freshmen who made racist postings on social media. — A large version of the slogan “Black Lives Matter” painted in yellow on the street in front of a local courthouse in Martinez, California, was painted over in black an hour later by a white man and woman. The man wore a red shirt that read “Trump” and “Four More Years,” could be heard saying: “The narrative of police brutality, the narrative of oppression, the narrative of racism. It’s a lie. It’s a lie.”

Monuments Men: Writer Lucian Truscott IV, a direct descendant of Thomas Jefferson, writes in The NY Times that the Washington monument to Jefferson should be taken down and replaced with one for Harriet Tubman.

  Truscott writes, “The memorial is a shrine to a man who during his lifetime owned more than 600 slaves and had at least six children with one of them, Sally Hemings. It’s a shrine to a man who famously wrote that ‘all men are created equal’ in the Declaration of Independence that founded this nation — and yet never did much to make those words come true.”

The Obit Page: Nick Cordero, the Broadway actor who appeared in the popular musicals “Waitress” and “A Bronx Tale,” has died at age 41 after one of the longest fights with the coronavirus. His wife, Amanda Kloots, had kept an upbeat public and online vigil for him during three months in the hospital. 

  Cordero had spent time in a medically-induced coma and had to have a leg amputated.

  He was nominated for a Tony Award for his featured role as Cheech in the 2014 musical “Bullets Over Broadway.” He was in the cast of “Waitress” in 2016, and left to take the role of Sonny in “A Bronx Tale The Musical.” 

  “The terrific Mr. Cordero radiates a cool charisma that mixes a surface geniality with shrugging ruthlessness,” the critic Charles Isherwood wrote of “A Bronx Tale” in The NY Times.

The Bickersons of Washington: George Conway, the dissident husband of Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway tweeted seemingly out of the blue that he and his wife wanted reporters to stop trying to contact their children.

  Evidently the press wanted to talk to the Conways’ 15-year-old Claudia, who had started posting her liberal political opinions on the Tik Tok video site. “i love trump 😌🧚♀️💖,” Claudia captioned a recent TikTok, “but replace ‘love’ with ‘think that we should extinguish.’”

  Then there was this: “my parents, particularly my mother, are trying to silence me by getting me to delete my social media. haha”

  She tweeted, “You’re just mad that I’m finally getting my voice heard. sorry your marriage failed.” 

  Nobody deserves a rebellious teenager more than Kellyanne Conway.