Bad week for:

Office romances, after the New York Post reported that a state trooper guarding Gov. Andrew Cuomo began dating his daughter, Cara, 25, and was then transferred to an outpost more than 150 miles away, near the Canadian border.

Magical thinking, with reports that two con men in Uttar Pradesh, India, tricked a doctor into paying $94,000 for an Aladdin-style “magic lamp” containing a wish-granting genie. The genie, said police, was “one of the men in disguise.”

American exceptionalism, after the United States became the first nation on Earth to report more than 100,000 new cases of Covid-19 in a single day. The U.S. single-day total of 100,233 smashes India’s previous record of 97,894.