Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, coronavirus chaos has officially overtaken the US!
Current Events
After initially claiming that the COVID-19 virus was nothing more than a hoax concocted by Democrats and the “Fake News Media” in order to ruin him politically, Donald Trump has been forced to eat those words and confront reality. The virus is no hoax. In fact, it is very real, very deadly, and is crippling society.
On Wednesday, the World Health Organization (W.H.O.) officially declared the coronavirus a pandemic.
“WHO has been assessing this outbreak around the clock and we are deeply concerned both by the alarming levels of spread and severity and by the alarming levels of inaction,” WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom said. “We cannot say this loudly enough, or clearly enough, or often enough: All countries can still change the course of this pandemic.”
His assessment was the beginning of a downward spiral and one of the worst 24-hour periods in modern memory.
The Dow dropped 1,400 points. Harvard, Columbia, NYU, Stamford, and other universities across the country closed their campuses for the school year. In fact, Harvard gave their students until Sunday to vacate dormitories. Actor Tom Hanks and his wife, Rita Wilson, announced they have each tested positive for the coronavirus while currently in Australia. The NBA announced that Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert has tested positive and that they are suspending the remainder of the 2019-2020 basketball season until further notice.
And this was just Wednesday.
Here are the other most recent casualties of COVID-19:
- The NCAA announced it will play March Madness in empty arenas.
- The San Francisco Health Office announced it is prohibiting all events where 1,000 or more people assemble.
- The Seattle Public School System closed.
- Wheel of Fortune, Jeopardy, The View, and other TV shows have begun taping without a studio audience.
- The South By Southwest (SXSW) and Coachella events were canceled.
- NYC and Boston canceled this year’s St. Patrick’s Day parades.
- NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo declared that the NYC suburb of New Rochelle has “the largest cluster” of the virus “in the country” and ordered a lockdown.
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The Fake News Media and their partner, the Democrat Party, is doing everything within its semi-considerable power (it used to be greater!) to inflame the CoronaVirus situation, far beyond what the facts would warrant. Surgeon General, “The risk is low to the average American.”
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 9, 2020
So much FAKE NEWS!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 9, 2020
In 2018, Donald Trump fired the White House Global pandemic team because it was created by former President Barack Obama. Just last weekend as the US was unexpectedly about to be hit hard by the coronavirus threat, Donald Trump went golfing in order to (in his words) alleviate the anxieties of Americans. Yes, Donald Trump feared the virus would threaten his presidency, so he downplayed it. HUGE MISTAKE. Now, his lack of leadership combined with him being responsible for instigating much of the coronavirus chaos, his inaction and the very real threat to the economy could be what brings the entire Trump presidency down.
On Wednesday, The Atlantic published an article entitled “Cancel Everything!” With complete segments of society shutting down day by day, it appears that is exactly what is happening.
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Yes, Donald Trump feared the virus would threaten his presidency, so he downplayed it. HUGE MISTAKE. Now, his lack of leadership combined with him being responsible for instigating much of the coronavirus chaos, his inaction and the very real threat to the economy could be what brings the entire Trump presidency down […]- DJ
Morning DJ. I’ll get to Trump’s speech (last night) in a minute but first let me start with this:
Judging by the comments expressed by Some readers on a few of the “somewhat reputable” right-wing sites, it appears the scales really are beginning to fall from the eyes of Some Repub base voters.
Simply put. Some of those voters have seen and heard Enough of the “horror of a human-being” in the White house and his sh*tshow of a presidency. They want him gone. Now.