DramatistDreamer

Since I'm not watching the actual press conference, I ended up scanning the trending topics and came across this tweet and was not surprised at Trump's rude response to being asked a perfectly legitimate question. Of course, being that the interlocutor is a black woman and Trump a white supremacist, I could imagine the venom in which Trump replied. Still, this is just not normal behavior from someone who is supposedly a leader.

Definitely a wise move on her part. If (God forbid) things get worse, the show won't be on air much longer anyway. Even with no audience, you've still got production crew, including hair and makeup people, so the risks are still there. It's all a big gamble these days.

Joy Behar is taking time off from the show due to concerns over COVID-19, citing her being in a vulnerable age group and out of an abundance of caution. Lord, if they replace her with Elisabeth Hasselbeck, it's gonna be over.

That Gillum story is crazy! With all the mess going on right now, I don't even have space to digest any of it. Mad mad mad times we're living in.

Bolsonaro is an racist, sexist, homophobic, privateering right-wing nutter who has plundered indigenous land rights and sown seeds of discord for personal benefit. I think he may also have some corruption allegations (as so many Brazilian politicians do) against him. A truly venomous individual in the mold of Trump.

No, they've canceled. Look upthread. Trump is back to his fallback of trying to blame Obama for the lack of available testing, even though it was Trump who eliminated an entire department from the CDC, most pointedly, he eliminated the department that dealt with pandemics. Yesterday I heard that 85% of the financial gains made during the Trump administration have already been frittered away. This morning, I'm reading a news article that confirms as much. That's not on account of Obama, that is because the markets have absolutely no trust or faith in Trump or his hapless administration.

Earlier this week I was posting about this in another thread!

Not sure whether this has been posted (I checked as far back as Sunday morning posts) but ICYMI while focusing on the coronavirus and national news:

I know that an usher on B'way has tested positive for COVID-19.

These big tournaments have a board like any large organization so even James and Tommy Haas have to answer to others, they can't just make final decisions by fiat, so I doubt it was just up to James any more than it was up to Tommy. At least Miami didn't wait until the players were onsight and ready to play the next day before canceling, so there's that.

Welp, the rumors were true.

I have to go on ahead and admit that I don't much care about tennis these days but this was presents quite an image.

Technically, Trump's an old white dude, no? I think that type of safety is an illusion. Especially when people are comparing Trump's clusterf*ck handling of the coronavirus outbreak compared to how Obama handled H1N1 and Ebola.

OMG.

I really think smaller, vulnerable countries like the islands that are a popular destination should put a travel ban on the US and Europe and I'm not even kidding.

Sorry but this is so typically American. Brexitland is equally arrogant.

Meanwhile in the U.S.-

Just as I suspected. https://www.lequipe.fr/Tennis/Actualites/Coronavirus-le-circuit-atp-en-pause-pour-six-semaines/1118818

Maybe most African countries know a bit more about the ravages of infectious disease and act more expeditiously to try to head off its spread?

We'll be the last ones to know but considering the fact that the W.H.O. just designated COVID-19 a pandemic, I'm not counting on Miami to happen, not without a serious reversal in the rate of infections. In fact, I'm hearing rumors of the Tours being shut down completely for several weeks.

The U.S. is in serious trouble with a "leader" like Trump at the helm. The best hope now, seems to be for states to take COVID-19 more serious than the plant in the WH has. The testing in the U.S. has been abysmal. South Korea had their first discovery at roughly the same time and is currently testing about 10,000 per day. The U.S. has only tested less than half that amount since the day the first person was diagnosed! People laugh at Whoopi and The View but it's the soaps that will be in dire straits if this pandemic doesn't get controlled and the rate of infections keep escalating.