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Richard Marx stays "right here waiting" for more competent leadership. (And no, he won't give up until he's satisfied.)

Oh, FFS. Just cancel the damn loans altogether. Thanks to this outbreak and the effects it's having on our job markets and such, it's clearer than ever that most who have the loans will never be able to repay them fully.

Except even the itinerant psychotic bobo would have known more how to handle this outbreak.

Oh, they've got to be kidding. They don't want the drive-through testing because it's "too close to home"? The F? I am so fed up with selfish, entitled a-holes, who are more concerned about being a little bit inconvenienced than they are about possibly being exposed, or having their loved ones become exposed, and possibly dying from a virus that shows zero signs of slowing down. And they have the nerve to call liberals like me "snowflakes"? God knows, I wouldn't wish the coronavirus on anyone; but maybe if more were genuinely threatened by this outbreak -- if more people actually tested positive for this thing and their bodies suffered hellaciously as a result -- maybe, it would finally sink into these idiots' heads that this is NOT just a little tickle in the back of the throat that we're dealing with here.

Donald Trump: "The American people are looking for answers, and they're looking for hope." Then, why don't you give them that, instead of picking yet another fight with a reporter!? I don't care anymore what he or what anyone else has to say about our nation's media. I just want someone to stop this virus before we all die from it. Can you just do that, you schmucks!?

Speaking of those stimulus checks, I hear Sen. Lindsey Graham and Mark Meadows are doing their damnedest to persuade Donald Trump to quash the idea. True?

Agree. Let's not forget the fact that Donald Trump (allegedly?) blocked the arrival of coronavirus test kits into this country in order to keep the numbers down and improve his chances for re-election. Or that he (again, allegedly?) tried to buy those scientists in order to be first with the vaccine. Again, the more the numbers of those who are and were affected by the coronavirus rise, the more people (Trump's diehards notwithstanding) will remember his initial, casual dismissals of the entire crisis, labelling it a "Democrat hoax" designed to ruin him politically, and that it would disappear once Spring arrived. (By the way, Spring is here. Is the coronavirus gone yet?)

No, Josh needs to formulate new life goals.

I guess we're just waiting for Chuck Norris and the rest of the Delta Force to kill the Chinese scientists who created this virus and then release the antidote into the atmosphere.

Like @DRW50 said, until there are mass deaths, they're not gonna take it seriously. (And even then, they'll probably just resign themselves to the idea that they died supporting Donald Trump as (they believe) God wanted.)

I cannot decide whether Donald Trump has officially washed his hands of everything related to coronavirus, or if he is truly at a loss as to what to do next. I don't know, maybe it's a little (or a lot) of both. Either way, the message he sends now -- that it's basically in the states' hands -- scares the crap out of me. Especially because I live in a state (Oklahoma) that likely still looks at this as a hoax and no big deal.

Everytime I think the GOP couldn't sink any lower, they surprise me! Meanwhile, the numbers continue to rise, precisely because the party in power chose to put profit and popularity over saving people's lives.

Frankly, I don't get why they chose "Imagine." It's not as if we're staging a worldwide "stay-in" to stop world hunger. We're staying home, because we don't want anyone to get sick and/or die. In the words of our newest sage, Brady Sluder: "We're just out here having a good time. Whatever happens, happens."

Exactly. As if likely infecting others with a respiratory illness that's been known to kill across all age groups is somehow "stickin' it to the man." Look, I'm always down for some civil disobedience. But, how can I do that when I'm too damn ill to lift my head off the pillow? And how I could even live with myself, knowing that I might have spread such a virus to others, even if I, myself, might experience only mild (or even no) symptoms? There's a time to resist fascism, and then there's a time to gaf about others' well-being. Pick. Your. Battles. (Not directing that last statement toward you, @DRW50.)

Of course, Evangeline Lilly's within her rights NOT to self-quarantine. However, what she (and others) fail to understand is that the rest of the nation (and the world) is on lockdown, not necessarily out of a need to protect our own, healthy selves, but in order to protect those who are most vulnerable to the virus (namely, the elderly, and those with compromised immune systems), and to give our health care industry a chance to get this [!@#$%^&*] under control without adding more patients to their already heavy workloads. Now, maybe we are overdoing it a tad with all the hoarding and doomsday prophecies. But, is it really a strain on our freedoms to practice a little more social distancing (avoiding large gatherings, staying closer to home, ordering more takeout and delivery or just cooking your own meals, etc.) until we have flattened that so-called curve? I mean, God forbid people actually have to stay at home and spend time with their own families for awhile, right!? Also, I'm reminded again why I quit watching "Lost" after David Fury left.

I'm sure her tens of followers will soldier on. I just so love watching our Idiot-in-Chief try and play catch-up, don't you? Seriously, Donald Trump keeps getting outsmarted by a virus; and I don't know whether to laugh about that, or to cry.

And the numbers are bound to increase even more once those damn spring breakers are forced to return home and infect the rest of us out of spite.

New Plan: CLOSE THE PRESIDENT'S MOUTH AND KEEP IT CLOSED.

Oh, please, the infected cow is so out of the unsanitized barn now. If you live in FL, make sure you vote that man out of office first chance you get. (That is, if this [!@#$%^&*] going around don't kill you first.)

As badly as I feel for celebrities like Idris Elba, Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson, I wish tragedies such as this, and not which celeb is the latest to be exposed to the virus, or how many "spring breakers" continue to display their arrogance and ignorance about it like badges of honor, would be on the front pages of every newspaper and magazine. People need to see "up close and personal" how the coronavirus is devastating average, everyday, un-famous families all over the world.

Ironically, this illness is also affecting millennials, one of two groups (along with baby boomers) who continue to pull this nation apart, politically and ideologically. Not to make light of what is, for many, a dire situation, but maybe that one meme I saw on FB is right. Maybe the ones left standing after this is all over will be the Gen-X'ers, lol.

And the more the coronavirus outbreak spreads throughout this country, the more volatile the markets will become, as recessions, bankruptcies, job losses, foreclosures, etc. are now all but done deals. Now, granted, Donald Trump did NOT create the coronavirus (although, his administration could have done a much better job minimizing its' effect on us, if not keeping it at bay). But, in a way, @marceline was right yet again. The Republicans always wreck the economy. Always. And while I never want to be accused of being a conspiracy theorist or of knowing what God is thinking, I don't think it should be ignored how the coronavirus is affecting disproportionately one segment of our population -- namely, the baby boomers and their elders -- who have backed this administration from day one.

But seriously. Trump has practically built his entire presidential legacy around the stock markets, so I'd see it as karmic justice if those financial gains were, indeed, wiped out. Without them, Trump has nothing.

If this keeps up, the Dow'll be back where it was when Herbert Hoover was president!