BREAKING: It’s Officially A Pandemic
The World Health Organization has officially designated the Coronavirus outbreak a world pandemic:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2020/03/11/coronavirus-live-updates/
The organization cites ‘alarming levels of spread and…alarming levels of inaction’.
A congressional briefing on the government’s response is halted due to ‘an emergency meeting at the White House’. White House, of course, says that the meeting’s ‘routine’. Even though Anthony Fauci publicly says that NBA games should be played in empty arenas. Trump’s still lying to us.
168 people died from this in Italy yesterday.
To put that in perspective, Italy has roughly the same GDP as California. If 168 people were dying PER DAY in California, I guess we’d start to see someone in the Trump administration taking this seriously.
This is indeed what we could be facing. At least Italy took almost immediate action to try to quarantine the most-infected region. We haven’t done shit.
thoughts & prayers
CNN says Trump’s actions too aggressive now. They say it’s “xenophobia”.
But to be honest, Europe may just be a drop in the bucket at this point.
As noted Italy was on it day one, no messing around and especially no whiny “I didn’t do it!” from their leaders. Remember this when it hits here.
Delaware has its first infection.
https://delawarestatenews.net/health/coronavirus-confirmed-in-delaware/
NCAA will hold both its mens’ and womens’ basketball tourneys in empty arenas:
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2020/3/11/21175531/ncaa-tournament-2020-no-fans-spectators-coronavirus