{"id":39114,"date":"2020-03-03T10:23:39","date_gmt":"2020-03-03T18:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=39114"},"modified":"2020-03-03T10:48:48","modified_gmt":"2020-03-03T18:48:48","slug":"john-oliver-explains-trump-virus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2020\/03\/03\/john-oliver-explains-trump-virus\/","title":{"rendered":"John Oliver Explains Trump Virus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">The other day, I relabeled COVID-19 to make it\u2019s name descriptive of the principal cause of its spread in the US and the deaths that the pandemic has caused and shall cause here.\u00a0 It is now the Trump* virus.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 0px currentcolor; margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto; float: none; display: block; background-image: none;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/0229trumpvirus.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>John Oliver explains we need to be scared of the coronavirus &#8212; but not too scared, and slammed the Trump administration for making things so much worse than they had to do\u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"https:\/\/crooksandliars.com\/2020\/03\/john-oliver-coronavirus-trump-doesnt-know\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Crooks and Liars<\/a>&gt;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=c09m5f7Gnic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Coronavirus: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/c09m5f7Gnic\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">John is spot on in everything he said, save one. COVID-19 is not the corona virus. It&#8217;s the Trump virus.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Yesterday, Oregon Health authorities announced a third case of Trump virus, unrelated to the first two.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wweek.com\/news\/2020\/03\/02\/in-rural-oregon-a-third-case-of-coronavirus-is-diagnosed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">This victim attended a basketball game in Eastern Oregon just before he tested positive<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">As I go to the hospital for chemo and radiation treatments, and have long waits there for the TriMet Lift bus, I\u2019ll be at much higher risk than most.\u00a0 If it kills me, send the bill for my funeral to the asshole in the White House.<\/span><\/p>\n<h1 align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #0000ff;\">RESIST!!<\/span><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other day, I relabeled COVID-19 to make it\u2019s name descriptive of the principal cause of its spread in the US and the deaths that the pandemic has caused and shall cause here.\u00a0 It is now the Trump* virus. John Oliver explains we need to be scared of the coronavirus &#8212; but not too scared, <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2020\/03\/03\/john-oliver-explains-trump-virus\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3913,3912,3724,3910,3714],"class_list":["post-39114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-covid-19","tag-john-oliver","tag-oregon","tag-public-health","tag-video","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}