SXSW 2020 Canceled Amid Coronavirus Fears https://t.co/7LgzEMengL
— Variety (@Variety) March 6, 2020
JUST IN: SXSW has been cancelled due to novel coronavirus, the film festival organizers announce.
Last year, according to numbers provided by SXSW, the conference brought in $355.9 million dollars of revenue. https://t.co/zCXGtlUxDj
— ABC News (@ABC) March 6, 2020
An Update on SXSW 2020. Please read our full statement here: https://t.co/P56nF8KFmE pic.twitter.com/ouJPKM9GNy
— SXSW (@sxsw) March 6, 2020
From SXSW cancellations to a James Bond delay, how coronavirus is impacting the entertainment industry https://t.co/5OhLSh1Qyr
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) March 6, 2020
NEW – from @alexismadrigal and me
After gathering data from all 50 states, and surveying dozens of local officials, we can only verify that 1,895 Americans have been tested for coronavirus https://t.co/PWWbE6z8AE
— Robinson Meyer (@yayitsrob) March 6, 2020
weird how when U.S. testing started ramping up, suddenly coronavirus cases started appearing all over the country
— Matt Pearce š¦ (@mattdpearce) March 6, 2020
Remember when the President of the United States was capable of getting through a major national crisis without being such a sick, sick, sick black hole of insecurity and neediness that he required these grotesque sideshows of self-abasement? https://t.co/edqTMSTjfQ
— Steve Silberman (@stevesilberman) March 6, 2020
Trump at the CDC: "As of the time I left the plane with you, we had 240 cases, that's at least what was on a very fine network known as Fox News. I know you love it. But that's what I happened to be watching, and how was the show last night? Did it get good ratings by the way?"
— Meridith McGraw (@meridithmcgraw) March 6, 2020
Ok, the CDC appearance was the most disturbing one yet from Trump. He literally said experts were telling him to take sick Americans off a cruise ship but he doesn't want to do it because it WILL MAKE THE NUMBERS GO UP and it "wasn't our fault." Holy Jesus.
— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) March 6, 2020
I wish just one person standing there would yell out, āI canāt do this anymore! This guy is crazy, itās obvious, itās dangerous, itās not funny.ā https://t.co/ZP0ALgniql
— Emily Nussbaum (@emilynussbaum) March 6, 2020
..To add this, @CDCDirector: My father, who worked for many years as an infectious disease specialist at @CDCgov on measles (see below photo credit) would be calling for your termination for refusing to focus on a public health crisis, rather than the issue of managing a toddler. https://t.co/DQCCrAOT5i pic.twitter.com/nRRi4E36Af
— Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) March 7, 2020
Question: Have you considered not having campaign rallies?
Trump: No I havenāt… We had tens of thousands of people standing outside the arena
Question: Is there a risk that thereās that many people so close together
Trump: It doesnāt bother me at all pic.twitter.com/ZaMc6ayK4e
— Acyn Torabi (@Acyn) March 6, 2020
This presidency is like if a small town made a joke out of electing a dog who routinely got into trash mayor and then a major disaster hit and for some reason everyone just expected the dog to make decisions.
— Jared Yates Sexton (@JYSexton) March 6, 2020
Donāt be scared of the numbers, be scared of the guy talking about the numbers. https://t.co/A5oB3Z7wrN
— Slate (@Slate) March 7, 2020
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ELSEWHERE IN TRUMPWORLD
The father of a Parkland shooting victim called out a GOP lawmaker after he told Democrats to "come and take" his AR-15 (while holding it) if they want to ban the weapons.
"My daughter died from a single AR 15 bullet."
Jamie Guttenberg, 14, was one of the attack's 17 victims. pic.twitter.com/51WLsquO9c
— AJ+ (@ajplus) March 6, 2020
"It's clear after Super Tuesday that the vanguard of the new critical race activists on campus and in elite media represent almost no one but themselves."https://t.co/obxA3kqSVW
— Andrew Sullivan (@sullydish) March 6, 2020
"Democrats on Super Tuesday successfully did what Republicans failed to do in 2016: check the rise of their extremist candidate," @davidfrum writes. https://t.co/vcKTRQXxFW
— The Atlantic (@TheAtlantic) March 6, 2020
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WORLD
The new coronavirus is now in at least 75 countries, the World Health Organization says. More than 94,000 cases have been confirmed worldwide.
Despite that growth, the WHO director-general says: "We can push this virus back."https://t.co/M6X5yy7cRj
— NPR (@NPR) March 4, 2020
Fear is a sense that your environment is changing, and you may not be able to control it.
Knowledge eases fear, providing the tools to move effectively through the new landscape.@matthewherper with the information:https://t.co/p12PHPmrus— Quentin Hardy (@qhardy) March 6, 2020
Tesla CEO Elon Musk tweets that 'coronavirus panic is dumb' https://t.co/mx4yHFamIG pic.twitter.com/gx8cOGhEU7
— Reuters (@Reuters) March 6, 2020
To put it in perspective: 3,000 people worldwide have died from the new #coronavirus, a death toll worse than SARS and MERS combined. Here's some context: in the U.S. alone, 18,000 people have already died from flu this season, which began in October. https://t.co/VER4caemPk
— Ron Lin (@ronlin) March 3, 2020
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BREXITSHAMBLES BRITAIN
Boris Johnsonās ālevelling upā agenda depends on devolving power https://t.co/DuAqgV7WLh
— Financial Times (@FT) March 6, 2020
300 allegations of Tory Islamophobia in devastating report. No coverage in FT or Daily Telegraph. Seven paras on p.16 of Times. Nothing in the Daily Mail, Express, or the Sun. My new column for MEE:
British Tories are morphing into a party of bigots https://t.co/t3i0mT8gYJ
— Peter Oborne (@OborneTweets) March 6, 2020
The Tories will blame coronavirus for all the ills of Brexit https://t.co/8bna706Afd
— The New European (@TheNewEuropean) March 6, 2020
What an image. Two huffing old blokes from the Ulster Unionist Party trying to be as right-wing as the DUP – as young liberal Protestants flock to the Alliance Party.
Irrelevant. Outdated. Outplayed. https://t.co/izydNjntgz
— Kevin Meagher (@KevinPMeagher) March 6, 2020