Trump's press conference declaring a nationwide state of emergency did little to quell the panic surrounding the coronavirus outbreak, but at least we got a decent meme out of it.
During the conference on Friday, the president shook hands with a number of high-ranking officials from various corporations — doing the exact oppositeof the social distancing we're all supposed to be practicing — and referred to the American people as "consumers." He also announced a partnership with Google, which pledged to build a site to help Americans identify symptoms of COVID-19, the official term for the disease caused by the virus, and direct them to the nearest testing site.
They demonstrated how the site would work on a handy flow chart.
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But if there's anything to take away from the internet, it's that holding up paper makes for prime meme material. The kind folks at Full Frontalmade it even easier, posting a blank version of the meme format.
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It took off.
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Hard Drive took a darker turn.
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The image — and the crisis overall — also drew comparisons to HBO's Chernobyl, a dramatized retelling of the Soviet Union's attempted cover-up of the nuclear disaster.
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At least you can meme your way through the pandemic. Getting tested and treated, though, is still complicated.