{"id":145020,"date":"2020-03-16T11:29:36","date_gmt":"2020-03-16T11:29:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsforher.com\/?p=145020"},"modified":"2020-03-16T11:29:38","modified_gmt":"2020-03-16T11:29:38","slug":"john-oliver-slams-trumps-response-to-coronavirus-shares-some-advice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsforher.com\/?p=145020","title":{"rendered":"John Oliver slams Trump&#039;s response to coronavirus, shares some advice"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<!-- Quick Adsense WordPress Plugin: http:\/\/quickadsense.com\/ -->\n<div class=\"c5b541d88d911dcbb84397def1a3492d\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:0px 0 0px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- m -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3943282228430444\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"5751019935\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p> [ad_1]\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"id_text\">\n<div class=\"viral-video-lead\">\n<div class=\"vplayer\"><iframe allowautoplay=\"\" allowfullscreen=\"\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_066dEkycr4?\" data-template=\"viralvideo - YT\" data-ytchannel=\"LastWeekTonight\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/a.amz.mshcdn.com\/assets\/lib\/aab-3e4af80fa7eef43b2c82c5f3e3a386e50b041bb6ee6b415a5a69b0c863479851.js\"><\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>Towards the end of last week, many of the late night shows <a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/video\/stephen-colbert-audience-free-monologue-coronavirus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">taped without an audience<\/a> in an effort to combat the spread of the coronavirus. On Sunday, John Oliver joined them.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Both the place we normally tape on Sundays and our office building both had confirmed cases of coronavirus this week,&#8221; Oliver says at the start his monologue. &#8220;So our staff has been working from home, and we&#8217;re currently taping this somewhere else, with a very limited crew.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The focus of the last <em>Last Week Tonight<\/em> episode for a while? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/emergencies\/diseases\/novel-coronavirus-2019\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">COVID-19<\/a>, the disease caused by the new coronavirus. Oliver <a href=\"https:\/\/me.mashable.com\/entertainment\/9272\/john-olivers-deep-dive-into-coronavirus-is-a-must-watch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">already did a segment on the virus<\/a> a couple of weeks back, but this time his focus is on the escalation, the reaction, and \u2014 crucially \u2014 what we can do about it.<\/p>\n<p>The host starts by criticising Donald Trump&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2020\/03\/13\/trump-coronavirus-testing-128971\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">question-avoiding tactics<\/a> at a recent press conference (&#8220;That is a level of dodging responsibility that Trump has been perfecting ever since he was very much <em>not<\/em> in Vietnam.&#8221;) before sharing some advice with viewers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Look, I know things are currently very scary,&#8221; Oliver says. &#8220;And things are going to be weird for a while. For weeks, and honestly, more likely months. And the fact that that is true makes it even more important that going forward, we&#8217;re going to need to look out for one another. And not just in terms of containing the transmission of this virus, but also in terms of the economic impact this is going to have on people who may well not be able to weather it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Oliver&#8217;s advice? Calling elderly relatives and neighbours, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.feedingamerica.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">donating to food banks<\/a> if you can afford to, and tuning out misinformation (&#8220;from sources like, sadly, the president&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Take care of yourself,&#8221; Oliver concludes. &#8220;Take care of each other. And we will be back, in some form, some time in the future. 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