The Mall – 1989
æ President Clinton Responds to 33 Million Unemployed Report: “It’s Not My Fault.”
President Hillary Clinton said a government report showing massive U.S. job losses isn’t a surprise and that she shouldn’t be blamed for it.
“It’s fully expected. There’s no surprise,” she said to reporters Friday. “Somebody said, ‘Oh, look at this.’ Well, even the Republicans aren’t blaming me for that”.
33 million new unemployed workers since March has ballooned the US unemployment rate to 14.75%, the highest increase since the Great Depression.
#satire
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æ Coronavirus In Context – Part Four : Mayday, We’ve Passed Vietnam
58,200. The Vietnam War stretched on for over a decade and tore the heart out of the American psyche. To this day the cost in lives and national focus lives on in our VA hospitals and retirement communities. As Covid-19 crosses the fatalities in Vietnam we watch as these heroes from another generation, safe in the belief that their fighting was over, are dealt yet another blow at the hands of an invisible enemy.
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æ Coronavirus In Context – Part Three : The April Fool’s Day March To 5000
Where were you on 9/11? Where were you when the US invaded Iraq? These memories are seared into the minds of most Americans that were alive at the time yet Covid-19 has marched past these sad milestones in mere weeks. #Dataviz
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æ Coronavirus in Context – Part Two : The United States Crosses 500
American’s response to tragedy can be unpredictable. Sometimes America jumps, sword in hand and attacks issues head on such as the Oklahoma City Federal Building bombing in 1995. Other times America simply doesn’t seem to have a grasp of what’s coming. #DataViz
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æ Coronavirus In Context – Part One : St Patrick’s Day
Coronavirus Covid-19 has touched our lives in incalculable ways. For some though, the cost has been everything.
Humans want to quantify and understand the world around us and sometimes numbers are not enough. We need to understand people and loss in context. People are not just numbers but as a number they deserve relevance. We as a society react unpredictably to tragic events and our response often lags the gravity of the situation. This is an attempt to bring perspective to what’s unfolding. There will be more to come. #DataViz
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