y were coming from! </p>
            <p> While another, saner, more humanoid president might have kicked things off by congratulating the nation’s hardworking scientists and offering some words of hope during these <a data-event-click="{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https://www.cnbc.com/2020/12/08/coronavirus-live-updates.html&quot;}" href="https://www.cnbc.com/2020/12/08/coronavirus-live-updates.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">extremely scary tim