“Come slay with us …”
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Do you remember the moment it truly sank in for you that, Oh my God, this coronavirus thing is really serious? For me, it was March 11, 2020, when the hosts of The View filmed in front of an empty studio audience with Whoopi Goldberg addressing rows and rows of eerily unfilled chairs. It’s spooky and bone-chilling when The View deviates from its usual “women who want to quite literally kill one another bickering at a table” format because the show is such a constant; this June, it celebrated its 6,000th episode. One of the show’s most constant constants is that it always goes all out on Halloween (with 2020 being an exception for reasons made obvious above)….
