THE NATION

Declare March 13 a National Holiday

We are starving for ceremony

Photo by Robert McGowan on Unsplash

We are now just one month away from the grimmest of milestones. On March 13, 2020, President Trump declared the national emergency that persists. Yes, the pandemic started earlier, the virus was here and already wreaking havoc, but it all got real on that dark Friday. It was “official.” The United States was…