For the last 30 years, whenever a calamity happened in America, the drive by media had a standard storyline, no matter what the circumstances were women and minorities were said to be the hardest hit.

Hurricane women and minorities, hardest hit, flood, fire, famine, economic downturn, always the same women and minorities, hardest hit.

And when it became the punchline of a joke, I told about the apocalypse. I said, a New York Times headline would be world and tomorrow women and minorities hardest hit.

But that's no longer the go-to narrative. It took a pandemic to change the storyline. On Monday, the Amazon Prime Washington Post had this headline, undocumented workers, among those hit first and worst by the coronavirus shutdown.

You legal aliens in a construction and hospitality sectors have already lost their jobs as the post.

You legal aliens working in agriculture and healthcare are at higher risk of being exposed to COVID-19.

They don't have access to paid sick leave, health insurance and the social safety nets so they are the new hardest hit.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not making light of anybody suffering but the tens of thousands hit by this virus have been hit hard.

Meanwhile, the entire United States economy has been hardest hit, virtually shut down with no end in sight, but every government worker is still being paid.