'The View' Fans Sound off With Coronavirus 'Doomsday' Comments After Massive Table Is Revealed During Taping

Confused

Some of The View's audience was confused as to the new addition to the set and how it plays into the general "doomsday vibe" some were feeling.

Amused

Others simply couldn't help but laugh at the new table.

Applause

Still others thought it was an appropriate use of their platform to showcase social distancing.

Other precautions

The new table on set came as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and public officials urge Americans to practice social distancing and self-isolation amid the pandemic spread of the coronavirus.

Beginning last week, the daytime talk show also began taping without a live in-studio audience, with all the chairs that would typically be filled with an audience going empty.

"It's a historic day," Goldberg said on the first day of the change. "The coronavirus situation is still developing and for the first time ever, as you can see, we made the decision not to have a studio audience."

"This is unprecedented, this has never happened on The View," she added.

Joy Behar's absence

Longtime The View host Joy Behar is also taking a step back from filming the show altogether, with the 77-year-old citing her age and her daughter's encouragement as her reason for taking a break of unspecified length.

"I'm in a higher risk group because of my age, but I'm perfectly healthy," she announced on March 12. "I don't look my age, but I'm actually up there. The number makes me dizzy."

Meghan McCain's take

McCain threw her complete support behind Behar, despite their on-camera squabbles, later remarking on Twitter how "bizarre" it is to be hosting The View without an audience.

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