Trump Has Covid!

[Chicks]

Originally Posted by RickeyM

Now wearing a mask is OK? Some still haven't gotten the message tho'.

A little nugget from an NYT article this morning:

Notably, since the announcement that Mr. Trump was infected, Republicans and independents appear to have become much more concerned that they or someone they know will contract the virus.

Seventy percent of Republicans in the ABC News poll said they were concerned, up from 52 percent just two weeks ago, and 82 percent of independents said they were concerned, up from 69 percent. Among Democrats, the number was unchanged at 86 percent.

A measure of just how incredibly ignorant Repubes have been, thanks to the disgusting pundits of Faux "News" and the hatemongers of Reich-wing radio. Changing their tune now...

Ya think our Insane idiot will continue slicing his mask? Such a moron.

As an aside, note that the Secret Service agents are wearing N95's with vents! Duh! If they're infected, they're spreading it...

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/10...rus-polls-find

[donquixote99]

"Trumpworld delighted in cruelty. But now that Trump has COVID, they demand empathy." https://www.google.com.do/amp/s/www....-2020-10%3famp

Trump supporters love how he "owns the libs," including when he mocked Hillary Clinton's bout with pneumonia on the 2016 campaign trail. Now that Trump has COVID, Trumpists are shocked - shocked! - that some of his critics are being "mean" to him.

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Trump Allies Say the Virus Has Almost Run Its Course. ‘Nonsense,’ Experts Say.
The C.D.C. and leading experts have concluded, using different scientific methods, that as many as 90 percent of Americans are still vulnerable to infection.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/29/h...-immunity.html

Report from just six short days ago. My, how poorly the Repube lying machine ages...

“The idea that herd immunity will happen at 10 or 20 percent is just nonsense,” said Dr. Christopher J.L. Murray, director of the University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, which produced the epidemic model frequently cited during White House news briefings as the epidemic hit hard in the spring.

That belief began circulating months ago on conservative news programs like those of Rush Limbaugh and Laura Ingraham. It has been cited several times by Dr. Scott W. Atlas, President Trump’s new pandemic adviser. It appears to be behind Mr. Trump’s recent remarks that the pandemic is “rounding the corner” and “would go away even without the vaccine.”

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The lesson in Trump catching Covid: all the lies in the world can't hold reality at bay

https://www.theguardian.com/commenti...sident-us-dead

Lying is reality in Trumpworld. Sad.

[RickeyM]

On today's news it was revealed tRump had to be given supplemental oxygen twice. Also Friday before his departure to Walter Reed his blood O-2 level dropped below 94%. Below 94% is not good. A couple of years back during a hospital stay my O-2 level dropped to 96% and they stuck one of those things around my face to feed Oxygen up my nostrils.

You think the internet is being mean now if Donny passes they're going to savage him. Anybody see the SNL tRump/Biden debate skit?

[Waggs098]

Originally Posted by RickeyM

On today's news it was revealed tRump had to be given supplemental oxygen twice. Also Friday before his departure to Walter Reed his blood O-2 level dropped below 94%. Below 94% is not good. A couple of years back during a hospital stay my O-2 level dropped to 96% and they stuck one of those things around my face to feed Oxygen up my nostrils.

You think the internet is being mean now if Donny passes they're going to savage him. Anybody see the SNL tRump/Biden debate skit?

Giving oxygen to a 74 year old dealing with a respatory infection is basically common practice.

Yes i watched the SNL skit and thought it was very funny. Alec Baldwin plays a great trump and Jim Carrey played biden very well.

[RickeyM]

Originally Posted by Waggs098

Giving oxygen to a 74 year old dealing with a respatory infection is basically common practice.

That's all his doctors had to say in the first place but noooo, just couldn't do it.

[Chicks]

Trump's risky behavior goes viral

https://thehill.com/opinion/healthca...ior-goes-viral

With the president*’s illness, the cruel bite of the pandemic has turned on one who thought he might ignore it. Many have noted that pandemics respect no individual or group, including leaders in the UK and Brazil before President* Trump. So it has now engulfed one who thought it might just go away, “like a miracle.”

But this too is an expression of the president*’s dangerousness. The scorn for protections, wearing masks and distancing, manifest in the willful convening of enormous, maskless and crowded rallies or the mocking of former Vice President Biden for wearing a mask, have had their impacts.

Polls show a close relationship between the approval of President* Trump’s handling of the pandemic and individuals declining to wear masks and saying they would refuse a vaccine. In addition to those who may have been directly affected by spreader events, these all have contributed to the huge number of cases and proliferation of virus that increase opportunities for infection in all our lives, and the willful dismissal of precautions in his coterie that likely led to his own.

President* Trump has put millions of lives in danger, including his own; but we can mitigate that. Individually, we can save tens of thousands of lives incrementally, despite his recklessness. Our tools are simple, universally available, and of proven potency: masks, hand washing, and social distancing.

Edwin B. Fisher, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist in the Gillings School of Global Public Health at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Robert M. Kaplan, Ph.D., is a professor at the Stanford Clinical Excellence Research Center, and, previously, an associate director of the National Institutes of Health. Leonard L. Glass, M.D., M.P.H., is a psychiatrist at McLean Hospital and Harvard Medical School.

Real doctors, telling the truth about Donny and Trumpworld.

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Trump Didn’t Disclose First Positive Covid-19 Test While Awaiting a Second Test on Thursday
President* received positive result on Thursday evening before making an appearance on Fox News in which he didn’t reveal those results

https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-d...ay-11601844813

From that liberal bastion, the WSJ.

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Trump’s V.I.P. Medical Care Could Do More Harm Than Good
Treating well-known patients can push doctors to be aggressive
No clear evidence on taking several Covid therapies at once

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...harm-than-good

The aggressive embrace of exotic and unproven therapies can be a double-edged sword if it leads doctors to bypass standard care. Disease has no regard for prestige or political power. Experimental treatments often don’t hold up with more time and study. Still, the temptation to take every available measure is strong.

“Presidents get treated differently,” said Art Caplan, director of medical ethics at New York University Grossman School of Medicine. “Doctors get more aggressive. They are going to go in there and do everything that they can. You don’t want to be blamed for losing his life.”