Trump and Melania test positive for Covid19

My favorite meme to come out of the whole thing

@claymoreman23: That's totally how vaccines work.

@drunk_pi: it's a fine line. I find myself hopping from one side to the next. Ask me this morning, I'm all civil about it and like "Oh guys he's a human too", ask me after work when I've been talking to my super liberal friends and I might be like "traitors deserve a traitors death, komrad!"

In the end I think as a society we need to take the high road and hope he and Melania recover just like I hope everyone that catches this recovers. Otherwise we are no better than Trump, as impossible as it might seem to stoop that low.

It's certainly entertaining reading about the theories out there. And surprisingly easy to believe a lot of them.

In either case, guess what we are not talking about? Trump's terrible debate performance. Classic misdirection from Trump, intentional or not.

@mattbbpl: wat

It's not unexpected that people will feel the same sympathy for him as he feels for the people he was elected to represent and have died due to Covid.

@ghost_of_phobos: ohhh ok.

@claymoreman23: You mean they vaccinate themselves?

Quick everyone, hide the bleach!

@mrbojangles25: My stance is and always will be F Trump.

But the more I think about it, him dying might be worse. If he dies Pence is president and can use the sympathy card to win this year and since this might not count towards term limits, he could ride this in 2024 as well. Trump might be easier to beat and make it easier for Democrats to win in 2024. The sympathy might also help GOO in the senate and house. Let Trump live.

YIKES

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dUlWu1zQO4

It would be a Pence, Kaisch and that ticket would win in a land slide; Republicans that couldn't stomach Trump would come back, same for on the fence Independents, and moderate Democrats would jump aboard.

He apparently has three high risk factors. High age, high weight, and low income.

Why yes DeAnna, yes I think it could be viewed that way. And in the same way, I think you could be charged with child endangerment for the stupidity you inflict on your kids daily.

@netracing said:

@SUD123456 said:

Why yes DeAnna, yes I think it could be viewed that way. And in the same way, I think you could be charged with child endangerment for the stupidity you inflict on your kids daily.

@netracing said:

By this logic Trump is assassinating himself and Mike Lee just tried to assassinate 100's of GOP members.

@zaryia said:

@SUD123456 said:

Why yes DeAnna, yes I think it could be viewed that way. And in the same way, I think you could be charged with child endangerment for the stupidity you inflict on your kids daily.

@netracing said:

By this logic Trump is assassinating himself and Mike Lee just tried to assassinate 100's of GOP members.

And them knowingly allowing republicans to socialise with a positive test amongst them would "technically" be classed as manslaughter.

If enough Republicans die could it be classified as genocide?

@netracing said:

@zaryia said:

@SUD123456 said:

Why yes DeAnna, yes I think it could be viewed that way. And in the same way, I think you could be charged with child endangerment for the stupidity you inflict on your kids daily.

@netracing said:

By this logic Trump is assassinating himself and Mike Lee just tried to assassinate 100's of GOP members.

And them knowingly allowing republicans to socialise with a positive test amongst them would "technically" be classed as manslaughter.

No moderate Democrats wouldn't jump aboard.

@SUD123456 said:

If enough Republicans die could it be classified as genocide?

@netracing said:

@zaryia said:

@SUD123456 said:

Why yes DeAnna, yes I think it could be viewed that way. And in the same way, I think you could be charged with child endangerment for the stupidity you inflict on your kids daily.

@netracing said:

By this logic Trump is assassinating himself and Mike Lee just tried to assassinate 100's of GOP members.

And them knowingly allowing republicans to socialise with a positive test amongst them would "technically" be classed as manslaughter.

The only genocide they would teach in schools I bet.

@Fuhrer_D: No Democrats would come in and Republicans that hate Trump hate Pence too.

Silliness. I live in Ohio and know plenty. They are the same ones that voted for Obama, then voted for Trump, and are now on the fence.

Said something similar in 2016, responses where similar. For your (and those of your ilk's sake), I hope we don't have to see that scenario. It's a far worse political situation for all.

The idiot crew, not wearing masks while most others were

@eoten: where was there an emotional argument?

In the afternoon, his physician had said he Trump had received an “antibody cocktail” and was “fatigued but in good spirits." That update came just minutes before administration officials told The Post that the president was preparing to check in to Walter Reed “out of an abundance of caution.”

The “antibody cocktail” is an experimental treatment made by the pharmaceutical company Regeneron and is one of the most promising known. Experts say it could be the best bet for fighting the virus.

“Following PCR-confirmation of the president’s diagnosis, as a precautionary measure he received a single 8 gram dose of Regeneron’s polyclonal antibody cocktail,” White House physician Sean Conley said in a statement.

He said the president completed his treatment “without incident,” and that Trump is also taking zinc, vitamin D, famotidine, melatonin and a daily aspirin. A team of experts is evaluating and advising the president, Conley said.

Regeneron manufactures the drug, a cocktail of two monoclonal antibodies, from hamster ovary cells. It’s meant to reduce the virus’s lethality by boosting a patient’s immune defense. Early data from the drug’s trials are encouraging but preliminary. When it works, it can prevent an illness from progressing to the point where a person may need to be hospitalized or put on a ventilator.

In a statement, Regeneron confirmed that it provided the president with the treatment after his physicians filed a “compassionate use” request, a rare exception to the drug’s use, which at this point is mainly confined to clinical trials.

“In addition to the clinical trial supply and product being manufactured under an agreement with the U.S. government,” the statement read, “there is limited product available for compassionate use requests that have been approved under rare, exceptional circumstances on a case-by-case basis.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/2020/10/02/trump-biden-live-updates/

So this is interesting. Trump got a special treatment only allowed in rare circumstances. I wonder if that means he's in really bad shape, or if it means that he's just really scared and trying to get the best possible stuff just to be sure.

Gonna need a senzu for that one.

I mean, I assume that if anyone can get it, even if they don't really need it, it's the president.

Sounds like hes doing fine to me

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1312158400352972800?s=19

This quote sums up how many feel about the situation and I agree:

I have zero compassion for people who get Coronavirus after downplaying it and spreading misinformation about the virus. **** em.

You won the internets

He was going to rig the election and refuse to accept the results no matter what. Getting sick is a sign of weakness especially as he tells his base that virtually no one gets sick from it.

trumps response to covid was the worst in the world, will he get sympathy votes for catching a disease that his incompetence caused?

@thegreatchomp: yeah I did, I'm saying he sounds fine, whys the background matter?

@jeezers: Why is he in front of a green screen and not filming it in the actual White House where is supposed to be? It’s a valid question.

@thegreatchomp: probably in a different room, away from people, he says in the vid hes about to leave to see the doctor. As far as we know hes standing in a parking lot, **** if I know lol

I hear he is taking some antibody cocktail mix as medicine. So he will probably not get very bad.

He is in hospital and weak, they cannot really show the reality to his base.

Kellyanne Conway has it too

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/10/02/politics/kellyanne-conway-positive-for-covid-19/index.html

Also

It is looking increasingly possible that Saturday’s White House ceremony in which president Donald Trump named his nominee for the vacancy on the Supreme Court may have been a coronavirus superspreader event.

Video emerged on Friday of Republican Senator Mike Lee of Utah, who has since tested positive for the virus, enthusiastically hugging other attendees. He is also seen holding his mask in his hand.

@horgen: How is that not a crime?

The irony of that whole situation is quite hilarious.

They truly got their comeuppance for their attitude towards the virus.

Given that coughing at others in these times has been tried as assault, yeah I see the similarity. Dunno about US stance on this.

@horgen: It seems like they are trying to infect others. Some people have gone to jail for coughing on fruit.