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Trump, Melania Test Positive for COVID-19
President Trump took to Twitter just before 1 a.m. ET to announce that both he and the First Lady tested positive for COVID-19.
Tonight, @FLOTUS and I tested positive for COVID-19. We will begin our quarantine and recovery process immediately. We will get through this TOGETHER!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 2, 2020
Sean Conley, the Physician to the President, released the following statement:
I release the following information with the permission of President Donald J. Trump and First Lady Melania Trump.
This evening I received confirmation that both President Trump and First Lady Melania Trump have tested positive for the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
The President and the First Lady are both well at this time and they plan to remain at home within the White House during their convalescence.
The White House medical team and I will maintain a vigilant watch, and I appreciate the support provided by some of our country’s greatest medical professionals and institutions. Rest assured I expect the President to continue carrying out his duties without disruption while recovering, and I will keep you updated on any future developments.
Get well soon, President and First Lady!
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I’ve read everything I can get my hands on about masks as a public health intervention. They don’t have the slightest idea of how much it affects the R0.
My sainted mother voted for Trump. She is certainly not a racist or terrible person.
You use the phrase, “Tumpist” quite a bit, and you have talked about people being in a cult of personality before. The above is a lie, because the posts are there.
So, no clarification, Gary.
No, no, no. Birchers were Anti-Communist nuts who believed that Ike was a tool of the Communists.
Gary, nobody doesn’t know that.
Glad it had nothing to do with overseas Chinese to buy up supplies of PPE on the orders of the CCP while the CCP was denying human-to-human transmission followed by China refusing to export – nothing to do with tariffs. It is people like you with a ‘free trade’ über alles that China has such a monopoly. But you will undoubtedly persist in your suicidal stupidity talking about ‘free market’ economics.
Dup
Yes, and you continue to be obtuse about the distinctions that I am drawing. I am a lawyer. I try hard to use precise language. I am not responsible that you have conflated doggone near everything that I say to fit your world view.
And you are very bad at dealing with how it came to this. The issues that caused this aren’t going to change.
I am going to offer you an amateur opinion. You argue all the time like you are defending a client. You would be better off just making a regular argument addressing what people say about your data and facts.
Actually, I think that I was accused of seeking Trump’s literal murder in the comments in this post. Like Trump, I am a counter-puncher, and will defend myself when someone attacks me.
But we are getting far, far away from the purpose of this post, which was to talk about President Trump and Melania having the COVID-19 virus.
This is sort of off topic, but I’m listening to The Splendid and the Vile now. Churchill uses the plural when he refers to the United States.
Probably so. I feel badly that so much of the comments in this post have gone down the rabbit hole of responding to my analytical statement, and then the question of if I have called people racists.
The lawyer probably deserved it.
The best book I have read this year. https://ricochet.com/790562/the-splendid-and-the-vile/
A great hypothetical regarding Lawyers: If you woke up at the resort, walked out on the balcony, and saw your wife and her divorce lawyer drowning in the pool, and you could save only one, would you go ahead and order breakfast or read the paper first?
Do we actually know how big of a problem this is?
I just read that President Trump will be hospitalized at Walter Reed for a couple of days while tests are run. https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwJZJVJRlNDbTbfjjXFSPnHKDvf
Can we all agree to pray for his good health and for our country?
Lol. I’ve not ever been in a position to commit any wrongs.
When you mask is moist, the fluid condensate is a liquid and acts as a transport vector for the virus to cross the porous fiber of the mask, and to blow out into the atmosphere when you exhale, and suck into your lungs when you inhale. Masks that are used for more than a few minutes and are moist and must be considered contaminated, and, certainly when wet, they are no barrier protection at all. in fact they may just as easily concentrate the virus in the material. IF, that is, THERE IS ANY VIRUS in the AIR to even worry about.
Even if it’s an aerosol I think the virus is still inside a droplet, albeit a microscopic droplet. The virus never floats entirely free by itself. So masks could have some effect even in the case of an aerosol.
The mask topic is very easy. They don’t know how well it works as a public health intervention. They have no idea. Masks should probably be worn in some risky situations. That’s it.
Supposedly, there is a huge Scandinavian study on the efficacy of masks as a public health intervention that is overdue.
I didn’t want to get on this thread, but this comment is so on point that I can’t help myself. Most here wish Trump were a lot better than he is, mostly just as it relates to his personal behaviors not his professional performance. For Joe Biden, many think he could be much worse, although that might be doubtful with regard to his professional performance. But where we are is not about Trump or Biden, it is a confrontation between the sides named above and President Trump and former Vice-President Biden are representing and leading these opposing sides. Trump supporters are supporting the direction he is taking us, too much gets made of it being about him, it’s not.
Masks rules were determined by each state, not by what Trump did or didn’t do.
The U.S. Surgeon General hammers us with mask commercials every day in Minnesota.
I think it’s about time that every level of government put on a dog and pony show about why they think it changes the R0. This isn’t too much to ask.
So many want him to be the tyrant they imagine him to be and impose national mask mandates and lockdowns. But he seems to understand Federalism.
Unlike Joe Biden who has said he’ll impose tyrannical mandates . . . “to thunderous applause.”
So . . . projection from the left again.
I dont believe you.
And, using your standards for Trump, I maintain you are calling people racist and cultists.
You want to destroy the nation by voting for Biden. You don’t want its good health, you want its utter destruction.
Further, you rooted for Trump to die with your Pence fantasy.
Again, using you value set on judgment of what people say.
His was broken long before Trump.
Counter-punchers are more violent than table-pounders.