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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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You just won’t let this go, despite your complete failure to provide documentation of such a horrible allegation.
Can we just pray for President Trump and our country?
Everything is political.
You are blaming Trump for an action by the same deep state that is the mortal enemy of everything Trump.
No, he’s not.
Again, nobody refutes my assertion that mask wearing will become mandatory under the leftests. What omnipotent being will tell me it is alright to take it off, if ever.
Nope. I am giving you the same Treatment you give Trump.
See how it works?
Blaming Trump for CDC/NIH policies is like blaming Trump for DOJ’s illegal surveillance of Trump.
Some people just don’t know how not to blame Trump.
Well enough to be effective. It’s not exactly the same phenomenon, but the holes in a snowfence are big enough for snowflakes to pass through. Yet a snowfence is effective in keeping snow off the roads.
A snowfence is not effective in keeping a gentle snowfall from landing where it lands. It is effective in keeping snow off the roads, though. Even in a blizzard, even if the prevailing winds are from the lake, that particular snowfence will be as effective as someone wearing a mask over his nose.
Thanos?
So you are the self-appointed Trump Avenger who wildly attacks someone you disagree with? You really ought to see a counselor about that.
Here is something for you to consider: An argument is not an Uber ride. You can’t take it only as far as you want. Someone will take it to its logical conclusion.
Now, I have no idea what you mean by “Trumpism”. If by that term you mean adherence to Trump’s policies, you cannot rationally oppose Trumpism. His policies are the best in living memory, with the possible exception of Reagan’s first term. Opposing them would make your views incoherent at best. OK, spending. You can oppose some of that if you want; so do I.
If by “Trumpism” you mean something like a cult revolving around Trump himself, I have to say I don’t know anyone in the cult. So why don’t you drop the tone of driving Trumpism out and driving a stake through its heart. You’re getting tiresome.
There you go again.
The point is that the snow is everywhere, fence or no fence.
I noticed he said the polite formalities and best wishes then went into a little promo on wearing masks….just a sly dig at Trump to continue the lie about him not wearing masks. BTW, haven’t seen in TV anchors or reporters wearing masks while they work indoors, other than press conference show theater.
I don’t think they were racists. They had black members (not very many) and several black speakers in their speakers bureau. My understanding of the objection to fluoridation was not that it was a communist plot, but that the government shouldn’t be doing mass medication of the public. Fluoridation of course has been a benefit, but we see people saying similar things today.
My husband and I had dinner last night with a couple who are dear friends of ours. They were adamant that they would not take a COVID vaccine because they didn’t want the government telling them what to do. They don’t wear masks and walk out of stores that require it. (Interestingly, they have no problem with “the government” saying, “Your child can’t go to school without a measles vaccination.”)
They were surprised at our reaction. My husband went to Oxford and is familiar with the group that is working on the vaccine. If their trials are successful, we would certainly want the vaccine. We would prefer not to get the virus than recover from it.
And we are praying for Pres. Trump and his wife as we pray for all who are infected.
That’s not true. The deep state is run by the deep state, and it has ever been that way in every country that has had a managerial state. You seem not to have paid attention during the past four years, or even during the past couple millenia. Trump puts people at the top, but they don’t run the agencies. Sometimes they can exert some influence until Trump’s deep state enemies get those efforts overturned by the courts. It’s an ongoing conflict between Trump and the deep state.
He does. That’s why they are opposed by the government.
Same with the Biden/Wallace team blaming him for the 2020 recession. Blaming him for the virus itself. Blaming him for the riots. It’s always projection with these people.
Wind blowing across a snowy field picks up some of the snow. The faster the wind blows. the more snow it can carry. Slowing the wind down with a snow fence causes some of the snow to be redeposited on the ground and prevents it from reaching something, such as a road.
I’ve seen some remarkable face-mask theater from reporters doing stand-ups outside. By themselves. With nobody within 50 yards of them.
Face-mask theater is so ridiculous. Wear one when you need to. Take it off when you don’t. Keeping it on when you don’t need to, to show that you’re a good citizen is just . . . narcissism.
You are just too generous. Projection is a subconscious or unconscious defense mechanism to compensate for deficiencies or failures. They actually do these things and consciously do their best to attribute them to others, frequently Trump.
That’s not the point of a snowfence. The point of a snowfence is to keep the roads from drifting in and keeping traffic from getting through. The point of a snowfence is to keep the roads open, a point that seems to have been lost on the people who erected the one in the photo. (It’s not hard to find guidelines on the web on snowfence placement.)
In the case of a mask, viruses will get through. But the point isn’t to keep every last virus from passing through. That would be nice if it could be done, but it’s not practical for most people. But if you can reduce the airborne spread of viruses, a lot of people’s natural, non-specific immune systems will probably be able to handle those that sneak through, if there aren’t too many. (It doesn’t help people whose immune systems are shot; those people need to take more severe measures.) And if enough viruses sneak through to cause an infection, it might be a less severe infection if the viral load is kept down.
That’s what I expect masks of the type most of us are using to do. They aren’t magic. But they can help make the problem manageable.
These people.
That’s my understanding, the term I’ve heard used is ‘viral load’, a measure of density of viral particles both in the air and in an infected person. It affects the severity of the viral infection. I’ve heard it used to explain some of the reasons for the effects in very crowded locations like New York City. Match high viral load with weak resistance and you get bad results.
A couple weeks ago I stopped at a Bigby’s to get a sandwich and coffee on a bicycle ride. I had to wear a mask inside, and then I brought my lunch outside to take over to the town park a few blocks away. Usually I take my mask off right away when I step outside, but that time I forgot, maybe because my hands were busy at first holding stuff. Anyway I was halfway to the park when I realized I still had my mask on. It was embarrassing. I didn’t want to be one of those idiots I make fun of, who are wearing a mask when they are outside and are not near other people. I managed to yank it off before I got to the park. Whew. My virtue signal remained intact.
Right. It’s not magic. All we’re going for is a rational management of the probabilities. Someone in these crowds has a flu, someone has a cold, and someone might have covid. Maybe it’s me. Fewer viruses get around if we all learn to wear the dang masks on the MTR.
Out on the hiking trail masks seem to me a thorough irrational management of the probabilities. This thing doesn’t transmit in open air, sunlight kills it, and we’re pretty dang socially distanced on the hiking trails.
I’m probably going to do a thread on it, but there’s a billboard near my house for a bank, and although the billboard has absolutely no mention of COVID or safety or anything related the virus, the person depicted on the billboard is all masked up.
It bothers me every time I drive by it.