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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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And yet, I’ve seen that, too. Was out hiking a trail outside of the city, and encountered a woman walking her dog. All masked up. The trail was wide enough that we could pass each other easily, and for maybe a split-second — maybe — we were within six feet of each other. Sure, she probably felt safer, but someone made her think that was necessary.
They Live.
Take off the sunglasses, and you won’t notice…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjw_DuNkOUw
Sorry, but I dispute your story. Any and all forms of advertisement these days must be completely balanced and feature all of the following: a black man or woman, an Hispanic man or woman, an interracial couple with a child, a homosexual couple with a child or at their own wedding, and a group of HIV positive men at some sort of dance class. “The person depicted” my arse.
I am applying your rules for Trump to you. If you think it is unfair, maybe you are the one who needs to see the therapist.
It’s a woman.
In fact, this banner on their website is the same as their billboard. No mention of the WuFlu at all. No reason for the mask. It’s just . . . a normalizing of an abnormal thing.
It’s crap. But I might be less opposed if I owned a mask factory.
Neither are the Proud Boys, that doesn’t stop you from labeling them as such. And Qanon condemnation from a Charlottesville hoaxer rings hollow.
Seen it myself. An odd phenomenon.
So you are now a self-appointed vigilante.
You can’t back up your increasingly histrionic statements, while I make a point of doing so when challenged, and when I am wrong, promptly make amends.
Your behavior is not indicative of a dinner party, it is indicative of a bar brawl, and thus violates the Code of Conduct.
Please provide documentation of your screeds, or apologize and move on.
Every person that I have come across in a bank for months now wears a mask. If they aren’t wearing a mask, the bank security officer denies entry. To show someone without a mask would have been like showing someone who isn’t wearing clothes.
This comes from the last or almost last person who uses a confederate flag as part of his avatar. Mississippi just changed their flag. South Carolina took down the confederate flag from the flagpole at their capital.
Are you now standing up for Q-Anon? I have not met anyone at Ricochet who claims to do so. [Ed. Note: According to NPR, the U.S. House of Representatives just denounced Q-Anon by a 371-18 vote.]
So far they haven’t been making TV series-es and movies with everyone wearing masks. But that might be coming.
I knowI’ve heard that there are porn videos being made with masks… wtf could be the point, really?On the other hand, once the backlog caught up, I noticed many of the comic strips had their characters wearing masks. Including Dilbert, which was especially disappointing. Scott Adams, Scott Adams, why hast thou forsaken us???
I am going to say this again. They don’t have any idea how much a state mask mandate changes the R0. All of this money and grief and they have no idea.
I think people should be forced to wear them in certain obviously risky situations, and that’s it.
If a spreader has a mask on, and you spend a long time around them indoors, it isn’t going to make a difference.
And of course, you respond with anti-Southern bigotry and oblique accusations of racism toward someone on the basis of a progressive narrative. Much like you previously kept insisting that it was Southerners who were responsible for ‘inflicting’ the ‘racist’ Trump on the Republican party, despite being told again and again that he received more support from non-Southern states throughout the primary. Just as you are now slandering thousands of innocent people as racist who belong to an organization that is led by a black Cuban, because you are filled with the same irrational animosity and prejudices that afflict your Democrat allies. As for Qanon, they are relatively harmless conspiracy theorists compared to the domestic terrorists and Orwellian racists who effectively dominate the Democrat party.
Gary is like this guy. He’s a lawyer that always makes lawyer arguments as if he’s defending a client instead of arguing like a regular person.
Mayo is in charge of one of the Trump resistance things called Principles First. Everybody around him is funded by Pierre Omidyear. He will babble about propriety, but he’s completely on board with the Lincoln Project.
I think the reality is, the Proud Boys aren’t that bad but Gavin is on tape saying some pretty nutty stuff. This was an excellent interview.
https://babylonbee.com/news/coronavirus-panics-after-testing-positive-for-trump
Recently you commented with a cursory list of false smears against Trump. One of them was the out of context Charlottesville smear that is used to falsely portray Trump as racist. You wrote that Trump said: There are fine people on both sides.
The context of this fragment of what he said is that Trump had immediately and rightly said that he specifically condemns the KKK and nazis. Virtually in the same breath he says that there are also fine people on both sides, referring to those who want to either preserve the statue in Charlottesville for cultural and historical reasons and people who want to have it removed because they find it to be socially offensive.
Will you condemn this slur that deliberately and falsely implies that Trump was condoning racism? And will you retract this slur and admit that you wrote it to falsely impugn and malign Trump? And will you apologize for promoting such a slur on this site to those who read it?
It matters — because slurs — and honesty — matter.
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No, it’s a recognition that something is better then nothing in this case. Wearing a mask helps stop transmission, and we think may lessen the severity of infection if you do get it ( believed to be due to lower initial inoculum of virus). Obviously it would be great if everyone acted like adults and wore the best mask they could, but in reality some are going to just wear a FU face covering, and the government has recognized it’s not worth the strife it would cause to try and force the issue.
Because the virus is loaded on to tiny drops of spit when you breath, and masks filter out a large number of those. Thats how they help.
And clearly has all the brains in the family.
Funny that Gary would use a lawyer joke. He had an absolute snit on 1 thread that was full of lawyer jokes.
There have now been over 100 studies done supporting the use of masks to limit the spread of Covid.
Then the government can put on a dog and pony show about why they work.
Moderators don’t have time to read every comment on every thread. Sometimes we will see something on our own, sometimes it’s because a flag is thrown. Just because someone gets away with something, that doesn’t mean that everyone has carte blanche to do it.
Why? You honestly think anyone on the Anti mask side is going to budge at this point?
Your behavior is to lie and lie. You have never made Amends for that. You won’t even acknowledge your lies. The idea you promptly make amends is absurd.
You have provided all the documentation. Go look. Every mention of Trumpism and Trumpists is your code for it being a cult. You have yet to even disavow that.
Again, just holding you, Gary, to the same standards you hold Trump too. Of course, you are calling that histrionic. It ought to be like looking in a mirror. I should have thought of this sooner.
I’m not exactly “anti-mask.” I simply believe they have limited efficacy out in the wild. Have you seen the way some (many) people wear them??? Under the nose or even under the chin! I see this a lot. And the disturbing videos of mask enforcers assaulting or threatening people who are not wearing masks? Seems a majority of them are wearing masks incorrectly. I’m particularly thinking of the large black woman who karate chopped a maskless woman in the throat as she was walking down from the altar after serving. Stunning.
See comment #142 here about the Charlottesville Hoax:
Clearly he didn’t mean it. (In fact, he is really kind of wedded to the narrative.)
But you are asking for honesty and intellectual consistency from someone who simply is not either…and demonstrably so throughout the pages of Ricochet. Even while making his above “resolution,” he admitted that he has reviewed the evidence but, apparently because he detected Racist Trump in another interview, Gary was going to ignore the actual words Trump used in the Charlottesville interview and deemed him “still not innocent” in this case. Lawyerly my arse.
In fact, this whole theme he seems to be pushing in this thread about “I think like a lawyer” and “I present my arguments like a lawyer” really is laughable to anyone who has been soiled by his presence for way too many years. From his mindless repetition of MSNBC talking points (and habitual disengagement from direct challenges to his already discredited material) to his shallow analyses littered with bubblegum logic (i.e. “Since the passage of the 22nd Amendment…) to his love letters to Adam Schiff during impeachment (“House Manager Adam Schiff spoke with easy fluency in a two hour and twenty minute opening statement. He clearly had mastered his materials; it was a virtuoso performance“), the character he plays on Ricochet is far from the charade he is putting on today. For his own good, he probably needs to get back on his meds.