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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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Dr. Fauci says the cooties don’t spread when you’re sitting down.
How many are actually symptomatic? They never tell us.
No the cooties only spread about 6 feet if you aren’t moving around. Thats why you can sit at a table, an appropriate distance from others and take off your mask. Or would you prefer they shut every bar and restaurant down again?
So just “moving” spreads the cooties now, not only coughing, sneezing, or talking loudly. Wait, I can’t move at the table? This is getting more bizarre by the minute. Let’s all just dig a hole, jump in and pull in the dirt after ourselves.
Good Lord do people actually think like this? I have never thought about who I would shame if COVID-19 was spreading around.
Harrison Bergeron. The healthy must make themselves appear ill . . . for equity!
That thread strikes me as completely nuts, but I have to admit I have never thought about this.
Or are mildly symptomatic and don’t require hospitlization? The hospitalization numbers seem to be the most important numbers to me. That’s what concerned everyone to start with – the hopitalization numbers.
One of our local Never Trumper’s says they keep that data secret there. I have no idea if that’s true. I think North Dakota is pushing their resources pretty hard.
That sounds like an extreme reaction. Aren’t there any other alternatives?
My recall is that in the March and April timeframe when hospital medical professionals would first encounter a case it was likely already at an advanced stage. This may even still be the case for hospitalizations, except for the President it is the opposite. His current point might be very early compared to what the hospital staff has been seeing. That creates uncertainty regarding where his case might go.
I think the point is, hospitalizations are more dependable data to tell you what is happening generally. It’s very tricky to do that with straight testing.
No moving around inside a restaurant you are doing this thing called “breathing“. So if you sit at your table breathing the cooties don’t spread as far as when you walking around breathing. Thats why you wear the mask when you leave your table.
Exactly. It’s really not a big deal if someone tests positive and is either asymptomatic or has a mild case and is never hospitalized. The problem occurs when the hospitals can’t handle the number of cases that enter their doors.
I think the only thing a 25% positivity rate tells us is they’re not testing enough in South Dakota and are probably missing a lot of positive cases that might contribute to spreading the virus. It doesn’t tell us if they’re due for scarce hospital resources (depends on what’s available and the population density (or scarcity) they’re testing), the mortality rate, etc. . .
I hesitated to ‘like’ your post because of the last sentence which I generally find to be a mocking, but upon reading your links and reviewing your post, I think you’re quite right in your actual criticisms.
He did say that he would no longer employ the Charlottesville slur and he sure did go back to throwing it up into the mix of irrational slanders.
Everyone’s entitled to change his mind, but I think you’ve hit the nature of his chronic misrepresentations and parsing head on.
Maybe South Dakotans only show up to get tested if they think they have symptoms of the virus so they get a high positive rate . Nobody knows because there is no control parameter on that process. People behave differently in different parts of this country, surprise!
Most all of the NT embracing the entire Trump/Russia Collusion nonsense well into the growing, then overwhelming evidence of the monumental Obama era FBI/DOJ/IC corruption is what makes me spit on the ground whenever an NT pretends to be a serious person.
Because we are legally wearing the mask.
Good job there, summoning the demon Asmodeus!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LimAIJAzo1U&t=5787
(P.S. it’s well worth watching the whole movie, it’s pretty good. Seems it was intended to be the pilot for another series, created by Gene “Star Trek” Roddenberry.)
He takes it off to ask a question but expects Trump to wear one when Trump is constantly answering questions.
You know what testing rate gives you a positivity rate of 5% or less?
0% testing.
Which one?
Just reporting:
The Absurdity of Covid “Cases” | Mises Wire
I think that it is more accurate to say that Biden has misused the “both sides” quote, and that I have slipped into that on rare occasion. It is also accurate to say that Trump’s behavior during Charlottesville falls far belong what I would ever expect any President, Republican or Democrat. So when I invoke Charlottesville I am invoking the wide spread of Trump’s clearly lacking behavior over three days, but not the “both sides” statement per se. I hope that that clears this up.
I’m talking about Minnesota. They hate Kristie Noem.
The one I’m talking about specifically, is a social justice oriented “Republican”. They love lockdowns, cases, and positivity rates. It’s pathetic.
This NeverTrumper believes that there has never been a full accounting for Trump’s July 25, 2019 bribery of Ukraine’s President.
I am looking forward to the complete results of the Durham investigation, but I am not spending a lot of attention on it.
Gary, Trump lacks experience talking under civic pressure and he’s never had to think about this stuff before. This is why I was totally against him. He is netting out. He has brought fresh eyes to a ton of issues and it’s totally worth it. The Middle East is on auto pilot. Do you want me to list any more?
Two out of four bad things I predicted about him were totally right, but it’s netting out. One of them was foreign policy. It’s been all upside.
Can you imagine what would happen if the freaking deep state would have just let him govern like a normal president?
I other words, not me. Thank you.
I will never forget how much you fell for all the Russia crap as if Putin had actual leverage over him. It’s insane.