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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 think that you missed my point. An apology is not appropriate as what I said was insensitive, not wrong in and of itself. And I am sorry that I created such a kerfuffle.
I remember talking to another attorney who had just witnessed a car accident. Instead of going immediately to compassion, she started to think about who would be liable for the accident. It is an occupational hazard. And it is what it is.
200 feet away alone in a field. Do you remember that part?
Hard to know these days. I’m getting sick to death of all the $#!+ floating around. And joking about the subject of someone contracting COVID is grating.
All the scare stuff about hydroxychloroquine is so absurd. It’s been around for YEARS. When my husband travelled to Africa for work, he took it as a malaria prophylactic, it’s used to treat lupus, etc. It’s not the only treatment, it’s “A” treatment. The only reason it has been pilloried is because Trump mentioned it and used it. Another reason that he should have limited his pronouncements about COVID. But that’s never going to happen.
I just pray he has a light case and recovers.
Yes, but we simply have to be able to forgive each other if this nation is going to survive. There was more brotherly feeling after the Civil War in this country than between some quarters in America right now.
I’m hoping to open Gary’s eyes to the wickedness of wishing the Left on us patriots, Christians, Jews, immigrants who are fugitives from communism. . . I will be happy to forgive him — delighted, actually — if he acknowledges that his anti-Trumpism is de facto support for the terrorists on our streets ruining peoples’ lives and livelihoods. This election isn’t about Trump. It’s about America-lovers versus America-haters. Choose a side.
I remember that. I also remember the whole quote:
“I don’t wear masks like him. Every time you see him he’s got a mask. He could be speaking 200 feet away from anybody, he’s got the biggest mask I’ve ever seen.”
Here’s a link to the clip.
The “200 feet” was typical Trump exaggeration. The point is, that he was mocking Biden for being careful.
Trump refused to wear a mask at all during the first three or four months of the pandemic. Biden’s not much, but at least he’s trying to set a good example – something that Trump, as the President of the United States, should have been doing as soon as we knew that they made a difference.
Pot, meet Kettle.
I guess it’s official now. If Biden (or whoever that is) should win I will have to wear a rag….I mean a mask for the rest of my life. The government will not allow me to take it off. However, we still have time to change this.
Last time I checked my watch this was still the United States of America!!
The case fatality rate for COVID-19 infected people age 60 to 79 is currently about 3% in Germany. It’s probably similar in the US.
Who makes a clone that’s just as bad as the original?
The left, I suppose…
If President Trump dies of COVID, will he still relinquish the office? Over to you, Don Lemon…
My immediate reaction is always to call 911. Even an attorney should be able to do that.
These people.
How can Democrats be running the “Trump ist Russian Stooge!” garbage . . . still!
An analogy.
A lawyer, a minister and an engineer were to be guillotined.
The lawyer was to be executed first. The lanyard was pulled but nothing happened. The lawyer said “You were only given one chance to execute me, so I must go free.”
The minister was next. The lanyard was pulled but nothing happened. The minister said “Thanks be to God!”
While the engineer was being led to the guillotine, he interjected, “If you will notice the screw at the top of the guillotine has come loose, and is blocking the blade.”
Engineers got to solve problems. Lawyers got to do cold-blooded analysis.
You’re not helping.
Common sense suggests that wearing a cloth mask that’s not airtight would offer little protection against a tiny, airborne virus. Common sense suggests that asymptomatic people don’t usually spread diseases. Common sense suggests that you only need to wear a mask if you are sick and coughing or sneezing, and if so, you should probably just stay home.
Of course, common sense can be wrong sometimes.
This Joe Biden?
Biden wears a black Make America Mask Again face covering to promote his candidacy, to court and promote the fear vote, not to aid public health.
Another analogy.
In the 1988 Presidential Debates, Bernard Shaw began by asking Michael Dukakis if he would oppose the death penalty if his wife Kitty were raped and murdered.
A normal human being would exclaim “What! How would I feel if my wife were raped and murdered! I would rip him apart with my own hands”
Michael Dukakis is a lawyer. He answered the exact question before him, coldly and dispassionately. Dukakis lost the debate and later the election.
For better or worse, lawyers are trained in law school and in the courtroom to not react emotionally but dispassionately. If you are ever wrongly accused of a crime, or wrongly accused of abusing your children, you will be very, very grateful that that is our training. But, it sometimes gets us in trouble when faced with an issue where everyone else is reacting with heartfelt emotions and we are reacting as a CPA.
Simple explanation: One can’t be cured of vile and stupid.
Alternative explanation: They really believe the voters are that vile and stupid. Enough of them to elect Democrats, anyway.
Maybe I shouldn’t have used the word neurotic. But I do think that mask wearing is largely ineffectual play acting. Maybe ten percent of people I see wearing masks don’t cover their noses. Everyone — in the Press corps and in my public view — touches his mask frequently, then his pen or he taps his phone. And you can tell by the masks that they are brand new and clean, have not been worn for hours. For me, they cut off fresh cool air and every ten minutes I have to pull out the chin so I can take several deep breaths. And they get soaked in ten or fifteen minutes, so that when I readjust it, it makes my fingers wet with whatever I’ve been breathing. And the seals around the mouth and chin are not hermetic, they are crude and cursory.
Masks stop sneezes and perhaps coughs, but not breathed air from circulating in the store’s or the room’s air. This air is what the next person breathes even if they are ten seconds behind me in the aisle or in the next cubicle. And the masks’ perforations are big enough to let virus bodies through, and catch only droplets; but if the mask is saturated then the viri flow through, especially if you are touching and pulling on it to readjust it.
In the hospital, mask are thrown away after each brief use and do what they were designed for. This is not done by the public.
People seem to have forgotten the common sense uttered early on. Masks don’t protect you; they protect others from you. One should assume he is infected and show enough consideration for others to wear the mask. That’s how masks work, if at all.
Well, Murphy is a Connecticut Senator. They also keep sending Blumenthal back to the Senate.
But, I mean, pundits are vile and stupid, so I expect that sort of talk from them. When Senators say these sorts of things, it is injurious to the health of the nation.
They know that. They don’t care.
I am reminded of Jadis of Charn, ruling over a world that she utterly destroyed.
Oh. Sorry. I meant Biden is a robot. Clones are identical and just as bad as the original.
Really? You don’t believe the Left and Democrats (but, I repeat) hate America and us deplorables? How could they not? The country was founded on racism and slavery, our capitalist system exploits workers, we’re imperialists, imposing our will on other countries, we want to take away a woman’s “right” to choose whether her offspring lives or dies. . . We are the very definition of evil. I would hate America if I believed what the Left believes.
I was going to say. Which is to also say that those taunting the President for getting COVID by not wearing a mask — it’s actually someone in his vicinity who didn’t wear a mask. But those who hate the President are going to say it’s his fault anyway. See above.
You don’t seem able to think like a lawyer when it comes to Trump.
*https://www.econlib.org/impoverishing-economic-illiteracy/
https://www.barrons.com/articles/one-reason-ppe-gloves-are-hard-to-buy-china-tariffs-51586944801
That’s what I’m taking about.
I believe that people like you need to be driven out of the Republican party because you keep calling us racist.
Yet again, we see the COC does not apply to you.
Right, because Trump’s policies made it all but impossible to obtain throw away masks for the first five months of the pandemic:
https://www.econlib.org/impoverishing-economic-illiteracy/
https://www.barrons.com/articles/one-reason-ppe-gloves-are-hard-to-buy-china-tariffs-51586944801
Why would he tested positive? It’s his dirty trick.