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Trump Tests Positive For Covid-19

Rhea said:
How many other covid patients have been discharged one day after getting steroid treatments, or in the middle of a 5-day experimental regimen?

It all sounds like bullshit. What's wrong with, wait and see what Monday brings?
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Agree completely. I am not hearing the truth from any of them.

Ruth
 
Dexamethasone

Trump is receiving dexamethasone, a steroid usually given to patients with severe Covid-19

To treat his Covid-19, President Trump has started receiving dexamethasone, a common steroid that has been shown to be helpful in people with severe cases of the disease but that doctors warn should not be used early in the course of the illness.

The announcement from Trump’s medical team Sunday morning that the president is on dexamethasone is sure to increase speculation about the president’s illness and was at odds with the generally upbeat description of his condition provided by his physicians. His doctors said Trump had not had a fever since Friday morning and did not have any shortness of breath. One even said that, if Trump “continues to feel and look as well as he does today,” their goal was for him to return to the White House on Monday.

Dexamethasone is generally reserved for patients who have serious disease. The National Institutes of Health’s treatment guidelines for Covid-19 say dexamethasone should be used only in hospitalized patients who are on ventilators or who require supplemental oxygen, and specifically “recommends against using dexamethasone for the treatment of Covid-19 in patients who do not require supplemental oxygen.”
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A group of people ignore a beloved woman's dying wish and rush to take advantage of her death.

They hold an event to announce their corrupt plan...
...and then one by one they start falling ill.

Gotta admit, it's all very Stephen King.
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Or karma.
 
Hopefully he is back at it within a week.

This is nothing but bad. If he dies, then we don't get to vote (and, I would hope, win) against Trumpism. Trump dies and the authoritarian conservatives have a martyr and, to them, his death becomes the only reason Biden wins the presidency. What badly needs to happen is this: Trump lives and loses big on Nov 3, then everyone will know that the majority of America stands against Trumpism.

A fucking germ determining how this political battle goes... that's so fucked up. COVID can't help anyone "win". Winning requires the will of the people coming out on top.
 
They were never going to accept Biden anyway, because Trump has already convinced them that the election is rigged and if Biden wins it’s because of cheating.

If Trump is no longer President after Jan 20, 2021, I don’t really care how we get there.
 
Mark Meadows while Trump’s doctor’s press conference was happening

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So apparently Trump left the hospital to get in a car to get adulation from the idiot supporters outside the hospital.

So Trump endangered the health of Secret Service and whomever else in transit in the hospital.

Then we have the images of Trump “working” in a room WITHOUT A MASK!
 
Jimmy Higgins said:
So apparently Trump left the hospital to get in a car to get adulation from the idiot supporters outside the hospital.

So Trump endangered the health of Secret Service and whomever else in transit in the hospital.

Then we have the images of Trump “working” in a room WITHOUT A MASK!
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I guess doubling his polling deficit after the brawl debate wasn't enough of a sign...
 
Jimmy Higgins said:
So apparently Trump left the hospital to get in a car to get adulation from the idiot supporters outside the hospital.

So Trump endangered the health of Secret Service and whomever else in transit in the hospital.
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The White House - including Trump - put an entire branch of the federal government at risk. Knowing you have people infected with the virus and continuing to act as if nothing's wrong was appallingly irresponsible. The President, the Vice President, senior advisors, cabinet members, anyone who was on Air Force One...they all could have been infected. So far it's what? Eight others? Ten? The next couple weeks will probably bring more confirmed cases, and whatever you think about Trump and his administration, the fact is that they risked seriously impacting the operation of the Executive Branch. That's not just a matter of optics or poll numbers, but national security.
 
Shadowy Man said:
They were never going to accept Biden anyway, because Trump has already convinced them that the election is rigged and if Biden wins it’s because of cheating.

If Trump is no longer President after Jan 20, 2021, I don’t really care how we get there.
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You should. The GOP has a long and well documented history of answering the question, "Who could be worse than [politician X]?"

And the answer is consistently horrific.
 
Ford said:
Jimmy Higgins said:
So apparently Trump left the hospital to get in a car to get adulation from the idiot supporters outside the hospital.

So Trump endangered the health of Secret Service and whomever else in transit in the hospital.
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The White House - including Trump - put an entire branch of the federal government at risk. Knowing you have people infected with the virus and continuing to act as if nothing's wrong was appallingly irresponsible. The President, the Vice President, senior advisors, cabinet members, anyone who was on Air Force One...they all could have been infected. So far it's what? Eight others? Ten? The next couple weeks will probably bring more confirmed cases, and whatever you think about Trump and his administration, the fact is that they risked seriously impacting the operation of the Executive Branch. That's not just a matter of optics or poll numbers, but national security.
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Plus they are not letting top Congresspeople know about his condition, who should know for national security reasons at least. They are finding out about his status the same way the rest of us are---press conferences, reporting, tweets, etc. Nothing more direct.
 
The lesson in Trump catching Covid: all the lies in the world can't hold reality at bay | Donald Trump | The Guardian
This should be a wake-up call for this administration: a chance to plot a corrective path in tackling the virus. There is no chance of that happening. If Trump emerges from the sickness, he and his supporters will press his recovery into the service of yet more propaganda about his strength and resilience. Or he will use his comeback as ammunition to prove that the coronavirus is indeed an exaggerated threat.

He will find a way to weaponise his brush with the virus against Joe Biden – who, he will claim, is a fragile man who doesn’t know how Americans feel because he remained cloistered away, safe from the virus, hiding behind his mask. Trump’s illness, contracted as a result of his carelessness and arrogance, will be recast as evidence of his being a man of the people – who mingled with his public so much that he also fell to the virus.

If Trump’s condition worsens, on the other hand, expect a season of conspiracy theories, and a potential crisis of democracy. This is not an administration that can manage well in times of stability, let alone crisis. For a party whose president had already threatened not to leave the White House in the event of an electoral defeat, more suspensions of the norm will be attempted: the stakes are too high and the time before polling day too short to waste a single breath on humility.
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Trump, Covid and empathy for the world's least empathetic man | Donald Trump | The Guardian
But hold on: why should we feel empathy for one of the most unempathetic people in the world?

One reason is out of respect. He’s a human being. He’s our president.

Yet there’s an asymmetry here. While the Biden campaign has taken down all negative television advertising, the Trump campaign’s negative ads continue non-stop.

And at almost the same time that Biden, Harris and Obama offered prayers and consoling words, the Trump campaign blasted “Lyin’ Obama and Phony Kamala Harris” and charged that “Sleepy Joe isn’t fit to be YOUR President”.
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I think that Joe Biden's campaign should restart those ads. Or compose ads showing him and Kamala Harris as very healthy and fit and active.
Can you imagine if Biden had contracted Covid rather than Trump? Trump would be all over him. He’d attack Biden as weak, feeble and old. He’d mock Biden’s mask-wearing – “See, masks don’t work!” – and lampoon his unwillingness to hold live rallies: “Guess he got Covid in his basement!”

How can we even be sure Trump has the disease? He’s lied about everything else. Maybe he’ll reappear in a day or two, refreshed and relaxed, saying, “Covid is no big deal.” He’ll claim he took hydroxychloroquine, and it cured him. He’ll boast that he won the “battle” with Covid because he’s strong and powerful, without crediting the best medical care money can buy
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That's what Joy-Ann Reid got a lot of, that a lot of people were skeptical of Trump's initial announcement.
 
When medical professionals treat infected patients, they normally wear full protective gear, not just face masks. That includes eye protection, head covering, and gloves. Although COVID-19 is transmitted primarily through the air, cloth masks do not completely stop people from spreading it. It can become aerosolized and hang around in the air for a long time, as it likely did inside Trump's limo. I doubt that any of his doctors wanted him to grandstand like he did in the motorcade today. He may feel well, but he can still be very sick and shedding virus. He tweeted "I get it", but he clearly doesn't. As usual, experience has taught him very little.
 
Angry Floof said:
Trump and his fucking Nazi followers would like to eradicate whole groups of people. Fuck him and his mindless authority-fellating mongrel base.
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Elixir said:
If I thought there was a tri-omni entity that was attentive to my prayers, I would pray that when I awoke tomorrow the planet would be inhabited by only around 1 billion humans
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Fascinating.
 
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