Trump tests positive for coronavirus

[Fionalein]

After he's gone you will have to ask the Canadians to burn down the White House a second time... for desinfecting this time.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

After he's gone you will have to as the Canadians to burn down the White House a second time... for desinfecting this time.

It's slowly sinking in for me that the US has gone from a myth of getting rid of "mad King George" (whose mental problems didn't start until 1788-9) in 1776 to the actuality of having to deal, one way or another, with mad President Donald in 2020.

(And declaring a regency was then, and is now, considerably easier than is invoking the 25th Amendment).

 

[Kara Spengler]

After he's gone you will have to ask the Canadians to burn down the White House a second time... for desinfecting this time.

I already wanted Biden to request the building be sterilized with fire before moving in months ago.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

 

[Veritable Quandry]

He does not look well. Difficulty breathing, poor balance. He seems about to collapse.

 

[Aribeth Zelin]

It's slowly sinking in for me that the US has gone from a myth of getting rid of "mad King George" (whose mental problems didn't start until 1788-9) in 1776 to the actuality of having to deal, one way or another, with mad President Donald in 2020.

(And declaring a regency was then, and is now, considerably easier than is invoking the 25th Amendment).

My theory is that, the Colonists, having been told that the Native peoples were English citizens as well, had a fit and complained about taxes.... then again, the founding fathers were all rich people - who to this day complain about paying their taxes >.<.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

 

[Pamela]

song now stuck in head. THANKS.

Hey! Could be worse.

 

[Pancake]

If this was a movie I’d be bashing the author for such an absurd, low effort, one dimensional portrayal of a “bad” President. Even the evil characters in stories need some sort of depth or redeeming quality.

This from someone who read most of John Norman’s work and was willing to suspend disbelief that human women willingly turn into sex slaves when taken off planet.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Hey! Could be worse.

 

[Kara Spengler]

Well, the magats are now cheering that they think covid is less dangerous than they thought before. Yay.

It will not be too soon until covid kills that bastard.

 

[Jopsy Pendragon]

in his case, it should be "steroids can make one feel good enough to golf-cart themselves to the morgue".

I give it even odds, between: Expiring from the exertion of tweeting in 'presidential time' while watching FOX or while tooling along in a go-cart making up great scores score for swings/putts he's not even stopping to make.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

LOL, no. He's gasping for air because seconds before that closeup he had to haul his old, obese body up the Portico stairs, that's all.

He's fine. He's gonna be fine.

I can barely stomach those words, but it's true. I'm not even one of the ones who wanted him to get like deathly ill; I just thought that maybe, maybe he would have enough of an experience that would be impossible for him and his doctors to ignore or spin. How freaking stupid was that? Trump getting his life saved by a world-class team of exclusively-assigned doctors and then strutting out like it was all him and telling the rest of the country to suck it up and eat cake is exactly what would happen in 2020; how could we have expected any differently?

If you guys wanna keep waiting and hoping for the next few days like "Covid Time" is the new "Mueller Time", you go ahead. I'm not gonna.

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

Aww, man! McEninny got the virus too? Now who's going to gaslight the press corps while she's in isolation?

 

[Free]

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

And...now I'm back to thinking it was a stunt. An obese man, older person like himself who lives on junk food gets Covid and it's poof, gone in a weekend?

It's the calm before the storm. I'm thinking the worst of the disease is yet to come. He's currently so doped up right now that he's feeling positively invincible. I'm betting he'll be rushed to the ICU within a week.

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

 

[Free]

Yes, I'm sure the people who HAD to ride along with you would have called you rude as well.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

He's fine. He's gonna be fine.

I don't think, at this stage, anyone can know for sure how things are going to turn out.

The key time, for anyone who's proved symptomatic, is a week to ten days after they first tested positive, at which point their immune system either will have fought off the virus or goes into overdrive as the infection spreads to the lungs.

Boris Johnson announced on Friday March 27 that he'd tested positive. His symptoms were comparatively mild until Sunday April 5, when he was admitted to hospital with breathing problems and moved to the ICU on the evening of Monday April 6. Until then, he was isolating in the flat at 10 Downing Street, chaired cabinet meetings remotely, and worked on his Red Boxes as best he could. That's in line with everything else I've read and NHS treatment policy, and with your CDC guidance.

Among patients who developed severe disease, the median time to dyspnea from the onset of illness or symptoms ranged from 5 to 8 days, the median time to acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) from the onset of illness or symptoms ranged from 8 to 12 days, and the median time to ICU admission from the onset of illness or symptoms ranged from 10 to 12 days. Clinicians should be aware of the potential for some patients to rapidly deteriorate one week after illness onset.

So I don't think anyone, including Trump's doctors, can know what sort of shape he's going to be in this time next week.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]