So, Trump is saying he has Covid.

Annachie wrote:

orelsi wrote:Lets see what we have here:

- TDS - check
- lack of self-awareness - check
- horrible person - check

Carry on.

But enough about you orelsi.

Apparently he's been transported to Walter Reed "just in case"

Given the facilities at the White House,somebody is damn worried.

But then, at around a 4% chance of death, and around 10% to 15% of long term complications, they should be.

cthia wrote:
Are those stats for the young and healthy or the old and sickly? We don't know Trump's preexisting conditions, but we do know he's old.

If they are smarter than a fifth-grader, his constituents should be rummaging the stores for face masks, without face masks because they never bought any.

orelsi wrote:Lets see what we have here:

- TDS - check
- lack of self-awareness - check
- horrible person - check

Carry on.

gcomeau wrote:So here's where we are...

1. Trump is (at least they claim) tested daily before leaving for that days scheduled meetings and events.

2. After it went public Hope Hicks was positive the White House claimed they were testing Trump again and reported a positive result in the early hours of Friday morning. So he was, we are supposed to believe, testing negative every day up to then.

3. Within hours it moved to "Trump has mild symptoms"

4. Within a few more hours, moderate symtoms.

5. Within a few more hours, they're flying him to Walter Reed. At this point people are starting to get curious about what is apparently the fastest developing case of Covid on record on planet earth. And everyone is waiting for the next developments.

6. Then all of a sudden there's news he's being administered an experimental treatment that is "compassionate use only" authorized in the US. Jumping straight to giving untested experimental treatments to the president of the US within a day of him being diagnosed and supposedly with mildto moderate symptoms is seen as... suspect.

7. This morning we get a briefing from his medical team and personal physician, and here's where things get entertaining. His physician is bizarrely evasive when asked simple questions like whether Trump was administered oxygen... and then comes the slip. He admits Trump was put on his Regeneron treatments 48 hours ago, and his diagnosis with Covid was 72 hours ago.

So what does that mean? He tested positive WEDNESDAY (at the latest). Likely in the morning since that's when he gets his daily test.

After testing positive they informed nobody.

Trump still went to events and meetings Wednesday. Then he attended another event Thursday. No social distancing no masks.

The picture emerging here is pretty clear. It looks an awful lot like they were hoping he was going to be an asymptomatic or very mildly symptomatic case. They had a good 50% chance after all. If he was they were never going to tell anyone he had it. Anyone he gave it to while he was running around contagious and asymptomatic... too bad, they would have deniability they got it from Trump as long as he wasn't showing symptoms and could just pretend like they must have gotten it somewhere else. Anyone who died as a result, oh well.

Then he started showing symptoms. Probably late Thursday roughly. There are reports he was lethargic at the fundraiser he attended.

Then they were screwed, and the scramble to concoct the cover story began but the time frames didn't quite work with him showing symptoms now. And then Trump's doctor let the cat out of the bag on national television this morning.


(And in the meantime, while his doctor was desperately tap dancing in front of the cameras trying to paint the rosiest possible picture of Trump's condition "someone" anonymously leaked that Trump was in a condition of serious concern... exact phrasing given to the press was “the president’s vitals over the last 24 hours were very concerning and the next 48 hours will be critical in terms of his care. We’re still not on a clear path to a full recovery.”

The anonymous source is outed as almost certainly being Mark Meadows almost immediately since he was caught on camera talking to the press during the briefing. Any bets on whether he stays in his job until election time?)