Hope Hicks, Chris Christie, Thom Tillis, John Jenkins--Sounds like a group straight out of a Marvel Comic.
Yakked-up on steroids and uppers Trump sounds pretty much like the last debate performance he had. Herman Cain tested positive on the 2nd of July and "was feeling better and better, doctors pleased" up until his death on the 30th.
* " President SuperSpreader: He can't even begin to consider the welfare of other people. Not even the gun-toting people who are paid to protect him merit a single thought — Trump will casually risk their lives for a completely pointless five-minute excursion to see his fans waving at him. (As any Roman emperor could have told you, always make sure the Praetorian Guards are happy and satisfied.) A necessary precondition to doing something about a pandemic is thinking it is bad when others get sick or die, but Trump does not care about anyone but himself. All these political pathologies mean that a rational, effective response to the pandemic was never in the cards. It requires a willingness to listen to scientific experts, honesty, and a concern for the lives of others. Trump has none of these, and neither does his party. So long as he remains in office, Americans will have to work around our national leader to fight this problem." https://theweek.com/articles/941873/president-superspreader ****************************************************************************** * " The White House — despite its infinite access to the best resources available — continues to respond to its own coronavirus outbreak about as recklessly as possible. Why it matters: This botched response has jeopardized the health of the president and his staff, and it has set a very poor example in a country that's already done a terrible job handling the virus. What we're watching: White House residence staffers — many of whom are people of color or elderly — are already bearing the burden of this sloppiness, and may continue to, as the Washington Post points out. Two members of the housekeeping department have already tested positive, per the New York Times’ Maggie Haberman. The bottom line: Negligence within the White House led to the leader of the free world being hospitalized with a deadly virus. This same negligence has exposed hundreds of people to the disease, who are doubtlessly exposing hundreds more people — within the White House complex, in the day care centers and gyms of Washington, D.C., and in states including New Jersey and Minnesota, where the president traveled before he was diagnosed. Incompetence and recklessness have plagued America’s coronavirus response since the beginning of the pandemic. And the recklessness starts at the top." https://www.axios.com/white-house-coronavirus-trump-0da4f86d-b725-4a7e-8599-3a73978dafb4.html ************************************************************************************* * " We had hoped that perhaps once Mr. Trump tested positive, once he was on oxygen and had to be hospitalized, he would be chastened, perhaps gaining a better understanding of the fear and anger across the country at his botched handling of the pandemic. Mr. Trump shows no sign of undergoing any such epiphany. His tweet suggests that he is returning to the tactic of happy talk that has characterized his disastrous response to the pandemic all year long. To say that people should not be afraid is to slight the memory of the more than 1 million who have died, including 209,000 Americans. It demeans the thousands more who have endured frightening illness and, in many cases, continue to suffer persistent symptoms. It disrespects the additional thousands of nurses, doctors, cleaners and other front-line workers who have risked their own lives and health to care for the ill. Mr. Trump shows not a shred of awareness that his own abdication of duty, failing to mount an effective pandemic response, played a major role in the United States suffering the highest coronavirus death toll in the world. No one has explained why he is being treated with the steroid dexamethasone, usually reserved for the seriously ill. The White House physician, Sean Conley, refused to say Monday when Mr. Trump last tested negative, a critical timestamp that would help determine how long he has been infected. Mr. Trump has regarded face masks with foolhardy contempt, displaying the same bravado with which he summoned states to reopen, held mass rallies without social distancing or masks, and tamped down warnings of danger from government experts. In the past few days, this casual disregard for others has been on display again, including in an inexplicable joyride outside Walter Reed National Military Medical Center that put at risk those in the vehicle with him. There has been no sign of contact tracing at the White House as the contagion has spread down the corridors. This is a most callous hubris. Dr. Conley’s evasiveness, on top of the president’s own bubbly tweet, will only feed suspicions of a coverup." https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...9a2eda-074a-11eb-859b-f9c27abe638d_story.html ************************************************************************************** * " The real recklessness of Trump’s discharge is not personal; it’s the rest of us that he’s putting in harm’s way. By spinning his own illness, and denying its seriousness—“I feel better than I did 20 years ago!” he tweeted—he encourages his followers to deny reality; while receiving the world’s best medical care, he tells other Americans to embrace risk. After his discharge, Trump arrived at the White House, where he posed, maskless, on a balcony overlooking the South Lawn. He is in the midst of an active coronavirus infection—and so, in the coming days, there’s a good chance that he will pass the virus on to others who work at the White House, which has now become a viral hot zone. He seems determined to be the Superspreader-in-Chief. Sean Conley, the White House physician, has assured Americans that Trump “is back.” In a way, Conley is right. The President is spreading the virus and misinformation, as usual." https://www.newyorker.com/science/m...essness-in-trumps-discharge-from-the-hospital ***************************************************************************************** White House refusing to contact trace: " This is a total abdication of responsibility by the Trump administration,” said Dr. Joshua Barocas, a public health expert at Boston University, who has advised the City of Boston on contact tracing. “The idea that we’re not involving the C.D.C. to do contact tracing at this point seems like a massive public health threat.” The White House official, who declined to be identified because he was not authorized to speak about the matter, said that the administration was following C.D.C. guidelines that recommend focusing on contacts within a two-day window from diagnosis. But public health experts said it was irresponsible to ignore the earlier gathering at the Rose Garden. “You cannot argue against the fact that five or six people who attended that event all got infected, unless you argue that that was all random chance,” said Dr. Yvonne Maldonado, an epidemiologist and contact tracing expert. “There were a lot of people working at that event, and so they need to be contact tracing that whole event.” https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/05/health/contact-tracing-white-house.html
If you are only able to learn by experiencing things firsthand - you are not very good at processing data and should consider a career as a crash test dummy.
Has anyone looked into the experimental Regeneron treatment (that less than a dozen people around the world have been given)? They developed it by using embryonic stem cells from unused invitro embryos. It's interesting that Trump wants to brag about this treatment, but pretend to be pro-life elsewhere.
As Trump Seeks to Project Strength, Doctors Disclose Alarming Episodes Peter Baker and Maggie Haberman Mon, October 5, 2020, 8:08 AM EDT President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence walk to an event at the White House in Washington, Monday, Sept. 28, 2020, where the president spoke about the coronavirus pandemic. (Tom Brenner/ For The New York Times) More WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump sought to dispel any perception of weakness Sunday with a surprise and seemingly risky outing from his hospital bed to greet supporters even as his doctors once again rewrote the official narrative of his illness by acknowledging two alarming episodes they had previously not disclosed. The doctors said that Trump’s blood oxygen level dropped twice in the two days after he was diagnosed with the coronavirus, requiring medical intervention, and that he had been put on steroids, suggesting his condition might be more serious than initially described. But they insisted that his situation had improved enough since then that he could be released from the hospital as early as Monday. The acknowledgment of the episodes raised new questions about the credibility of the information provided about the commander in chief of a superpower as he is hospitalized with a disease that has killed more than 209,000 people in the United States. With the president determined not to concede weakness and facing an election in just 30 days, officials acknowledged providing rosy assessments to satisfy their prickly patient. Determined to reassert himself on the political stage on his third day in the hospital, Trump made an unannounced exit from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in the early evening, climbing into his armored Chevrolet Suburban to ride past supporters holding Trump flags gathered outside the building. Wearing a suit jacket and face mask but no tie, Trump waved at the crowd through a closed window as his motorcade slowly cruised by before returning him to the hospital. “It’s been a very interesting journey,” Trump said in a one-minute video posted on Twitter, looking stronger and sounding more energetic than he had the last couple of days. “I learned a lot about COVID. I learned it by really going to school. This is the real school. This isn’t the let’s-read-the-books school. And I get it. And I understand it. And it’s a very interesting thing and I’m going to be letting you know about it.” Trump’s camera-friendly, morale-boosting “surprise visit,” however, may have masked the reality of his condition, and his seeming energy may have reflected the fact that he was given the steroid dexamethasone, according to medical experts. Dexamethasone has been shown to help patients who are severely ill with COVID-19, but it is typically not used in mild or moderate cases of the disease. Moreover, some medical experts said Trump’s trip out of the hospital was reckless, unnecessarily putting both hospital staff members and Secret Service agents at risk for a stunt. Others questioned the president’s statement in his video that he had met soldiers while at Walter Reed. “Every single person in the vehicle during that completely unnecessary Presidential ‘drive-by’ just now has to be quarantined for 14 days,” Dr. James Phillips, an attending physician at Walter Reed, wrote on Twitter. “They might get sick. They may die. For political theater. Commanded by Trump to put their lives at risk for theater. This is insanity.”
They would have fewer confirmed cases of Covid-19, if they'd just stop testing for it, like President Dumb-Fuck says!
