The reports of Trump testing positive are starting to come out...
And it’s official. Trump has Covid.
Last edited by Joker; 10-01-2020 at 10:10 PM.
The real answer is that the media knows most people are stupid and can only handle one big stat that covers everything instead of an electoral or state by state breakdown. It also usually decides the winner anyways so over 90% of the time it’s an easy blanket statistic.
The fact Donald Trump himself caught COVID (most likely from his own staff) highlights the failure of his own efforts of minimizing the public's fears of the disease. If the president of the United States can get it, what makes you certain you won't? And given that he has wanted to spend over $300 million of the CDC's funding on propaganda that touts how everything's just fine in America, this is only going to get worse.
Hopefully, nothing truly bad happens, but obviously, Trump ain't learning any humility from this. Worst case scenario, however, we're getting Mike Pence for a few weeks.
He is not a healthy man. It's going to be very interesting to see how this plays out. He will of course, have the best doctors looking after him.
2 days ago he was mocking Biden for being too cautious.
Anyways this is bad for the country regardless. We have a President who needs to be in quarantine for two weeks. If he actually gets symptoms we run the spectrum of whether he gets sick enough to need the 25th for awhile and swear Pence in to worst case.
Odious as the man is, I honestly would not wish that the sickness goes badly for him, just for the sake of having something bad happen to a bad person. I'd wish him a quick recovery, if just thinking of him.
But Jesus Christ, consider how he's already played it down. If he does not get serious symptoms and gets over it quickly, look forward to him swearing it's no worse than a cold, and saying how the numbers of people who have died are only fake and a hoax. Obviously then, all those people died from something else, and the seriousness of Covid has only been made up to hurt his re-election.
It does not matter if that's not true. At this point, him getting better quickly is absolutely the worst thing that could happen.
Be kind to me, or treat me mean
I'll make the most of it, I'm an extraordinary machine
The whole situation is not good.
If he dies, we get Pence. What happens to the campaign if Trump died from Covid before the election?