Last night, at around 2:00 am, I woke up. Nothing unusual about that. I have middle-age insomnia. After cracking the window and drinking some water, I reached over to pick up my phone and opened twitter. Donald Trump and Melania Trump have COVID. When Steve turned over in bed, I told him.
What’s going to happen next?
Steve and I have Fox News on the TV outside our office. We switched from CNN to FOX yesterday, because we wanted to learn how the other side was framing Trump’s performance. All day yesterday, they said that Trump wasn’t rude. In fact, his performance showed how strong he was and that Biden was weak. You know what they didn’t mention once yesterday? COVID.
Today, it’s all COVID on FOX.
Like Dr. Strange in the Avengers Infinity Wars, I’m going through all the various scenarios: he never gets super sick, he gets super sick, he dies, he infects the White House, he infected Biden, Biden dies, Pelosi gets it, and so on. None of the outcomes are great. Mass panic, political destabilization, martyrdom are all on the table.
I’ll be updating this post all morning.
Apt. 11d 
The Covid death rate per capita in the U.S. is about to pass that of the U.K., putting us ahead of every other wealthy country except Spain (who we will probably pass this year) and Belgium (who deliberately left the elderly to die even when treatment was available).
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Count me among the skeptics. I think overall he benefits from telling people he has COVID. For the record, my husband thinks I am crazy. 😀
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If he’s lying, it’s because he’s had a stroke recently.
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I worry that Trump and his crew will recover quickly or stay asymptomatic and then extrapolate from their experience, telling everyone that’s at worst, it’s like a bad cold…
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I don’t believe this WH on anything. If they said the sun rises in the East, I’d need a fact check. I suspect this is a) A ploy for sympathy b) A way to avoid the next debate c) A way to come out after 2 weeks saying nah, it was like mild flu, we told you Covid is nothing big. or d) all of the above.
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M said, “I don’t believe this WH on anything. If they said the sun rises in the East, I’d need a fact check. I suspect this is a) A ploy for sympathy b) A way to avoid the next debate c) A way to come out after 2 weeks saying nah, it was like mild flu, we told you Covid is nothing big. or d) all of the above.”
Wow, that’s a lot of DC Republicans faking having COVID.
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This story is making the rounds on Twitter with some suggesting that shows this COVID diagnosis is real. It’s possible that the military doesn’t know if this is fake. If that’s the case, we’re 100% f*cked.
https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/america-launched-its-nuclear-doomsday-planes-after-trumps-positive-covid-test/02/10/
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Yeah, I have no doubts that Trump is positive. There is no scenario where this works out to be a positive move for him.
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OK, I’m getting persuaded that it’s real (though I reserve the right to be skeptical).
If Ronna McDaniel and Hope Hicks were also there, that suggests that that event was where it was spread, and Thursday is 5 days post-exposure, which is about the time COVID usually starts showing symptoms and showing up in test results.
(My student who was sick on Tuesday with fever/nausea and had a negative COVID test result Wednesday came back to class yesterday, then a few hours later was told she’d been exposed to someone who tested positive and has had another test. Regardless of her result, I am planning to have a test some time Tues-Thurs.
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positive: Trump, Melania, Ronna McDaniel, Hope HIcks, Mike Lee, John Jenkins
The negative tests don’t mean anything yet.
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BTW, that television looks gorgeous on the wall.
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Thanks! I’m waiting for some new furniture to get delivered. I’ll take pictures after that.
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There are frat houses with a single shared spoon and no soap that have lower rates of transmission than the Trump White House.
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