Trump tests positive for coronavirus. Discuss.

To the poster up above, I don’t know any right wingers that celebrated RBG’s death. Maybe some radical nut jobs, but typical right wingers are still humans with empathy.

I doubt Trump will be hospitalized. He may be older and a bit overweight, but the guy moves nonstop. He doesn’t smoke and doesn’t drink, so that’s better than 90% of the population. Of course he has a higher probability than a college kid, but my guess is he and Melania get the proper care early and show little symptoms.

I don’t see this as necessarily bad. There’s a decent chance Trump comes through with no symptoms and the “COVID risk is overblown ” idea is vindicated.

It also shows a bit about the futility of avoidance. It’s everywhere, even the Oval Office! You can’t hide, so stop trying.

Or he dies, and honestly I’d feel better about voting for Pence than anyone else on the tickets.

end the nonsense wrote:

Or he dies, and honestly I’d feel better about voting for Pence than anyone else on the tickets.

I think feeling good about voting for someone who supports 'gay conversion therapy' is pretty standard for letsrun.

The guy's a religious loony.

Trump gets Covid, election gets postponed, Trump has a miraculous recovery. Desperate times.

KiwiG wrote:

Trump gets Covid, election gets postponed, Trump has a miraculous recovery. Desperate times.

Elections don't get postponed because someone is sick

douglas burke wrote:

My guess is ANY President would have the absolute best Doctors available.

They do have the absolute best TRADITIONAL medicine doctors armed with the latest in traditional medicine. The problem is that the traditional protocol hasn't been updated to include very promising nontraditional approaches at the first sign of illness or in this case, a positive test... megadoses of vitamin D, intravenous vitamin C, zinc with a carrier drug (hydroxychloroquine).

There are reports of doctors using all these therapeutics successfully, but they aren't used because they haven't been tested. They haven't been tested because medical dogma assumes vitamins and supplements will have no benefit. It's a catch 22.

trollism wrote:

end the nonsense wrote:

Or he dies, and honestly I’d feel better about voting for Pence than anyone else on the tickets.

I think feeling good about voting for someone who supports 'gay conversion therapy' is pretty standard for letsrun.

The guy's a religious loony.

Debunked.

There actually have been a lot of good posts in this thread.

There are so many scenarios.

He has the positive result but never gets sick. People might get the message that it's not a big deal.

He gets very sick. Could that actually help people get the message that it is serious?

Boris Johnson in the UK got very sick but it seems like old news.

He dies before the election. Or Biden dies. That's a crazy scenario in October.

We learn more about the virus because there is so much testing and so many precautions going on with the president.

Where I am, schools are supposed to reopen in a month. Trump's prognosis could effect that.

We do know this will halt his campaign traveling. I don't see any more in-person debates happening.

I don't think he will go on camera if he's sick, except for a minute at a time while he composes himself.

Gee, thanks DOCTOR!

[quote]L L wrote:

There actually have been a lot of good posts in this thread.

There are so many scenarios.

He has the positive result but never gets sick. People might get the message that it's not a big deal.

And that's bad how?

Rupp fan wrote:

I hope that the president and first lady have a mild case and get better soon. But I am worried about how this could affect the election. President Trump is obviously going to miss at least one debate. And if he or the first lady have complications, one could argue that the election should be postponed. These are uncharted waters.

There is no reason or mechanism to postpone the election.

energeticlotuseater wrote:

CarbonFiberJoe wrote:

https://mobile.twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1311892190680014849

Discuss this course of events.

Hopefully when Trump, an obese 74 year old man who is also arguably the most infamous man in the world, survives COVID-19 with almost no symptoms we can move one step closer to ending this COVID hysteria.

And if he doesn't?

There's really only two scenarios that will determine which way this goes.

If Trump is asymptomatic or recovers with very mild symptoms (no hospitalization) then I believe the tide will turn and People will conclude the virus is way overblown and hyped up. Many people ople will also think the masks are overrated and mean nothing. After all, Trump is in higher risk category for complications being in his 70s, overweight & sedentary, plus the stress of the job. So, people, particular older adults ,will simply conclude the coronavirus isn't that bad if it didn't affect the President.

OTOH, a trip to the ICU or worst, no one will question the seriousness of the virus and just about everyone will fully comply with masks & social distancing. It may also add more weight to mandatory Covid vaccines.

Remember President Lukashenko of Belarus called the virus a hoax from the get go but months later tested positive. He was asymptomatic and it was business as usual for the dictator - so he got the last laugh:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/509399-belarus-president-who-suggested-vodka-cured-covid-19-says-he%3famp

The next couple of weeks will be very interesting; will Trump end up like Lukashenko or will he end up like Boris Johnson?

stan the corgi wrote:

Gee, thanks DOCTOR!

I'm not a doctor, but you're welcome. The research and reports are out there. Over 30 clinical trials are in place to study vitamin D as a preventive or as a therapeutic, but they probably won't be reporting until next year.

Meanwhile, I did a quick search and did find the first clinical trial to report on vitamin D. Look at the data and make your own decision on whether vitamin D might help.

76 patients were divided into a vitamin D group of 50 and a control group of 26.

In the control group, half (13) were admitted into ICU and 2 died (7.7%)

In the vitamin D group, 1 of 50 was admitted into ICU and zero died.

It's a small study, but those are compelling data!!!

The Unkle wrote:

[quote]L L wrote:

There actually have been a lot of good posts in this thread.

There are so many scenarios.

He has the positive result but never gets sick. People might get the message that it's not a big deal.

And that's bad how?

So the 207,000 who have died are not a big deal? I'd trade any one of them for Trump.

The next couple of weeks will be very interesting; will Trump end up like Lukashenko or will he end up like Boris Johnson?[/quote]

You left out the 3rd possibility.

There is no cure for this virus. No one knows what will happen with Trump - not even his doctors. Probabilities are not certainties.

Armstronglivs wrote:

The next couple of weeks will be very interesting; will Trump end up like Lukashenko or will he end up like Boris Johnson?

You left out the 3rd possibility.[/quote]

Permanent social distancing from six feet under.

fisky wrote:

stan the corgi wrote:

Gee, thanks DOCTOR!

I'm not a doctor, but you're welcome. The research and reports are out there. Over 30 clinical trials are in place to study vitamin D as a preventive or as a therapeutic, but they probably won't be reporting until next year.

Meanwhile, I did a quick search and did find the first clinical trial to report on vitamin D. Look at the data and make your own decision on whether vitamin D might help.

76 patients were divided into a vitamin D group of 50 and a control group of 26.

In the control group, half (13) were admitted into ICU and 2 died (7.7%)

In the vitamin D group, 1 of 50 was admitted into ICU and zero died.

It's a small study, but those are compelling data!!!

https://medium.com/microbial-instincts/the-first-clinical-trial-to-support-vitamin-d-therapy-for-covid-19-906a9d907468

Everyone, please read this article and then share this study with your Facebook friends and other social media. You could save your parents' or grandparents' lives. This is what I've been saying for months and now we have an approved, double-blind, random clinical trial to prove it.

Our medical establishment refuses to recommend vitamin D because it's a lowly vitamin so lots of people still don't know about it.

Please share this information everywhere. Thanks.