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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCovid may take out Trump - this is a real possibility - Doctor on CNN
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/07/trump-is-at-great-risk-of-a-tragic-outcome-if-he-gets-19-cnn-doctor/A doctor told CNN on Tuesday that President Donald Trump needs to start taking the coronavirus pandemic more seriously or else risk sickness and even death.
During a panel discussion about Trump national security adviser Robert OBrien testing positive for the disease, CNN medical analyst Dr. Jonathan Reiner said that the president should be worried that the virus keeps getting closer and closer to him as more aides and allies come down with the disease.
What theyre not using at the White House is a strategy of massive mask-wearing for everyone, he said. And in photo ops and, you know, apparently in the hallways, its not common to see staff, senior staff members, wearing masks. I would do that immediately. You need concentric rings of protection around the president and vice president.
I want to remind people that Herman Cain, whos exactly the same age as the president of the United States, has been in the hospital for a month after contracting the virus, he said. This president is 74 years old. He is at great risk of a tragic outcome should he acquire this.
Is it wrong to secretly hope that this happens?
handmade34
(22,758 posts)I wish him ill health everyday
nattyice
(331 posts)Thekaspervote
(32,796 posts)iluvtennis
(19,876 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,632 posts)AZ8theist
(5,503 posts)nattyice
(331 posts)Dark n Stormy Knight
(9,771 posts)Me too, but I never thought to use a poppet!
captain queeg
(10,249 posts)Though thered be nothing magical about it. It almost seems magical he hasnt gotten it yet.
Mariana
(14,861 posts)He's at less risk of catching it than the rest of us, because all the people who get anywhere near him get tested and questioned constantly.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)I believe they are using that Abbot 5 min. test, the one he was hawking so hard a month or so ago.
The one with so many complaints about.
Between that and his public showing that he is a god and therefore immune, we may have good news after all.
Mariana
(14,861 posts)But there's no reason to be surprised that he hasn't had it yet. Most people haven't had it yet.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)been in his presence during the last two weeks.
Cryptoad
(8,254 posts)those daily Clorox enemas insure that!
Oppaloopa
(867 posts)rateyes
(17,438 posts)milestogo
(16,829 posts)BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)Meanwhile, I hope the orange ape fungus gets a truckload of it. A nice big viral load right up his piggish snout.
Oppaloopa
(867 posts)smb
(3,475 posts)Blue_true
(31,261 posts)Only a fool would conclude then that he remotely knows what he is doing.
JI7
(89,275 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)doesn't think so. But then, to him nothing he thinks would benefit him is wrong.
Trump may not be a healthy man, given his age, weight and whatever, but looking back, it doesn't seem that he's particularly prone to catching colds.
We can always hope. But since I don't want the right's fall-aways rushing back in relief to vote for a replacement candidate, I'd personally prefer Trump took his last breaths closer to election day.
IronLionZion
(45,540 posts)because some colds are coronaviruses and people who have caught colds may have some antibody protection. Or at least that's what I hope because I have had a lot of colds in my life.
Demsrule86
(68,696 posts)And I would be those who died caught plenty of colds.
Ex Lurker
(3,816 posts)Most colds are caused by rhinoviruses not coronaviruses. Rhinoviruses are notorious for mutating fast, which makes vaccine development problematic. But if the common cold had a high fatality rate instead of being a minor inconvenience, we would have come up with a vaccine by now.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)But so far they're finding that antibodies usually disappear entirely within 3 months after COVID illness. Suggesting the "it just keeps going around" cold virus pattern may be true for this more virulent CV.
Reportedly a question of possible immune "memory" that would be triggered by infection is being researched. Amazing that with the whole world working on it we still have so much basic knowledge to tack down about this sneaky virus. Virology must be a lot more complex than I realized.
magicarpet
(14,175 posts)machoneman
(4,011 posts)IronLionZion
(45,540 posts)malaise
(269,186 posts)Mike 03
(16,616 posts)stress (of his own making) and has aged considerably, suffered cognitive decline, and there have been rumors (along with visual circumstantial evidence) he's used and abused various substances, so it's natural to wonder how his immune system would respond to a significant challenge.
Even if he doesn't get COVID-19, given his performance at that Rose Garden campaign event two weeks ago, it's realistic to wonder if he can hold out until November.
yellowcanine
(35,701 posts)Just waiting to happen.
machoneman
(4,011 posts)Traildogbob
(8,826 posts)A stroke that requires Ivanka to wipe his ass and drool. Melania certainly has an ND agreement in her contract. No Drool💦, No 💩
tinrobot
(10,916 posts)heckles65
(549 posts)before her looks go.
"Why isn't he dead yet?!" she thinks every day, every hour.
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)Traildogbob
(8,826 posts)I forget how evil she is, just overshadowed by the depth of the orange Ass boil evil. Just imagine the evil on the JaVanka spawn coming for us.
USALiberal
(10,877 posts)Mike 03
(16,616 posts)WyattKansas
(1,648 posts)Before the virus hit, he was free to make his own terms and schedule that suited his energy and recharge levels to attack anyone he considered an opponent. He would vacation all the time, while also sleeping to noon everyday with his cheeseburger wrappers surrounding him in bed. But now the virus has dictated his lifestyle, movement, stress levels, and energy levels with a constant stream of bad news from his own decisions. tRUMP also started out before the virus trying to attack Biden as low energy, sleepy, old, weak, and already passed expiration date... And what do we know about tRUMP's favorite ploys?... Project what tRUMP is guilty of onto his opponents.
So since the virus has hit, tRUMP has been hit with a national crisis where he cannot just sit back and take a free ride on what President Obama built and he had to actually go to work around the clock addressing the virus. Even though tRUMP has failed miserably with his lazy small fraction effort, the disruption to his babied fake schedule has wreaked havoc his own low energy, exhausted, old, weak, and nearly dead hide with sulfur holding him together. tRUMP cannot handle to normal workload of being President, let alone actually being tested in a crisis, because he can no longer hide who he really is... A fraud and stupid.
Jedi Guy
(3,258 posts)I seem to recall that I read somewhere he's a teetotaler as a result of his brother Fred's alcoholism. He's reputed not to drink booze even at parties and other such social events.
That said, it wouldn't surprise me if he was abusing prescription drugs. In his head, he'd draw the line between those and street drugs, so even if he was grinding up and snorting Adderall, he wouldn't think it was a problem. He's not one of "those people" abusing illicit drugs, after all.
tclambert
(11,087 posts)His favorite treatment. It says right on the bottle "it may not kill you."
GoCubsGo
(32,094 posts)That motherfucker has got to be the luckiest person on the planet when it comes to not suffering the consequences of one's actions.
Laelth
(32,017 posts)-Laelth
tanyev
(42,621 posts)As Mary Trump mentioned in her book, he has always had something protecting him. Went to work for Daddy's company and by the time Daddy realized what an inept fool he was, Daddy was also enmeshed in the illusion and kept shoveling money into Donald's problems. He never did any real work--just used office time to read newspaper and magazine clippings about himself and talk on the phone. There were other more competent people that did all the work.
Can you imagine how quickly he would have gotten the virus if he were responsible for his own protection and social interactions?
Demsrule86
(68,696 posts)save him from Covid.
Captain Zero
(6,824 posts)It's possible he has had it. Had or has antibodies now. But there are instances of people going for a twofer, right.
Plus. It would be really hard for him to keep his mouth shut if he had it with no symptoms.
GoCubsGo
(32,094 posts)it's possible they've been pumping him up with convalescent plasma and anti-virals the whole time. In fact, I wouldn't be at all surprised if that's what they're doing. And, the thought that that useless, putrid fuck gets that kind of care, while millions go without, nauseates me.
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)Miguelito Loveless
(4,474 posts)Apparently, the virus has standards.
Botany
(70,589 posts)A tragic outcome????
My first thought was "Tragic for whom?"
Barron?
Other than that, I'm struggling to think of someone for whom this would be a tragedy.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Let him die the way he wants to die: drowning in his own blood.
The King of Prussia
(737 posts)Personally I don't. In my view the only good racist is a dead racist. I'm sticking to my view that Trump will be dead before November 3rd.
JT45242
(2,298 posts)Let's be honest... if Trump and Pence get it -- given age, etc, there is a real possibiity that they could both end up in induced comas and President Pelosi would open up a can on Barr and the DOJ with REAL oversight. National mandatory mask laws.
Best part...if he recovers it may be too late to try to the pardon scam.
scarytomcat
(1,706 posts)we might be able to get things under control
so much is spin off
NNadir
(33,561 posts)dalton99a
(81,599 posts)niyad
(113,581 posts)will go completely insane with conspiracy theories. May their teeny widdle heads explode.
Squidly
(783 posts)May their teenie widdle heads expowode...(add on his signature laugh) hehehehehehe
It made me smile Thanks!!
niyad
(113,581 posts)Texin
(2,599 posts)He is without question the most execrable so-called human on the planet right now. I just want him gone soonest. This would be an efficient means if it happened, and even if it didn't have a fatal outcome for him, if he contracted a bad case, it would be so physically debilitating in the aftermath he wouldn't be able to run in an election, let alone run the country.
Dios Mio
(429 posts)Ponietz
(3,023 posts)Gore1FL
(21,152 posts)It's nothing to worry about.
Mr. Evil
(2,856 posts)Of course I'd be the only attendee but, it would be epic!
LuckyLib
(6,820 posts)Now it would be socially distanced and mask-wearing, of course. So some folks just might want to dance in their own living rooms.
And . . . folks hanging out of windows banging pots and pans!
jb5150
(1,183 posts).. and a list of persons I'll open it for.
JCMach1
(27,574 posts)Bank on it
peacebuzzard
(5,183 posts)some kind of IV immune boosters.
efhmc
(14,732 posts)Javaman
(62,534 posts)NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)TrogL
(32,822 posts)Hed have lots of right wing clout for the Rabid Religious Right and none of Trumps baggage.
yellowcanine
(35,701 posts)I would not want to predict the outcome.
Dukkha
(7,341 posts)Just not hearing that awful voice ever again would be a godsend to my mental health.
secondwind
(16,903 posts)Demsrule86
(68,696 posts)is not in as good a shape as my brother who keeps fit... a Marine.
Hotler
(11,445 posts)Bonhomme Richard
(9,000 posts)I would ever describe his suffering for weeks and passing.
Politicub
(12,165 posts)get the red out
(13,468 posts)I don't feel good about wishing death on others, but it seems like the shit-head might be wishing it on himself, they way he hasn't protected himself at all for so long!
Does Trump have a Psychic Healer or Shaman on staff at the WH?😜
I didn't even know that Herman Cain was as old as Trump!
ProudMNDemocrat
(16,794 posts)There is only so much venom running through his veins to prevent him from contracting this virus.
Any word on Jr. and his girlfriend since July 3rd?
roamer65
(36,747 posts)SoonerPride
(12,286 posts)No testing means no cases!
Let him run around without masks for anyone near him.
Please!
Duppers
(28,127 posts)malaise
(269,186 posts)do not start taking the coronavirus pandemic more seriously.
That is all.
iluvtennis
(19,876 posts)treatment. What is oxygen treatment - does that mean he is on a ventilator?
https://www.axios.com/herman-cain-hospitalized-coronavirus-2a52dd12-0cea-4492-a307-9442f29b1543.html
malaise
(269,186 posts)and he is not doing well
iluvtennis
(19,876 posts)Botany
(70,589 posts)N/t
drray23
(7,637 posts)the outcome for older people who end up on a ventilator for weeks is pretty bad.
llmart
(15,555 posts)Who says we have nothing to be optimistic about these days?
Autumn
(45,120 posts)the Republicans and his followers to stop the spread of this thing.
kimbutgar
(21,206 posts)Please make it so !
Please make it so !
Please make it so !
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Please make it so !
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Please make it so !
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Please make it so !
Please please please please Please make it so !
ananda
(28,877 posts)... not available to everyone.
calimary
(81,507 posts)world wide wally
(21,755 posts)Blue Owl
(50,510 posts)Initech
(100,104 posts)peacebuzzard
(5,183 posts)no secrets here.
cheers to champagne.
Larissa
(790 posts)Perhaps Trump *is* infected, but shows no visible symptoms. He's been surrounded by folks who were infected, especially his valet. Melania doesn't share a bedroom with Trump. In fact, I believe Melania's bedroom is on a different floor of the W.H. altogether. I know Trump must spend significant time with Stephen Miller, whose wife, Marie, was infected. Back in March, Brazil's Bolsonaro partied at Mar-A-Lago along with his infected staffers, before Bolsonaro recently came down with the virus. Robert O'Brien, the National Security Adviser, who is the latest known infection in Trump's circle, never wore a mask. O'Brien claims that he caught the virus from his daughter. To say nothing of various Secret Service agents who came down with the virus, such as the most recent outbreak in Tulsa, Oklahoma at Trump's "Tic-Tock" rally. And these are just the folks publicly known who were or are sick.
BTW, there have been claims that the instant Covid-19 test kit used in the West Wing isn't reliable. The rooms in the West Wing are small and poorly ventilated: steaming Petri dishes of recurring infections.
Could it be that Trump is a super spreader; the West Wing Typhoid Mary?
Grasswire2
(13,571 posts)And the Abbott Lab tests Trump favors have very high false results.
Ilsa
(61,698 posts)I'll continue to hope my prayers will be answered.
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,858 posts)It's only fitting that Trump should get the "Trump virus" that has killed at least 150,000 people in the USA so far.
MFGsunny
(2,356 posts)SunSeeker
(51,725 posts)BobTheSubgenius
(11,571 posts)BadgerMom
(2,771 posts)know youre not alone.
Lisa0825
(14,487 posts)Hekate
(90,829 posts)warmfeet
(3,321 posts)I would pray to that entity to make it so.
If I believed in karma, I would wish it to make its case now.
Take this asshole, remove him from our conscience, from our realm of influence.
I want him gone. Don't care how.
Duppers
(28,127 posts)Going to get it. Right?
"If we didn't do so many test, we wouldn't have all these cases. I told my people, 'Slow down the testing.'"
jimlup
(7,968 posts)just say'n.
oldsoftie
(12,614 posts)Which sadly would include many of my friends
eppur_se_muova
(36,299 posts)rateyes
(17,438 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,933 posts)Herman is wasting time and money on the hospital with a 'hoax'.
Leave!
tclambert
(11,087 posts)After all, he's so strong and manly and cognitively there that he can just shrug off any disease.
It may have put Herman Cain in the hospital for a month (and counting), but Trump has such "good genes" it probably won't affect him hardly at all. Person, woman, man, camera, TV. See? I must be cognitively there, too, so this argument must make sense.
lastlib
(23,303 posts)The outcome wouldn't be tragic.
IMHO.
GETPLANING
(846 posts)Woodwizard
(846 posts)Maru Kitteh
(28,342 posts)I hope he has a miserable course with a poor outcome.
Blue Owl
(50,510 posts)n/t
Crunchy Frog
(26,647 posts)I don't want people being triggered to rally around him because he's sick.
If he collapses the day after the election, leaving the lame duck period in chaos, that would be ideal.
BlueMTexpat
(15,373 posts)good company, methinks!
SmartVoter22
(639 posts)If Trump is so stupid as to kill himself, with CoVId...by simply not protecting himself, would that be considered a suicide? We have never had a suicidal POTUS, but certainly could.
Would the conservative types, those who actually think the US has an official 'Christian Religion' allow such a sinner to be given honors; such as Laying in State in the US Capitol, burial in a National Military Cemetery, etc?
Soxfan58
(3,479 posts)Trump will shove a light up his ass drink some clorox, take some hydrocloraquine and be fine.