TRUMP'S TEST POSITIVE FOR COVID-19

[Shabibilicious]

Politics

Trump greets supporters following new details of his illness

 

JILL COLVIN, STEVE PEOPLES and ZEKE MILLER

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Associated Press•October 4, 2020

 

 

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BETHESDA, Md. (AP) — Infected and contagious, President Donald Trump briefly ventured out in a motorcade on Sunday to salute cheering supporters, a move that disregarded precautions meant to contain the deadly virus that has forced his hospitalization and killed more than 209,000 Americans.

Hours earlier, Trump’s medical team reported that his blood oxygen level dropped suddenly twice in recent days and that they gave him a steroid typically only recommended for the very sick. Still, the doctors said Trump’s health is improving and that he could be discharged as early as Monday.

With one month until Election Day, Trump was eager to project strength despite his illness. The still-infectious president surprised supporters who had gathered outside Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, driving by in a black SUV with the windows rolled up. Secret Service agents inside the vehicle could be seen in masks and other protective gear.

The move capped a weekend of contradictions that fueled confusion about Trump’s health, which has imperiled the leadership of the U.S. government and upended the final stages of the presidential campaign. While Trump’s physician offered a rosy prognosis on his condition, his briefings lacked basic information, including the findings of lung scans, or were quickly muddled by more serious assessments of the president's health by other officials.

In a short video released by the White House on Sunday, Trump insisted he understood the gravity of the moment. But his actions moments later, by leaving the hospital and sitting inside the SUV with others, suggested otherwise.

“This is insanity,” Dr. James P. Phillips, an attending physician at Walter Reed who is a critic of Trump and his handling of the pandemic. “Every single person in the vehicle during that completely unnecessary presidential ‘drive-by’ just now has to be quarantined for 14 days. They might get sick. They may die.”

“For political theater,” the doctor added. “Commanded by Trump to put their lives at risk for theater.”

White House spokesman Judd Deere said Trump’s trip outside the hospital “was cleared by the medical team as safe to do.” He added that precautions were taken, including using personal protective equipment, to protect Trump as well as White House officials and Secret Service agents.

Joe Biden’s campaign, meanwhile, said the Democratic presidential nominee again tested negative for coronavirus Sunday. The results come five days after Biden spent more than 90 minutes on the debate stage with Trump. Biden, who has taken a far more cautious approach to in-person events, had two negative tests on Friday.

For his part, Trump still faces questions about his health.

His doctors sidestepped questions on Sunday about exactly when Trump’s blood oxygen dropped — an episode they neglected to mention in multiple statements the day before — or whether lung scans showed any damage.

It was the second straight day of obfuscation from a White House already suffering from a credibility crisis. And it raised more doubts about whether the doctors treating the president were sharing accurate, timely information with the American public about the severity of his condition.

Pressed about conflicting information he and the White House released on Saturday, Navy Cmdr. Dr. Sean Conley acknowledged that he had tried to present a sunnier description of the president’s condition.

“I was trying to reflect the upbeat attitude that the team, the president, that his course of illness has had. Didn’t want to give any information that might steer the course of illness in another direction,” Conley said. “And in doing so, you know, it came off that we were trying to hide something, which wasn’t necessarily true. The fact of the matter is that he’s doing really well.”

Medical experts said Conley’s revelations were hard to square with his positive assessment and talk of a discharge.

“There’s a little bit of a disconnect,” said Dr. Steven Shapiro, chief medical and scientific officer at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.

According to CDC guidelines, “In general, transport and movement of a patient with suspected or confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection outside of their room should be limited to medically essential purposes.”

Even before Trump's motorcade outing on Sunday, some Secret Service agents have expressed concern about the lackadaisical attitude toward masks and social distancing inside the White House, but there isn’t much they can do, according to agents and officials who spoke to The Associated Press. This close to the election, thousands of agents are engaged on protective duty so they can be subbed out quickly should someone test positive.

The disclosures about Trump's oxygen levels and steroid treatment suggested the president is enduring more than a mild case of COVID-19.

Blood oxygen saturation is a key health marker for COVID-19 patients. A normal reading is between 95 and 100. Conley said the president had a “high fever” and a blood oxygen level below 94% on Friday and during “another episode” on Saturday.

He was evasive about the timing of Trump oxygen drops. (“It was over the course of the day, yeah, yesterday morning,” he said) and asked whether Trump’s level had dropped below 90%, into concerning territory. (“We don’t have any recordings here on that.”) But he revealed that Trump was given a dose of the steroid dexamethasone in response.

At the time of the briefing, Trump’s blood oxygen level was 98% — within normal rage, Trump’s medical team said.

Signs of pneumonia or other lung damage could be detected in scans before a patient feels short of breath, but the president’s doctors declined to say what those scans have revealed.

“There’s some expected findings, but nothing of any major clinical concern,” Conley said. He declined to outline those “expected findings.”

Asked about Conley’s lack of transparency, White House aide Alyssa Farah suggested the doctors were speaking as much to the president as to the American public, “when you’re treating a patient, you want to project confidence, you want to lift their spirits, and that was the intent.”

In all, nearly 7.4 million people have been infected in the United States, and few have access to the kind of around-the-clock attention and experimental treatments as Trump.

Trump’s treatment with the steroid dexamethasone is in addition to the single dose he was given Friday of an experimental drug from Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc. that supplies antibodies to help the immune system fight the virus. Trump on Friday also began a five-day course of remdesivir, a Gilead Sciences drug currently used for moderately and severely ill patients. The drugs work in different ways — the antibodies help the immune system rid the body of virus, and remdesivir curbs the virus’ ability to multiply.

Garibaldi, a specialist in pulmonary critical care, said the president was not showing any side effects of the drugs “that we can tell.”

The National Institutes of Health COVID-19 treatment guidelines recommend against using dexamethasone in patients who do not require oxygen. It has only been proven to help in more serious cases. Among the concerns with earlier use is that steroids tamp down certain immune cells, hindering the body’s own ability to fight off infection.

Trump is 74 years old and clinically obese, putting him at higher risk of serious complications.

First lady Melania Trump has remained at the White House as she recovers from her own bout with the virus.

Several White House officials this weekend expressed frustration with the level of transparency and public disclosure since the president announced his diagnosis early Friday.

They were particularly upset by the whiplash between Conley’s upbeat assessment Saturday and White House chief of staff Mark Meadows’ more concerned outlook. They privately acknowledge that the administration has little credibility on COVID-19 and that they have unnecessarily squandered what remains of it with the lack of clear, accurate updates on Trump’s condition.

Many in the White House are also shaken and scared — nervous that they have been exposed to the virus and confronting the reality that what seemed like a bubble of safety has become a COVID-19 hot spot. It took until late Sunday for the White House to send a generic note to staffers suggesting they not come to the building if they do not feel well.

 

https://www.yahoo.com/news/doctor-trump-improving-not-woods-044208271.html

 

GO RV, then BV

[coorslite21]

1 minute ago, Shabibilicious said:

 

A Covid-19 contagious Trump.....but you knew that one already too.

 

GO RV, then BV

What I know is your only intent is to stir the pot.....other than your hate for Trump....I haven't seen any value added posts from you in a long time....JMO

CL

[Shabibilicious]

1 minute ago, coorslite21 said:

What I know is your only intent is to stir the pot.....other than your hate for Trump....I haven't seen any value added posts from you in a long time....JMO

CL

 

This thread alone gives people updates on Trump and his condition.....I call that value added.  You're simply doing what every other Trump supporter on this site does, lower yourself to personal attack mode.  Sorry you've fallen into the same trap as all the others.  Focus on the issues at hand, that being Trump's health and wellness, as well as those detailed to take care of him, health and security wise.  

 

GO RV, then BV

[Johnny Dinar]

The president now says he has learned how serious this is. I hope his supporters will begin to act responsible and drop the everything is fake narrative. JMHO

[Shabibilicious]

Politics

All The Republicans In Trump's Orbit Who Tested Positive For Coronavirus So Far

 

Sara Boboltz

Reporter, HuffPost

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HuffPost•October 3, 2020

 

A busy week of travel, public events and private meetings led a shocking

number of people around President Donald Trump to contract the coronavirus ― including the president himself.

Trump and first lady Melania Trump revealed their positive diagnoses just a few hours after Hope Hicks, a close aide to the president, announced that she had the virus Thursday evening. 

Since then, a number of other frequent contacts of the president’s have tested positive. Many were linked to Trump’s packed White House Rose Garden event on Sept. 26, when Trump nominated Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court seat vacated by the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

 

Here are the positive cases we know so far. It can take several days after exposure for a person to test positive for the virus, and some do not show symptoms for up to two weeks. 

President Donald Trump

Trump is currently receiving treatment for COVID-19 symptoms at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Maryland. He tweeted an update on his condition Saturday: “Going welI, I think! Thank you to all. LOVE!!!” 

White House physician Sean Conley said late Friday that Trump has not required supplemental oxygen and is doing well after receiving his first dose of Remdesivir, a drug approved to treat COVID-19 symptoms.

It remains unclear precisely how the president picked up the virus, but he seldom wore a mask before his diagnosis.

He traveled to several cities before and after the Rose Garden event, participated in several events including three rallies and was reportedly in enclosed rooms with other maskless individuals as he prepared for his debate with Democratic presidential contender Joe Biden. (Biden and his wife have tested negative.) 

First Lady Melania Trump 

The first lady attended Barrett’s nomination in the Rose Garden, where she was seen sitting near the judge’s family. (Barrett herself had the virus earlier in the year and recovered.)

“Thank you for the love you are sending our way,” she said in a tweet. “I have mild symptoms but overall feeling good. I am looking forward to a speedy recovery.”

White House Adviser Hope Hicks 

Hicks traveled with the president several times in the days leading up to her diagnosis, including a Wednesday trip aboard Air Force One to Minnesota, where Trump held a campaign rally. Hicks began exhibiting symptoms before the rally, The New York Times reported, and she was then isolated on the return flight and exited out the back of the plane. 

She did not attend the Rose Garden event. 

Former White House Adviser Kellyanne Conway

Conway reportedly spent hours cooped up with Trump and other staffers in preparation for the debate, without masks. She also attended Barrett’s nomination event. She revealed her diagnosis late Friday.

Trump Campaign Manager Bill Stepien

Stepien was diagnosed Friday and is experiencing “mild flu-like symptoms,” according to Politico. 

Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah)

Lee attended the Rose Garden event, where he was seen talking to and hugging other attendees without a mask.

He announced his positive diagnosis Friday. Lee said he began feeling symptoms Thursday morning, around the time he attended a 90-minute Senate Judiciary Committee meeting, where he could have infected colleagues. He was seen without a mask at least part of the time. 

The Rev. John Jenkins 

Jenkins, president of the University of Notre Dame ― where Barrett attended law school ― was seen at her Supreme Court nomination event without a mask. He tested positive Friday. 

Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) 

Tillis attended the Rose Garden event and was seen in a mask during the main announcement, although prominent Republicans were seen indoors with Barrett afterward. He tested positive Friday. 

GOP Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel

McDaniel received her diagnosis Wednesday and announced Friday that she tested positive. She last saw the president in person on Sept. 25, according to The New York Times. 

The chairwoman was tested after “a member of her family” tested positive, a spokesman said in a statement, noting that McDaniel “has been at her home in Michigan” since Saturday, Sept. 26. 

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisc.)

Johnson announced his diagnosis Saturday. He quarantined for two weeks after coming into contact with someone earlier in the month who had the virus.

He only returned to Washington on Tuesday, when he was “exposed to an individual who has since tested positive,” his office said. The individual was not named.

Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie

Christie, a frequent contact of the president’s, announced Saturday that he “just received word” of his positive diagnosis.

White House Aide Nicholas Luna 

Luna, one of the president’s “body men,” has tested positive, according to multiple reports. 

 

https://www.yahoo.com/news/republicans-positive-coronavirus-trump-154342476.html

 

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[nstoolman1]

What is your point?

 

[Shabibilicious]

 

 

 

Is Trump's illness a coronavirus wake up call for Americans?

 

 

Mike Bebernes

·Editor

Sun, October 4, 2020, 11:35 AM EDT

 

What’s happening

President Trump’s COVID-19 diagnosis and subsequent transfer from the White House to Walter Reed Medical Center have thrown the American government and upcoming presidential election into uncertainty.

At this point, it’s unclear how severe the president’s symptoms will become or whether the virus will prove life-threatening. It’s also too early to tell how large the growing list of high-ranking officials to test positive will be. Any questions about how the outbreak in the White House might impact Trump’s reelection chances, the effort to confirm his new Supreme Court nominee or even the basic functioning of the U.S. government likely won’t be answered for several days, if not longer.

More than 209,000 Americans have died of COVID-19, the most of any country in the world. Trump’s diagnosis comes at a time when the number of daily coronavirus cases in the U.S. has started to trend upward after declining over the course of the summer. Public health experts fear the situation could become worse during the colder months of fall and winter.

Despite the severity of the outbreak, a significant portion of Americans don’t necessarily see the virus as a reason for serious concern. Mitigation measures like masks, business closures and social distancing rules have been met with intense opposition throughout the pandemic.

Why there’s debate

The news of Trump’s infection — after he spent months downplaying the risks of the virus to both himself and the general public — could serve as a wake-up call for people who haven’t taken the virus seriously, some experts say. The enormous amount of attention the story is receiving may also be a reminder to stay vigilant for people who have become more lax due to “pandemic fatigue.”

The diagnosis may also influence the actions of lawmakers. State and local leaders might cite Trump’s infection as a reason to delay reopening businesses or establish new prevention rules. Personally experiencing the virus could also change Trump’s behavior and rhetoric about the seriousness of the pandemic.

Opinions about coronavirus are deeply split along partisan lines, with Republicans much more likely to say they aren’t concerned about the risks of infection. More than 7 months into the pandemic, many people have become so entrenched in their views that even something as significant as the president being infected won’t sway their views, some experts say. There’s also the possibility that Trump, if he avoids life-threatening symptoms, could double down on his messaging that the virus isn’t a big deal.

Perspectives

The threat of the virus has suddenly become real to skeptical people

“The immediate reaction of a lot of people will be, ‘My goodness, if the president of the United States can get it, maybe I can too, and I’m going to be more cautious. I’m going to wear a mask more often. And I’m not so keen on opening up the economy and going out to restaurants and bars again.’” — Stuart Varney, Fox News

The pandemic is now at the center of every American’s mind

“If the coronavirus pandemic had become background noise for some people, Trump’s diagnosis made it unavoidable. “ — Jason Abbruzzese and Denise Chow, NBC News

America is too divided for public opinion to shift in any major way

“The pandemic could have been a great unifier — a widespread and life-altering tragedy that inspired a notion of shared national purpose, as at other moments of crisis in the country’s past. And perhaps in another moment, in another place, a president falling ill would have seen citizens keeping vigil regardless of partisan affiliation. But the coronavirus … has deepened divisions rather than united the country.” — Jennifer Medina and Trip Gabriel, New York Times

People will be more careful

“I think we’re also going to see many people say, ‘Look, this just shows that the downplaying of the virus and the behavioral measures that help reduce its spread were a gross error on the part of the White House and Republicans and Republican governors — and that we have to recommit ourselves to protective behaviors until we get a vaccine.’” — Bioethicist Arthur Caplan to Scientific American

The impact on public perception will depend on how sick he gets

“Whether Trump’s diagnosis will reshape his response to the coronavirus is unknowable at this point, and the same goes for whether it will change how the country perceives his leadership during the pandemic.” — Jen Kirby, Vox

The situation is a reminder of vulnerability to infection

“I’m hoping as distressing and difficult as this is, it can serve as as wake-up call for our country. Public health is about what do we do together, understanding everyone is vulnerable. Our health is our most precious gift. That’s what empathy is all about, understanding that everyone is vulnerable.” — Public health expert Howard Koh to Quartz

Trump may turn out like other politicians who take the pandemic more seriously after getting ill

“For many politicians, living through the virus has also been a turning point, forcing them to reexamine their own views on the pandemic that has shaken their governments and sickened their constituents.” — Sarah Mervosh, Jack Healy and Patricia Mazzei, New York Times

The message will be muted if Trump and the White House downplay the severity of his symptoms

“A key driver of COVID-19 denial among Trump voters has been verbal cues from Trump, such as questioning the severity of the disease and mocking mask wearing. My guess is Trump will minimize his symptoms both to portray an impression of physical strength and downplay the severity of COVID. … So I’m not optimistic [that his test result] will make much difference.” — Science communication expert John Cook to Atlantic

There’s an opportunity to shift public perception of the virus, but Trump may not take it

“Trump’s illness also provides him with an opportunity to change the trajectory of the conversation on coronavirus, something he has badly needed. He can now cast himself with the people he governs, and offer at least a thimble-ful of humility.” — Scott Jennings, Los Angeles Times

Other lawmakers may change their decision making

“I think there could be a bunch of real, important health outcomes from this …

1. GOP governors and mayors may be a bit more hesitant to lift COVID restrictions; 2. Democratic mayors and governors may cite Trump’s positive test as part of their messaging on keeping restrictions in place; 3. Republican voters may become a bit less dismissive of COVID, in part because GOP elites take it more seriously; 4. Overall, this news could be important and have a positive impact in terms of Americans taking the virus more seriously.” — Perry Bacon Jr., FiveThirtyEight

 

https://www.yahoo.com/news/is-trumps-illness-a-coronavirus-wake-up-call-for-americans-153507073.html

 

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Edited October 5, 2020 by Shabibilicious

[MyLadiesDaddy]

 

2 hours ago, Shabibilicious said:

Doesn't seem very presidential for a pOTUS to put his security detail in harms way by making them drive him around while he's knowingly contagious with covid.....just

Yeah, I know. And to think he's so self serving that he even made the Secret Service fly with him on Marine One to the Hospital. And to add insult to injury he's forcing them to stay all around him at the hospital. What a monster 

[nstoolman1]

People who were scared before he announced his infection are the same that are scared now. 

People get sick.

People recover.

People do die.

Fact of life. 

Trump wearing a mask won't prevent that. 

You sew division with these articles. We all know you dislike Trump.

These articles are not going to convince any Trump supporter to change. 

 

 

[Shabibilicious]

Meadows: ‘Still optimistic’ Trump will leave hospital on Monday

 

By Quint Forgey

Mon, October 5, 2020, 9:00 AM EDT

 

 

White House chief of staff Mark Meadows said Monday morning that officials are “still optimistic” President Donald Trump will leave Walter Reed National Military Medical Center and return to the White House later in the day.

“Spoke to the President this morning. He continued to improve over night and is ready to get back to a normal working schedule,” Meadows said in a statement to Fox News.

“He will meet with his doctors and nurses this morning to make further assessments of his progress,” Meadows added. “We are still optimistic that he will be able to return to the White House later today.”

In a subsequent interview on “Fox & Friends,” Meadows cautioned that the “determination has not been made yet” to release Trump from the hospital, and said a final call “won’t be made until later today.”

 

“The doctors will actually have an evaluation some time late morning. And then the president, in consultation with the doctors, will make a decision on whether to discharge him later today,” Meadows said.

The statements from Meadows comes after the president’s medical team said Sunday that Trump could be discharged from the hospital “as early as tomorrow” and “continue his treatment course” at the White House.

But Sean Conley, the president’s physician, also appeared to confirm Sunday that Trump’s condition is more serious than the White House had so far acknowledged.

Trump, who was hospitalized Friday evening, has received two experimental drugs, as well as one steroid generally reserved for patients with severe or critical coronavirus cases.

The president’s medical team also revealed Sunday that Trump had received oxygen therapy twice for limited periods, and that his blood oxygen levels have dipped below 94 percent — a worrisome threshold for patients indicating a moderate or severe case of Covid-19.

The White House also has refused to reveal more detailed information about Trump’s Covid-19 tests over the course of the past week, and throughout the weekend, the president’s aides and doctors offered contradictory assessments of his health and the timeline of his infection.

For example, after Conley said Saturday morning that the president was “doing very well,” Meadows told reporters that Trump’s “vitals over the last 24 hours were very concerning” and warned: “We’re still not on a clear path to a full recovery.”

On Monday, Meadows disputed reports that Trump had been infuriated by those dire remarks to the press and sought to justify his evaluation of the president’s health.

“I don’t know where anybody is getting the ‘furious’ part … because the president and I have been together for the last 72 hours or more,” Meadows said.

“Listen, I think it’s important that we’re clear about the risks that the president had, and there was some real concern Friday morning — the doctor and I talking Friday morning — there was real concern that helped us make the decision to come to Walter Reed,” he added.

Meadows also defended Trump amid harsh criticism of his decision Sunday afternoon to greet supporters gathered outside Walter Reed, waving at them from inside a black SUV in his presidential motorcade and potentially endangering his Secret Service detail.

An attending physician at Walter Reed denounced the impromptu drive-by as “insanity” and noted on Twitter that the risk of Covid-19 transmission inside Trump’s hermetically sealed vehicle “is as high as it gets outside of medical procedures.”

But Meadows seemingly argued Monday that the agents accompanying the president had already been exposed to possible infection by Trump prior to participating in the motorcade.

“You know, they’re criticizing, ‘Well, he put his Secret Service agent at risk.’ Well, the Secret Service agent — how do we think that we got here?” Meadows said.

“I mean, we came here in Marine One. The Secret Service agent that is with him has been with him. He’s been with him in cars. And yet, we took additional precautions with PPE and others to make sure that they were protected,” he said, adding that “a number of folks are trying to just make a big deal of that.”

 

https://www.yahoo.com/news/meadows-still-optimistic-trump-leave-130054443.html

 

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[MyLadiesDaddy]

1 hour ago, Shabibilicious said:

lower yourself to personal attack mode

Are you kidding me? You've been in 'personal attack mode' against Trump for over 4 years.  The only value this thread is bringing to DV is perfectly showing your ability to parrot the abilities of the Lunatic media coming totally unhinged. 

 

 

1 minute ago, nstoolman1 said:

 

These articles are not going to convince any Trump supporter to change

And that poses a far greater problem on both sides than anyone is willing to admit. 

[Johnny Dinar]

12 minutes ago, ladyGrace'sDaddy said:

 

Yeah, I know. And to think he's so self serving that he even made the Secret Service fly with him on Marine One to the Hospital. And to add insult to injury he's forcing them to stay all around him at the hospital. What a monster 

 

I thought you posted this was fake and he was using this as a distraction and was going to bring down hundreds of criminals? Do you still believe this is a ruse?

[MyLadiesDaddy]

Just now, Johnny Dinar said:

 

I thought you posted this was fake and he was using this as a distraction and was going to bring down hundreds of criminals? Do you still believe this is a ruse?

Yes I do. The post you quoted is dripping with disdain and sarcasm towards my Brother Shabbs. I know he's better than just parroting the LSM.

[Johnny Dinar]

2 minutes ago, ladyGrace'sDaddy said:

Yes I do. The post you quoted is dripping with disdain and sarcasm towards my Brother Shabbs. I know he's better than just parroting the LSM.

 

Thanks for your honest answer... I don't agree, I do think he has The Vid and is fighting it for real. As for Shabbs, much like you, I and everyone else, he states his opinion which he usually backs with facts. Shabbs doesn't make up the stuff he shares, but he sure does let people know how he feels... JMHO 

[Shabibilicious]

11 minutes ago, ladyGrace'sDaddy said:

Yes I do. The post you quoted is dripping with disdain and sarcasm towards my Brother Shabbs. I know he's better than just parroting the LSM.

 

I've only posted/parroted LSM (Fox News) a handful of times....hardly a habitual thing. 

 

GO RV, then BV

[Shabibilicious]

21 minutes ago, ladyGrace'sDaddy said:

Are you kidding me? You've been in 'personal attack mode' against Trump for over 4 years.  The only value this thread is bringing to DV is perfectly showing your ability to parrot the abilities of the Lunatic media coming totally unhinged. 

 

Is DJT a DV member?....And if so, I can assure you I've never attacked him on a personal level....as I would be sound asleep when he'd be posting at ridiculous hours of the darkness.

 

GO RV, then BV

[Shabibilicious]

White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany Tests Positive For COVID-19

 

 

Marina Fang

·Reporter, HuffPost

Mon, October 5, 2020, 11:42 AM EDT

 

 

White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany has tested positive for COVID-19. President Donald Trump, several GOP lawmakers, and White House and Trump campaign officials have all reported testing positive in recent days.

McEnany has given at least two two White House press briefings — without wearing a mask — in the last week.

Early Friday morning, the White House announced that Trump and first lady Melania Trump had tested positive, shortly after top Trump aide Hope Hicks tested positive. Hicks had been part of the team that traveled with Trump to the presidential debate in Cleveland last week.

By Friday afternoon, Trump was hospitalized at Walter Reed. Throughout the weekend, White House officials gave conflicting information about the president’s condition, appearing to try to downplay the severity of the virus.

 

A growing number of officials, from GOP lawmakers to White House aides and members of Trump’s reelection campaign, have also since tested positive for the virus.

Many of the positive cases involve people who on Sept. 26 attended a Rose Garden ceremony for Amy Coney Barrett, Trump’s pick to replace the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. The attendees were gathered with no masks and did not attempt to socially distance.

Members of Trump’s family were also seen flouting mask-wearing guidelines during the debate.

Trump, who has perpetually downplayed the severity of the coronavirus — even as more than 200,000 Americans have died from it — has repeatedly ridiculed Democratic opponent Joe Biden for wearing face masks during campaign events. During the debate last week, Biden pointed out that Trump rarely wears masks in public. Trump mocked Biden for doing so, despite widespread scientific consensus that wearing masks greatly reduces the spread of the coronavirus.

 

https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/kayleigh-mcenany-tests-positive-coronavirus-154227915.html

 

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[coorslite21]

2 minutes ago, Shabibilicious said:

White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany Tests Positive For COVID-19

 

 

Marina Fang

·Reporter, HuffPost

Mon, October 5, 2020, 11:42 AM EDT

 

 

White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany has tested positive for COVID-19. President Donald Trump, several GOP lawmakers, and White House and Trump campaign officials have all reported testing positive in recent days.

McEnany has given at least two two White House press briefings — without wearing a mask — in the last week.

Early Friday morning, the White House announced that Trump and first lady Melania Trump had tested positive, shortly after top Trump aide Hope Hicks tested positive. Hicks had been part of the team that traveled with Trump to the presidential debate in Cleveland last week.

By Friday afternoon, Trump was hospitalized at Walter Reed. Throughout the weekend, White House officials gave conflicting information about the president’s condition, appearing to try to downplay the severity of the virus.

 

A growing number of officials, from GOP lawmakers to White House aides and members of Trump’s reelection campaign, have also since tested positive for the virus.

Many of the positive cases involve people who on Sept. 26 attended a Rose Garden ceremony for Amy Coney Barrett, Trump’s pick to replace the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. The attendees were gathered with no masks and did not attempt to socially distance.

Members of Trump’s family were also seen flouting mask-wearing guidelines during the debate.

Trump, who has perpetually downplayed the severity of the coronavirus — even as more than 200,000 Americans have died from it — has repeatedly ridiculed Democratic opponent Joe Biden for wearing face masks during campaign events. During the debate last week, Biden pointed out that Trump rarely wears masks in public. Trump mocked Biden for doing so, despite widespread scientific consensus that wearing masks greatly reduces the spread of the coronavirus.

 

https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/kayleigh-mcenany-tests-positive-coronavirus-154227915.html

 

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All this time I thought Covid was a nonpolitical virus.....seems it only goes after Republicans in the Trump sphere....guess that's because they're all really stupid....😮

CL

[Shabibilicious]

12 minutes ago, coorslite21 said:

All this time I thought Covid was a nonpolitical virus.....seems it only goes after Republicans in the Trump sphere....guess that's because they're all really stupid....😮

CL

 

Nope.....almost 210K dead, all political affiliations....The reason safety precautions are so important.

 

GO RV, then BV

[nstoolman1]

All this mask and social distancing is only prolonging the inevitable.

It is an excuse to control people and the commercial sector.

No sooner does a restriction get eased, someone gets C19 and panic starts all over.

Live your lives, take the precautions for Flu season and stop being afraid. 

People need to act like we are the top of the food chain. 

[DinarDavo]

1 minute ago, nstoolman1 said:

People need to act like we are the top of the food chain. 

 

Demoncrats want to insure they are at the top of the food chain....

[Johnny Dinar]

Donald Trump Jr. "wants to stage an intervention" because he thinks his dad's "acting crazy"

 

President Donald Trump's hospital joyride and his manic Monday-morning tweets aren't just being panned by political pundits — they're also reportedly freaking out some in the president's own family.

According to Vanity Fair's Gabriel Sherman, the president's eldest son has been alarmed by his behavior over the past couple of days, in which he's been desperate to project strength while being hospitalized at Walter Reed Memorial Hostpital.

"Don Jr. has said he wants to stage an intervention, but Jared and Ivanka keep telling Trump how great he's doing," one source tells Sherman. "Don said, 'I'm not going to be the only one to tell him he's acting crazy.'"

However, even Jared and Ivanka reportedly agreed with Donald Jr. that the president's Monday morning all-caps tweet storms — which included messages such as "SPACE FORCE. VOTE!" — went way over the edge.

"They're all worried," said one source. "They've tried to get him to stop tweeting."

 

https://www.yahoo.com/news/donald-trump-jr-wants-stage-163913470.html

[Johnny Dinar]

Trump announces he's leaving hospital after three days of coronavirus treatment

President Trump said he would leave Walter Reed Medical Center and return to the White House on Monday at 6:30 p.m. ET, three days after being admitted to the hospital for treatment of complications from COVID-19.

“I will be leaving the great Walter Reed Medical Center today at 6:30 P.M.” Trump tweeted Monday afternoon. “Feeling really good! Don’t be afraid of Covid. Don’t let it dominate your life. We have developed, under the Trump Administration, some really great drugs & knowledge. I feel better than I did 20 years ago!”

Early Friday morning, Trump announced that he and first lady Melania Trump had tested positive for the coronavirus. The president was brought to the hospital via Marine One on Friday night after he had developed a fever and his blood oxygen level had “dropped rapidly” and required supplemental oxygen, according to White House chief of staff Mark Meadows.

Trump received an experimental antibody treatment along with the antiviral remdesivir and the anti-inflammatory steroid dexamethasone. Both of the latter drugs were in use before the coronavirus pandemic hit and before Trump took office.

White House physician Sean Conley answers questions during an update on the condition of President Trump at Walter Reed Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., Monday. (Photo by Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images)

Speaking to reporters on Monday afternoon, White House physician Dr. Sean Conley said that the president’s condition “has continued to improve," and that he would receive his fourth dose of remdesivir Monday before being discharged.

"Though he may not be entirely out of the woods yet, the team and I agree that all of his evaluations, and most importantly his clinical status, support the president's safe return home, where he'll be surrounded by world class medical care 24/7," Conley said, adding: “If we can get through to Monday with him remaining the same or improving then we will take this deep sigh of relief.”

Conley also said Trump had not shown any side effects from his drug regimen.

“He’s back,” Conley said.

But Conley would also not disclose the date of Trump’s last negative COVID test, nor would he say whether the president’s chest X-rays showed lung damage as a result of the infection.

Trump’s health status has remained unclear after Conley admitted to reporters Sunday that, during a press briefing a day earlier, he had tried to conceal the fact that the president had received oxygen at the White House.

“I was trying to reflect the upbeat attitude of the team [and] the president over the course of his illness,” Conley said. “I didn’t want to give any info that might steer the course of illness in another direction, and it came off that we were trying to hide something, which wasn’t necessarily true.”

Trump has released two videos on social media from the hospital thanking his followers for well wishes, and in one proclaiming he had “learned a lot about COVID” by going to the “real school.”

The White House released photographs that it said showed Trump working at a table while in the presidential unit of Walter Reed, although the paper he was shown signing in one photo appeared to be blank.

Late Sunday afternoon, Trump briefly left Walter Reed in a motorcade to salute flag-waving supporters outside the hospital, drawing sharp criticism for putting the driver, his aides and Secret Service at risk of contracting the virus.

“This is insanity,” tweeted Dr. James P. Phillips, an attending physician at Walter Reed who is not involved in the president’s care. “Every single person in the vehicle during that completely unnecessary presidential ‘drive-by’ just now has to be quarantined for 14 days. They might get sick. They may die.”

 

https://www.yahoo.com/news/president-trump-announces-leaving-walter-reed-hospital-covid-185628667.html

 

[caddieman]

40 minutes ago, Johnny Dinar said:

Donald Trump Jr. "wants to stage an intervention" because he thinks his dad's "acting crazy"

 

President Donald Trump's hospital joyride and his manic Monday-morning tweets aren't just being panned by political pundits — they're also reportedly freaking out some in the president's own family.

According to Vanity Fair's Gabriel Sherman, the president's eldest son has been alarmed by his behavior over the past couple of days, in which he's been desperate to project strength while being hospitalized at Walter Reed Memorial Hostpital.

"Don Jr. has said he wants to stage an intervention, but Jared and Ivanka keep telling Trump how great he's doing," one source tells Sherman. "Don said, 'I'm not going to be the only one to tell him he's acting crazy.'"

However, even Jared and Ivanka reportedly agreed with Donald Jr. that the president's Monday morning all-caps tweet storms — which included messages such as "SPACE FORCE. VOTE!" — went way over the edge.

"They're all worried," said one source. "They've tried to get him to stop tweeting."

 

https://www.yahoo.com/news/donald-trump-jr-wants-stage-163913470.html

He better watch it.....he might lose his inheritance!

[Johnny Dinar]

Just now, caddieman said:

He better watch it.....he might lose his inheritance!

 

His inheritance of debt???? LOL