Trump Has COVID megathread (update 10/24: 2 Pence staffers test positive)

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Usually you don't experience symptoms until a week after exposure.

If Trump has only had it for 48 hours or so, and he's already experiencing symptoms, then it's probably gonna be bad.

We need some Biden test results ASAP.  I'm hopeful, because Pence doesn't have it.  But Biden was up there 6-12 feet away from Trump with Trump screaming and spitting in an enclosed space all night long.

That said, from a few of the camera angles of the set it looks like there was a pretty high ceiling above them -- they did in the atrium of a building that went up 4 or 5 stories.  Maybe there was sufficient ventilation to save Biden.

Yeah. If Trump already has a fever and cough, I think the chances of him being hospitalized have gone up exponentially. We'll see what happens.

Thoughts and prayers is all I will say.

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Praying 🙏 for him

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Hopefully he recovers.  I may not agree with him, but I do not wish death on anyone.

Let's not dance on his grave.  Criticize him on policy and personality, but don't wish him dead.

No one wants him dead. I hope he recovers in time to witness his thrashing on 11/3.

While respecting the rules of this board, these are (most of) my thoughts on this.

We heard this in Melania Trump’s phone call (for those who heard them), we hear this frequently from Donald Trump, and we saw this in the clearly orchestrated way that the entire Trump family attending the debate took off their masks in unison. These are not only callous, selfish and greedy people, this entire evil family goes out of its way to be publicly callous, selfish and greedy all in some attempt to ‘own the libs’ and Trump’s despicable  supporters love him and his family for it.

So, that I and others respond to this news of Trump after his years of not just a lack of compassion, but a deliberate lack of compassion, in kind, should absolutely be expected, and is a perfectly rational response.

Yes, I would like to see him punished for any crimes committed and his presidency repudiated at the polls in November.  I don't like him one bit, and recognize that his handling of this entire pandemic has been a contributing factor in his illness.  

I understand people may be happy to hear this news, I just don't think spreading joy at someone else's illness, no matter how bad the person, is at all in good taste.  We gain nothing by wishing for his death on the internet.

Speak for yourself, but I would be lying (and I suspect some of the people who even upvoted your initial post) if I said I feel any sympathy for him whatsoever. He gets what he deserves.

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I wonder if they’re discussing the 25th. I’d bet Pence cancels the debate ASAP just to be safe.

When you're as far behind in the polls as that ticket, canceling debates isn't something you do.

They're basically out of chances to "reset" or get a favorable news cycle. Debates are the only avenues left for that to happen.

Well now that Biden is basically worshipping this genocidal maniac, he will get a sympathy bump. The debates won’t be needed.

Biden is getting sympathy voters?

No, Trump is getting sympathy voters.

Biden needed to balance between subtly jabbing at Trump’s response and having civility. He instead is now completely ignoring the pure f**kery that this administration has put us through.

I agree that Biden is being way too conciliatory for my liking. He does nothing but help Trump electorally I feel by being that over the top about it.