COVID-19 Megathread 5: The Trumps catch COVID-19

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And it seems we finally have a winner for this year's Darwin Award:

Ohio man who disparaged lockdown measures on Facebook dies of coronavirus

His alleged posts have gone viral amid protests and debates about the loosening of social distancing measures across the country.

Social media posts of an Ohio man who disparaged coronavirus lockdown measures are now circulating online after he died of COVID-19, the disease associated with coronavirus.

Screenshots of Facebook posts calling social distancing measures “bullsh**t” have surfaced online just days after John W. McDaniel, 60, died of coronavirus on April 15. One screenshot of a post dated March 13 included an accusation that the virus was a “political ploy.”

“If you’re paranoid about getting sick, just don’t go out,” another post allegedly said. “It shouldn’t keep those of us from Living Our Lives. The Madness has to stop.”

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https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ohio-man-who-disparaged-lockdown-measures-facebook-dies-coronavirus-n1189861

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26 million jobs lost in 1 month. I hope saving a few centenarians were worth it.

Silence sociopath.

Don't even bother.

While there are reasons to be concerned with the economic impacts of these sweeping stay-at-home orders, it drives me nuts when people marginalize the lives of others simply because of their ages. 

Cost benefit analysis. Happens all the time. Again, the world is brutal.

You're costing this forum more than it benefits from you.

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Liberals be like...

2001: THE PATRIOT ACT INFRINGES ON OUR RIGHTS ARGGGGGG! !
2020: Government takes my rights, and I’ll cower in the corner in my home. My safe space.

This isn't about liberals.

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Did Trump just suggest injecting isopropanol into your veins?

What in the actual ****

He just wants to kill us all.

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Starting to forget what it's like to not have a brain dead president who recommends we look into injecting bleach on live TV.

Somebody on Twitter posted a split between Trump and Angela Merkel, explaining Covid-19 related topics, I had many thoughts but no words.

And you couldn't really make the claim that Angela Merkel is an outstanding politician IMO, it's just that she is and acts like a normal human being.

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Their leader thinks injecting disinfectants could work to cure covid and windmills cause cancer. What do you expect?

 Trump has said a lot of stupid things because he's a moron but this is the worst.

 It's even dumber than sweep the forest floor to prevent forest fires or Puerto Rico's "an island, surrounded by water, big water, ocean water."

It also opens up the possibility that Donald Trump accidentally kill himself one day, after taking a bit too much of a lysol-hydroxychloroquine cocktail. Joe Biden should raise that issue in the debates to counter the "what if Biden is senile" argument. What if Donald Trump gets re-elected and one day he decides to put larger quantities of disinfectants in his body, either through ingestion or injection?

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https://mobile.twitter.com/thehill/status/1253734108448120834

a) Trump's probably lying and making up excuses for his behavior,

b) if Trump's not lying the question is whether a global pandemic is really the right time for the President of the United States to troll the press, instead of acting, um, presidential.

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Revealed: leader of group peddling bleach as coronavirus 'cure' wrote to Trump this week

Mark Grenon wrote to Trump saying chlorine dioxide ‘can rid the body of Covid-19’ days before the president promoted disinfectant as treatment

The leader of the most prominent group in the US peddling potentially lethal industrial bleach as a “miracle cure” for coronavirus wrote to Donald Trump at the White House this week.

In his letter, Mark Grenon told Trump that chlorine dioxide – a powerful bleach used in industrial processes such as textile manufacturing that can have fatal side-effects when drunk – is “a wonderful detox that can kill 99% of the pathogens in the body”. He added that it “can rid the body of Covid-19”.

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/24/revealed-leader-group-peddling-bleach-cure-lobbied-trump-coronavirus

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It's the best thing for everyone involved when Donald Trump just shuts the f**k up:

Trump skips questions at coronavirus briefing after disinfectant debacle

The daily briefing, which have sometimes gone as long as two hours, lasted just over 20 minutes.

A day after he floated the idea of using disinfectants and light to treat COVID-19, President Donald Trump declined to take any questions at his daily coronavirus briefing at the White House.

The briefing — which can sometimes last about two hours — was over in just over 20 minutes, following remarks from Trump, Vice President Mike Pence and FDA head Stephen Hahn. The two top government doctors charged with combating the coronavirus crisis, Anthony Fauci and Deborah Birx, were not in attendance.

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https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-skips-questions-coronavirus-briefing-after-disinfectant-debacle-n1192341

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What the f**k does this mean? Can anyone decipher it for me, please?


https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1254145835450933249

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I decipher this as meaning that he's gonna stop giving coronavirus press briefings from now on? Well, thank God if this is the case.


https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1254168730898173953

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I decipher this as saying "don't take bleach":


https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1254172638307586049

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https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1258853971164368896

USA STRONG

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https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/1258829831879430149

Of course you don't need a vaccine against coronavirus. You can just shoot yourself up with desinfectants and you're good to go.

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A private report by a group called MACE based on cell phone location data says that there was no activity in a high security section of the Wuhan Institute of Virology between Oct. 7 and 24 of last year. Further it appears there is additional evidence that there may have been an accident at the lab between Oct. 6 and 11, rather specific dates. If this is true then there has been a half-year long coverup of how this thing started. Just breaking on NBC now.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/report-says-cellphone-data-suggests-october-shutdown-wuhan-lab-experts-n1202716

These people's heads should be on f**king spikes.

Whose heads should be on spikes? The ones who reported that there might have been a shutdown at the Wuhan lab due to lack of cellphone activity? While these reports might turn out to be incorrect in the end (as the NBC News article you were replying to does in fact indicate, beginning with its headline), I happen to think that it would be premature to already resort to such harsh measures.

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This exchange was also gold:

Trump spent Mother’s Day sending conspiratorial tweets about his predecessor. In one tweet he accused Obama of committing the “biggest political crime in American history, by far!”

Asked to name the crime he is accusing Obama of committing, Trump replied: “Obamagate. it’s been going on for a long time it’s been going on before I even got elected.”

The reporter followed up: but what is the crime you’re accusing him of?

“You know what the crime is,” Trump says.

I guess "you know what the crime is" is the Trumpian code for "I just made that up, okay? Now shut the f**k up."

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From the Guardian liveblog:

Trump’s use of hydroxychloroquine doesn’t appear to fit within the FDA’s Emergency use authorization of the drug as a treatment for coronavirus. The president said he asked the White House doctor if he could take the antimalarial drug. “He said, well, if you’d like it.”

The Emergency Use Authorization is very specific. It “allows chloroquine phosphate and hydroxychloroquine sulfate donated to the Strategic National Stockpile (SNS) and distributed to states to be used by licensed health care providers to treat adults and teens hospitalized with COVID-19 who weigh more than 50 kg (110 pounds)“ according to the FDA.

It does not authorize the use of the dug as a preventative treatment.

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If Trump is really taking hydroxychloroquine on a regular basis what are the odds that Mike Pence will become President before November?

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https://twitter.com/AC360/status/1262548699051364354?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcam...

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Kayleigh McEnany has confirmed that Donald Trump is taking hydroxychloroquine:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/may/19/trump-hydroxychloroquine-covid-19-white-house


Mike Pence, however, is not taking hydroxychloroquine:

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/unlike-trump-pence-says-he-s-not-taking-hydroxychloroquine-n1210541

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Trump has stopped taking hydroxychloroquine btw:

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-says-he-s-no-longer-taking-hydroxychloroquine-n1214301

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https://twitter.com/brithume/status/1265045009323241472

That's actually badass.

Biden is apparently trying to make it a trademark of his. Not that dumb, actually. It sets him apart from Trump, but also subverts Trump's "masks make me weak and unmanly" attitude.

https://twitter.com/Rob_Flaherty/status/1265399509200310276

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Is everyone expected to make sure their masks are symmetrical on their face?

It's basically the mask-wearing equivalent to the side grip (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Side_grip).

Also see: Rule of Cool.

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Yay, let the infections spread.


https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1274056758319874052?cxt=HHwWiIC89eL3r...