# President, First Lady both test positive for COVID-19 \[Quarantine Zone: No politics.\] **URL:** \ **Category:** The Quarantine Zone\ **Tags:** covid-quarantine\ **Created:** [October 2, 2020, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/president-first-lady-both-test-positive-for-covid-19-quarantine-zone-no-politics/922047 "2020-10-02T15:42:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 5
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2020, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/president-first-lady-both-test-positive-for-covid-19-quarantine-zone-no-politics/922047/5 "2020-10-02T22:50:46Z")
Since the OP of the other thread had political commentary and a non-descriptive title, I closed it. Let’s restrict this as much as possible to discussion of the disease itself. Political commentary should go in this thread in Politics and Elections. > [@Trump and Melania test positive for COVID-19](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-and-melania-test-positive-for-covid-19/922010/292): > > I think the opposite. Trump lingering in ill health until January is what I’m hoping for. If he’s quite ill, but remains in office and remains on the ticket, it keeps his stupidity and mishandling of COVID front and center, and it keeps the Republican campaign and strategy in uncertainty and disarray with nowhere really to go. I think it’s a certainty he loses. And it makes it somewhat less likely that he’ll have the energy or inclination to cause harm to the country - either through med… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/president-first-lady-both-test-positive-for-covid-19-quarantine-zone-no-politics/922047)._