That’s not how I read JohnT’s post. He said Trump was asked what the test was like. He should have said something like “They stick a thing up your nose.” But instead he just gave some vague answer about it being a test.
The implication I’m seeing is that Trump didn’t really have the test done. He’s just claiming he did.
Maybe the test results “showed only positive results” and “were astonishingly excellent.”
A nasopharyngeal swab, which is how many samples are collected for COVID-19 testing, is not as simple as having a Q-tip swab of the mucous membrane in your nose. It’s a much longer swab which is pushed several inches into your nose. It’s not painful, but most people will find it to be an unpleasant experience.
Since the CDC, like the rest of the executive branch, is now a tool of TrumpCo, I’m okay with that. A site cobbled together by the White House would be a non-starter in the veracity department.
Newt Gingrich believes in COVID-19 now, but two weeks ago when he was bleating that it was no worse than the common cold it was because he had been misled by “dishonest left-wing media.”
Newt’s smart guy genius logic is tough for me to follow, but I’m pleased to note that he’s living with his third wife in Italy and is an Old, so he’s got a fair to good chance of catchin’ it.
“Facts are stupid things.” – Ronald Reagan
(yes, it was a slip-of-the-tongue misquote of John Adams, but the persistent theme of Republicans, especially, ignoring facts is unmistakable)
That article doesn’t make much sense, even internally. For example, near the beginning of the article it states:
So right away it says that Republicans were more likely to believe it overblown, yet later in the article it states the exact opposite.
If anything, the past week people are taking this far more seriously than we did in the past few weeks. The run on the stores and the cities shutting down to encourage social isolation prove this. Of course, people that aren’t directly seeing the illness tend to rebel against a response this large so we would naturally see them say this is all over blown. But the next few weeks will tell.
