# Trump has COVID! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 2, 2020, 10:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022 "2020-10-02T10:56:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 20
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2020, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022/382 "2020-10-04T16:25:04Z")
> [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](#): > > “In doing so, it came off that we were trying to hide something, which wasn’t **necessarily** true.” My bold. Huh? Why is the hedge-y word “necessarily” there? I don’t think we can expect the straight dope from anyone associated with trump, his care, the hospital, etc. Where are the leaks? We need leaks! ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2020, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022/383 "2020-10-04T16:30:35Z")
Yeah the situation will get totally non-mask-adelic now with Trump trumpeting ‘aaaaa you’ll just get a cold for a couple days, then you’ll be all good to go again’. Indeed - a _lot_ more deaths now. The lesser person in me has to relish how the pandemic is sweeping through the What House now. No - not wishing death, but hoping they’re all hobbled to complete uselessness. (It’s possible there are quite a few who never saw Sixth Sense.) ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2020, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022/384 "2020-10-04T16:37:46Z")
> [@needscoffee](#): > > From the movie The Sixth Sense - “I see dead people…” “I see stupid people…they don’t know rhey’re stupid…they only see what they want to see…” ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2020, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022/385 "2020-10-04T16:53:14Z")
> [@Guest-starring\_Id](#): > > but hoping they’re all hobbled to complete uselessness. How will we tell? ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2020, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022/386 "2020-10-04T17:28:16Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Now pass me the eye bleach. Sorry, all the bleach has been seized by the White House for staff injections. ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2020, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022/387 "2020-10-04T18:29:38Z")
Just remember that the frequent timeline of this infection has a mild initial phase followed by a potential crash at one to two weeks. He may go home from the hospital but he is by no means out of the woods for at least another week or two. ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2020, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022/388 "2020-10-04T18:37:56Z")
Here is a good timeline of symptoms. > **[A Timeline of COVID-19 Symptoms | Point of Blue](https://blog.bcbsnc.com/2020/07/a-timeline-of-covid-19-symptoms/)** > > COVID-19 symptoms are updated daily. A timeline of when symptoms start can help you identify if you might have coronavirus or a cold. I would estimate that Trump was infected late last week and would call Tuesday the first day of symptoms since he reportedly felt tired at the debate. We should definitely wait until at least next weekend to make sure he is OK. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2020, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022/389 "2020-10-04T18:38:17Z")
> [@Morgyn](#): > > Lisa Desjardins, correspondent for PBS News Hour, is reporting that they’re up to 26 infections: > > [https://twitter.com/LisaDNews/status/1312605978727153664](https://twitter.com/LisaDNews/status/1312605978727153664) Well these are very sad: > 1. New: Nick Luna, POTUS bodyman > 13-15 WH reporters > 16-26 Debate staff 😢 ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2020, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022/390 "2020-10-04T19:03:22Z")
> [@susan](#): > > Sorry, all the bleach has been seized by the White House for staff injections. Damn! I knew somebody was going to say that! ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2020, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022/391 "2020-10-04T19:04:13Z")
Injections for the staff infection? ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2020, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022/392 "2020-10-04T19:09:54Z")
> [@psychobunny](#): > > He may go home from the hospital but he is by no means out of the woods for at least another week or two. The continued use of the phrase “out of the woods” makes me imagine Trump walking toward a clearing in the forest only to step on a rake and contuse himself like Sideshow Bob. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2020, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022/393 "2020-10-04T19:15:46Z")
He might not be out of the woods even if he is in the hospital, like happens sometimes in Europe, they call them “Forest Hospitals”. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2020, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022/394 "2020-10-04T20:21:33Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Of all possible outcomes, this is one of the worst. President Rat bastard will not isolate himself, and more will die. This is one of a multitude of reasons why the virus killing him is the best outcome. But I don’t believe for a minute that Chump will be released from the hospital tomorrow. That’s just bravado. And even if he were to be, I doubt he’d be in much shape to resume campaigning on any appreciable scale. I think the virus has at the very least killed his political career. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2020, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022/395 "2020-10-04T20:27:25Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > I think the virus has at the very least killed his political career. I’ll never be confident enough to predict anything ending Trump’s political career even if he loses the election next month. He’s the Keith Richards of politics. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2020, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022/396 "2020-10-04T20:31:29Z")
Bullshit incoming! ---
**Author:** ![MrMrmrmr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrmrmrmr/32/5828_2.png) [@MrMrmrmr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrMrmrmr)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2020, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022/397 "2020-10-04T20:33:15Z")
> [@QuickSilver](#): > > > [@MrMrmrmr](#): > > > > My family owned a business where I did tool and die work. We sold the company for an eight figure price, that was split between seven people. Sounds good but we also had over ten million in debt. I did Ok. > > I’m glad things worked out for you but this is not a scenario in which you were “wildly successful in business”. I’m sure you are a skilled machinist and I admire people who are good with their hands. But with respect to whatever financial success you may have achieved, much like Trump, you were simply born lucky. I was on the BOD, so I was part of all major decisions. Lucky is right, parents together who enforced the strong work ethic, healthy, male, American. ---
**Author:** ![MrMrmrmr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrmrmrmr/32/5828_2.png) [@MrMrmrmr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrMrmrmr)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2020, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022/398 "2020-10-04T20:35:05Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > > [@MrMrmrmr](#): > > > > My family owned a business where I did tool and die work. We sold the company for an eight figure price, that was split between seven people. Sounds good but we also had over ten million in debt. I did Ok. > > So, you are a highly successful businessman because you worked for your family’s deeply indebted company for $35 an hour at the time they sold it? See above. Ten million in debt is not that much when your sales are two million a month. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2020, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022/399 "2020-10-04T20:50:56Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > I’ll never be confident enough to predict anything ending Trump’s political career even if he loses the election next month. He’s the Keith Richards of politics. Or the Terminator. But I’m thinking this finally may be the pneumatic-crusher part of the movie. People point to Bolsonaro’s spike in popularity following his own bout with Covid. But that was not a mere month before a general election. ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Hedonia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ann_hedonia/32/319_2.png) [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2020, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022/400 "2020-10-04T21:01:24Z")
Herman Cain died 30 days after his symptoms got bad enough for him to be hospitalized- 40 days after the Tulsa rally. Trump might go home Monday, but I’ll bet he’ll be back. Now, it’s possible that the cocktail of drugs managed to knock back the infection somewhat. But it probably didn’t get it all, and the viruses that it didn’t kill will start replicating again…he might go home and come back later. It’s times like this that I find it fun to pretend I am both righteous and religious and that the powers of heaven hath loosed the fateful lightning of their terrible swift swords in my service. Because I think in the optimal scenario, Trump would come home Monday and start tweeting stupid shit about his invincibility. Then he’d refuse to quarantine after the first week, claiming he was out long enough and he’d try to hold rallies but he’d be all weak and faltering and stumbling, then he’d start acting more cray-cray than usual because of the speed and steroids he took to keep going. Then, about three weeks from now, he’ll collapse completely and be hospitalized again. He’d hang on until November 4th. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2020, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022/401 "2020-10-04T21:08:33Z")
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