# 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:** 26
**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 5, 2020, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022/502 "2020-10-05T19:21:49Z")
> [@QuickSilver](#): > > > [@HMS\_Irruncible](#): > > > > Gosh, the princely sum of $35/hr is certainly enough to make a wage worker into a titan of industry. I can see why it’s your go-to brag. > > He’s a feeble minded old man whose family took pity on him and paid him to machine scrap metal to keep him busy. > > > [@MrMrmrmr](#): > > > > 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. > > He was part of all major BOD decisions; Like how many sandwiches to order for lunch. Man, l could not fool you at all. If you want I could start a thread were we discuss solid modeling software, fixture design, 3 d programming of CNCs, or anything else you probably know nothing about. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2020, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022/503 "2020-10-05T19:22:35Z")
> [@MrMrmrmr](#): > > We were not toolmakers… > > > [@MrMrmrmr](#): > > > > solid modeling software, fixture design, 3 d programming… [glances up at thread title] Ummm, do you have anything to add to the “Trump has Covid” discussion? ---
**Author:** ![RitterSport](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rittersport/32/6326_2.png) [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2020, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022/504 "2020-10-05T19:22:59Z")
Trump just tweeted: > I will be leaving the great Walter Reed Medical Center today at 6:30 P.M. Feeling really good! **Don’t be afraid of Covid.** Don’t let it dominate your life. We have developed, under the Trump Administration, some really great drugs & knowledge. I feel better than I did 20 years ago! He’s a fucking psychopath. He could take this as an excuse to change his message and save 100,000 lives. Instead, he’s going to put even more people at risk. ---
**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 5, 2020, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022/505 "2020-10-05T19:23:47Z")
Just trying to set the record straight. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2020, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022/506 "2020-10-05T19:24:46Z")
Records aren’t straight. Records are round. ---
**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 5, 2020, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022/507 "2020-10-05T19:34:39Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > Records aren’t straight. [Frank Zappa’s old record label excluded.](https://www.discogs.com/label/51954-Straight) 😉 ---
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2020, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022/508 "2020-10-05T19:49:49Z")
Anybody remember the great line from Saving Private Ryan, where Tom Hanks says to Private Ryan, “earn this, earn it" ? A better man could use this moment to be better (“be best !”) and turn over a new leaf. But DJT is already doubling/tripling/quadrupling down on ‘just awful.’ He can’t help but be who he is. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2020, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022/509 "2020-10-05T19:50:46Z")
> [@anny\_m](#): > > The same day his positive COVID test result was released, the Chicago Tribune had an article about some lesser-known long term effects of the virus. One of them is hair loss. > > I wish him a lengthy and not entirely full recovery. It surely would be hard for any wig maker to recreate that crazy nest. ---
**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 5, 2020, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022/510 "2020-10-05T19:52:01Z")
> [@DavidNRockies](#): > > A better man could use this moment to be better (“be best !”) and turn over a new leaf. Can’t happen when the plant is dead. ---
**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 5, 2020, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022/511 "2020-10-05T20:12:14Z")
> [@RitterSport](#): > > Trump just tweeted: > > > I will be leaving the great Walter Reed Medical Center today at 6:30 P.M. Feeling really good! **Don’t be afraid of Covid.** Don’t let it dominate your life. We have developed, under the Trump Administration, some really great drugs & knowledge. I feel better than I did 20 years ago! > > He’s a fucking psychopath. He could take this as an excuse to change his message and save 100,000 lives. Instead, he’s going to put even more people at risk. Come on, that’s a little harsh. Maybe he has a point. I mean, Herman Cain had Covid but you don’t hear him complaining about how bad it was. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2020, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022/512 "2020-10-05T20:18:02Z")
> [@MrMrmrmr](#): > > Man, l could not fool you at all. > If you want I could start a thread were we discuss solid modeling software, fixture design, 3 d programming of CNCs, or anything else you probably know nothing about. Stop embarrassing yourself. ---
**Author:** ![robby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robby/32/11048_2.png) [@robby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robby)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2020, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022/513 "2020-10-05T20:33:04Z")
> [@RitterSport](#): > > Trump just tweeted: > > > I will be leaving the great Walter Reed Medical Center today at 6:30 P.M. Feeling really good! **Don’t be afraid of Covid.** Don’t let it dominate your life. We have developed, under the Trump Administration, some really great drugs & knowledge. I feel better than I did 20 years ago! > > He’s a fucking psychopath. He could take this as an excuse to change his message and save 100,000 lives. Instead, he’s going to put even more people at risk. If Trump recovers, it could well be because of the experimental treatment he has been receiving that is described in the following article: ### [These laboratory-made antibodies are a best bet for a coronavirus treatment, but there won’t be enough](https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/09/30/monoclonal-antibodies-to-treat-covid-19/) [https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/09/30/monoclonal-antibodies-to-treat-covid-19/](https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/09/30/monoclonal-antibodies-to-treat-covid-19/) Per the article, this treatment is a good bet to treat COVID-19. However, it is difficult or impossible to scale up, meaning there are only very small, limited amounts that are possible to produce in the foreseeable future, meaning these treatments are unlikely to affect the course of the pandemic. In short, this is a very expensive and rare treatment that not everyone has access to. So it is even more disingenuous for Trump to tell the public not to be afraid of Covid. It’s bad enough that Trump’s policies have led to more infection and more death, but it just puts the icing on the cake to tell the public not to fear a disease when he has access to treatment denied to the rest of us. “Fucking psychopath” about covers it. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2020, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022/514 "2020-10-05T20:36:28Z")
> [@President Dumbass via RitterSport](#): > > I feel better than I did 20 years ago! So, still on the dexamethasone, I take it? ---
**Author:** ![RitterSport](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rittersport/32/6326_2.png) [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2020, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022/515 "2020-10-05T20:53:56Z")
That’s an excellent point. Some steroids make you feel great. ---
**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 5, 2020, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022/516 "2020-10-05T21:00:00Z")
Dexamethasone’s side effects include “mania and hallucinations”. I think that’s the meaning El\_Kabong was going for. ---
**Author:** ![asahi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asahi/32/8693_2.png) [@asahi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asahi)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2020, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022/517 "2020-10-05T21:02:12Z")
He’s basically gambling that he won’t get sicker and gambling that he won’t infect anyone else, returning to a building that has had COVID positive people walking in and out of the building the last week. _I’m Smart! Very smart! Went to Wharton!_ ---
**Author:** ![RitterSport](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rittersport/32/6326_2.png) [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2020, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022/518 "2020-10-05T21:09:40Z")
I was thinking about prednisone – when my mother was on that for a while, she felt great. Anyway, that one line in the tweet will lead to, what, 10,000 additional deaths? More? ---
**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2020, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022/519 "2020-10-05T21:21:34Z")
My mom still talks fawningly about the steroids she was on like ten years ago and how she felt like a young woman. I can certainly think someone as stupid and unable to accept information as Trump could decide that he’s totally healed and everything is great because of his steroid high. ---
**Author:** ![HMS\_Irruncible](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hms_irruncible/32/7394_2.png) [@HMS\_Irruncible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HMS_Irruncible)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2020, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022/520 "2020-10-05T21:28:50Z")
> [@MrMrmrmr](#): > > If you want I could start a thread were we discuss solid modeling software, fixture design, 3 d programming of CNCs, or anything else you probably know nothing about. Thanks for the offer, but I make enough to pay somebody else to keep track of trivial details like that. You can make me a sandwich though. I’d never turn down a good sandwich. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2020, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022/521 "2020-10-05T21:29:15Z")
This is insane, absolutely insane. There are absolutely no brakes on his behavior and he is unhinged. He could literally decide to go back to the WH and nuke China. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022.md?page=25) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022.md?page=27)