# 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:** 32
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2020, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022/622 "2020-10-06T15:13:22Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Ok, somebody please reassure me that he’s not going to just _get over_ this thing and be fine. I’m a heathen, so I need to ask: Does Revelation say anything about the Beast surviving an attempt on his life? ---
**Author:** ![velomont](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/8491ac/32.png) [@velomont](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/velomont)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2020, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022/623 "2020-10-06T15:28:20Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > > [@Biffster](#): > > > > You’re thinking of the Canadians, I believe. > > I resent this vile calumny! 😉 Canada didn’t even exist as a country during this period (the War of 1812). It was a British colony, and the invasion and burnings in the US capital was done by British soldiers staged from the colony that now forms parts of Canada: Hey Biffster! Thanks for the credit 😀, but as Wolfpup says, we didn’t exist yet 🇨🇦 ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2020, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022/624 "2020-10-06T15:36:41Z")
TIL that “Physician to the President” Dr. Sean Conley isn’t an MD. He’s an osteopath, with a Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine degree. So…yeah. That. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2020, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022/625 "2020-10-06T15:40:38Z")
In either this thread or the other Trump/covid thread MD vs DO was a fairly lengthy hijack. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2020, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022/626 "2020-10-06T15:41:08Z")
Thanks; I missed that. ---
**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 6, 2020, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022/627 "2020-10-06T15:46:07Z")
So trump says: - Don’t let the virus control your life - Don’t be afraid of it - You can beat it! I guess in this guy’s case, two out of three ain’t bad: > **[GOP county chair in Arkansas dies from COVID-19 – his committee hosted a...](https://www.rawstory.com/2020/10/gop-county-chair-in-arkansas-dies-from-19-his-committee-hosted-a-maskless-gathering-last-month/)** > > The chairman of the Craighead County Republican Committee in Arkansas has died from complications while fighting the coronavirus, reported KAIT8 News.Steven Farmer’s GOP committee hosted a social gathering with Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) and... ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2020, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022/628 "2020-10-06T15:51:21Z")
He is no longer letting the virus control his life, I guess. Sympathies to his family, though. Whatever mild schadenfreude I may once have had over these idiots getting sick is long gone. Now it just makes me angry how fucking stupid - how _dangerously_ stupid - they have been acting, and how many pointless deaths have occurred because of it. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2020, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022/629 "2020-10-06T15:52:02Z")
Yes: [![Google Photos](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/E3mXBw2z1ycY3vO4Li8uWrEw1_hgDwdimi0ePLbQ_WKTDjxbbzWCPUmVRrTERrd1MW5pVJGDGMA2PEh5QOuU7HLlyyeHBW_hr1z5t9be7caWkkeMSWXLUReG2IYeaUtmk84etqM_Bw=w600-h315-p-k "New item by John Thornton") ](https://photos.app.goo.gl/rYMnaDFiy7WTnjh57) Also, July was month 42 of the Trump Presidency: [![Google Photos](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/Br4djvohheAQMh9n3NLGZ9DXqgqI_f8dHAA4yTJjXrTbA0xaS19i4ylYaaF2_8H4RKaS4Q6TL0Rhyvh5DveHX-cDLQAqONZWIhNjDeR3aZR6dO1PyQ2O5LK1BjXN2s7E7LBOfnDdfw=w600-h315-p-k "New item by John Thornton") ](https://photos.app.goo.gl/mzbtgeBFQnXGh2347) ---
**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 6, 2020, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022/630 "2020-10-06T15:57:37Z")
Don’t get me wrong, I wasn’t trying to belittle Steven Farmer’s death; yes, sympathies to his family. I was sarcastically pointing out that this is a preview of how things will soon be if others who follow trump take his unbelievably bad post-Covid advice. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2020, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022/631 "2020-10-06T15:59:42Z")
No, I totally get it. One can feel bad about people getting sick and/or dying, and still point out that it was caused by their own stupidity, and that more are likely to follow. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2020, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022/632 "2020-10-06T16:07:38Z")
Thanks, @JohnT. ---
**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 6, 2020, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022/633 "2020-10-06T16:10:13Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > Yes: > > … > > Also, July was month 42 of the Trump Presidency: Hmmm… being Jewish, I don’t normally do New Testament, but I can get behind that! ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2020, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022/634 "2020-10-06T16:14:26Z")
I’ve been making Trump=Antichrist cracks since 2016. Even pissed off an Uber rider about this a year or two ago: > [@Tales of Uber](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tales-of-uber/831474/107): > > Sometimes y’all just can’t stand each other. It just happens. So, get a call for Bar 210, out on Boerne Stage road exit on I-10. I’m listening to Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History: Blueprint for Armageddon during this short, 4-5 minute ride. They get in the car, talking. I pull out, ready to do the turnaround, and Mr. Carlin is intoning that WW1 was a blueprint for Armageddon, when the conversation started: “Do you think WW1 was foretold in the book of Revelations?” “I’m sorry, I didn’t catch th… ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2020, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022/635 "2020-10-06T16:28:26Z")
As far as the Bible goes, I usually refer to **Exodus 32:** _31 So Moses went back to the Lord and said, “Oh, what a great sin these people have committed! They have made themselves **gods of gold**. 32 But now, please forgive their sin—but if not, then blot me out of the book you have written.”_ _33 The Lord replied to Moses, “Whoever has sinned against me I will blot out of my book. 34 Now go, lead the people to the place I spoke of, and my angel will go before you. However, when the time comes for me to punish, I will punish them for their sin.”_ _35 **And the Lord struck the people with a plague** because of what they did with the calf Aaron had made._ [NIV] (bolding mine) ---
**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 6, 2020, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022/636 "2020-10-06T16:39:35Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Ok, somebody please reassure me that he’s not going to just _get over_ this thing and be fine. I mean, the drugs they gave him are for really sick people. And watching him gasping for breath-- he’s still a very sick dude, right? I’m sure he is a lot sicker than he’s letting on, and I definitely don’t think he’s on the mend. But per the sources I’ve seen, 4.3% of people in his age group die of COVID. So his chance of dying was slim from the get-go, and he’s getting the world’s best healthcare with experimental medicine. This doesn’t discount the possibility of lingering or permanent aftereffects like lung damage or whatnot. For that outcome, I think the question is not whether he gets it, it’s how much. I keep waffling on whether I want him to die or suffer seriously. I’m probably repeating myself for the 3rd time, but I think we need him alive to help legitimize the election and participate in future legal proceedings. But his strutting around, hopped up on drugs and talking about how COVID is nothing, will risk millions and kill thousands, which I also don’t want. _shrug_ ---
**Author:** ![Biffster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biffster/32/339_2.png) [@Biffster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffster)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2020, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022/637 "2020-10-06T17:11:04Z")
[quote=“velomont, post:623, topic:922022, full:true”] > [@wolfpup](#): > > > [@Biffster](#): > > > > > You’re thinking of the Canadians, I believe. > > > [/quote] > > > > > > I resent this vile calumny! 😉 Canada didn’t even exist as a country during this period (the War of 1812). It was a British colony, and the invasion and burnings in the US capital was done by British soldiers staged from the colony that now forms parts of Canada: > > Hey Biffster! Thanks for the credit 😀, but as Wolfpup says, we didn’t exist yet 🇨🇦 Details, details… 😉 ---
**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 6, 2020, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022/638 "2020-10-06T17:12:11Z")
I don’t want him to die yet because he is a recruiting poster for the Democratic Party. If he dies before Election Day, some anti-Trump voters will skip voting because if the risks and hassles and some never Trumpets will vote for Pence. I do want him to die before he can undermine the elections with his misinformation, say 1 minute after the last polls close. ---
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2020, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022/639 "2020-10-06T17:15:37Z")
> **[Just Because I Was Mauled by Velociraptors Doesn’t Mean I Haven’t Done an...](https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/just-because-i-was-mauled-by-velociraptors-doesnt-mean-i-havent-done-an-excellent-job-handling-the-velociraptor-attacks)** > > Hello, Peter Ludlow here, coming to you from the Isla Nublar Medical Center here at Jurassic Park. As you might’ve heard, on Friday I was mauled by... ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2020, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022/640 "2020-10-06T17:18:15Z")
> [@MrMrmrmr](#): > > > [@HMS\_Irruncible](#): > > > > You can make me a sandwich though. I’d never turn down a good sandwich. > > Banh mi ok? Yes, please, that would be very nice. Waitaminute, what’s that extra “h” doing in your post? ---
**Author:** ![Si\_Amigo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/si_amigo/32/2877_2.png) [@Si\_Amigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Si_Amigo)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2020, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022/641 "2020-10-06T17:24:47Z")
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