# 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:** 40
**Author:** ![JaneDoe42](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/janedoe42/32/14104_2.png) [@JaneDoe42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JaneDoe42)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2020, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022/782 "2020-10-09T03:52:37Z")
More on the insane front: [I understand many people volunteered their time to remove these letters.](https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/01/trump-letter-food-aid-boxes-424230) I, personally, objected to the line that suggests “consider wearing a face mask in public”. ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2020, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022/783 "2020-10-09T03:57:11Z")
Wasn’t that the whole point originally of the Klan robes, to look like ghosts? I’m not sure where I heard that. So grains of salt and all… ---
**Author:** ![Oly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oly/32/8255_2.png) [@Oly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oly)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2020, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022/784 "2020-10-09T05:05:16Z")
Access Hollywood, redux I better use some Tic Tacs just in case they start kissing me. You know they’re automatically attracted to beautiful—They just start kissing me. I’m like a magnet. Just kiss. They don’t even wait. And when they’re a Gold Star, you let them do it. They can do anything. Grab ya by the balls. Blow virus down your throat. They can do anything. ---
**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 9, 2020, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022/785 "2020-10-09T13:10:40Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > Lincoln’s ghost moans, “Oh, _great_ ; there goes the neighborhood…!” Coming soon to VOD: “Ghost Lincoln: Zombie Hunter” ---
**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 9, 2020, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022/786 "2020-10-09T14:55:43Z")
> [@Si\_Amigo](#): > > And Mitch McConnell if we are making a list. Alas, Mitch has been avoiding Trump for months due to not trusting Trump’s approach to covid-19. [https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/08/politics/mitch-mcconnell-donald-trump-coronavirus-protocols/index.html](https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/08/politics/mitch-mcconnell-donald-trump-coronavirus-protocols/index.html) ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2020, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022/787 "2020-10-09T14:57:48Z")
I know, I was bummed to hear that. Best for Donald to remain alive…not so for Mitch. ---
**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 10, 2020, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022/788 "2020-10-10T14:37:32Z")
Another danger for anyone with COVID can come weeks later, in the form of blood clots that escape detection and lead to fatal strokes and heart attacks. ---
**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 10, 2020, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022/789 "2020-10-10T15:55:01Z")
> [@asahi](#): > > Another danger for anyone with COVID can come weeks later, in the form of blood clots that escape detection and lead to fatal strokes and heart attacks.- Awww… you’re just trying to cheer me up. ---
**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 10, 2020, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022/790 "2020-10-10T19:22:05Z")
It would have to be a _fatal_ stroke for anyone to notice. ---
**Author:** ![Tfletch1](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tfletch1/32/5340_2.png) [@Tfletch1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tfletch1)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2020, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022/791 "2020-10-14T02:10:37Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Awww… you’re just trying to cheer me up. HA! (I’m a bad person…) ---
**Author:** ![romansperson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/romansperson/32/17100_2.png) [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2020, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022/792 "2020-10-14T14:58:34Z")
Apparently Covid had been going around among the White House Staff for awhile, which of course they covered up. From this article ([WaPo, last couple paragraphs](https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/melania-trump-covid-tapes/2020/10/13/a41f7e10-04ee-11eb-897d-3a6201d6643f_story.html)): > The White House has assiduously dodged questions about when President Trump last tested negative for the coronavirus, making it difficult for the public to deduce how and when he and first lady might have contracted the virus and whom they might have transmitted it to before their diagnoses. A White House spokesman last week told reporters that how the virus got into the White House was “sort of an unknowable question” (though at least one former CDC official begged to differ) and that the focus now was on preventing further transmission. > But reporters have since revealed that members of the residence staff had taken ill long before the first lady’s diagnosis prompted questions about their safety. Four residence staffers tested positive for the coronavirus about three weeks ago: three housekeepers and an assistant to the chief usher, Timothy Harleth. Not only did Harleth ask the staff to “use discretion” about the positive cases, he told the first family about the cases, the New York Times reported. The White House kept it under wraps and also did not disclose that the head of security, Crede Bailey, is “gravely ill” with covid-19 and was taken to the hospital in late September, as reported by Bloomberg News last week. ---
**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 14, 2020, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022/793 "2020-10-14T15:32:15Z")
> [@romansperson](#): > > Apparently Covid had been going around among the White House Staff for awhile, which of course they covered up. Which is one of the numerous reasons I have this sign in my front yard. [![](https://images.camaelshirt.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/make-lying-wrong-again-vote-for-biden-harris-yard-side-official.jpg) ](https://images.camaelshirt.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/make-lying-wrong-again-vote-for-biden-harris-yard-side-official.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2020, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022/794 "2020-10-14T20:42:26Z")
Hey, that’s a cool sign. Is a contribution to the Biden campaign required to get one? ---
**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 14, 2020, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022/795 "2020-10-14T20:46:26Z")
Barron Trump has _had_ COVID (the same reporter who broke Melania’s case is reporting this, so linking to her directly): > ---
**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 14, 2020, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022/796 "2020-10-14T20:56:24Z")
Got mine off Amazon. I take into the garage after dark. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2020, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022/797 "2020-10-14T21:02:23Z")
Whatever could you be concerned about? > **[Message of unity replaces burned down Biden-Harris farm display](https://abc7chicago.com/biden-display-burned-farm-torched-message-of-unity-joe/7020902/)** > > The new, nearly identical stack of hay bales now says "Love, Unity, Respect" and features a pair of U.S. flags, a globe and the word "VOTE." “DALTON, Mass. – A stack of hay bales on a Massachusetts farm decorated in support of the Democratic presidential ticket that was burned down has been replaced with a similar display with a different message. The original display at Holiday Brook Farm in Dalton featured 19 wrapped hay bales painted with the words “USA” and “VOTE” along with the names of Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris.” ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2020, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022/798 "2020-10-18T04:11:18Z")
New medical study indicates that sewage may be a transmission vector for COVID. To test the hypothesis, the researchers took rectal swabs of individuals at an outbreak in China: “Their throat swabs taken on April 13 tested positive for the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome virus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) by real-time reverse transcriptase–polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR). Subsequently, they were isolated for treatment. Their rectal swabs obtained on April 14 also tested positive.” > **[Sewage as a Possible Transmission Vehicle During a Coronavirus Disease 2019...](https://academic.oup.com/cid/article/73/7/e1795/5920983)** > > During a coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak in a densely populated community in Guangzhou, China, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 migh “Now Mr President, if you would just drop your trousers, bend over and spread the butt cheeks - this won’t hurt a bit - lovely - I can assure you, Sir, that is is one of the best samples I’ve ever taken!” ---
**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 18, 2020, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022/799 "2020-10-18T06:31:12Z")
I can almost guarantee that the tester would have tears in his/her eyes while saying the above. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2020, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022/800 "2020-10-18T14:10:23Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > A stack of hay bales on a Massachusetts farm decorated in support of the Democratic presidential ticket that was burned down has been replaced with a similar display with a different message Do you know who else liked to burn things in people’s lawns? ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2020, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022/801 "2020-10-18T14:22:08Z")
So the terrorist won. He forced the owner of the display to change his message. Doesn’t matter that the new message is a positive one. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022.md?page=39) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022.md?page=41)