# Trump has COVID!

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**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")\
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**Post date:** [October 5, 2020, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022/513 "2020-10-05T20:33:04Z")

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> [@RitterSport](#):
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> Trump just tweeted:
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> > 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!
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> 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.

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