Herman Cain Didn't Wear A Mask At Trump's Rally, And Now He Has Coronavirus

[guillaumeb]

From the article:

Herman Cain is 74 years old. In the middle of a pandemic, he should not have been attending a large indoor gathering. He should not have been without a mask.
It is impossible to know if Cain got the virus from Trump’s rally because anyone who would engage in such reckless behavior could have picked up the virus in a variety of places, but the fact is that Herman Cain thought that he could attend a large indoor political rally without a mask, and now he is sick.

To read more:

https://www.politicususa.com/2020/07/02/herman-cain-no-mask-coronavirus.html

Would it be cold to say, as Cain has himself said many times, "blame yourself"?

[HotTeaBag]

1. Fake News, Democratic Hoax

or, something.

[soothsayer]

2. So this dude says they were tested on the way in and out

Link to tweet

?s=21

STOP POINTING FINGERS!!!

I was with Herman Cain at the Trump Rally in Tulsa Oklahoma.

Stop blaming President Trump and the Tulsa Rally because we were tested before the Rally and After the Rally! After means the same day!

@realDonaldTrump and his campaign put our safety first!

[Salviati]

4. Morons. "After means the same day!" as if that was a good thing...

What are the chances that a coronavirus test will tell me I am not infected when I actually am?

The chances that a coronavirus test will give you a false negative (indicating that you are not infected when you actually are infected) depend upon the type of test you have and when in the course of your infection the test is performed. There are two main types of tests:

-nasal/throat swab tests and saliva tests, both of which detect the virus itself
-blood tests that detect antibodies that your immune system produces in response to the infection.

If you get the nasal/throat swab or saliva test, you will get a false negative test result:

-100% of the time on the day you are exposed to the virus. (There are so few viral particles in your nose or saliva so soon after infection that the test cannot detect them.)

-About 40% of the time if you are tested four days after exposure to the virus.

-About 20% of the time if you develop symptoms and are tested three days after those symptoms started.


This possibility of a false negative test result is why anyone who has symptoms that could be due to COVID-19, or has been exposed to someone known to be infected, must isolate even if they test negative for coronavirus.

The blood antibody test does not become positive (or might never be positive in some people) until many days after exposure, and is therefore not the primary test used for diagnosis. It is very useful for research and public health decision making.

https://www.health.harvard.edu/diseases-and-conditions/if-youve-been-exposed-to-the-coronavirus

[guillaumeb]

6. My guess is that he was paid to say this.

Plus, he is a rare, non-white face.

[LeftInTX]

14. He's a Trump surrogate

He's not just a random black guy with a MAGA hat.

https://www.terrencekwilliams.com/blog

[guillaumeb]

5. Nonsense. He might have had his temperature recorded.

Or, he was paid to say this.

[soothsayer]

8. He shows an antigen test result there

[guillaumeb]

9. The test does not produce instant results.

So his claim is nonsense as it relates to the rally.

[soothsayer]

10. Of course. I'm just reporting

[guillaumeb]

12. Understood, and appreciated. eom

[soothsayer]

15. The whole thing is so squirrelly, I had to share!

[guillaumeb]

17. It adds to the post.

But the claim sounds as if it might be true, so Trump voters love it.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

7. Tested? A remote temperature sensor is not "tested". Is that what he means?

That's not "tested".

In any case, a nasal swab test the same day "after" the rally is much too soon for an infection from the rally to have developed to the point of releasing virus. Funny how people don't think about how things work. Just as funny if they know and think their followers are so stupid as to not know or think.

(I did not listen to the tweet vid.)

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

3. Uhhh, it takes some length of time after you are infected

to have enough of the virus to show up in testing.

Although, by now some noticeable number of others who were at the rally should be symptomatic.

[soothsayer]

11. Yes, of course, they've dispersed to godnozewhere

[LisaL]

19. How do we know if they are or they aren't?

[Doremus]

13. Science doesn't care whether you believe in it.

The gene pool will cleanse itself whether you approve or not.

[guillaumeb]

16. True. The COVID19 virus cannot hear the rhetoric. eom

[LisaL]

18. Testing right after the rally is useless.

It takes a while for virus to replicate and for covid test to become positive. It's not possible to know right away.

[guillaumeb]

20. But to the average Trump voter, it sounds plausible. eom