Covid may take out Trump - this is a real possibility - Doctor on CNN

[yellowcanine]

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/07/trump-is-at-great-risk-of-a-tragic-outcome-if-he-gets-19-cnn-doctor/

A doctor told CNN on Tuesday that President Donald Trump needs to start taking the coronavirus pandemic more seriously — or else risk sickness and even death.

During a panel discussion about Trump national security adviser Robert O’Brien testing positive for the disease, CNN medical analyst Dr. Jonathan Reiner said that the president should be worried that the virus keeps getting closer and closer to him as more aides and allies come down with the disease.

“What they’re not using at the White House is a strategy of massive mask-wearing for everyone,” he said. “And in photo ops and, you know, apparently in the hallways, it’s not common to see staff, senior staff members, wearing masks. I would do that immediately. You need concentric rings of protection around the president and vice president.”

“I want to remind people that Herman Cain, who’s exactly the same age as the president of the United States, has been in the hospital for a month after contracting the virus,” he said. “This president is 74 years old. He is at great risk of a tragic outcome should he acquire this.”

Is it wrong to secretly hope that this happens?

[handmade34]

1. no secret

I wish him ill health everyday

[nattyice]

39. Ha, yellow hair, orange complexion. Perfect voodoo doll!

[Thekaspervote]

57. Love it!! Would you stick a pin in your doll for me?!

[iluvtennis]

58. + 1. nt

[BigmanPigman]

92. Where's the pin in his crotch?

[AZ8theist]

93. Couldn't find the mushroom....

[nattyice]

108. And I just noticed the black heart!

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

112. Lol!

Me too, but I never thought to use a poppet!

[captain queeg]

2. It would restore my faith in god or karma or whatever if the shitstain gets it

Though there’d be nothing magical about it. It almost seems magical he hasn’t gotten it yet.

[Mariana]

14. Nah, it's not magical. Most people haven't gotten it yet.

He's at less risk of catching it than the rest of us, because all the people who get anywhere near him get tested and questioned constantly.

[dixiegrrrrl]

76. They are, of course, assuming the tests are accurate.

I believe they are using that Abbot 5 min. test, the one he was hawking so hard a month or so ago.
The one with so many complaints about.

Between that and his public showing that he is a god and therefore immune, we may have good news after all.

[Mariana]

80. I expect he'll get it eventually, just as most of us will.

But there's no reason to be surprised that he hasn't had it yet. Most people haven't had it yet.

[Blue_true]

117. One would guess that his loser of a national security adviser would have

been in his presence during the last two weeks.

[Cryptoad]

72. No Chance,,,

those daily Clorox enemas insure that!

[Oppaloopa]

103. Yes it was in style a while back for women to have their anus bleached.

[rateyes]

107. Melania did that to Donald? Explains a lot.

[milestogo]

118. Women?

[BlancheSplanchnik]

129. Men were into it too, let's be accurate.

Meanwhile, I hope the orange ape fungus gets a truckload of it. A nice big viral load right up his piggish snout.

[Oppaloopa]

131. yea let's

[smb]

86. Maybe Somebody Down There Likes Him nt

[Blue_true]

116. It would be an exclamation mark if he gets it after in person schools have to be closed.

Only a fool would conclude then that he remotely knows what he is doing.

[JI7]

3. I wish for it everyday

[Hortensis]

4. :) "Is it wrong to hope this happens?" My guess is McConnell

doesn't think so. But then, to him nothing he thinks would benefit him is wrong.

Trump may not be a healthy man, given his age, weight and whatever, but looking back, it doesn't seem that he's particularly prone to catching colds.

We can always hope. But since I don't want the right's fall-aways rushing back in relief to vote for a replacement candidate, I'd personally prefer Trump took his last breaths closer to election day.

[IronLionZion]

21. They are studying the link between common cold and COVID

because some colds are coronaviruses and people who have caught colds may have some antibody protection. Or at least that's what I hope because I have had a lot of colds in my life.

[Demsrule86]

49. The thing about colds is there is no vaccine after all these years.

And I would be those who died caught plenty of colds.

[Ex Lurker]

75. Couple of points about that

Most colds are caused by rhinoviruses not coronaviruses. Rhinoviruses are notorious for mutating fast, which makes vaccine development problematic. But if the common cold had a high fatality rate instead of being a minor inconvenience, we would have come up with a vaccine by now.

[Hortensis]

54. Me too and dark-happy thought for frequent snifflers.

But so far they're finding that antibodies usually disappear entirely within 3 months after COVID illness. Suggesting the "it just keeps going around" cold virus pattern may be true for this more virulent CV.

Reportedly a question of possible immune "memory" that would be triggered by infection is being researched. Amazing that with the whole world working on it we still have so much basic knowledge to tack down about this sneaky virus. Virology must be a lot more complex than I realized.

[magicarpet]

5. 5 billion people on the planet secretly wish for the same thing.

[machoneman]

16. Are you kidding? Even the Martians want that asshole gone!

[IronLionZion]

52. Who are the 1 billion who don't?

[malaise]

62. You win the thread

[Mike 03]

6. As other DUers have noted, Trump is looking increasingly frail. He's under constant

stress (of his own making) and has aged considerably, suffered cognitive decline, and there have been rumors (along with visual circumstantial evidence) he's used and abused various substances, so it's natural to wonder how his immune system would respond to a significant challenge.

Even if he doesn't get COVID-19, given his performance at that Rose Garden campaign event two weeks ago, it's realistic to wonder if he can hold out until November.

[yellowcanine]

7. Thinking massive heart attack.

Just waiting to happen.

[machoneman]

17. Nawh! A massive stroke would be much better and well deserved!

[Traildogbob]

25. With ya there

A stroke that requires Ivanka to wipe his ass and drool. Melania certainly has an ND agreement in her contract. No Drool💦, No 💩

[tinrobot]

31. She'd let him wallow in it while stealing what money is left from Tiffany and Eric.

[heckles65]

40. And get herself a buff young lover

before her looks go.

"Why isn't he dead yet?!" she thinks every day, every hour.

[CTyankee]

50. I'll bet he's already dead in one respect, if you get my drift...

[Traildogbob]

48. Yes, you are spot on

I forget how evil she is, just overshadowed by the depth of the orange Ass boil evil. Just imagine the evil on the JaVanka spawn coming for us.

[USALiberal]

20. DU Doctors! nt

[Mike 03]

33. I know... But we have to Keep Hope Alive! nt

[WyattKansas]

64. There is another possibility for tRUMP looking so frail and geezer like...

Before the virus hit, he was free to make his own terms and schedule that suited his energy and recharge levels to attack anyone he considered an opponent. He would vacation all the time, while also sleeping to noon everyday with his cheeseburger wrappers surrounding him in bed. But now the virus has dictated his lifestyle, movement, stress levels, and energy levels with a constant stream of bad news from his own decisions. tRUMP also started out before the virus trying to attack Biden as low energy, sleepy, old, weak, and already passed expiration date... And what do we know about tRUMP's favorite ploys?... Project what tRUMP is guilty of onto his opponents.

So since the virus has hit, tRUMP has been hit with a national crisis where he cannot just sit back and take a free ride on what President Obama built and he had to actually go to work around the clock addressing the virus. Even though tRUMP has failed miserably with his lazy small fraction effort, the disruption to his babied fake schedule has wreaked havoc his own low energy, exhausted, old, weak, and nearly dead hide with sulfur holding him together. tRUMP cannot handle to normal workload of being President, let alone actually being tested in a crisis, because he can no longer hide who he really is... A fraud and stupid.

[Jedi Guy]

94. I'm inclined to disagree on the substance abuse, at least with regard to booze in particular.

I seem to recall that I read somewhere he's a teetotaler as a result of his brother Fred's alcoholism. He's reputed not to drink booze even at parties and other such social events.

That said, it wouldn't surprise me if he was abusing prescription drugs. In his head, he'd draw the line between those and street drugs, so even if he was grinding up and snorting Adderall, he wouldn't think it was a problem. He's not one of "those people" abusing illicit drugs, after all.

[tclambert]

110. Time for another round of hydroxychloroquine!

His favorite treatment. It says right on the bottle "it may not kill you."

[GoCubsGo]

8. I'm surprised that it hasn't done so already.

That motherfucker has got to be the luckiest person on the planet when it comes to not suffering the consequences of one's actions.

[Laelth]

12. Very lucky, yes. So far. n/t

-Laelth

[tanyev]

18. He's got the entire apparatus of the presidency protecting him.

As Mary Trump mentioned in her book, he has always had something protecting him. Went to work for Daddy's company and by the time Daddy realized what an inept fool he was, Daddy was also enmeshed in the illusion and kept shoveling money into Donald's problems. He never did any real work--just used office time to read newspaper and magazine clippings about himself and talk on the phone. There were other more competent people that did all the work.

Can you imagine how quickly he would have gotten the virus if he were responsible for his own protection and social interactions?

[Demsrule86]

51. One thing is his attacks on the constitution and the manipulation of laws won't

save him from Covid.

[Captain Zero]

125. I think he may have been asymptomatic

It's possible he has had it. Had or has antibodies now. But there are instances of people going for a twofer, right.

Plus. It would be really hard for him to keep his mouth shut if he had it with no symptoms.

[GoCubsGo]

127. I can't remember who suggested this, but

it's possible they've been pumping him up with convalescent plasma and anti-virals the whole time. In fact, I wouldn't be at all surprised if that's what they're doing. And, the thought that that useless, putrid fuck gets that kind of care, while millions go without, nauseates me.

[TreasonousBastard]

9. "He is at great risk of a tragic outcome ..." and we are at a greater risk if doesn't.

[Miguelito Loveless]

10. If it hasn't happened by now, not going to.

Apparently, the virus has standards.

[Botany]

11. "He is at great risk of a tragic outcome should he acquire this."

A tragic outcome????

[ProfessorGAC]

70. +1

My first thought was "Tragic for whom?"
Barron?
Other than that, I'm struggling to think of someone for whom this would be a tragedy.

[lagomorph777]

13. SSSSSssshhhhh! Don't help him save himself!

Let him die the way he wants to die: drowning in his own blood.

[The King of Prussia]

15. Depends if you believe "All lives matter"

Personally I don't. In my view the only good racist is a dead racist. I'm sticking to my view that Trump will be dead before November 3rd.

[JT45242]

19. 2 ventilators between a collapsing US and President Pelosi

Let's be honest... if Trump and Pence get it -- given age, etc, there is a real possibiity that they could both end up in induced comas and President Pelosi would open up a can on Barr and the DOJ with REAL oversight. National mandatory mask laws.

Best part...if he recovers it may be too late to try to the pardon scam.

[scarytomcat]

47. that would be sweet President Pelosi

we might be able to get things under control
so much is spin off

[NNadir]

22. It would represent justice. N/t

[dalton99a]

23. The world would rejoice.

[niyad]

24. And, of course, when this bloated, hate-filled orange traitor does contract the virus, the rwnjs

will go completely insane with conspiracy theories. May their teeny widdle heads explode.

[Squidly]

124. I just read that in Elmer Fuddish...

May their teenie widdle heads expowode...(add on his signature laugh) hehehehehehe

It made me smile Thanks!!

[niyad]

130. You are most welcome. We need all the smiles and laughs we can get.

[Texin]

26. It may be 'wrong', but so what?

He is without question the most execrable so-called human on the planet right now. I just want him gone soonest. This would be an efficient means if it happened, and even if it didn't have a fatal outcome for him, if he contracted a bad case, it would be so physically debilitating in the aftermath he wouldn't be able to run in an election, let alone run the country.

[Dios Mio]

27. Well I sure as hell won't tell him if you don't.

[Ponietz]

28. Let's call this potential outcome pathetic, not tragic

[Gore1FL]

29. If he got it I would point out to his followers that only 2% of presidents get the virus

It's nothing to worry about.

[Mr. Evil]

30. I would have quite possibly the largest party I've ever had.

Of course I'd be the only attendee but, it would be epic!

[StarryNite]

74. LOL

[LuckyLib]

121. Before the pandemic, I said there'd be dancing in the streets. One giant extravaganza!

Now it would be socially distanced and mask-wearing, of course. So some folks just might want to dance in their own living rooms.

And . . . folks hanging out of windows banging pots and pans!

[jb5150]

32. I've got an expensive bottle of wine I've been saving ...

.. and a list of persons I'll open it for.

[JCMach1]

34. He and Pence are getting blood anti-bodies

Bank on it

[peacebuzzard]

82. something like that.

some kind of IV immune boosters.

[efhmc]

35. Evil is a powerful protective shield.

[Javaman]

36. yeah, um....thoughts and prayers...

[NurseJackie]

37. Oh, don't tease me so...

[TrogL]

38. The problem is that would give us Pence as the nominee

He’d have lots of right wing clout for the Rabid Religious Right and none of Trump’s baggage.

[yellowcanine]

78. Not necessarily. All hell could break loose.

I would not want to predict the outcome.

[Dukkha]

41. Oh please! Oh please! Oh please! Oh please!

Just not hearing that awful voice ever again would be a godsend to my mental health.

[secondwind]

42. He gets tested every single day. That's an advantage if I ever saw one.

[Demsrule86]

53. He would know he had Covid but so did my brother...and he came close to death...Trump

is not in as good a shape as my brother who keeps fit... a Marine.

[Hotler]

43. It's a hoax. nt

[Bonhomme Richard]

44. "Tragic Outcome" is not the way...

I would ever describe his suffering for weeks and passing.

[Politicub]

45. I wouldn't be sad about it.

[get the red out]

46. Seems like he should have had it a long time ago

I don't feel good about wishing death on others, but it seems like the shit-head might be wishing it on himself, they way he hasn't protected himself at all for so long!

Does Trump have a Psychic Healer or Shaman on staff at the WH?😜

I didn't even know that Herman Cain was as old as Trump!

[ProudMNDemocrat]

55. Trump's luck WILL run out.

There is only so much venom running through his veins to prevent him from contracting this virus.

Any word on Jr. and his girlfriend since July 3rd?

[roamer65]

56. It would be happy dance time.

[SoonerPride]

59. Stop warning him and stop testing him and the staff!

No testing means no cases!

Let him run around without masks for anyone near him.

Please!

[Duppers]

100. Exactly! 👍

[malaise]

60. Please please Don the man responsible for 150,000+ deaths and 4.3 million infected

do not start taking the coronavirus pandemic more seriously.

That is all.

[iluvtennis]

61. And Herman Cain who was at that Tulsa rally has been in hospital over 3 weeks on oxygen

treatment. What is oxygen treatment - does that mean he is on a ventilator?

https://www.axios.com/herman-cain-hospitalized-coronavirus-2a52dd12-0cea-4492-a307-9442f29b1543.html

[malaise]

63. Thursday coming is four weeks

and he is not doing well

[iluvtennis]

67. Wow, 4 weeks. And I still don't understand the nebulous term "oxygen treatment". nt

[Botany]

89. Aka "a ventilator"

N/t

[drray23]

90. If he has been in for 4 weeks its unlikely he will make it.

the outcome for older people who end up on a ventilator for weeks is pretty bad.

[llmart]

65. "He is at great risk of a tragic outcome should he acquire this."

Who says we have nothing to be optimistic about these days?

[Autumn]

66. I don't secretly hope it happens, I'm openly hoping for it. That's the only thing that will get

the Republicans and his followers to stop the spread of this thing.

[kimbutgar]

68. Please make it so ! Please make it so ! Please make it so ! Please make it so ! Please make it so !

Please make it so !

Please make it so !

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Please please please please Please make it so !

[ananda]

69. Trump is getting some kind of prophylactic treatment...

... not available to everyone.

[calimary]

71. K&R

[world wide wally]

73. Poetic justice is still justice

[Blue Owl]

77. Please Lord -- we could use some divine intervention

[Initech]

79. How does he not have it already???

[peacebuzzard]

81. the devil should take him

no secrets here.

cheers to champagne.

[Larissa]

83. Asymptomatic Carrier

Perhaps Trump *is* infected, but shows no visible symptoms. He's been surrounded by folks who were infected, especially his valet. Melania doesn't share a bedroom with Trump. In fact, I believe Melania's bedroom is on a different floor of the W.H. altogether. I know Trump must spend significant time with Stephen Miller, whose wife, Marie, was infected. Back in March, Brazil's Bolsonaro partied at Mar-A-Lago along with his infected staffers, before Bolsonaro recently came down with the virus. Robert O'Brien, the National Security Adviser, who is the latest known infection in Trump's circle, never wore a mask. O'Brien claims that he caught the virus from his daughter. To say nothing of various Secret Service agents who came down with the virus, such as the most recent outbreak in Tulsa, Oklahoma at Trump's "Tic-Tock" rally. And these are just the folks publicly known who were or are sick.

BTW, there have been claims that the instant Covid-19 test kit used in the West Wing isn't reliable. The rooms in the West Wing are small and poorly ventilated: steaming Petri dishes of recurring infections.

Could it be that Trump is a super spreader; the West Wing Typhoid Mary?

[Grasswire2]

102. Stephen Miller's wife's name is Katie.

And the Abbott Lab tests Trump favors have very high false results.

[Ilsa]

84. He doesn't need any more warnings.

I'll continue to hope my prayers will be answered.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

85. We can hope!

It's only fitting that Trump should get the "Trump virus" that has killed at least 150,000 people in the USA so far.

[MFGsunny]

87. here is youtube video link of Dr. Reiner's comments on CNN - original reporting

[SunSeeker]

88. Well, let's just hope there is such a thing as karma. nt

[BobTheSubgenius]

91. You don't even have to keep it secret.

[BadgerMom]

95. If it's wrong,

know you’re not alone.

[Lisa0825]

96. I'd rather face Trump in the election than Pence. nt

[Hekate]

97. Please don't tease, Dr Reiner

[warmfeet]

98. If I believed in God,

I would pray to that entity to make it so.

If I believed in karma, I would wish it to make its case now.

Take this asshole, remove him from our conscience, from our realm of influence.

I want him gone. Don't care how.

[Duppers]

99. If he keeps on having his daily test, he's....

Going to get it. Right?

"If we didn't do so many test, we wouldn't have all these cases. I told my people, 'Slow down the testing.'"

[jimlup]

101. Correction... it wouldn't be a "tragic" outcome...

just say'n.

[oldsoftie]

104. In a perfect world, only those who dismiss it would catch it.

Which sadly would include many of my friends

[eppur_se_muova]

105. Spelling error -- "tragic" should be "righteous". nt

[rateyes]

106. Tragic, my ass!

[keithbvadu2]

109. Herman is wasting time and money on the hospital with a 'hoax'.

Herman is wasting time and money on the hospital with a 'hoax'.

Leave!

[tclambert]

111. Trump should own the libs by catching it on purpose.

After all, he's so strong and manly and cognitively there that he can just shrug off any disease.

It may have put Herman Cain in the hospital for a month (and counting), but Trump has such "good genes" it probably won't affect him hardly at all. Person, woman, man, camera, TV. See? I must be cognitively there, too, so this argument must make sense.

[lastlib]

113. Just one small correction to the last statement here:

He is at great risk of a tragic outcome should he acquire this.

The outcome wouldn't be tragic.

IMHO.

[GETPLANING]

114. I don't have a problem with it

[Woodwizard]

115. Nope

[Maru Kitteh]

119. I've not made much of a secret of that. I hope he gets coronavirus, and furthermore,

I hope he has a miserable course with a poor outcome.

[Blue Owl]

120. Be swift, Coronavirus

n/t

[Crunchy Frog]

122. I'd prefer that it happen after rather than before the election.

I don't want people being triggered to rally around him because he's sick.

If he collapses the day after the election, leaving the lame duck period in chaos, that would be ideal.

[BlueMTexpat]

123. You are in

good company, methinks!

[SmartVoter22]

126. Would this be a suicide?

If Trump is so stupid as to kill himself, with CoVId...by simply not protecting himself, would that be considered a suicide? We have never had a suicidal POTUS, but certainly could.

Would the conservative types, those who actually think the US has an official 'Christian Religion' allow such a sinner to be given honors; such as Laying in State in the US Capitol, burial in a National Military Cemetery, etc?

[Soxfan58]

128. Do not despair

Trump will shove a light up his ass drink some clorox, take some hydrocloraquine and be fine.