I'm going to go out on a limb

[PCIntern]

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I am going to make some assumptions which may or may not be valid, but I’m going to apply some tenets from other disease entities.

My theory, which is mine, belongs to me, and is mine too, is that Trump has been fighting off low grade assaults upon his person by the Coronavirus for months now. If he were exposed to a relatively low viral load a few times over the last few months he might well have been able to throw the disease off, or be sub clinical, or be sn asymptomatic carrier.

However, with the lethal combination of scandals, horrendous poll numbers, defections by formerly loyal staff, Public repudiation by millions of people including those in the media which he watches incessantly, his immune system has utterly collapsed. The event of the supreme court announcement gave him a dose and he was more susceptible than he has ever been to its venomous bite.

I have seen this with other diseases including cancer, TB, bacterial infections, and other entities when a patient undergoes tremendous stress. One cannot imagine what he is going through now because he is caught in an inescapable web of deceit tied up by a Gordian knot.

Again, this is simply a series of thoughts and in no way Am I vouching for its scientific validity. However, in the spirit of pure Republican bullshit, this theory is as cogent as anything they have put forward.

[Thekaspervote]

1. Did you happen to see the video he released of himself this evening? He not that sick

You can probably find it on twitter

[Bernardo de La Paz]

2. No, it's the opposite, I think, but you are the doctor, not me

Repeated low-level attacks by Coronavirus would make a person immune. Then even if his immune system were depressed later, it would still have the antibodies available to guide the immune system.

Immune systems don't collapse under stress. Their function gets lowered, not zeroed.

Previously produced antibodies means even a depressed immune system can mount an effective defence.

A vaccine is a low-level attack, right? Enough to trigger antibody formation but not much of an illness at all, right?

Vaccinated people didn't get polio and small pox when their immune systems got depressed. They stayed immune, right?

The body's fight against cancer does not generally follow the antibody route as the primary or main defence, right?

Bacterial infections operate by different mechanisms from viral infections, right?



"persona" is a socio-psychological appearance people use on TV or in public. Not what you meant, I think. The phrase would be "assaults on his person".

[PCIntern]

3. Minimal immunity to CV despite exposure

that’s why you can get it again as did the Prez of Brazil I believe.

We learned with HIV that viral load plays an important role in seroconversion. That may be true here.

And I misspoke while dictating. Persona is incorrect -bad proofreading.