Prospect of Trump's early hospital discharge mystifies doctors

[BainsBane]

The assertion by President Trump’s doctors that he could be discharged from the hospital as early as Monday astonished outside infectious-disease experts, who said he remains in a dangerous period of vulnerability when some covid-19 patients decline precipitously and require urgent intervention.

During a midday briefing Sunday on the president’s medical condition and treatment, White House physician Sean Conley and his team twice referred to planning to release Trump as early as the next day “if he continues to look and feel as well as he does today.”

The talk of the president’s release from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center came as Conley and two other physicians treating Trump gave an upbeat but incomplete characterization of his condition. Outside doctors said they were mystified by what they said was an inconsistent portrayal of the president’s illness as relatively mild despite the aggressive mix of treatments he is getting.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/10/04/trump-covid-19-discharge/

So he goes home, gets worse as COVID patients typically do, and then what? His obsession with political theater is evidently more important to him than his life.

[Enterstageleft]

1. To me, ANYTHING is more important than his life!

[BainsBane]

3. It's one thing for people who hate him

to feel that way and another for him to be so careless with his own life.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

15. I think he actually believes his own bullshit

and somehow thinks he's so special that he won't get any sicker.

[BainsBane]

25. Yes, I think you're right

His sense of grandiosity extends to his health.

[GeorgeGist]

2. Poor ratings.

Next.

[Blue_true]

4. Pushing to leave before that is wise can come back to bite him in the ass.

If he goes back to the WH, get sick and has to be rushed back to Walter Reed, that will finish what little chance he has of being re-elected. Massive swaths of Americans would view him as a totally dangerous idiot that must be removed from office at all costs.

[soothsayer]

6. And if he doesn't get released in two days we'll have to assume he's sick

That was really dumb of them

[Blue_true]

13. That group is not known for thinking stuff through. It is all about optics with them. nt

[LisaL]

10. I don't view that as a problem, do you?

NT

[Grasswire2]

5. THE MOTIVE IS TO PREVENT MONDAY MARKET CRASH

Doesn't WaPo get that?

It should be the frame here. The headline and the lede.

[BainsBane]

16. That's a good point

but what is the market going to do if he's rushed back to Walter Reed? The public will know that he is much sicker than he claims.

[ihas2stinkyfeet]

20. tomorrow is another day.

the joy ride was 1/2 hr before open if overseas markets.

[BainsBane]

22. This isn't about the joy ride

It's about releasing him from the hospital tomorrow.

[ihas2stinkyfeet]

23. same reason.

[uppityperson]

7. I'm worried about WH staff having enough resources to safely work with

positive covid19 people.

[LisaL]

11. By now they have been exposed to so many covid positive people.

NT

[uppityperson]

12. I know. Without enough safety precautions.

[LisaL]

8. If he goes home and gets worse, they will airlift him back to the hospital.

He seems to be running the show. He is probably telling this doctors what he wants to be done, and not the other way around.

[wcmagumba]

9. Maybe they took this time to move ventilators and other ICU equipment...

into the WH while no one was watching, I hope he needs one...

[oswaldactedalone]

14. The special ventilator they use for

Presidents is called Forced Air One. Not sure if anyone was aware of that.

[Silent3]

18. Hah!

Good one!

[Silent3]

17. If he goes back to the WH, and (almost inevitably) needs to go back to Walter Reed...

...he's not bloody likely going to get to make a second show of strolling out to Marine One. His ass'll be wheeled out on a gurney.

And that sure isn't good PR.

[BainsBane]

19. exactly

Has no one pointed that out to him? I suppose his current advisers are such sycophants, they don't dare contradict him.

[ihas2stinkyfeet]

21. they'll smuggle him out.

[moonscape]

26. Maybe in that long black box we

saw going in some days ago.

[Totally Tunsie]

24. Release him and let him die.

I'm sick of his crap.