I don't know about the implications of such a thing vis-a-vis prophecy, and I don't know what is going on behind all the dense veneer of perception management and mind-manipulating propaganda . I only read a newspaper, where he is a sick old man who was on his deathbed:
"This is a final chapter that could have come from Greek tragedy, or maybe a season finale of “Six Feet Under.”
OMG, it was his hour of reckoning yesterday and now the Globe is throwing dirt on his as of yet undead corpse!
They really did go full metal jacket on Trump (but in a different way) so he will no longer be a concern beyond 2020!
"Doctors disclose alarming episodes as President Trump seeks to project strength" by Peter Baker and Maggie Haberman The New York Times, October 4, 2020
President Donald Trump sought to dispel any perception of weakness Sunday with a surprise and seemingly risky outing from his hospital bed to greet supporters even as his doctors once again rewrote the official narrative of his illness by acknowledging two alarming episodes they had previously not disclosed.
The doctors said that Trump’s blood oxygen level dropped twice in the two days after he was diagnosed with the coronavirus, requiring medical intervention, and that he had been put on steroids, suggesting his condition might be more serious than initially described, but they insisted that his situation had improved enough since then that he could be released from the hospital as early as Monday.
This is bad. They are already experimenting on him, and if they put him on a ventilator it's the Last Rites. Those are murder machines when it comes to COVID with a 97% fatality rate before hospitals stopped using them.
I know some out there think this is some sort of ploy, but I can't see the risk of delivering himself into the hands of his enemies being worth it.
He is in danger, as are we all. The word on the web is a weaponized pneumonia is slowly and subtly being released, possibly through aerial spraying.
The acknowledgment of the episodes raised new questions about the credibility of the information provided about the commander in chief of a superpower as he is hospitalized with a disease that has killed more than 209,000 people in the United States. With the president determined not to concede weakness and facing an election in just 30 days, officials acknowledged providing rosy assessments to satisfy their prickly patient.
The New York Times is the last one to complain about providing credible information given the rank-rot propaganda spewed from their pages on a daily basis.
Determined to reassert himself on the political stage on his third day in the hospital, Trump made an unannounced exit from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in the early evening, climbing into his armored Chevrolet Suburban to ride past supporters holding Trump flags gathered outside the building. Wearing a suit jacket and face mask but no tie, Trump waved at the crowd through a closed window as his motorcade slowly cruised by before returning him to the hospital.
WTF is going on?
“It’s been a very interesting journey,” Trump said in a one-minute video posted on Twitter, looking stronger and sounding more energetic than he had the last couple of days. “I learned a lot about COVID. I learned it by really going to school. This is the real school. This isn’t the let’s-read-the-books school, and I get it, and I understand it, and it’s a very interesting thing and I’m going to be letting you know about it.”
He sounds like a kid on his first day at school, and it looks like he finally got his mind right, huh?
Trump’s camera-friendly, morale-boosting “surprise visit,” however, may have masked the reality of his condition, and his seeming energy may have reflected the fact that he was given the steroid dexamethasone, according to medical experts. Dexamethasone has been shown to help patients who are severely ill with COVID-19, but it is typically not used in mild or moderate cases of the disease; moreover, some medical experts said Trump’s trip out of the hospital was reckless, unnecessarily putting both hospital staff members and Secret Service agents at risk for a stunt. Others questioned the president’s statement in his video that he had met soldiers while at Walter Reed.
He has even divided the military with his toxic rhetoric, and nice turn-of-phrase pun regarding reality, huh?
“Every single person in the vehicle during that completely unnecessary Presidential ‘drive-by’ just now has to be quarantined for 14 days,” Dr. James Phillips, an attending physician at Walter Reed, wrote on Twitter. “They might get sick. They may die. For political theater. Commanded by Trump to put their lives at risk for theater. This is insanity.”
Judd Deere, a White House spokesperson, said precautions were taken in organizing the excursion. “The movement was cleared by the medical team as safe to do,” he said, but the criticism threatened to reinforce views of Trump’s handling of the pandemic as a whole, which has been widely criticized and remains his biggest political vulnerability.
Even as the White House released new details about the president’s condition Sunday, it continued to withhold others, including when Trump had his last negative test for the coronavirus and his first positive one. Two administration officials speaking on condition of anonymity acknowledged that he had an undisclosed positive result from a rapid test Thursday evening after returning from a fundraiser at his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, but he did not reveal it when he subsequently called into Sean Hannity’s Fox News show and, in a raspy voice, said he was still waiting for results.
Only after the television show did the results of another, more sophisticated PCR test come back confirming the positive reading, according to the officials, an account previously reported by The Wall Street Journal. It was that later test result that Trump announced on Twitter around 1 a.m. Friday.
Speaking with reporters Sunday without wearing a mask, Kayleigh McEnany, the White House press secretary, would not specifically confirm the earlier test but said that “the first positive test he received was after he returned from Bedminster.”
I really like her, and how much you want to bet she is the next to test positive?
Each passing day brings new information about those early hours of the illness that contradicts the version of events originally put out by the White House. Dr. Sean Conley, the White House physician, acknowledged on Sunday that Trump had a high fever and saw his oxygen drop Friday morning, confirming reports by The New York Times and other news outlets.
Only the pre$$ can get away with that with no questions or corrections!
Trump was put on supplemental oxygen during the Friday spell over the president’s strenuous objections, Conley confirmed. “He was fairly adamant that he didn’t need it,” he said. The doctor said he was not sure if the president was given oxygen Saturday, but if so, it was “very, very limited.” The steroids were administered afterward.
Conley had refused repeatedly during his televised briefing Saturday to say whether the president had received supplemental oxygen and provided such a relentlessly upbeat assessment that Mark Meadows, the White House chief of staff, afterward felt compelled to tell reporters off camera that the president’s situation had been more serious.
That angered Trump, and what in the devil are they doing to the man?
During his briefing Sunday, Conley acknowledged that he had provided a rosy version of events to please his notoriously sensitive patient.
Alyssa Farah, a White House communications adviser, conceded that Conley had been speaking to an audience of one during his Saturday briefing. “When you’re treating a patient, you want to project confidence, you want to lift their spirits, and that was the intent,” she said. She said that Meadows was trying “to be as transparent as we can” be by amending the report later.
Conley and other doctors were nonetheless optimistic Sunday that Trump was doing better and could be sent back to convalesce at the White House perhaps on Monday. “If he continues to look and feel as well as he does today, our hope is to plan for a discharge as early as tomorrow to the White House, where he can continue his treatment course,” said Dr. Brian Garibaldi, another physician treating the president.
That quickly when the average stay for serious COVID is a week to ten days?
Hmmm.
In addition to the steroids, Trump has received an experimental antibody cocktail and is in the midst of a five-day course of remdesivir, an antiviral drug. The White House has a medical unit capable of responding to a president’s health troubles but not with the sophisticated equipment available at Walter Reed.
No one knows what that combinations side effects are, and both have serious side effects that could alter his state of mind and body.
Trump, who historically hates hospitals and anything related to illness, has been hankering to get released, according to two people close to him, and some aides expressed fear that he would pressure Conley into releasing him by claiming to feel better than he actually does, but advisers were also troubled by the doctors' prediction that they might release him Monday because if they do not, it would signal that the president is not doing as well as indicated. They also worried that a premature return could lead to a second trip to the hospital if his condition worsened.
Trump was said to be working from his hospital suite, including receiving a briefing via secure video conference from Robert O’Brien, his national security adviser, as well as Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Gen. Mark Milley, chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
The president has also been watching lots of television, even more than usual, and has been exasperated by coverage of Saturday’s calamitous handling of his medical information by Conley and Meadows, as well as speculation about him transferring powers to Vice President Mike Pence.
He was also angry that no one was on television defending him, as he often is when he cannot inject his own views into news media coverage, aides said. As a result, Rudy Giuliani, his personal lawyer, was expected to appear on several television shows, as was Corey Lewandowski, who was Trump’s first campaign manager in the 2016 race.
The diagnosis of COVID was PURELY POLITICAL and NOT a PLOY!
The president was not the only one angry over the weekend. So were many people who work for him at the White House, frustrated at how little information they had received about the health concerns in their workplace. In addition to Trump, a number of others who work or visit the building regularly have tested positive, including first lady Melania Trump; Hope Hicks, a senior adviser to the president; Nicholas Luna, director of Oval Office operations; Bill Stepien, the campaign manager; Ronna McDaniel, chair of the Republican National Committee; and Kellyanne Conway, the president’s former counselor.
Will his staff resign en masse, and why do Democrats never contract the disease?
Two members of the White House residence staff tested positive for the virus a few weeks ago, two people briefed on their cases said, although they were said not to come in close contact with the president or the first lady; nonetheless, the presence of the virus in the first couple’s personal quarters once again raised questions not just about what they have been exposed to, but whom they have made vulnerable with lax mask policies around the White House.
Is that what all this is, an attempt to enforce mandatory masks?
Farah told reporters that the White House would disclose the number of positive cases among the White House staff, but McEnany later seemed to reject that, citing “privacy concerns,” without explaining how a statistic without names would violate anyone’s privacy.
The pre$$ ripping only adds to my esteem for her.
The White House has not sought help from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to trace the contacts of people who attended a celebration in the Rose Garden and a follow-up reception inside the White House on Sept. 26 for the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett, the event seen as a likely source of the outbreak.
Since the pre$$ is claiming the Rose Gadded is the source of the outbreak, it cannot be that.
He must have been deliberately infected at the debate! That's the only thing that makes sense.
A federal official familiar with the matter said the CDC had a team of experts on standby to help the White House but had not been approached to do so. Dr. Scott Gottlieb, a former commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration under Trump, said Sunday that he had spoken to several officials who attended the Barrett event but had not been contacted by contact tracers, but after months of eschewing masks in keeping with the president’s scorn for face coverings, the White House was moving to finally enforce such practices. O’Brien said National Security Council staff members working at the White House complex must now wear face masks when around others or in common areas.....
In a way, it's appropriate. They are all criminals and thieves.
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So that is what this was all about, ramping up the slave mask submission mandate?
Now Bloomberg weighs in:
"Trump’s V.I.P. Medical Care Could Do More Harm Than Good" by Michelle Fay Cortez, Bloomberg News | October 4, 2020
President Donald Trump is getting almost every medication available to help him fight off the new coronavirus. That might not be a good thing.
That was my initial reaction.
The President of the United States should not be experimented upon.
It’s a well-established phenomenon with its own name: V.I.P. Syndrome. Wealthy and well-known patients often have easy access to the most cutting-edge medical treatments. Taking care of high-profile personalities can put physicians under added public pressure, increasing the incentive to try out highly touted new medicines and procedures.
The aggressive embrace of exotic and unproven therapies can be a double-edged sword if it leads doctors to bypass standard care. Disease has no regard for prestige or political power. Experimental treatments often don’t hold up with more time and study. Still, the temptation to take every available measure is strong.
“Presidents get treated differently,” said Art Caplan, director of medical ethics at New York University Grossman School of Medicine. “Doctors get more aggressive. They are going to go in there and do everything that they can. You don’t want to be blamed for losing his life.”
Trump’s willingness to gamble on experimental treatments is well-established. He took the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine as a protective measure in May after an aide tested positive for the virus. He didn’t get infected, but subsequent studies failed to show the drug offers any benefit.
Is that why H#Q was denied him this time?
Since his diagnosis, Trump has been given a mix of experimental pharmaceuticals, most not yet individually approved and widely untested in combination. He is also taking over-the-counter drugs including zinc, melatonin and the antacid Pepcid, the White House has said.
Trump’s doctors said Sunday they have also added dexamethasone to his care.
Related:
"Dexamethasone can control the inflammatory and immune effects of the virus. Considered a potential breakthrough for patients whose Covid-19 cases have gotten significantly worse, it was found in one study to help significantly reduce the likelihood of death in those who need oxygen support or are on a ventilator. Covid-19 is a two-phase infection, and often the most life-threatening symptoms come not from the virus itself, but when the immune system spirals out of control. The infection can persist for a week to 10 days before worsening. The president’s medical team is preparing to discharge him as soon as Monday. It wasn’t clear why they were giving him a drug typically used in deteriorating or severe patients if that was the case. Dexamethasone also carries some risks. In patients like Trump, who according to his doctors is not getting regular oxygen support, the steroid was associated with a potentially higher rate of death, according to the study of the drug published in the New England Journal of Medicine. With use for more than two weeks, the drug carries some risk of side effects such as high blood-pressure or mental confusion, according to the World Health Organization, but those risks aren’t associated with short-term use, according to the WHO....."
Looks to me like they are either incapacitating him or killing him!
One of the first compounds given to Trump was Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc.’s antibody cocktail, which only a few hundred people have taken. While it has shown promise in early-stage trials, there is no evidence of its safety and efficacy in combination with Gilead Sciences Inc.’s antiviral drug remdesivir, which was also administered to Trump.
While the steroid has been used for decades, there appears to be no data on how it might interact with remdesivir and Regeneron’s antibody drug in combination.
WTF are they doing to the President of the United States?
Sean Conley, Trump’s personal physician, has said he won’t skip any therapies that might benefit the president.
“We are maximizing all aspects of his care, attacking this virus in a multipronged approach,” Conley said during his first briefing about Trump’s condition. “This is the president and I didn’t want to hold anything back. If there was any possibility that it would add value to his care and expedite his return, I wanted to take it.”
What if he does in fact die from this malpractice?
I guess it will be like 9/11 and everything else: no one will be held accountable, and those that are will be promoted.
The impression that prominent people have access to more treatment options, even if they are yet to show any benefit in large, rigorous studies, could be harmful, doctors said.
Why?
That has been a feature of the $y$tem for decades, and Americans have come to accept it.
“It’s scientifically not a sound approach and it sends a message to the American people that if you are a V.I.P. there is something you can get that the rest of us can’t,” Jeremy Faust, an emergency medicine doctor at Brigham & Women’s Hospital in Boston and editor of Brief19, a daily roundup of news on SARS-CoV-2. “We don’t give that medication to the average person not because we don’t care about them. It’s because we don’t know if it will help or not.”
Yeah, do whatever you can to keep the illusionary image alive to mask a reality that is no $ecret!
Want a second opinion:
The idea that doing something is better than inaction is a pervasive myth in medicine, said Vinay Prasad, associate professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. More than 90% of people recover from Covid-19 without doing anything, he said.
I'm sorry, what was that last statistic regarding the deadly fatalness of the disease?
90% recover without doing anything because they don't even know they had it -- which means they probably didn't.
“From the point of view of what’s best for his health, it’s bad medicine,” Prasad said. “The reason we do the studies in the first place is we don’t know if the drugs work, let alone when they are given with other drugs that haven’t been proven.”
Now go fill this prescription the doctor gave you.
Additionally, doctors said it could become harder for companies to enroll patients in clinical trials, where patients could be given a placebo instead of an experimental therapy, when well-known patients are granted unimpeded access to medicines still being studied in the lab.
“You are getting this messaging from prominent people that clinical trials are for average folks, and special folks, we just give them what works,” said Prasad. “It’s going to poison our ability to do studies for years to come.”
That's what he is worried about, his goddamn studies that advance the propaganda narrative?
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Here is the Globe's front-page diagnosis:
"‘If he believes he doesn’t need a mask, good for him’: Despite Trump’s illness, supporters still aren’t sure about masks" by Jess Bidgood Globe Staff, October 4, 2020
MENOMONIE, Wis. — George Post, 69, was sure of three things.
The president, who is hospitalized with COVID-19, will be fine, he said. The explosion of virus cases in Wisconsin, which claimed its first victim here in Dunn County just last week, is nothing to worry about, and wearing a mask is certainly not a solution to either of those nonproblems.
“It’s proven that masks don’t do nothing,” Post, a Republican, said, looking pointedly at a reporter. “Your mask isn’t doing nothing.”
I'm taking it off for the turn-in because he is 100% right.
President Trump’s diagnosis may have upended his reelection campaign and thrown a massive wrench into the workings of the executive branch, but it is less clear whether it will do anything to dislodge the distrust and dismissiveness he has fueled, particularly among Republicans, about the seriousness of the pandemic and the public health interventions seen as necessary to contain it.
As Democrats pointed to Trump’s condition as evidence that his government needs to get more serious about managing the pandemic, his supporters have gathered in tight crowds to wish him well, mostly eschewing the face coverings he has mocked for months.
Oh, he's learned his lesson.
His campaign has held at least one event indoors as part of a bus tour in Iowa, and on Sunday, one of Trump’s top advisors was back on television accusing Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden of using a mask as a prop.
“Americans, George, they want to get life back to normal,” Jason Miller told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos, describing something that is unlikely to happen while the president is in the hospital. “That is the driving thing.”
That is their TOP and ONLY CONCERN at this point, and why Trump wins in a landslide in a free and fair election.
Trump’s nine-month campaign to downplay the virus and dismiss interventions like masks has powerfully shaped his party’s orthodoxy and the opinions — and behavior — of elected officials and regular voters alike. The fact of his diagnosis may not change anybody’s mind as much as a shift in his tone would.
“What Trump says and does is going to matter a lot,” said John Lapinski, director of the Penn Program on Opinion Research and Election Studies.
Trump almost always appeared in public and in small groups of aides without wearing a mask and in recent weeks has taken to holding outdoor rallies that convene thousands of supporters and events at the White House, like the Sept. 26 ceremony announcing the Supreme Court nomination of Amy Coney Barrett where the virus is suspected to have spread.
The Globe just confirmed the spread could not have happened there.
“It was seen as an act of defiance, of ‘You’re not going to tell us what to do,’ ” said Doug Heye, a consultant who previously worked for former GOP representative Eric Cantor and the Republican National Committee.
In Menomonie, population 16,000, a college town in a county that backed Trump by 11 percentage points 2016, that spirit of defiance was alive and well in some circles this weekend, unbowed by Trump’s diagnosis and untrammeled by the fact that the county has recently turned bright red on maps tracking the state’s coronavirus counts.
So turnout will be down in the Trump stronghold?
At a bar called The Den, where people played pool and put Queen on the jukebox, there was nary a mask to be seen on the patrons or staff — even though a bartender there tested positive just last month.
:)
Vicky Green, a retired para educator who turns 63 on Monday and is planning to vote for Trump, said his defiance of public health guidelines had no bearing on his contracting the virus.
“If he believes he doesn’t need a mask, good for him,” she declared, and said there was almost something to admire about him now. “I’m more impressed that the president stood up for personal choice.”
Kristina Larson, 33, a bartender at The Den, did not cite politics in explaining her reservation about masks — but she did reference a baseless and dangerous conspiracy theory she saw on Facebook. “Masks are making it easier to not recognize children, or to not recognize people who are taking children,” she said.
That is not baseless or a conspiracy theory! It's fact!
What is even more troubling is the pre$$ is a screen and cover for the predilections of elite pedophiles and sexual deviants.
Austin Anderson, 22, who works at a factory loading trucks, said there was little Trump could have done to avoid the virus. “I think everyone gets it,” Anderson said.
We have probably already had the unidentifiable illness and achieved herd immunity by now -- which is why the pre$$ is screeching the unscientific and distorted narrative at the top of their longs.
It was the latest example of how, even though the virus has spread to the highest echelons of their party, affecting the president, his campaign manager, and the national chairwoman, Republicans in multiple states including battleground Wisconsin are still moving forward with efforts to resist or roll back public health efforts like mask mandates and other emergency restrictions. It’s a trend that has frustrated public health experts who are alarmed by rising caseloads in certain parts of the country.
That is the reason you want to vote Republican this fall, America.
“We are where we are with COVID in the US partly because we can’t get past the partisan politics,” said Jonathan Oberlander, professor and chair of social medicine at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill.
In Mississippi, Governor Tate Reeves, a Republican, on Wednesday made his state the first to lift its mask mandate as its caseload dropped, even though widespread use of masks is likely part of what brought it down. In Michigan, the US Department of Justice on Friday cheered a state Supreme Court ruling curbing Democratic Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s emergency powers, and in Iowa, Republican Governor Kim Reynolds has long ignored the pressure to institute a statewide mask mandate, even though cases there have been climbing since September.
Likely or not?
Is that what the $cience $ays?
Some Republicans tried a different message Sunday. Speaking on CNN, Ohio Governor Mike DeWine, who has won bipartisan praise for moving swiftly to slow the spread of the virus in his state, posited hopefully that the president’s diagnosis could be a turning point for the country’s handling of the virus.
“People who may have not have worn masks in the past, I hope they’ll look at this and see — the president can get it, I can get it,” he said.
You weaselly little shit (with profuse apologies to weasels).
The idea of a rollback of Wisconsin’s mask mandate was deeply alarming to Carol Gassert, 67, a retired social worker, who was volunteering in the Dunn County Democrats office. She and the other volunteer, Ria Haas, 53, were both wearing masks — a stark contrast with the Republican office around the corner, which at one point contained seven people without them.
“It took forever for stores around here to make people wear masks,” said Gassert.....
Oh, “the foolishness!”
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Speaking of foolish things, are you ready for class?
With everything going on I had forgotten it is the first Monday in October, and it looks like even the dead will be allowed to vote in November.
Of course, my vote is totally irrelevant in this state as the emperor Baker has no clothing(?).
Yup, the $how is almost over, as if anyone were interested in the filth they made during COVID, and I think I will skip the drive-in movie the New York Times is showing.
Now on to 2022!
"Senator Patrick J. Toomey, a Pennsylvania Republican, will not seek re-election in 2022, vacating a battleground-state race more than two years before he leaves office. Toomey’s decision to not seek re-election complicates what was already shaping up to be a tough 2022 map for Republicans....."
That's because in the New York Times' ce$$ pool of a world, Republicans are now the far-right fringe for calling out pedophiles like Clinton and their current nominee.
