The biggest bubble in the free world just popped. Donald Trump and his wife, Melania, have both contracted Covid-19. Of course, Trump, ever conscious of status and power, did not refer to Melania as his wife. He announced that he and the FLOTUS had Covid. Of course, it is not as if he and his wife have any level of romance in their marriage.
Today, Donald Trump was transported to Walter Reed Medical Center. He is now showing symptoms of the disease, including difficulty breathing. There is no word on Melania other than that she has a headache and a cough.
Eighteen White House staffers have been diagnosed with Covid. Eleven people who attended the first debate have now contracted Covid. Even White House reporters have come down with Covid. Late today, former Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway admitted that she tested positive for Covid-19.
Through contact tracing, the best theory is that Trump contracted Covid from his Supreme Court nominee, Amy Coney Barrett. She contracted Covid earlier in the summer, and it is believed that she is still shedding the virus even though she is now asymptomatic.
That is the problem with Covid-19. It is Schrodinger’s virus. You simultaneously have to worry that you have it, even while you feel no symptoms of it.
It is also why it is so important to wear a mask. This virus is airborne. If you are wearing your mask over your mouth, but leaving your nose exposed, you are not wearing a mask. In fact, there are more receptors for Covid in your nasal passages than there are in your mouth. If you are wearing your mask as a chinstrap, which many people do, well… you must just believe in magic, because you are doing nothing to protect yourself or anyone around you. If you contract Covid, you really kind of deserve it. I just hope you don’t pass it to anyone else. But, you probably will because you still won’t wear a mask during the asymptomatic phase.
Do I think Trump deserves the virus? I kind of do. He politicized the virus, allowing the virus to spread at levels far too high for comfort. Thousands of the Covid deaths in the US can directly be traced to the government’s response, or lack thereof, to the pandemic.
This is not karma. Karma does not work this way. What we call karma is so we do not have to admit that we are feeling a level of schadenfreude over someone else’s problems. If karma did work this way, I would certainly believe that Trump would most definitely deserve it. But, that is not why this happened.
This happened because Donald Trump could not allow himself to wear a mask, even during his campaign rallies. These rallies, by the by, are more often than not, super spreader events. Just ask Herman Cain. Oh wait, you can’t. Herman Cain contracted Covid from the Trump rally in Tulsa, OK. He died from the disease.
Apparently, the disease is progressing rapidly with Trump. No one honestly knows how he will respond to the disease. No one, except his doctor, can honestly say they know the real information related to Donald Trump’s health. We do know he is overweight. We also know that, at 74, he is in a high risk group.
I do not expect that, should he survive, he will change his attitude towards Covid. I do not expect he will start telling his cult to wear masks. I do believe he might start to wear one, but remember, Donny previously said that he was not worried about Covid because he is far away from the crowds.
In other words, he only cares about himself. But, we knew that already.