“This is a national crisis directly affecting the president and, unfortunately, we can’t trust what comes out of the White House.”
—Allan Lichtman, history professor at American University, on Trump’s credibility problems which he says are coming home to roost.
“You do not give a patient – much less the President of the United States – a drug that is not yet approved by the FDA (to say nothing of someone with ‘mild symptoms’). Unsurprisingly, the Trump White House is not being forthright to the American people about the health of their President,”
—Zeke Emanuel, bioethicist and former health policy adviser for President Obama.
“The disclosure of the 72 hours from diagnosis leaves us with a significant time of lacking self-quarantine but instead travelling to Minnesota and New Jersey, along with many other gatherings, close contacts, that may well have further spread infections.”
—Eric Topol, director of the Scripps Research Translational Institute, questioning the news conference Saturday by physicians tending to Donald Trump which raised the possibility that Trump may have already known of his infection before holding campaign events in Minnesota and New Jersey – but held them anyway.
The 1918 Influenza Pandemic killed 5,500 people in Louisiana. As of today, LA’s death toll from COVID-19 is 5,355. At this rate, within the next four months, COVID-19 will have killed more people in LA than every hurricane combined since the Last Island Hurricane of 1856.
—Writer Lamar White, Jr.
NOT A TRUMP QUOTE, but it should be (with apologies to Cavin & Hobbes):
“That’s the difference between me and the rest of the world! Happiness isn’t good enough for me! I demand euphoria!“
Louisiana Voice 
Hey, no problem, right? As Covid45’s adoring fans love to say, “It’s just Trump being Trump.” It would not, in the least, surprise me if he next says the virus is simply thinning the herd and making it stronger.
“He’s not even pretending to care now,” one agent said after the president’s jaunt outside Walter Reed National Military Medical Center to wave at supportive crowds. [WaPo]
Speaking of not even pretending to care, I’m sick of the endless coverage of this idiots medical care. All I see is a man that is getting the best federally taxpayer funded care available, but has paid virtually nothing in taxes.
I don’t wish bad on him, and I have sympathy for him. In the same way that I have sympathy for anyone else suffering from the effects of their own pathologically bad decisions.
And then he decides to take a little jaunt in an SUV around the block of the hospital because he was bored and wanted to wave as his supporters.
“Every single person in the vehicle during that completely unnecessary Presidential ‘drive-by’ just now has to be quarantined for 14 days,” tweeted James P. Phillips, who is also a professor at George Washington University. “They might get sick. They may die. For political theater. Commanded by Trump to put their lives at risk for theater. This is insanity.”
And, the cases are mounting in the White House and among those who attended the “caronavirus is a hoax, we’ve got a class-A supreme court nominee to rush through and we don’t need no stinkin’ maskies” ceremony in the Rose Garden. Is ole Covid45 thinking about any of them, including most recently, his faux news secretary? Nope, but he does say he had a lesson on Covid from his own infection. The question remains, did he actually learn anything? How can anybody who believes they have nothing to learn, learn anything?
Picking up on Tom’s movie themes, today’s episode of “How a Huckster Became Leader of the Free World”, we have, “Don’t be afraid of the SARS-CoV-2” or “How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love COVID-19”,
or “I got better in a few days and so should you unless you’re a loser” all inspired by this courageous tweet:
“Don’t be afraid of Covid. Don’t let it dominate your life. We have developed, under the Trump Administration, some really great drugs & knowledge. I feel better than I did 20 years ago!”
How inspiring, indeed!!!!!!!!!!!