Fight for Democracy

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6h1-Ctbi8SM .

Not a CCP thing

Taiwan's military includes same-sex couples in wedding for first time .

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-54743789 .

Election 2020: DIRE prediction.

Election 2020: Pie's prediction - JoPi > .

NOT better than that

Frank Bruni has realized what non-USians already know:

How Will I Ever Look at America the Same Way Again?:

""It’s always assumed that those of us who felt certain of Hillary Clinton’s victory in 2016 were putting too much trust in polls.

I was putting too much trust in Americans.

I’d seen us err. I’d watched us stray. Still I didn’t think that enough of us would indulge a would-be leader as proudly hateful, patently fraudulent and flamboyantly dishonest as Crook-in-Chief.

We had episodes of ugliness, but this? No way. We were better than Idiot-in-Cheat.

Except, it turned out, we weren’t.""

[To be fair, almost 3 million Americans were more sensible than to vote for Putin's Orange-Slime Puppet, but far too many were too cynical, too blasé, too dim, too desperate, too duped, and/or too damned deplorable to vote against a clear and bombastic menace. Arrogant, defensive, poorly-informed, insular, anti-intellectual rationalization is one of the worst traits in any population. To those flaws, too many Americans add hyper-religiosity, belligerent selfishness, and unapologetic greed.]

Olbermann vs. Trump #15: The 50 Worst Trump Atrocities - KO > .

KO vs Orange Slime >> .

I beg to differ

"The essence of America is openness. History, geography, immigration and fate have established that. The shrinking of the American mind under Dimwit-in-Cheat therefore amounts, for Americans, to a dangerous denial of themselves. Prolonged for another four years, in a second Idiot-in-Cheat term, it would negate the American idea, without which, at least for this immigrant, the United States, as conceived, with all its flaws, ceases to be."

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/23/opinion/Trump-biden-debates.html .

Not from the viewpoint of non-USians. Here's a more accurate assessment:

"The essence of America is insular arrogance. History, geography, anti-immigration-sentiment and hubris have established that. The shrinking of the American mind began long before Dimwit-in-Cheat and amounts, in the oh-so average American, to a dangerous denial of science and rationality. Prolonged for another four years, in a second Idiot-in-Cheat term, kleptocracy would negate what little remains of America's stated ideals, the glaring absence of which, at least for non-Normegian immigrants, the United States, as touted, with its unacknowledged hubristic flaws, continues to be vastly overrated."

The Tok is Tikking

The Jinping Shuffle | Spitting Image > .

Good news!

Jacinda Ardern, Hero to Liberals Abroad, Is Validated at Home: New Zealand’s prime minister and her party are coasting to victory in national elections, though it is unclear how far she will push her progressive promises.

New Zealand election: Jacinda Ardern's Labour Party scores landslide win.

Cow Power

'Despite what you've been told COWS CAN SAVE THE WORLD' - lcdu > .

CONvid

[I wonder how long it will be before someone reveals that Pathogen-in-Cheat had CONvid, not COVID. It's easy to minimize what you never suffered]

20-10-10 Narcissist-in-Cheat holds rally. Pet doc claims DUHnocchio is no longer contagious.

Faker-in-Cheat Leaves Hospital, Minimizing Virus and Urging Americans ‘Don’t Let It Dominate Your Lives’: The COVID-FAKING UNpresident appeared eager to be back at the White House and dispel any questions about his [virus-untouched] capacity after being FALSELY diagnosed with the coronavirus, despite continuing questions about his [herd-mentality mental] health.

[To the RepuGNican mind, 210,000 do not count when profits and elections are threatened.]

Slumping Wrong

What's behind Germany's far-right AfD party slump in polls?: A survey has seen the AfD in eastern Germany — the party's longtime stronghold — drop from first to third position in just a year. Is this a sign of things to come for the far-right?

"There are several reasons for this development ... Firstly, several high profile violent events in 2019 changed the political discourse. ... Another major factor in the AfD's loss in support is party infighting which has played out publicly in recent months in a spate of scandals that have highlighted the far-right extremist streak running through the party. 
Over the six years of the party's existence, the AfD has become all too familiar with scandals surrounding Holocaust deniers and far-right extremists."

...

"No fresh ideas: Throughout their existence, the AfD party has thrived on key topics: In 2015, the far-right populists were brought back from near-extinction after adopting a staunchly anti-migrant stance in the face of the arrival of Syrian refugees. Attempts to capitalize on dissatisfaction with anti-coronavirus measures do not seem to have paid off. ... The AfD has failed to come up with suggestions to fight the coronavirus pandemic. Instead, it has latched on to coronavirus-skeptic demonstrations — frequented, among others, by conspiracy theorists and known far-right extremists. But in Germany, like in other countries, strong leadership in times of the pandemic give a boost to ruling parties. 

The AfD, meanwhile, has aligned itself with skeptics on the issue of climate change: They are seeking to protect Germany's auto industry and are campaigning against bans on diesel cars. Such rhetoric has resonated little to date since the topic of climate change has taken a back seat in times of coronavirus pandemic."

Tragi-Comedy

20-10-8 After Pence-Harris debate:

Black Flies Matter!!

I like politicians who don't ooze falsehoods.

After Announcement that Pathogen-in-Cheat is COVID positive

[paraphrased] Our thoughts are with the virus at this difficult time.

[paraphrased] Don't be afraid to jump out of a plane without a parachute. Don't let gravity dominate you.

Height of Self-Serving Irresponsibility

Top US virus expert Dr Anthony Fauci has criticised the White House for hosting a gathering last month that has been linked to an outbreak of COVID-19. Dr Fauci, a member of the White House's coronavirus task force, said the UNpresident's unveiling of his judicial nominee was a "superspreader event". Dozens of White House aides and other contacts were reportedly infected.

UNpresident Pathogen-in-Cheat's doctors have just cleared him to hold public events as he himself recovers from COVID-19. LIAR-in-Chief - who was discharged from hospital on Monday after three nights - held a medical "evaluation" on FAUX Lies on Friday night. He is expected to host an in-person White House event on Saturday.

[Needless to say, only fools and the greedy malevolent would attend any event where DUHnocchio is present.]

Thuggish and Present Danger

The Plot Against Gretchen Whitmer Shows the Danger of Private Militias: These groups have no constitutional right to exist.

"In the swirls of disinformation that now pollute our political discourse, one is particularly dangerous: that private militias are constitutionally protected.

Although these vigilante groups often cite the Second Amendment’s “well regulated militia” for their authority, history and Supreme Court precedent make clear that the phrase was not intended to — and does not — authorize private militias outside of government control.

Indeed, these armed groups have no authority to call themselves forth into militia service; the Second Amendment does not protect such activity; and all 50 states prohibit it.

The danger of these groups was brought home on 20-10-8 with the announcement that the F.B.I. had thwarted a plot by people associated with an extremist group in Michigan to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and overthrow the government.

Court documents say that the group discussed trying the governor for treason and murdering “tyrants.” Six men now face federal kidnapping conspiracy charges, but unauthorized militia activity continues in Michigan and elsewhere.

The unnamed militia involved in the kidnapping plot is part of a growing number of private paramilitary groups mobilizing across the country, wholly outside of lawful authority or governmental accountability. These organizations — some of which openly refer to themselves as “militias,” while others reject the term — often train together in the use of firearms and other paramilitary techniques and “deploy,” heavily armed and sometimes in full military gear, when they deem it necessary."

...

"Most alarmingly, some of them are planning their own poll-watching and openly training in preparation for the post-election period.

Whatever their stated purpose, their conduct is unlawful and not constitutionally protected. Even before the adoption of the Constitution, the colonies recognized the importance of a “well regulated” militia to defend the state, in preference over standing armies, which they perceived as a threat to liberty. The militia consisted of able-bodied residents between certain ages who had a duty to respond when called forth by the government.

But “well regulated” meant that the militias were trained, armed and controlled by the state. Indeed, 48 states have provisions in their constitutions that explicitly require the militia to be strictly subordinate to the civil authority.

Likewise, state constitutions and laws then and now generally name the governor as the commander in chief of its armed forces — and only the governor or a designee has the power to call forth the able-bodied residents for militia service."

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/08/opinion/militias-gretchen-whitmer.html .

[I wonder whether Nationalist-in-Chief plans to make himself even more unpopular by pardoning them. If so, he will do it after the election during a temper tantrum tirade of destroying anything still in his power to destroy.]

cf Desperate Plots ..

Petulous-in-Cheat "Is Killing the Economy Out of Spite": So what will he do if he loses the election?

"Last year Infant-in-Chief called Nancy Pelosi, the House speaker, a “nasty, vindictive, horrible person.” Actually, she isn’t — but he is.

Agent Orange’s vindictiveness has become a major worry as the election approaches. He has already signaled that he won’t accept the result if he loses, which seems increasingly likely though not certain. Nobody knows what chaos, possibly including violence, he may unleash if the election doesn’t go his way.

Even aside from that concern, however, a defeated Narcissist-in-Cheat would still be president for two and a half months. Would he spend that time acting destructively, in effect taking revenge on America for rejecting him?

Well, we got a preview of what a lame-duck DUHnocchio UNpresidency might look like 20-10-6. Narcissist-in-Cheat hasn’t even lost yet, but he abruptly cut off talks on an economic relief package millions of Americans desperately need (although as of 20-10-8 he seemed to be backtracking). And his motivation seems to have been sheer spite.

Why do we need economic relief? Despite several months of large employment gains, America has only partly recovered from horrific job losses in the early months of the pandemic — and the pace of recovery has slowed to a relative crawl. All indications are that the economy will remain weak for many months, maybe even years."

...

"Warnings about the dangers of failing to provide more relief aren’t just coming from progressive Democrats; they’re coming from Wall Street analysts and Jerome Powell, the chairman of the Federal Reserve."

...

The question is, why did Dimwit-in-Chief choose to reject even the possibility of a deal less than a month before Election Day? True, it’s too late for legislation to make much difference to the state of the economy on Nov. 3, although a deal might have averted some corporate layoffs. But it would surely be in tRUMP’s political interest to at least look as if he’s trying to help Americans in distress. Why would tRUMP choose this, of all moments, to torpedo economic policy?

As far as I can tell, nobody has offered a plausible political motive, any way in which refusing even to try rescuing the economy helps tRUMP’s prospects. What this looks like, instead, is vindictiveness.

I don’t know whether tRUMP expects to lose the election. But he’s already acting like a deeply embittered man, lashing out at people he feels have treated him unfairly, which is basically everyone. And as usual he reserves special rage for smart, tough women; on 2--1o-8 [the widely acknowledged monster] called Kamala Harris a “monster.”

Yet getting a relief deal would have required accepting a compromise with that “nasty” woman Nancy Pelosi. And it seems that he would rather let the economy burn.

The thing is, if he’s behaving like this now, when he still has some chance of winning, how will he act if he loses?

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/08/opinion/donald-trump-economy.html .

[As above, very, very badly. After all, DUH is already encouraging RepuGNicans to risk long-term health problems, possibly death for being foolish enough to believe a word he says. One wonders how some of his fans managed to "graduate" from grade school.]

Desperate Plots

cf Thuggish and Present Danger ..

FBI busts militia 'plot' to abduct Michigan Gov Gretchen Whitmer: 

The FBI says it has thwarted a plot to abduct and overthrow Michigan's Democratic Governor Gretchen Whitmer. Mrs Whitmer has become a target of coronavirus sceptics after enacting strict mitigation measures that were overturned by a judge last week.

Officials say the kidnapping plot involved six men who planned to hold a "treason trial" for her. What were they allegedly planning?

According to a sworn FBI affidavit, an undercover law enforcement source attended a June meeting in Dublin, Ohio, where a group of Michigan-based militia members discussed overthrowing state governments "that they believed were violating the US Constitution". 

[As though kidnapping in an attempt to overthrow an elected government is in accord with the law or with their precious Constitution. As though accepting laundered money and consorting with a foreign government do not constitute better grounds for a treason trial.]

Armed lockdown protesters in Michigan statehouse .
What are US militia groups? . 

Counterfactual Political Manipulation

Science under Trump LIAR-in-Cheat: Four key moments - Nature > .

Why Nature needs to cover politics now more than ever: Science and politics are inseparable — and Nature will be publishing more politics news, comment and primary research in the coming weeks and months.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02797-1 .

Implicitly admitting to the LIE

COVID: Pathogen-in-Cheat "free of symptoms for 24 hours, says doctor" .

[It's easy to be symptom-free when you never had the infection in the first place.]

Planet Subnormal & (enfin!) Helen Pluckrose

After 20 minutes of brainless, wrong-wing babble and grumbling lay-"science", Helen is given a chance to speak ... and then the video was switched to "private". One wonders why.

Planet Subnormal: Helen Pluckrose on why the woke need to wake up > .

More evidence of deceitful plot ...

COVID-19 Live Updates: Pathogen-in-Cheat Returns to a Capital in Chaos as Outbreak Spreads: The UNpresident abruptly ended talks on a stimulus bill intended to shore up the nation’s pandemic-stricken economy. In New York, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo imposed tough restrictions aimed at curbing virus clusters in parts of New York City and its northern suburbs.

Tracking the White House Coronavirus Outbreak ↝ 

Tawanda! Hack

Cellmate: Male chastity gadget hack could lock users in:

A security flaw in a hi-tech chastity belt for men made it possible for hackers to remotely lock all the devices in use simultaneously.

The internet-linked sheath has no manual override, so owners might have been faced with the prospect of having to use a grinder or bolt cutter to free themselves from its metal clamp.

The sex toy's app has been fixed by its Chinese developer after a team of UK security professionals flagged the bug.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-54436575 .

[This adds a hilarious new dimension to the concept of Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks.]

And another Pedophile Protection Agency

Church of England failures 'allowed child sexual abusers to hide': 

The Church of England failed to protect children from sexual abuse, and created a culture where abusers "could hide", a report has concluded.

The Independent Inquiry into Child Sex Abuse's report says the Church's failure to respond consistently to abuse victims added to their trauma.

It added that alleged perpetrators were often given more support than victims.

The Church said it felt "shame" over the failings detailed in the "shocking" report.

[Shame or oh-whoops! embarrassment?]

Nationalist-pandering move against CRT

20-9-30 A two-page White House ‘race’ memo became a flash point in Tuesday’s debate: Racist-in-Chief wanted to ban federal agency training on ‘critical race theory,’ but agencies have scrambled, stumbled

"A two-page White House memo that directed federal agencies to halt “un-American” and “divisive” employee training has led to widening confusion and cancellations across the government, as stumped officials are unsure how to respond but fearful of backlash from UNpresident Nationalist-in-Chief."

...

"Their comments came one day after the White House issued its second set of guidelines on the attempted bans. The guidelines outlined how the government would retaliate against those who did not follow the new restrictions."

...

"Russell Vought, [director of White House’s Office of Management and Budget], updated the administration’s guidance after the National Park Service sent agency officials a memo last week suspending hundreds of training programs while it tried to understand how to comply with the order, according to emails and documents reviewed by The Washington Post. It would later narrow the list of suspended courses, but some employees said they still included ones on sexual harassment, tribal consultation and how to respond to people with disabilities."

...

"The chain of events stems from a Sept. 4 memo Vought issued, which said tRUMP had asked him to stop federal agencies from giving employee trainings on “white privilege” and critical race theory. Vought cast this approach as “divisive” and “un-American.”

The White House issued the memo after FAUX Lies ran a number of segments criticizing “diversity and inclusion” efforts in the federal government.

tRUMP saw one of the cable news programs and asked aides, “What is this crap?” a Badministration official said, describing his reaction, and he directed OMB to cancel the seminars. tRUMP saw the matter as a winning campaign issue. Within days, a guest on FAUX Lies who raised the issue had been called, Vought had been summoned to the Oval Office, and the memo from OMB had been drafted. It was released late on a Friday night (20-9-4)."

... However, we cannot accept our employees receiving training that seeks to undercut our core values as Americans and drive division within our workforce. 

The President has directed me to ensure that Federal agencies cease and desist from using taxpayer dollars to fund these divisive, un-American propaganda training sessions. Accordingly, to that end, the Office of Management and Budget will shortly issue more detailed guidance on implementing the President's directive. In the meantime, all agencies are directed to begin to identify all contracts or other agency spending related to any training on "critical race theory/9 "white privilege," or any other training or propaganda effort that teaches or suggests either (1) that the United States is an inherently racist or evil country or (2) that any race or ethnicity is inherently racist or evil. In addition, all agencies should begin to identify all available avenues within the law to cancel any such contracts and/or to divert Federal dollars away from these unAmerican propaganda training sessions. ...

[Unfortunately, extremist approaches at both poles of this issue (CRT:white nationalism) are problematic.]

Aren't spell-checkers hilarious?

 I might just start a collection:

"road ruff Shod"

Wrong. Ignorant. LIE ⇒ Attempted Transmission to Rival?

Tracking the White House Coronavirus Outbreak ↝ 

At least seven people who attended a White House event on Saturday Sept. 26 (20-9-26) have since tested positive for the coronavirus. Six of them, including the first lady, sat in the first several rows of a nomination ceremony for Judge Amy Coney Barrett in the White House Rose Garden. The seventh was the UNpresident himself.

[NB "Because a P.C.R. test is more sensitive to low viral loads, it may be able to detect a coronavirus infection very early on."]

Timeline?

26 Sep - exposure during afternoon?

morning 26 to pre-debate 29 - closed-door preparation meetings

27-29 Sep - viral infection (exposure on 26) should be detectable by daily PCR testing [below]

29 Sep - DJT's outrageous performance at debate in evening

30 Sep - post-debate uproar during day

1 Oct - DJT to golf club, met with other donors at an indoor roundtable

2 Oct - announcement of Hope Hick's positive test → hours later, announcement of DJT's and Melania's positive tests 

3 Oct - exhibiting mild, but "concerning" symptoms, DJT flown to Walter Reed medical center for hospitalization (unproven, but promising treatments earlier than usually indicated) → O2? 

4 Oct - announcement of "feeling better"

"The indoor White House gathering was far from the only time this week that tRUMP was in close quarters indoors with family, aides or supporters.

Ahead of the first presidential debate on Tuesday night in Cleveland, tRUMP held closed-door preparation sessions on Saturday, Sunday, Monday and Tuesday with a half-dozen aides and advisers, including Bill Stepien, his campaign manager; Kellyanne Conway, a former White House adviser; and Chris Christie, the former governor of New Jersey. All of them have since tested positive for the virus. Rudolph W. Giuliani, the president’s personal lawyer, also participated in debate preparation sessions but has said he tested negative.

Since the event in the Rose Garden, tRUMP has also traveled in close quarters aboard Air Force One to and from the debate and campaign events in Pennsylvania, Minnesota and New Jersey. At least three other people on those flights — Melania Trump, Hope Hicks, a senior Trump adviser, and Mr. Stepien — later tested positive."

...

A statement has been provided to pool reporters that contradicts Dr Sean Conley’s upbeat update on DUHnocchio’s health. It says the “the UNpresident’s vitals over the last 24 hours were very concerning and the next 48 hours will be critical in terms of his care. We’re still not on a clear path to a full recovery.”

The statement should be treated with caution as it is only attributed to “a source familiar with the president’s health” but it just adds to the confusion surrounding how ill The Donald is.

...

Pathogen-in-Cheat's "doctors said it had been 72 hours since Agent Orange’s diagnosis (so sometime on Wednesday 20-9-30), which does not fit in with what we know - or were told. We were told of LIAR-in-Chief’s illness late on Thursday 20-10-1/early Friday 20-10-2 Washington DC time. That means Denialist-in-Chief apparently went to a fundraiser in New Jersey knowing he had COVID-19. Indeed, on Thursday 20-10-1 tRUMP did not give any indication he had been diagnosed in a television appearance. So either Dr Sean Conley is wrong about the diagnosis, Trump was not told he had COVID-19 or he was not telling the truth."

...

[Considering the fact of daily testing of all WH staff, my money is on LIE — I also suspect that the positive test was earlier than Wednesday 20-9-30. Ego-in-Chief probably expected to miraculously remain sufficiently asymptomatic to hide the fact of being infected.]

...

"If Dr Sean Conley was indeed correct when he said Pathogen-in-Chief had been diagnosed with COVID-19 sometime on Wednesday 20-9-30, the UNpresident ([and]/or people around him) knew he had the virus when:

• He flew to Minnesota and attended an event in Minneapolis on Wednesday evening.
• He flew back to Washington DC that night with staff on Air Force One
• He left the White House at 1.15pm on Thursday 20-10-1 to go to his golf club where he addressed donors outdoors, and met with other donors at an indoor roundtable. The father of one of those donors died of COVID-19 in spring.

...

[If I am correct that DUHnocchio's infection predated 20-9-30, then he has potentially infected even more unsuspecting Americans. He might well have hoped to infect Joe Biden.]

...

"Conley will not be drawn on when or how tRUMP was infected. Conley says tRUMP is “male and slightly overweight” but other than that, he does not have any significant risk factors for COVID-19. He says tRUMP’s heart rate and blood pressure are within normal range. As to why the president was taken to hospital if he isn’t severely ill, Conley said it’s because tRUMP is “the [UN]president of United States”.

He clarifies an earlier statement and says tRUMP was not on oxygen on Thursday or Friday either. Odd given that Conley would not say earlier if tRUMP had never been on oxygen.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2020/oct/03/donald-trump-covid-19-coronavirus-hospital-white-house-live-latest-news-updates .

The time between initial exposure to the virus and the appearance of symptoms is known as the incubation period. This period is typically four to five days, although it can last up to 14 days, or perhaps even longer in rare cases.

incubation

period

exposure

symptoms

It remains unclear who infected tRUMP, although there are many potential candidates, several of whom gathered with the UNpresident during events last weekend and have traveled with him to crowded campaign rallies.

Most people who come down with COVID recover within a couple weeks and do not require hospitalization. tRUMP has reportedly experienced only mild symptoms so far.

Severe cases, however, may take far longer to resolve. And a growing cohort of coronavirus survivors, called long-haulers, has reported symptoms and side effects — including fatigue, impaired memory and heart problems — that can linger for months.

exposure

symptoms

recovery

exposure

long-haulers

People who develop severe cases of COVID tend to be hospitalized within two weeks or so of the emergence of symptoms. But many of the factors that catapult certain people toward severe forms of the disease remain a scientific mystery. Scientists know that people who are male, older and obese — all descriptors of UNpresident tRUMP — are at higher risk for more serious effects of COVID.

After an initial exposure, the number of virus particles in a person’s body, or viral load, takes time to build up as the pathogen infiltrates cells and copies itself repeatedly. Mathematical models indicate that the viral load tends to peak before symptoms appear, if they appear at all, and starts to decline rather quickly in the days following the first signs of illness.

peak

viral load

exposure

symptoms

recovery

Experts have said that people are more likely to be contagious when their viral loads are high. If so, the window of peak infectiousness might be only a few days long, beginning a day or two before symptoms appear, and closing within a week thereafter.

viral load

infectious

exposure

symptoms

recovery

This also means that people can be highly contagious during the presymptomatic stage, in the days before they develop symptoms. Separately, asymptomatic carriers of the coronavirus have also been repeatedly pinpointed as the source of transmission events, although how the virus behaves in the bodies of such people is less understood.

For months, the White House has screened people coming into close contact with tRUMP. Many of these screenings are rapid tests, delivering actionable results within minutes without needing to send samples to a laboratory. Such speed and convenience can come at the cost of accuracy: Rapid tests are worse at picking up on low viral loads and very recent infections, and more often produce false negatives or false positives. Some experts argue that true positives from rapid tests might coincide with the period in which people are most contagious, although this has not yet been confirmed. Rapid tests like the much-discussed Abbott ID Now and BinaxNOW have been an emergency F.D.A. greenlight only for sick people who are within seven days of the start of symptoms. Use on individuals who don’t feel ill is considered off-label.

rapid tests

exposure

infectious

People with known exposure to an infected person — like tRUMP — or who have already developed symptoms may need to take a more sensitive test. Experts often recommend laboratory tests that rely on a technique called P.C.R. (polymerase chain reaction) that can detect very small amounts of the virus, but that usually takes several hours to run on sophisticated, expensive machines.

rapid tests

PCR test

exposure

infectious

Because a P.C.R. test is more sensitive to low viral loads, it may be able to detect a coronavirus infection very early on. But the diagnostic test can also pick up harmless bits of the virus that linger in the body after symptoms have resolved, and perhaps after a person stops being contagious.

[Most likely? Again, and because of the typical course of this disease, I suspect that tRUMP was exposed a few days to a week before the public were notified, and that, courtesy of daily WH testing, he was aware of being infectious before the debate. Since, despite probably knowing that he was infectious, tRUMP refused to follow precautions, it seems (to me) highly likely that Pathogen-in-Chief hoped to infect Joe Biden.]

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/10/02/science/charting-a-coronavirus-infection.html 

Wolf! Wolf Wolf?

LIAR-in-Chief LIES. Idiot-in-Chief lurches from self-inflicted disaster to self-inflicted disaster. Scammer-in-Cheat has repeatedly manufactured distractions from his latest egregious nonsense. 

I'm prepared to believe that Hope Hicks has tested positive. If she has, I would not be surprised if Pathogen-in-Chief subsequently — in about 2 days — tested positive. However, judging by her behavior, I doubt that Melania spends much time in close contact with World's-Most-Odious-Husband. So claiming within hours that Melania too has tested positive looks VERY suspicious. 

Conclusion? Hope Hicks might have genuinely tested positive, but it is more likely that the WH has seized an opportunity to HIDE from consequences than that DUHnocchio & Gold-Digger are also ill.

How should we react? Let's wait and see whether Obesity-in-Chief will — in about 2 weeks — require hospitalization with-or-without intubation. Let's wait and see whether Obesity-in-Chief will — in about 1 month — permanently succumb to COVID-19.

In the meantime, media attention should be on DUHnocchio's 4+ year history of deceit, disgusting behavior, ineptitude, income tax evasion, crimes, and treasonous activity.

Jon Meacham: History Says To Treat Medical Reports From The WH As 'Incomplete' At Best > .

Interview Biden instead

Desperate-Bully-in-Cheat rejects change to rules despite chaos and cringe of first debate:

Tantrum-in-Chief’s "re-election [read re-rigging] campaign has rejected calls to change the rules of the next two presidential debates with Democratic challenger Joe Biden after the first chaotic event in Cleveland was marred by constant [DUHnocchian] interruptions and outbursts."

[Solution? Don't permit a repeat. Interview Joe on policy questions without the Enfant Terrible present.]