Yeah yeah yeah, Trump is healthy as a moose, he could break a tree in half right now if they’d let him.
President Donald Trump phoned Rudy Giuliani from his hospital bed Saturday afternoon to declare he feels so healthy, “I could get out of here right now.”
The former Big Apple mayor said his friend of 30 years sounded hale and hearty during the 2:30 p.m. conversation. “If you can judge by the way he speaks, he sounded like vintage Donald Trump,” Giuliani said.
Covid takes days to get bad. How perky Trump feels now is meaningless.
He gave Giuliani a “statement.”
“I am the president of the United States. I can’t lock myself in a room. … I had to confront [the virus] so the American people stopped being afraid of it so we could deal with it responsibly.
No, he did not have to “confront the virus” i.e. ignore it and refuse to distance and wear a mask and cancel rallies. That is not what he had to do. Also the making us less afraid thing? His actions didn’t do that.
“I’m going to beat this.
“Then I will be able to show people we can deal with this disease responsibly, but we shouldn’t be afraid of it.
“If I had handled it any other way, I would have created more panic, more fear in the American people.
“We are making great progress on dealing with this disease and making better progress with the economy than anyone had the right to expect.”
No, no, no, and no.
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Mark Meadows disagrees.
I’m seeing medical types on Twitter saying the “next 48 hours” thing is just wrong; that’s not how this virus works. It builds slowly.
Of course we don’t even know how long he’s had it.
I guess one upside is that we’ll probably be spared the final two brawls.
One of the many fascinating things about this infection is that it seems to have a much bigger impact on the A-a gradient (alveolar to arterial O2 gradient) than it does on gas exchange. So patients move air fairly normally which means CO2 doesn’t build up. It seems counterintuitive but the sensation of air hunger is tied to CO2 levels rather than O2 saturation. This accounts for some of the dramatic rapid declines seen in COVID patients. They have normal CO2s so they don’t feel short of breath. But their O2 sat may be silently dropping and when it reaches a certain point on the oxygen hemoglobin dissociation curve, oxygen in the blood can plummet.
I think I saw an edifying video about Donald Trump confronting the virus:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3o0zY-Xyf0
What’s he going to do? Arm wrestle it? Sue it? Shoot it on Fifth Avenue?
Still waiting fot this part, actually. He’s certainlt not part of that “we” he wants to insert himself into.