D&D and the rising pandemic

[Umbran]

If the worst should happen, so close to the election, I think that there would be a lot of pressure to delay or reschedule the election.

The election has already started. People have already cast votes. I don't see how delay or reschedule is feasible.

 

[Mallus]

Our PA mail in ballots arrived this week. We’re going to drop them off in person next week.

 

[CleverNickName]

@Umbran That's true...I hadn't thought of that.

 

[Umbran]

@Umbran That's true...I hadn't thought of that.

On top of that, while you could imagine both houses of Congress and the President all agreeing* to move the election date (which is set in federal law), the end date of the President's term is set in the Constitution (the 20th Amendment). It isn't a thing they can just choose to move on short notice.


*I admit, it requires quite an imagination.

 

[Levistus's_Leviathan]

Yeah, the election is definitely happening when it currently is scheduled for.

Quite a bit of Trump's other staff members and others he's been meeting with recently have also tested positive recently. This is certainly going to impact things on a large scale in the country, especially now that he's been hospitalized.

 

[Imaculata]

Well, news update, Trump has been rushed to hospital. According to some reports, he is struggling to breath and suffering severe fatigue. Some of this reporting is contradicted by what his campaign team is saying, but why should we believe anything they say at this point?

Later on he tweeted that he was doing okay, after receiving an experimental drug. We'll see where this goes. It is no secret that the president's health wasn't great even before catching this disease, and he's also of elderly age. I've seen what this illness does to people around me. Even people who 'recover' from Covid, don't recover entirely. They may suffer from low energy for the rest of their lives, and especially the elderly suffer a lot. Some people I know can barely walk after 'recovering' from the disease. So it is quite possible that even if Trump recovers, he will suffer after effects like most people I've seen. Ironic, given how often he calls Biden low energy and sleepy.

 

[CapnZapp]

It depends on the nature of his recovery. If he’s a “long hauler“ or has things go wrong like myocarditis, lung damage, etc., he won’t really have anything to crow about.

Yes, not to wish a fellow human harm, but just about the best commercial for taking the disease seriously among Trump followers must surely be to see your Commander in Chief get it rough.

This is NOT a veiled wish for him to die. Just a wish he doesn't luck out and gets to remain delusional about the pandemic.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Yes, not to wish a fellow human harm, but just about the best commercial for taking the disease seriously among Trump followers must surely be to see your Commander in Chief get it rough.

This is NOT a veiled wish for him to die. Just a wish he doesn't luck out and gets to remain delusional about the pandemic.

Thing is, I don’t know that he’s actually delusional (in the colloquial sense) about C19. Part of me think that the mental health care professionals who violated some of the guidelines of their professions over the past few years to claim Trump is a “malignant narcissist“ may be spot in.

IOW, he may know full well that C19 is dangerous. But as long as he’s the POTUS and has his hands on all the levers of power, he doesn’t care about the big picture for little people- which is to say, pretty much anyone else except MAYBE his daughter.

 

[Umbran]

Well, news update, Trump has been rushed to hospital. According to some reports, he is struggling to breath and suffering severe fatigue. Some of this reporting is contradicted by what his campaign team is saying, but why should we believe anything they say at this point?

The fact that we have video of him fairly comfortably walking off Marine One on arrival at the hospital?

Later on he tweeted that he was doing okay, after receiving an experimental drug.

The experimental drug is a mixture of antibodies, by the way.

 

[Imaculata]

The fact that we have video of him fairly comfortably walking off Marine One on arrival at the hospital?

I'm less inclined at this point to believe anything positive regarding how Trump presents himself in public. He wants to look healthy while the cameras are pointed at him. I'm pretty sure he's been instructed as such by his team.