President Donald Trump keeps claiming without evidence that he is now immune to COVID-19 after having been diagnosed with it less than two weeks ago, but scientists confirmed on Monday that there has been at least one case of reinfection in the U.S.
“On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”
On Monday, U.S.-based Johnson & Johnson announced a pause on all of its COVID-19 vaccine candidate clinical trials due to an “unexplained illness” in one of its study participants.
He should just mainline a massive dose of the virus to prove how supermanly immune he is. Then go out and set a world record for hugging and kissing his cult members. Because he is immune, and his touch grants immunity to his followers.
When looking at potential spread of the virus who cares what trump’s individual situation is, he is still directly responsible for the spread at his events with shoulder to shoulder unmasked disciples screaming their support.
OK, now there is no excuse of ignorance for people who deliberately expose themselves to the superspreader in chief. They have fully earned and richly deserve all the pain and suffering exposing themselves to him will cause to them.
Their friends, family, coworkers and random strangers they interact with, however, don’t.
Meh, Johnson & Johnson already pre-sold up to 100 million doses for one billion dollars of our tax money. Really, they just need a vaccine, it doesn’t matter if it works or not. It’s possible the whole ten billion we already prepaid for vaccines might be mostly wasted by the time the phase 3 trials are done. Pretty sure there is going to be some kind of kickback on that ten billion to someone…somewhere.
Do we have any way of knowing whether or not he’s still on the steroids?
I’ve been expecting (hoping) for a mental as well as physical crash and burn afterwards.
“I went through it, now they say I’m immune,” the President said. “I feel so powerful, I’ll watch into that audience, I’ll walk in there, I’ll kiss everyone in that audience. I’ll kiss the guys and the beautiful women.”
Whoa there, Sparky … keep those lips off of me - I’ve heard about some of the places they’ve been. ETA: Just give me a COVID Cocktail instead.
here’s a lot to unpack in this. The guy that was “reinfected” may, given the short interval between his infections, just have been still been infected but had an interim of low virus and tested negative. There’s also a slant in most reporting on this that implied COVID may not impart strong immunity. It sure as hell won’t in a person with poor immune function and if such a person gets a second infection that’s due him or her and not COVID. Reinfection is rare. So Id sat that supports, but does not confirm an argument for immunity being imparted.
I imagine if you’ve survived COVID you don’t get caviler about it. If anything you double down on protective measures. That too probably contributes to there being few reinfections.
The main point: Nobody knows. Anything you read or hear is speculative although based on what little info is out there. No one knows for sure. Any article written with a tone of certainly is bullshit.