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Moira Donegan has written for us this morning, pondering that now coronavirus has reached Republicans, maybe they will have to know what the rest of the world feels like? She says:
The administration’s handling of the president’s illness has had the shambolic quality of Wile E Coyote attempting to catch Road Runner. They are caught in such absurdly transparent lies that one almost expects their noses to grow long as they speak, or a cartoon anvil to drop on their heads in divine retribution. It would be funny, if only these people did not also possess such terrifying power along with their ostentatious incompetence.
It has long been clear, both from their own statements and from reporting done by outlets such as Vanity Fair, that the Trump administration considers deaths and illness from the virus in blue states to be insignificant, acceptable casualties. But the choice in Bedminster to endanger his own supporters defies that logic. Unless of course, you are Donald Trump, who views ever interaction as transactional and every human being as a number. The Bedminster event, remember, was a campaign fundraiser – it ultimately raised more than $5m for his re-election bid. To Trump, even those who fulfill his own need for constant adulation are less valuable as human beings than they are as sources of revenue. And Trump certainly does not care about the workers whose labor is necessary to put on such events – the security and janitors and caterers and tech staff whose health, lives and families are threatened by his carelessness.
Related: America has a superspreader president. He put us all - and himself - at risk | Moira Donegan
President Trump’s medical team said on Sunday that he could be discharged from Walter Reed as early as today. It’s caused some confusion, because the idea that Trump is well enough to leave hospital appears to conflict with other medical information we have been told about the president. As Katie Thomas and Roni Caryn Rabin reported for the New York Times:
The few medical details they disclosed suggested to many infectious disease experts that he is suffering a more severe case of Covid-19.
In photos and videos, there is hardly any sign that Mr. Trump is sick. But Trump’s doctors said his oxygen levels had dropped to a level that can indicate that a patient’s lungs are compromised.
Related: Sean Conley: who is the Trump doctor whose updates are raising questions
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