POTUS got the Covid.

[nobody's_hero]

So what's everybody's reaction going to be if Trump were to die from the coronavirus?

Pretty bummed seeing as it would be too late to get anyone on the ballot to take his place. And then doubly bummed if the LP couldn't defeat the dem party in a 1-on-1 match-up. And then I'd just be waiting for Biden to be declared incompetent so Kamala could take over. And then bummed again.

 

[Anti Globalist]

Trump should come out and say that HCQ is making his condition better. That will add even more validity to the drug.

 

[Occam's Banana]

Pretty bummed seeing as it would be too late to get anyone on the ballot to take his place.

Strictly speaking, no one would need to take his place on the ballot. Votes for POTUS candidates are votes for electors, not for the candidates themselves. If Trump died, people could still vote for Trump, and the Republican electors assigned by those votes for Trump would then just cast their electoral votes for someone else (such as Pence) instead.

But even though the situation is clearly provided for by the electoral college, it would probably still be confusing as hell for most people and just a supreme clusterfuck all around.

Even assuming enough people still voted for Trump to prevent Harris/Biden from winning outright, Harris/Biden would likely win anyway if Republican electors failed to marshal behind one person (Pence ?). And I'm not sure how the (s)election of a Vice President would be conducted in such a situation (chosen by the electors? chosen by the POTUS chosen by the electors?).

 

[Brian4Liberty]

Strictly speaking, no one would need to take his place on the ballot. Votes for POTUS candidates are votes for electors, not for the candidates themselves. If Trump died, people could still vote for Trump, and the Republican electors assigned by those votes for Trump would then just cast their electoral votes for someone else (such as Pence) instead.

But even though the situation is clearly provided for by the electoral college, it would probably still be confusing as hell for most people and just a supreme clusterfuck all around.

Even assuming enough people still voted for Trump to prevent Harris/Biden from winning outright, Harris/Biden would likely win anyway if Republican electors failed to marshal behind one person (Pence ?). And I'm not sure how the (s)election of a Vice President would be conducted in such a situation (chosen by the electors? chosen by the POTUS chosen by the electors?).

If Trump died, Pence would be POTUS, Nikki Haley would be selected as VP, and if the GOP won, they would continue in their positions.

 

[Occam's Banana]

If Trump died, Pence would be POTUS, Nikki Haley would be selected as VP, and if the GOP won, they would continue in their positions.

Pence would be POTUS until the post-election inauguration. But the electors could choose someone else to take his place.

(I don't know why they would, but it's not a situation that's ever come up before ...)

 

[DiverseSegregation]

President Donald Trump said on Twitter that he’ll leave Walter Reed hospital Monday evening after being treated for Covid-19, calling on Americans not to fear the novel coronavirus.


“Don’t let it dominate your life,” Trump said Monday in a post on the social media site. “We have developed, under the Trump Administration, some really great drugs & knowledge. I feel better than I did 20 years ago!”

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...p-hospital-release-call-expected-in-afternoon

 

[Sonny Tufts]

President Donald Trump said on Twitter that he’ll leave Walter Reed hospital Monday evening after being treated for Covid-19, calling on Americans not to fear the novel coronavirus.


“Don’t let it dominate your life,” Trump said Monday in a post on the social media site. “We have developed, under the Trump Administration, some really great drugs & knowledge. I feel better than I did 20 years ago!”

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...p-hospital-release-call-expected-in-afternoon

What an insipid statement. Does he really think the average Ameican can get the kind of medical care he got?

 

[DiverseSegregation]

What an insipid statement. Does he really think the average Ameican can get the kind of medical care he got?

What do you think was so special about his care?
HEALTH AND SCIENCE[FONT=&quot][h=1]Gilead’s coronavirus treatment remdesivir to cost $3,120 per U.S. patient with private insurance[/h]
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/29/gil...vir-to-cost-3120-for-us-insured-patients.html[/FONT]

 

[nikcers]

What an insipid statement. Does he really think the average Ameican can get the kind of medical care he got?

Rand Paul didn't even have any symptoms. 95% of people Trump's age have survived it in America. As long as therapeutics get better like they have been survival rate will be even higher. It's nothing like it was when we didn't have medicine. Originally doctors were just treating the symptoms and didn't know anything about the virus and how it affected people differently.

 

[Anti Globalist]

Democrats must be going insane right now since Trump got released from the hospital.

 

[Sonny Tufts]

What do you think was so special about his care?
HEALTH AND SCIENCE[FONT="][h=1]Gilead’s coronavirus treatment remdesivir to cost $3,120 per U.S. patient with private insurance[/h]
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/29/gil...vir-to-cost-3120-for-us-insured-patients.html[/FONT]

Trump also received REGN-COV2, an experimental antibody therapy cocktail under a "compassionate use" request that the drug manufacturer said on Friday is rarely granted: "There is limited product available for compassionate use requests that have been approved under rare, exceptional circumstances on a case-by-case basis." Ya think the average Joe would've been able to get it?

 

[DiverseSegregation]

Trump also received REGN-COV2, an experimental antibody therapy cocktail under a "compassionate use" request that the drug manufacturer said on Friday is rarely granted: "There is limited product available for compassionate use requests that have been approved under rare, exceptional circumstances on a case-by-case basis." Ya think the average Joe would've been able to get it?

Some people would think highly of him for trying an experimental drug.

 

[TheCount]

New photo of Trump returning to the White House following his COVID treatment at Walter Reed:

 

[Anti Globalist]

From what I've heard, day 9 is usually the turning point when it comes to coronavirus patients. Be interesting to see how Trump gonna feel around that time.

 

[TheCount]

 

[jkob]

The virus is essentially harmless to 99.9% of people, the whole thing is a hoax since the overwhelming majority of people that have died were already circling the drain. Trump is 74, Christie is morbidly obese, Rand has diminished lung capacity, what did it do?

 

[Voluntarist]

Per registered decision, member has been banned for violating community standards as interpreted by TheTexan (respect his authoritah) as authorized by Brian4Liberty Ruling

May God have mercy on his atheist, police-hating, non-voting, anarchist soul.

 

[Sonny Tufts]

The virus is essentially harmless to 99.9% of people, the whole thing is a hoax since the overwhelming majority of people that have died were already circling the drain.

So would you volunteer to work in a Covid ward in a hospital (without protective equipment, of course)?

 

[jkob]

Don't know if I'd be that cavalier about it. I'd go as far as to say that it's "non-lethal" (rather than "essentially harmless") for about 99.7% of those who contract it. Official figures would put it at 97%; but I don't think they've done enough testing to catch everyone who contracted the disease and for whom it was, as you say, "essentially harmless". There are lots of people who don't die from it but still struggle through recovery. It's probably two to three times as bad as the typical flu, but no where near the black death or plague that it's being made out to be.

Mind you I think the flu is essentially harmless too but I guess it is relative, for at-risk people it's a lot worse but I'm still not getting a flu shot or changing my habits so... If it was never mentioned or made a big deal about I don't think anybody would have noticed or at least I wouldn't have from my neck of the woods, the lockdown is going to be responsible for far more preventable deaths than this virus in the long run. I'm sure as fuck not getting any vaccine.

 

[jkob]

So would you volunteer to work in a Covid ward in a hospital (without protective equipment, of course)?

I don't work for free