Chris Christie is morbidly obese, so his risk factors would be quite a bit higher (despite the fact he's only 58).

True that.

quickymart:

 

Chris Christie is morbidly obese, so his risk factors would be quite a bit higher (despite the fact he's only 58).

 

depends on whether he got the antibodies or not. i wonder how many special authorities the FDA are prepared to dish out.

Looks like they've let him out.

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/10/09/politics/chris-christie-coronavirus-trump/index.html

The New York Times - Opinion - Will Mitch ditch the Donald?

Oct 10

 

At long last, a top Republican is distancing himself from Donald Trump.

 

Literally.

 

Mitch McConnell has been boasting to colleagues and to reporters in Kentucky that he knew better than to go to the Amy Coney Barrett super-spreader event in the Rose Garden or set foot on that 18 acres of magical thinking known as the White House because he could see that the president and his team were courting danger.

 

At 78, the wily Senate majority leader, a polio survivor, wasn’t taking any chances.

 

“I actually haven’t been to the White House since Aug. 6," he said at a news conference, “because my impression was their approach to how to handle this was different than mine and what I insisted that we do in the Senate, which is to wear a mask and practice social distancing.”

 

McConnell did more than physically distance himself from Trump. 

 

He politically distanced himself as well, throwing cold water on the president’s whiplash-inducing reversal on a stimulus bill. ...

 

Clearly, McConnell does not want to invest whatever capital he has left in reviving Trump when the guy seems doomed. 

 

Why bring up an issue that really divides his Republican members weeks before an election that might be a wipeout - with the Senate in the balance?

 

McConnell is all about winning. He knows a loser when he sees one. ...

 

NOT-SO-MARVEL-OUS COMICS present ...

The Washington Post - Trump campaign twists Fauci comment to suggest praise of the president 

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“I can’t imagine that anybody could be doing more.”

 

Anthony S. Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, was misleadingly quoted in a Trump campaign ad released Oct. 10.

 

Throughout 2020, the Trump campaign has offered a master class in how to snip and cut video in misleading ways. This new Trump ad is no exception. ...

 

After the ad asserts, “President Trump tackled the virus head on as leaders should,” it follows with a clip of Fauci appearing to endorse that claim: “I can't imagine that anybody could be doing more.” ...

 

Fauci was not talking about Trump at all ... Fauci was discussing the workload of the coronavirus task force [in March 2020]. ...

 

According to The Fact Checker’s Guide to Manipulated Video, this is an example of Missing Context - Isolation. 

 

EDIT - UPDATE

 

“In my nearly five decades of public service, I have never publicly endorsed any political candidate,” Dr. Fauci said.

 

“The use of my name and my words by the G.O.P. campaign was done without my permission, and the actual words themselves were taken out of context, based on something that I said months ago regarding the entire effort of the task force.”

 

How sadly ironic. Africans are worried about the integrity of the American election.

I'd say someone is covid-19 positive but doesn't want to say...

(From https://twitter.com/Rschooley/status/1315121191791726592) 

From https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1315316071243476997 

freitasm:

 

I'd say someone is covid-19 positive but doesn't want to say...

 

Doesn't he always look that way?