The President Tested Positive for COVID-19. I Have 9 Questions.

ANGLO AMERICA, 5 Oct 2020

Charles P. Pierce | Esquire - TRANSCEND Media Service

Trump announced he’d tested positive for the virus as Thursday [1 Oct] became Friday [2 Oct], and the pandemic reached his inner circle.

2 Oct 2020 – Around midnight, as Thursday became Friday, and we learned that the pandemic had reached into the administration*’s innermost inner circle, and then into The Residence Itself, these were the things about which I began to wonder.

  1. If we’re serious about contact tracing, where does that leave Judge Amy Coney Barrett, who was having a tough day anyway?
  2. What in the hell are they going to do about the air-conditioning/ventilation systems on Air Force One and on Marine One? Those must be alive with frolicsome viruses by now.
  3. How does Joe Biden feel about this president*’s having spent 90 minutes bellowing at top volume just across the stage from him on Tuesday night? In fact, how does Joe Biden feel, period?
  4. Is Section 3 of the 25th Amendment being discussed anywhere by anyone? I mean, the president* is 74 and is a walking co-morbidity.
  5. How many handrails do the president* and his traveling party touch over the course of the average campaign road trip?
  6. Do they have to disinfect the nuclear “football”?
  7. Are all the people who have to be quarantined going to be confined to the president*’s hotel in D.C, and, if so, can they get a rate?
  8. Are we all spared the other two debates?
  9. Does the White House have enough roosts for all these returning chickens?
cleveland, oh september 29 president donald trump and former vice president joe biden exchange remarks during the first presidential debate at case western reserve university in cleveland, ohio on tuesday, sept 29, 2020 photo by melina marathe washington post via getty images
How does Joe Biden feel this morning? The Washington PostGetty Images

The announcement that the president* and his wife are now two of the over 7 million Americans with the virus, and that top White House aide Hope Hicks not only tested positive for the COVID-19 virus, but also was symptomatic when all hands flew to Duluth on Wednesday for one of the president*’s airport wankfests, creates a possibly vast Yggdrasil tree of contagion that now includes the president* and his wife and his children and his Secret Service detail, the entire White House staff, and their spouses and their children, the White House press corps and their spouses, partners, and children, several members of the Minnesota congressional delegation and their extended families, and an entire Air Force air wing based in Duluth, and on and on and on. And if you expand the universe of contagion to include all of the Republican celebrities who flew with him to Cleveland on Tuesday, and everybody who sat next to the unmasked members of that entourage, the whole thing gets ridiculous and it makes you hide under the bed.

Leadership!

More, obviously, to follow.

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Charles P Pierce is the author of four books, most recently Idiot America, and has been a working journalist since 1976.

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