Donald Trump, as everyone knows, got the best of socialized medicine when he was hospitalized at Walter Reed. He received drugs not available to the general public. One, in particular, was effective, apparently, and he called it a “miracle cure.” It is not currently available to the public; it has not yet been approved by the FDA. But if it is approved, the problems of availability, affordability, and distribution are immense, https://www.wired.com/story/trumps-miracle-cure-for-covid-is-a-logistical-nightmare/as described in this article in Wired.
It’s likely that the Food and Drug Administration will authorize these therapies for emergency use any day now. Before that happens, though, three simple questions must be answered if we’re to avoid turmoil and confusion: Who will be eligible to receive these treatments and have access to them? Where will the therapies be administered? And how muchwill they cost?
No one, certainly not Trump, has figured out the answers to these questions.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
No one really knows anything about what he received while hospitalized. His Dr. Conley is hardly a reliable source. 45 may have been on a course of different/experimental drugs dating back to January 2019 when he knew quite definitely just how deadly the virus would prove to be. So, speculation is just that. Months of secret, off-the-books preventive treatments culminate in a hospital visit that produced a stream of phony press releases.
I thought Trump’s ‘miracle cure’ came from all the Evangelicals and conservative Catholics praying for him. /s
I still question whether or not he is ‘cured’. Can anyone believe a pathological liar? He is the boss of his doctors so they can’t be believed either. Anyone who can tell a doctor what to write on a medical diagnosis cannot be believed.
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…in recent days, Trump has used his own positive coronavirus diagnosis to leverage that belief in Divine intervention in a naked attempt to ramp up his own sputtering campaign. In a video posted on his Twitter account on Oct. 7, shortly after his release from the Walter Reed Medical Center, Trump called his diagnosis a “blessing from God.” Only two days earlier, right wing media had lit up with headlines announcing Trump’s miraculous recovery. “Prayers For Trump From Christians & Others Lead To Miracle At Walter Reed,” one headline read…
https://www.macleans.ca/politics/washington/american-evangelicals-still-see-trump-as-their-anointed-one-why/
I want to know why he didn’t insist on taking Hydroxychloroquine, or MMS or Orleander serum? Oh, I know, the “quack” treatments are only good for the people who are stupid enough that they pay taxes every year. Only the rich will get the new meds (and likely for free or for very little cost) while the rest of us die or go broke paying for the cure. Socialism for the rich and crap for the rest of us.
Personally I hoped that the doctors at Walter Reed would pour disinfectant into his lungs to see how it works or irradiate them, as he suggested to the public.
I think a mixture of bleach and pine oil would be appropriate. Bleach to keep ALL the disease and the pine oil to cover the rotten smell that permeates everything that Trump does.
According to CNN Trump owns stock in Regeneron, “the miracle cure,” he has been promoting. He also personally knows the billionaire CEO who lives in Westchester County, NY. Since the president’s proclamation, Regeneron’s stock has risen sharply. Trump is the ultimate brand ambassador, but that is all he is.
Trump is a huckster, a carnival barker. He is no leader and no skilled businessman. Anyone that invests knows that owning a golf course is rarely a good investment. Trump’s golf course properties have been losing money for years. His failing golf courses are one of the reasons he pays so little federal tax. https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/05/investing/trump-regeneron/index.html
Trump is the P.T. Barnum of our age, the ultimate huckster and carnival barker.
P T(rump) Barr none
Politico:
WHO TRIAL FINDS LITTLE BENEFIT FROM REMDESIVIR — A multicountry trial coordinated by the World Health Organization found that the widely used coronavirus treatment did not reduce the risk of death or length of hospital stay for Covid-19 patients, POLITICO’s Zachary Brennan reports.
The results contradict earlier studies that remdesivir and three other antiviral drugs can substantially reduce coronavirus deaths, the trial’s researchers argued. But that drew immediate pushback from Gilead, which makes remdesivir and countered that the new data had not yet been properly reviewed.
The WHO trial was conducted at 405 hospitals across 30 countries, and involved more than 11,000 adults hospitalized with Covid-19 cases.
Miracle Cure?
A sample of one
Is hardly a proof
Of “cure” that has won
The virus, foresooth
Trump is an evil abomination. I cannot come up with enough right word to express how much I totally despise that slimy worm. Trump is a cancerous sore on the heart and soul of humanity that should have never existed. I am 77 years young. I am ashamed to say that Trump is of my generation. Time for him to be voted out and disappear from everyone’s sight and mind.
Trump is not of your generation.
Trump is of Degeneration
Generation Hex
Trump is of Degeneration
Generation Hex
Celebrating veneration
Of dinosaur, T Rex
Trumpasaurus Recks
Trumpasaurus Wrecks
Sorry
Celebrating veneration
Of Trumposaur, T Wrecks
Or maybe it’s spelled Trumposore
Generation Hex
Trump is of Degeneration
Generation Hex
Celebrating veneration
Of Trumposore, T wrecks
Fixed
I just received a request to purchase the book, “God’s Man in the White House”. I’m sure every reader will want to get one and maybe more to give to friends. HA. HA. HA. HA. Even nutcases can write books.
God’s Man in the White House:
Donald Trump in Modern Christian Prophecy
by James Beverley & Larry Willard
A political, moral and spiritual battle is raging on in America and around the world over Donald J. Trump. Amid all the controversies, Christian prophets have been claiming for over a decade that Trump is a chosen one; that he is God’s man for the White House. In God’s Man in the White House, professor James Beverley documents a comprehensive collection of over 500 prophecies about Trump covering a period of 15 years by more than 100 of the leading Christian prophets and leaders in the USA and world-wide, providing the political and religious context for the ongoing prophecies and controversies about the 45th president of the USA.
God’s Man in the White House
— by James Beverley & Larry Willard
Paperback Book
(330 pages)
$19.99
PDF E-Book
(Download)
$9.99
About the Author:
James A. Beverley is Associate Director of the Institute for the Study of American Religion in Woodway, Texas and Research Professor at Tyndale University in Toronto, Canada. He has written articles for Christianity Today and Charisma magazines and is a longtime columnist for Faith Today magazine. He has specialized for over forty years in the study of world and new religions, philosophy of religion, Christian theology and philosophy. He is the author and editor of sixteen books.
Professor Beverley has been an expert witness in both criminal and civil trials and is an advisor on religion to the government in Ontario, Canada. He has been interviewed frequently by print, radio and television media. He has taught in North America, Central America, Europe, India, Africa, and southeast Asia.
Not my God.
I believe that most people I know would say that I am fairly descent practicing christian. Try to do the right thing by the good book. Don’t always succeed but at least try. Never really questioned if the christian churches, Catholic or Protestant, were actually following what they profess.
Now, since Trump is the president, I am questioning my belief in what the christian churches stand for today. Watching how the christian churches are bowing down to Trump it makes me wonder if I ever want to go to church again. I am questioning whether all the leadership of the christian churches actually have moral and ethical codes that follow the teachings of their religion. And, I suggest that anyone who votes for Trump should check his/her moral and ethical codes.
I can do what is right and moral based on my understanding of the good book. That means I cannot vote for Trump or anyone associated with him.
there’s a website called dogsforJoe.com. It says that Trump is the first president in a century who did not own a dog. Even made fun of the idea of owning a dog. Its video ends: “Pick your humans carefully.”
Same for churches, synagogues, mosques.
When someone professes that they are Christian, I now ask this simple question. “Are you Classical Jesus or Republican Jesus?” They never have to verbally answer for you to know.
God’s man in the Whitehouse
If Trump’s his man
He’s not my God
It’s NOT a plan
That’s to applaud
If Trump’s His voice
He’s got no brain
If Trump’s His choice
Then God’s insane
God’s Man in the White House!? Too hilarious, thanks for the laugh. This has to be satire, oh wait, he’s not kidding. That’s one strange god they believe in. Any decent god would not want to be associated with Trump in any way, shape or form. If Zeus were still around, he would have zapped trump to Hades and back again. Poseidon would have dragged Trump to the deepest depths of the oceans. Now those were real gods.
“Dog is G-d spelled backwards.” Don’t know who said it, but it fits the comments on this post. It was not so striking to me that it45 (after all, it’s an it–how does an it take care of a dog?!) didn’t own a dog, it struck me as totally odd (although, after reading Mary Trump’s book & listening to her straightforward comments on CNN & MSNBC & a great interview on Democracy Now! {the best, w/Amy Goodman & Juan Gonzalez}, not surprising) that, at its first Oval Office televised talk, it had NO family pictures on the desk behind its chair…NONE. (Didn’t even see one of Ivanka.) Since then–& someone must’ve said something to it, I’ve seen a picture of its…parents.
At last week’s veep debate, Sen. Harris said something about it45’s refusal to denounce the white supremicist groups. Dense refuted what she said, with “He has Jewish grandchildren.” Really? One would believe that it had NO grandchildren–or any children (except Ivanka)–for that matter. When Bernie Sanders was asked what his greatest joy was, he answered, “My grandchildren.” Joe Biden laments to the crowds,
“When was the last time you were able to hug your grandchildren?”
(This gives me goosebumps–aside from this horrendous covid situation that didn’t have to be as bad as it became {due to NO leadership}–Americans cannot enjoy normal family lives. Some of us may not become parents or grandparents, given the pervasive illness.)
I currently have Amanpour & Co. on, & they are discussing why the virus is so bad here.
Several more big rallies, no masks worn, no social distancing & the Covida King, right in front, not wearing a mask. THAT’s why.
Please, Joe, do NOT debate the it live. Do not expose yourself or put your family in danger. Because–make no mistake–it45 is still contagious, & his family will still not wear masks while seated in the audience.
Anything to stop the election, including making your opponent deathly ill.
Trump is “White’s man in the dog house”
Maybe I’ll write the book.
Trump Is Scared
People who have speculated that Trump’s COVID-19 treatment altered his judgment misunderstand the president.
PETER NICHOLAS
OCTOBER 16, 2020
He seemed as if he might be delirious. He blasted out bewildering tweets in all caps. Sick and infectious, he circled the perimeter of the hospital in an armored SUV, waving to supporters. He demanded the arrest of his opponents.
After doctors treated Donald Trump with a steroid last week, following his COVID-19 diagnosis, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, other Trump critics, and national-security experts questioned whether the drug had warped his judgment. “Roid rage” started trending on Twitter. His condition revived talk about invoking the Twenty-Fifth Amendment. A Stanford University law professor who had taken the same drug tweeted that she couldn’t be “president of my cat” when under its influence.
Those suspicions miss the point: Trump is belligerent when sick, just as he’s hostile when well. He sees plots when he’s dosed with dexamethasone and conspiracies when he’s gulping Diet Coke behind the Resolute desk. Days have passed since he apparently stopped taking the drug, and he sounds every bit as unmoored.
What’s been driving him in the final stretch of the campaign isn’t a medication that messes with his mood. It’s dread, people who’ve worked with him throughout the years told me. There are less than three weeks to go in a campaign that appears to be heading the wrong way. “He’s down and he’s likely to lose,” a former White House official, speaking on the condition of anonymity to talk more freely, told me. “This is fear.”…
It might all get worse. As Election Day nears, Trump’s dread may only grow, and his outbursts may only become more desperate. He may step up attacks in hopes of staving off a loss that he’d see as an intolerable rebuke. For someone who craves adulation and can’t ever seem to get enough, defeat could leave a hole that no treatment can remedy.
Read More:
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/10/why-trump-keeps-lashing-out-election-approaches/616733/?utm_source=atl&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=share
“He may step up attacks in hopes of staving off a loss that he’d see as an intolerable rebuke”
It’s much more than rebuke that he fears.
The prosecutors are all waiting at the door, but only losers are prosecuted.
I listened half way through both town hall meetings by Trump vs. Biden on U-tube.
Trump comes off as angry and kept repeating the same lies. The moderator was a woman who wouldn’t let him get away with that type of talk. Imagine the anger that Trump has towards smart women who question him!
Biden was calm and actually told what he thinks on subjects brought out by people in the audience selected to ask questions.
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The Hill:
Republicans increasingly seek distance from Trump
More and more Republicans are running for the lifeboats.
With President Trump sinking in the polls less than three weeks before the November elections, a growing number of GOP lawmakers are scrambling to distance themselves from their party’s embattled standard-bearer — a shift that’s both illuminated Trump’s tumultuous tenure in the White House and driven cracks in the GOP’s united front at a particularly inconvenient moment for the unpopular president.
We can’t have everybody’s vote counted. How else are the Republicans going to win?
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NYT
In Texas this past week, hours before early voting began in the state, a three-judge federal panel upheld an order by Gov. Greg Abbott limiting counties to one drop box apiece for ballots. The result forced high-density cities to shut down dozens of ballot drop boxes they had planned to use.