74 yrs old, 246 pounds, infected with COVID-19 only 72 hours ago.........pumped with steroids, gasping for breath,...... removes mask........ OK....
“Feeling really good! Don’t be afraid of Covid. Don’t let it dominate your life. I went to school. Real school. We have developed, under the Trump Administration, some really great drugs & knowledge. I feel better than I did 20 years ago!”
"Every single person in the vehicle during that completely unnecessary presidential 'drive-by' just now has to be quarantined for 14 days," said Phillips, who is also the chief of disaster medicine at George Washington University Emergency Medicine. "They might get sick. They may die. For political theater. Commanded by Trump to put their lives at risk for theater. This is insanity."
Jonathan Reiner, professor of medicine and surgery at George Washington University, said Trump's short trip put Secret Service members at risk.
"By taking a joy ride outside Walter Reed the president is placing his Secret Service detail at grave risk. In the hospital when we go into close contact with a COVID patient we dress in full PPE: Gown, gloves, N95, eye protection, hat," he said. "This is the height of irresponsibility.
Commentator Tom Nichols said he found the move troubling.
"A man with a dangerous and highly contagious disease, who is being treated for that disease with powerful drugs, wanted to be taken for a ride in a car so he could wave to gawking cult followers," said Nichols, author of the book "The Death of Expertise."
He added: "As long as 40 percent of us are this stupid, we're in big trouble as a nation."
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