Melania and Donald Trump have tested positive for coronavirus.

Should have worn a freaking mask and asked that all others around them did as well. Maybe we wouldn't see so many US deaths much less worldwide if we'd listened to the scientists and done something that showed humans, beyond ourself, were worth protecting.

Now I can get to sleep.

I don't wish disease on anyone who doesn't know better (since they did, and let's be kind, since at least early February) and didn't know how to protect themselves AND OTHERS (we do, wear a mask, wash your hands, physically isolate) so the people playing chicken with the train carrying Covid-19 virus?

You chose poorly.

How badly do I want Hope Hicks to have infected 45? So badly, I must admit.

Sorry, not sorry, for feeling the same.

How cynical have I become that my first thought was he was lying in a last ditch effort for sympathy.

Up, coffee made, animals fed, and settled in to work. DH missed his flight so a more relaxing day for both of us. And now I can watch all this insanity on the news.

October surprise.

Trump had access to some of the best epidemiology advice tax money can buy, and he chose to disregard it due to optics. I'm saving my sympathy for grocery store workers who have to choose between potential exposure and homelessness.

People with recent close contact, Stephen Miller, Amy Coney Barrett, Mitch McConnell. The contact tracing team must be busy.

I'm saving my sympathy for all the people who are forced to deal with the public and the mask refusing public who believe Trump's lies.

At work it looks like I'll be doing fufillment of orders but processing them (packaging them up) not my ideal chicken but it does keep me away from customers. I mean I do have to handle all the products but a lot of it just sits on racks or shelves until someone grabs it for fufillment so it's definitely a decrease in exposure .

Although all the good procedures we had in place during the pressure test have evaporated and now we are falling into bad habits.

Th supervisor for this was trying to explain to someone why it was so important to keep up the higher standards and he stopped and said "I bet A knows why" and I said "yeah, because it's better to be in the habit now instead of waiting until it's really busy and trying to undo all our bad habits and relearn a better process."

Which is the right answer. And something I have to keep telling people when they complain about all the extra things we do that we "don't need to".

I'm saving my sympathy for all the people who are forced to deal with the public and the mask refusing public who believe Trump's lies.

No doubt. It is good to hear you are in a safer spot for work now, askye.

Trump does need to stay alive through the election so we don't have further chaos. Or an excuse to delay the election.

I'm surprised Trump is admitting he has covid so I am thinking there is some political reason for him to do this.

But man I didn't check the news and there was revelations of sexual harassment, Hope Hicks, Trump etc have covid, Melania's phone call gets leaked with her not caring about detained children or Christmas decorations (which I don't really care that she doesn't care about decorating for Christmas). And I feel like I've missed something....

Oh yeah the grifters Wohl and whoever were charger with felonies.

It is deeply uncharitable of me, but my first thought was "And now no one is talking about the debate." I put NOTHING beyond what this President would do, but two weeks without public adoration-fests (his rallies) or golf I think might be beyond what he would do for a Hail Mary. Who knows though, there is no bottom.

I have no charitable thoughts about Trump, but I do feel for the innocents that have contact with him and his circle. This really is the tip of the iceberg here. Who knows how many will be infected via this current infection.

DH missed his flight this morning. He called me at 5:30 AM, from home, crying that he couldn't find the key for his rental car, and he thought his flight was at 8, when it was at 6:30, and in a panic. Me, being a never panic person by nature, said 1. forget the key you can find it later 2. you haven't slept 6 hours total in the last 4 days, go to bed 3. clearly you were not meant to fly today.

He did stay up long enough to find the key and call the airline. They moved him to tomorrow with no charge and he is now asleep. I hope he turned off his phone. Honestly, I didn't want him traveling on zero sleep in super stress mode. I believe his immunity would be compromised. He gets constant medical care, and just tested negative again a few days ago, but he has to stop burning the candle at both ends.

Oh wow I went to bed right before that trump news dropped! And cynically I feel like y'all are right and it's very convient he shouldn't be debating anyone for a few weeks...and also he probably thinks if he can say "I had it, it was mild, I got better, so don't be afraid of it"....ugh.