Current Affairs The 2020 United States Presidential Election

[davek]

I mean, this alone would convince me.

Something wrong with a person if they dont like dogs.

 

[SerenityNigh]

Last news is POTUS was flown to Walter Reed and is taking experimental medicine, although it's hard to know whether this is normal weird or worth worrying over his health. Then again, aggressive treatment seems to give the best results.

 

[davek]

"Yeah, that's right, mine was negative"

 

[davek]

Last news is POTUS was flown to Walter Reed and is taking experimental medicine, although it's hard to know whether this is normal weird or worth worrying over his health. Then again, aggressive treatment seems to give the best results.

Being treated with a cocktail of Regeneron antibodies apparently.

Regeneron:

Regeneron's antibody cocktail REGN-COV2 rapidly reduced viral load and associated symptoms in infected COVID-19 patients," said George D. Yancopoulos, M.D., Ph.D., President and Chief Scientific Officer of Regeneron. "The greatest treatment benefit was in patients who had not mounted their own effective immune response, suggesting that REGN-COV2 could provide a therapeutic substitute for the naturally-occurring immune response. These patients were less likely to clear the virus on their own, and were at greater risk for prolonged symptoms.

 

[LinekersLegs]

It's a tough one to read politically isn't it though? As in what he should do.

Roles reversed and Trump wouldn't have missed a beat and campaigned full on. But for Biden it'd hurt him more to be accused of opportunism, as people expect it of Trump, not him.

For me it is less the issue of opportunism than the risk of infecting others. An abundance of caution would mean isolation despite the negative tests today.

 

[LinekersLegs]

 

[LinekersLegs]

 

[TheBigIguana]

In this moment maybe you can say this. I don't like that Joe is going to spend 4 years doing this only for the GOP to go right back to their radical levels whenever it is they win again and have power. I think it should be the exact opposite. Tell them to stick it.

 

[LinekersLegs]

 

[TN Toffee]

When they go high, we go low.

 

[Martin Alvito]

Tactics.

Trump's on a busted flush draw. Biden's concerned about optics.

That's how you play both of those hands. Trump has no choice other than to be aggressive and hope for the best. Biden probably just needs to avoid a misstep.

 

[riddick]

When they go high, we go low.

And that right there is why we are where we are. They do everything to break the entire country, the Democrats do nothing to make sure it doesn't happen again. I'm sorry, I want nothing to do with "healing". I want Sodom and Gamorrah on anyone who allowed all this crap to happen.

 

[LinekersLegs]

Tactics.

Trump's on a busted flush draw. Biden's concerned about optics.

That's how you play both of those hands. Trump has no choice other than to be aggressive and hope for the best. Biden probably just needs to avoid a misstep.

 

[LinekersLegs]

 

[Martin Alvito]

The interesting question is probably less "Will Biden win?" as Nate Silver and others have good models for that, and more "Will Biden win this election that assuredly will not be 'free and fair'?"

A couple of days ago, Nate Silver had alluded to tue fact that answering that question would require enlisting people doing niche research on subjects such as voter intimidation pre-LBJ and the 1876 presidential election in order to try and put a number on how much skulduggery could move the needle in Trump's favor.