Perhaps I am just nosy, or maybe it would be more P.C. to refer to me as “inquisitive.” As everyone is aware President Trump has come down with the Wuhan virus and was just discharged from Walter Reed hospital. So far, so good as there is no disputing this. The part that I am nosy . . . err, inquisitive about is the reaction of the liberal media. Why are they reacting in this manner?
For example, on Sunday, 10/4/20 the headline in my local liberal “newspaper” read: “Mixed Messages About Trump’s Health.” After reading this WaPo article, I guess the “mixed message” was that the White House said “the president is doing very well,” and someone else saying he’s “not out of the woods yet.” To me these are both statements that are in no way contradictory, as obviously any patient at any time during the course of an illness can be doing very well and not be out of the woods yet. Why the big megillah?
“Why was he taken from the White House to Walter Reed by helicopter instead of by car?” Really! . . . Maybe because he is the President!
“When did the Covid test initially become positive? What are they trying to hide?” To me the answer to this is intuitively obvious . . .If the President had been consistently negative, and then a quick test came back positive, the first thing a competent physician would do is repeat the test to either confirm its positivity or to evaluate if the test was a false positive. Does it really matter when it turned positive if Trump was in essence quarantined in the White House? Why the big megillah?
On Monday, 10/5/20 the big “why?” had to do with a short course of the steroid drug, dexamethasone. Here the headline read: “Trump Receiving Powerful Lung Drug, Doctors Disclose.” This was followed by comments from physicians who were not taking care of the President as well as non-physicians as to why the drug was possibly not indicated. Or others cautioning about various side effects of dexamethasone. Does anyone think that perhaps both the indications for dexamethasone as well as any possible side effects of dexamethasone were considered by the physicians treating the President? Duh!That’s what doctors do whenever they prescribe a drug . . . consider the benefit as well as the side effects. Again I ask why the big megillah?
What are the libs trying to achieve by all of this innuendo? On both days the implied message was that someone is not telling the truth. Are the libs trying to make Trump sicker than he is? If so, why?
Is this supposed to be a backhanded compliment to Basement Joe? (If Trump would have acted smart like Biden, the President would not be as sick as he is!)
I still do not get “the why?” Could it be the “the why” is merely an example of the liberals’ hopes? (“If we imply that Trump is really sicker than they are telling us, maybe these hopes will come to fruition.”)
The other confusing part to me is: if Trump is really sicker that his physicians are letting on, then, when is back on the campaign trail, it says a lot for his resilience and his overall good state of health. This is almost contradictory to the message the libs are trying to peddle now. Why?