Trump

[Harlequin]

I take 25μg (1000 IU) D3 daily because it was determined I had a D deficiency despite taking daily multivitamins. That might conceivably be related to being a partially black person living in a basement which I rarely ever leave with the curtains permanently closed.

My shrink (who initially urged me to get tested) told me that own-brand pills are crap, so I use Vitabiotics.

[Cloudane]

Yep darker skin tones are known to produce less D. As is never going outside Nerds BEWARE!

[Cloudane]

https://twitter.com/NumbersMuncher/stat ... 6753393664

Rumbled! (About the pictures of him "working")

[KlaxonCow]

As one response put it, this is "pure Trump":

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... -criticism

Donald Trump drew immediate rebuke from doctors on Sunday afternoon for an “insane” surprise drive-by visit to supporters outside the Walter Reed military medical center, where the president is being treated for an infection of Covid-19.

At least two other people, probably Secret Service agents, wearing respirators and eye protection, were seen on video in the vehicle accompanying Trump, who was also masked, during the short drive.
[...]
“Every single person in the vehicle during that completely unnecessary Presidential ‘drive-by’ just now has to be quarantined for 14 days. They might get sick. They may die,” he wrote in a tweet.

“For political theater. Commanded by Trump to put their lives at risk for theater. This is insanity.”

In a second tweet, Phillips added: “That Presidential SUV is not only bulletproof, but hermetically sealed against chemical attack. The risk of COVID19 transmission inside is as high as it gets outside of medical procedures. The irresponsibility is astounding. My thoughts are with the Secret Service forced to play.”
[...]
As recently as Friday, Secret Service agents were expressing their anger at how Trump’s perceived recklessness was placing them at risk.

“He’s never cared about us,” one agent told a confidant, according to the Washington Post.

The newspaper said some agents had become convinced in recent months that the president was oblivious to them being in harm’s way, citing as evidence a policy that agents on duty at Trump rallies were no longer routinely being tested when they returned home.

[PFVA]

More and more I get the feeling that Trump is going insane.

[F-ZeroOne]

This won't help that impression, one of his most recent tweets and also an early indicator of how he is going to relate his COVID-19 experience going forward:

"Don't be afraid of Covid," he tweeted. "Don't let it dominate your life. We have developed, under the Trump Administration, some really great drugs & knowledge. I feel better than I did 20 years ago!!"

https://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2020-54427390

[Cloudane]

Yeah hence at first I thought he was faking it, as getting it plays perfectly into his "it's fine nothing to worry about" BS that the MAGA crowd will lap up. Now convinced that it'll make them 20 years younger!

[Harlequin]

"… I feel better than I did 20 years ago!!"

What was happening to him toward the end of 2000 that made him feel even worse than he does now?

And is he going to continue shouting at large unmasked crowds, and at Biden during debates, while he is still shedding virus?

[Harlequin]

Ah. He could actually be feeling good:

[Steroids, such as the dexamethasone he is still being dosed with, may] give a false impression of the patient’s state. The drugs are also known to affect mood, causing euphoria or a general happiness.… In some cases they may cause psychiatric effects, leading to feelings of grandiosity and mania, or even delirium and psychosis.

Although, of course, some of those symptoms were present long before now.

[F-ZeroOne]

https://twitter.com/OMGno2trump/status/ ... 3496462341

Reportedly, the CDC has been prohibited from carrying out contact tracing at the White House.

[KlaxonCow]

Oh dear.

Trump might be doing an "Emperor Qin" here, being off his tits on his medication and throwing out insane orders in all directions.

But, unfortunately, unlike on a ship, where they have a rule that the ship's doctor can overrule the ship's captain for medical reasons, there's no "check and balance" in place for a President that's high as a kite on his dexamethasone.

I was already suspicious of the timing. Like, by the official narrative, he got tested, showed mild symptoms and then ended up in hospital within 24 hours. That's too damned fast and better not be true, for his own sake, as that's going downhill extremely fast.

Then one of his medical doctors, talking about his condition, mentioned 72 hours. The White House has strenuously denied this, and claims his doctors "misspoke" on the timing. But I'm thinking that, actually, they know exactly what he's talking about, but the White House is trying to keep quiet the fact that the President was already on dexamethasone for his Covid, during the Presidential debate.

Think about it:

The drugs are also known to affect mood, causing euphoria or a general happiness.… In some cases they may cause psychiatric effects, leading to feelings of grandiosity and mania, or even delirium and psychosis.

If Trump was already off his tits on steroids during the Presidential debate then "feelings of mania" would quite nicely explain his shameful performance there. Unable to shut up for two seconds, as he's high as a kite, thinking he's bloody Ozymandias, King of Kings. "Jet-fuelled" on dexamethasone, he just couldn't turn off his "hyper". Because, man, he's feeling like Superman right now.

I reckon that he's as high as a kite - and probably was already "coming up" on his medicines at the Presidential debates - but no-one can constitutionally overrule him.

Oh, boy, the US might just be about to directly experience an "Emperor Qin" from their "Agent Orange", and see first-hand exactly why I say that having an autocrat - be they elected or not - that can't be overruled is a really bad idea.

(Ivanka, be a patriot. Get him to stop. No-one can legally overrule him, but we all know that family dynamics internally work differently and he'd possibly listen to her, seeing as he's incestuously obsessed with his own daughter. Ordinarily, the call would go to Melania, Trump's wife, to sort her husband out. But we all know that's not how it works with the Trumps, and it's Ivanka that he's actually obsessed with.)

[F-ZeroOne]

There would be some irony in what you're saying if it turns out to be true because before the debate the Republicans were claiming it was Biden who should be drugs tested...

[gilesgoat]

Interesting night lectures : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_a ... _poisoning

[Harlequin]

If Trump was already off his tits on steroids during the Presidential debate then "feelings of mania" would quite nicely explain his shameful performance there. Unable to shut up for two seconds, as he's high as a kite, thinking he's bloody Ozymandias, King of Kings. "Jet-fuelled" on dexamethasone, he just couldn't turn off his "hyper". Because, man, he's feeling like Superman right now.

I think it more likely that that was a deliberate strategy to disrupt the debate, much like his background stalking of Clinton four years ago, as Biden is known to be a very good debater.

(Ivanka, be a patriot. Get him to stop. No-one can legally overrule him, but we all know that family dynamics internally work differently and he'd possibly listen to her, seeing as he's incestuously obsessed with his own daughter. Ordinarily, the call would go to Melania, Trump's wife, to sort her husband out. But we all know that's not how it works with the Trumps, and it's Ivanka that he's actually obsessed with.)

Don Junior has allegedly made the same plea to Ivanka.

[(o)(o)]

I take 25μg (1000 IU) D3 daily because it was determined I had a D deficiency despite taking daily multivitamins. That might conceivably be related to being a partially black person living in a basement which I rarely ever leave with the curtains permanently closed.

My shrink (who initially urged me to get tested) told me that own-brand pills are crap, so I use Vitabiotics.

Same brand and dose here.

I have learned over time, that it is better for my health if I open my shutters in the daytime (I have wooden shutters not curtains).