(a couple of days late; ht Don Surber https://donsurber.blogspot.com/2020/10/trump-makes-covid-19-irrelevant.html)
Don’s a bit too much of Trump fanboy – I doubt that he actually makes covid 19 irrelevant.

But Trump’s fast recovery, showing great progress at treatment, is more likely to give more hope to undecideds, and make them feel better, than Dem fear-mongering. Less than a month before election.

Thanks, Montage, for being a contrarian voice here. In this case more reasonably than usual, like AesopFan says: “Montage is drawing the risk lines tighter than a lot of people, but not unreasonably so.”

There’s not really right or wrong about risk. 1 in 100,000? 1 in 100? 1 in 6 – like Russian roulette?
If you drive a car today, what is the risk you’ll die of a car accident?
https://www.nhtsa.gov/risky-driving/drunk-driving
“Every day, almost 30 people in the United States die in drunk-driving crashes — that’s one person every 50 minutes. These deaths have fallen by a third in the last three decades; however, drunk-driving crashes claim more than 10,000 lives per year.”

Is driving safe? This is a bad question.
Is driving safe enough to accept its risks? This is the good question, with some 84% saying yes, in their actions.

200,000 dead from Covid – but most are with co-morbidities.
Sort of like driving drunk. A LOT more risky.

Trump’s recovery makes it easier to oppose mass mail-in voting, and push for less fraud with in-person voting.

The Trump-hating politicians have used a virus that is deadly to the older, mostly retired demographic, but mostly harmless to the working demographic (and essentially completely harmless to school kids) to trash the booming economy which would have all but guaranteed Trump’s reelection. The collateral damage from their attempt should damn them to hell.

McEnany will be fine.

If this was fake, then it helps prove that mask wearing is not really needed.

If this was real, it proves it is indeed contagious, but now soo impotent that an overworked, overweight elderly male (who, by the way, is a lot more at risk) can survive. It also proves that taking HCQ prior, as Trump admitted to, and that new, “unproven”, treatments work.

No matter what angle you take, it’s a win for Trump.

They were in the open air, Dr. Science.

Great performance by Trump.

It is always useful to watch the press conference rather than read the reports. What I got was that
1. Pres Trump had exceeded the standards for discharge for two days;
2. He was not “out of the woods” yet;
3. At the White House he would be closely monitored and surrounded by top flight medical personnel for 24 hours per day.

My own personal experience is that it is best to get out of a hospital asap. Hospitals are full of sick people. You can recover just as well at home and you are less likely to pick something up—something that has survived the hospital’s infection control measures.

I think Trump made a smart move here. He dressed it up as more than it was, and the media come across as hysterical ghouls. I swear, those reporters act like a bunch of trained seals. Trump gets them to perform tricks and bark like crazy.