From an ER nurse: Trump will be fine. Why? PRIVILEGE.

[CousinIT]

Tweet where I saw this:

Link to tweet

Trump is pitiful. #MorningJoe

[cilla4progress]

1. This was obvious to me.

Why POC are taking it in the shorts with this pandemic! They are not believed; they are pushed to the end of the line; they are not given the best available treatments.

Rationed health care. Don't believe the lies!

SMDH

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2. It's what you can pay for. Christy is out too. He probably paid...

for similar treatment. I mean his insurance company probably paid big bucks.

trump didn't have to pay since he's the president.

[dewsgirl]

4. John Oliver did a segment that covered the subject of POC

not being believed. It was horrifying.

[Silent3]

3. Trump may well be recovered, and if so, high privilege likely will have helped...

...but it's not necessarily a good thing to get everything that helps at the late-stage of a disease thrown at you early on, or to get the most expensive but still experimental treatment.

Often you have to wait for your disease to progress before being given a certain treatment not because the health care system is being stingy, not because you're a peon, but because a treatment simply might not have any useful effect early on, and may even be dangerous when given at the wrong time.

It sure as hell doesn't help you to get a kidney transplant while you still have two healthy kidneys. It sure as hell doesn't help you to get zapped by a defibrillator before you have a heart attack.

I'd bet it's very likely that Trump's high privilege manifested as Trump bullying his doctors to throw everything at him against the best medical advice, science and good medical practice be damned.

Though I'm not expecting it at this point, I won't be the least bit shocked either if Trump suddenly has a relapse, and it turns out that only steroids and Adderall have been keeping him propped up so far.

[EndlessWire]

5. I agree with the article.

I also agree that Trump's problem--whatever it was or was purported to be--was probably treated with the direction of nonphysician managers. We will never know.

We do have the known event that happened where he went to the hospital in the middle of the night--what that was about, we don't know. Both times Donnie Two Scoops left the security of the WH hospital and beat feet for Walter Reed.

One thing is for sure: Trump is not immune from Covid-19, and we now have credible reports of people being infected twice. Covid is not done with Donnie Two Scoops. Let him campaign away his strength. I don't care, do u?