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I hope he continues to recover and am gald to hear he has the humility to admit he didn't take the risk as seriously as he should have. He is potentially an important ally for those who think it has been downplayed. Clearly his weight and pre-existing conditions (most notably asthma) were factors and I am sure his experience will be dismissed for that reason. But he is a high profile voice for those in similar situations.
For every one person that goes into the hospital with covid, there are around ninety eight who don't (likely more than that due to an incomplete data set). Out of those, a good portion don't even know they have it--i.e. they have no symptoms. For those people, it is actually less severe than having a "little cold."
I recall as a child having a cold quite often. When I got one, I would generally be in bed at least a couple of days. I got really sick. But most of my friends hardly showed any serious symptoms at all when they had a cold and they certainly weren't bedridden over it. See how diseases work differently on different people? I might have needed special attention and medical care, whereas they didn't need a thing. It would have been beyond stupidity to punish my friends because I got sick and they didn't. One size does not fit all when it comes to disease. And punishing/treating the healthy as if they were sick has never, is not, and never will be a logical way to handle disease.
I thought masks were intended to protect others. I don't understand how a mask would have protected Chris Christie from those not wearing masks.
Sure, if Trump and Christie were both wearing masks, they would have been mutually protected from each other, but since neither wore a mask, both were exposed, and one infected the other. Likewise, if everyone at the Tulsa rally had been wearing a mask, Herman Cain would still be alive
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I thought masks were intended to protect others. I don't understand how a mask would have protected Chris Christie from those not wearing masks.
Uh, the article also states he went on to advocate "follow CDC guidelines in public no matter where you are and wear a mask to protect yourself and others."
I thought masks were intended to protect others. I don't understand how a mask would have protected Chris Christie from those not wearing masks.
True primary goal of a mask is to stop the spread if you have it...but it also helps to hamper your inhaling of the droplets.
And the point is --- the lack of protocol resulted in a spread of the virus at The White House.
Lying about testing, mocking the masks and social distancing........
So glad it has turned out. Nobody wants to risk being in the group that suffers long term impact --or death.
That's something we aren't tracking is the folks who don't die but who suffer severe physical trauma and long term damage. We don't know.........
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