The Superspreader In Chief
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🗓️ 5 October 2020
⏱️ 28 minutes
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The president has tested positive for COVID. Does he realize what that means for the rest of us?
Guest: Slate’s Will Saletan, author of Bearing Right.
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| 0:00.0 | How is the president doing? |
| 0:07.5 | This is one of those questions that seems simple enough. |
| 0:11.1 | But since his COVID diagnosis last week, I feel like we've all learned how complicated the answer can be. |
| 0:17.3 | On Saturday, Trump was said to be doing well. |
| 0:20.3 | And then came reports he'd required supplemental |
| 0:22.5 | oxygen and had a fever, which is when Trump himself started releasing videos to prove how well he was. |
| 0:31.3 | I came here, wasn't feeling so well, I feel much better now. |
| 0:36.5 | He's not wearing a mask in these videos, by the way. |
| 0:39.3 | We're going to beat this coronavirus or whatever you want to call it, and we're going to beat it soundly. |
| 0:44.3 | So many things have had... |
| 0:45.3 | Eventually, Sunday afternoon, the president convinced his doctors to let him drive around Walter Reed Medical Center and wave to supporters outside. |
| 0:55.7 | Oh my gosh, I love you! |
| 0:57.1 | There he is! |
| 1:06.3 | And still, if you were watching all this, you might have asked yourself, how is the president doing? |
| 1:12.8 | Because when it comes to claims about Trump's health, the first story has never been the real story. |
| 1:14.3 | It's always been the cell. |
| 1:25.4 | And as the president keeps selling the American people on his health, what we know is that even if he's doing fantastically well, he has an infectious virus. |
| 1:29.2 | It makes you wonder, who else is he exposing to the virus? |
| 1:30.5 | Right now. |
| 1:31.8 | Yeah, right? |
| 1:36.1 | So Trump's whole interpretation about this matches everything we know about Trump, |
| 1:38.1 | which is he doesn't think about other people. |
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