I applaud him for the decorum, but yeah...sending whatever the opposite of Thoughts and Prayers are.
I'm content to send Ts&Ps, unvarnished and uninverted. It is, I believe, the
least I can do with the
least resultant effect. And, if it is not, then I have no cause to question whatever ineffibility is operating behind the scenes. Indeed, I've already considered what it would be like if his attitudes (despite his reported/affected germophobia) resulted in something like this happening... Maybe
this counted as a previously successful call for divine/infernal intervention?
When I went to bed, it was only the Hope Hicks announcement (I even at one point had my fingers over the Post button for something that was basically a very bad pun on the word "Hope", but withheld). Tried to imagine why it might be 'engineered'/up-played. Couldn't imagine Trump
himself using that as a ruse to 'beg off' the next debate, though possibly he could be convinced, by someone who could reach through his ego.
(...maybe, I thought, a plan to get around the new debate restrictions (switch-offable mikes) by forcing an entirely remote debate and then engineering network drop-outs to blame upon enemies? Discredit his MM enemies?)
Right now, I'm more inclined to either just straight up karma-played-straight, an attempted Boris Bounce effect (Johnson was in ICU for a few days, though I don't see him willing to fake/overplay
that, in hospital for a week and then took a while longer to publicly rehelm business) or an opportunistic combination of the two - so long as the disease is happy enough to oblige the planned script.
The latter scenario doesn't sound likely. And the desperation needed to implement a 'crisis' (entirely cut from whole-cloth, just the 'screenplay' and none of the confounding external factors) would need to be palpable. If it is, I'd not noticed it, with plenty of other little plans from the Trump Playbook still being worked.
(BTW, stupidiest Twitter exchange I saw (in a competative field) was basically - Supporter: "It's only flu, don't freak out, he'll recover"; Someone else: "I had this, it can lay you low, I'm still not right since March"; Other supporter: "Rubbish. I had it and I'm fine, so there's nothing to worry about". i.e. an example of how it
can be bad is tried to be dismissed with a single example where it happened not to be. Though the one touting the 4% (the new '6%'?) as just being natural selection that will make America stronger (in this case, used in a pro-Trump way, though the laser-guided-karma guys on the opposite side have for a long time touted a more Darwin Award spin on the idea) seemed particularly sociopathic.)
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