Chris “Krispy Kreme” Christie POZ for coronavirus!

I'm actually sorry to hear that. I like Christie and Rahm on ABC.

Statement:

“ I just received word that I am positive for COVID-19. I want to thank all of my friends and colleagues who have reached out to ask how I was feeling in the last day or two. I will be receiving medical attention today and will keep the necessary folks apprised of my condition.”

[quote]I will be receiving medical attention today

Guess he's feeling symptoms.

This is just too weird. Too many of them all of a sudden. I know that's how it spreads, but this is suspicious as fuck.

And how the hell can you have any respect for Christie, r1?

Christie is at least the 14th person close to Trump who has the virus.

Quick!

Someone close off all the lanes on the bridges between Christie and every nearby hospital!

Kyle Griffin is a-fucking-dorable.

I like Christie and Rahm's chemistry, and I liked Christie and Donna Brazile before that. I would watch a Christie/Brazile talk show - they were funny when they agreed with each other.

Talk about morbidly obese

But serious question -- didn't he have that stomach constricting surgery? How is it possible to regain so much weight after that?

But he’s in such great shape.

He jazzercises!

His Twitter profile picture does him no favors R7 but he is definitely cute in that photo

They are going down with the ship. Trump is the anchor.

C'mon 'rona, Rudy is RIGHT THERE, you gotta go for it man

He had lap band surgery back in the day. Over the summer, I thought he looked a little thinner in the face, but in that Rose Garden photo, he looks like his normal weight.

I think a bigger worry is that he was once hospitalized for an asthma attack, back when he was Governor. I can't remember the details now.

[quote]This is just too weird. Too many of them all of a sudden. I know that's how it spreads, but this is suspicious as fuck.

What exactly is suspicious about mass infections arising in a group of people that spent a lot of time close together without wearing masks?

I didn't see it (I was watching MSNBC) but didn't Christie do debate coverage this past Tuesday night with George S? If so, does that mean the people at ABC should be concerned?

[quote]This is just too weird. Too many of them all of a sudden. I know that's how it spreads, but this is suspicious as fuck.

Well, that's what happens when you ignore science and the very loud warnings from medical professionals and take no measures to protect yourself. This virus has been circulating for months, and there have been plenty of others throughout history. We all ought to know how they spread by now, for the most part. It takes a special combination of hubris and stupidity to gather in groups without masks or distancing, over and over again, and expect NOT to be infected. And Repugs are the poster children for both of those qualities. The chickens are simply coming home to roost.

He’s kinda cute, but could Kyle Griffin be any more of a stereotype?

R15 - it's too convenient. Too many big names.

It's not like they are the party of truth. I wanna see the test results and the doctors going live on TV stating and showing them - putting their medical license at risk.

Yes and yes, r16.

Gretchen Carlson was asking exactly that on Twitter a few minutes ago, R16.

I think on the George S. show, the commentators were all significantly distanced from each other. But yeah, they'll all need to get tested.

[quote]it's too convenient. Too many big names.

So your contention is that all of these people are volunteering to be labeled as positive even though they're really negative? Why, because they want to bring Trump's presidential campaign to a stop and potentially endanger the Supreme Court nomination process?

[quote]r3 “I will be receiving medical attention today” / Guess he's feeling symptoms.

No... this is just what rich, well connected people do.

They don’t wait in line like people with crappy (or no) health insurance have to.

When you look at the Rose Garden videos on twitter, it's easy to see how they all got it. They were hugging and kissing each other as old friends, pressing their cheeks together.... I've seen speculation that Trump may have already had it, because he seems further along than the others.

R4

Not suspicious at all. Trump was feeling sick way before the debate, knew Hicks was already poz.

But he ignored all guidelines, didn't wear a mask, and breathed on everyone with his gamey breath.

Then there was the Rose Garden event. No one wore a mask. And here we are.

[quote] This is just too weird. Too many of them all of a sudden. I know that's how it spreads, but this is suspicious as fuck.

It's the farthest thing from suspicious. They were all together at the events for the SC nominee last Saturday, without masks in indoor places. All but Sen. Johnson, who probably got from Trump or somebody a few days later. Completely predictable; the wonder is that it didn't happen to a big group of Republicans sooner. It was just a matter of time, and they probably got complacent.

[quote]could Kyle Griffin be any more of a stereotype?

Yes, he's a stereotypically adorable human being. Could you, r18, be any more of a stereotypically hateful homophobic cunt?

They all had to test negative to be at the Rose Garden event, so yeah, that probably made them complacent.

It's not suspicious, it's exactly like all those weddings and birthday parties people had where some of the family was sensible and didn't go, but the idiot 30-something Trumpsters still got together, and there was a superspreader among them, so next thing you know 89 people are infected and all the grandparents have died.

This is EXACTLY the same thing.

They do so much damage to our country then expect cards, flowers, tweets, calls and hugs (and making a list of those who ignore them).

Deplorable.

He'll have some pasta and be fine.

It's "all at once" because they can't keep it secret anymore. I imagine some of them have known for a while that they're poz but it was being kept from the media.

These people are terrible people who behave with callous, selfish recklessness. Their criminal negligence has planted hundreds of thousands of people in the ground in less than nine months.

But now ... it’s turning on them? I don’t even know how to respond! This upends my theory of life.

So, Christie will be given an antiviral drug... and maybe a steroid?

R34, I feel this is just 2020's big finish, the denouement... 2020 is a drama queen.

Wouldn't everyone that all these people encountered over the past few weeks need to be quarantined? Who cares if you "tested negative an hour ago". Or they will go out into the world and spread and spread.

Literally hundreds of potential cases roaming around.

[quote]Wouldn't everyone that all these people encountered over the past few weeks need to be quarantined?

That is the medical guidance, but do you think any of these narcissistic assholes are going to do anything to keep other people safe?

Fucking cunts

I cant believe there are actual fans of this thuggish, fat-fuck asshole on this thread.

It would be lovely if he croaks.

Trump exposed around 300 people at the Bedminster fundraiser, and those 300 people went home and exposed their families, who went out and exposed untold numbers of people....

David Tyler Muir was sitting near him on the panel.

Hope he didn’t give our DTM the Covid.

Trump, Melania, Kellyanne, Chris Christie, Hope Hicks , Mike Lee, John Jenkins, etc. Whoever the fiction author is who writing this hilarious scenario of a Trump October Surprise as schadenfreude needs to go back and rewrite it to be more believable because it is way to absurd even as a work of fiction.

COVID-19: It's the gift that keeps on giving!

[quote]Trump was feeling sick way before the debate, knew Hicks was already poz.

This is NOT true. The debate was Tuesday. Hicks got sick on Wednesday when she and Trump went to Minnesota. She tested positive Thursday morning. Trump went to the fundraiser in New Jersey knowing she had tested positive. He was apparently feeling tired in Minnesota, and felt worse on Thursday, but that was all after the debate.

Sort of like the French Revolution, only instead of the guillotine it's Covid.

Oh, and the nobles didn't lay down under the guillotine just to see what would happen

This should come as no surprise but it appears Trump knew he was positive 36 hours BEFORE he announced it. Per NBC:

Dr. Sean Conley raised some significant questions as to when Trump was diagnosed with the coronavirus. "He's 72 hours into his diagnosis now," Conley said Saturday morning. However, it has only been 36 hours since Trump notified the public that he had tested positive. According to Conley's timeline, Trump would have been diagnosed sometime Wednesday.

At this point, every politician in DC should be tested.

The WH has "clarified" Conley's statement, R47. Per WSJ's Rebecca Ballhaus:

A White House official clarifies Dr. Conley’s timeline. He says Conley meant to say it’s Day 3, not 72 hours in—the diagnosis was made Thursday night—and that Garibaldi meant to say it’s been two days, not 48 hours, since the Regeneron was administered on Thursday night.

I was just coming back to correct what I just said at R45. Apparently Trump found out he was positive on Wednesday and then went on to infect half of Washington before telling anyone.

Sen. Ron Johnson, too, I read on Twitter.

Reporters getting info that things are much worse

For political reasons, simply to fuck the Democrats and fuck democracy while they were at it, they chose to act as if the coronavirus was nothing and they didn't need to listen to science.

I'll save my sympathy for pro-social people who care about one another and about principles.

[quote]They all had to test negative to be at the Rose Garden event, so yeah, that probably made them complacent.

Likewise at the debate there was an "honors system" rule about tests: you SAY you got a negative one, they let you in. You're related to the president, they waive the mask rule.

This is the fundamental problem with contemporary Republicanism: the well-connected don't obey the rules. Laws and the Constitution don't matter, let alone the petty health regulations at a gathering. They're all optional. It leads to death.

Maggie Haberman and John Dickerson reported that Christie had to learn about the Covid spread from news reports. Nobody from the White House contacted him.

Trump conveniently arrived at the debate with his entourage too late to be tested, so they went on the " honor" system with people that have no honor. Then the fuckers decided that rules don't apply to them and took off their masks and refused to wear them. Does anyone think that regular testing went on at the WH, considering what the fat fuck said about not testing?

[quote] A White House official clarifies Dr. Conley’s timeline.

But of course.

“No, no, the doctor [much like the president] misspoke. He meant 2 days, not 72 hours. And he also meant to say he’s dancing in his hospital bed, not that he’s doing fine.”

FOH.

Sorry, Chris, looks like you, too, are a nobody.

[quote]R29 They all had to test negative to be at the Rose Garden event, so yeah, that probably made them complacent.

Unfortunately they’ve made no effort to familiarize themselves with virus facts, and don’t realize one can still lest negative during early infection (just like with HIV)

And just like Christie, r59.

He tested negative yesterday and positive today.

We call him “Governor Extra Crispy”.

And obesity is NOT good when you have Covid.

Oh, they realize it, R59. They just don't care.

Remember the scene in "In & Out" where student after student after neighbor stood and declared "I'm Gay!" in support of popular teacher Howard Brackett (Kevin Kline)? That is what all this "I'm Positive" solidarity is starting to look like. Somebodies are lying!

Will they and donald all recover miraculously, proving to their cultists that Clovid-19 "ain't all that?"

^^^ apologies for misspelling your name, Covid-19.

Everyone who's gotten it so far is a fucking snake in the grass who would go through any lengths to reelect Trump. Unless or until there's a fatality, I wouldn't put it past this administration to try an elaborate scheme to minimize COVID-19 (after dozens of miracle recoveries).

Christie is only in his fifties, and they seem to have caught it early, where he's not showing symptoms yet. I think that bodes well for his recovery, in spite of his weight. In contrast with Trump, who is in his seventies and should have been in bed rather than gallivanting around to fundraisers.

[quote]Christie is only in his fifties, and they seem to have caught it early, where he's not showing symptoms yet. I think that bodes well for his recovery

Anybody else who tests positive without symptoms is told to go home and take Tylenol.

Didn't Christie fuck over the teacher and nurse unions?

THAT would be ironic.

So if people at the Bedminster gathering get sick, wanna bet that information will be suppressed?

[quote] where he's not showing symptoms yet.

Christie has not said he’s feeling no symptoms. Indeed, he said he was seeking medical attention. If he was asymptomatic I doubt he’d do that.

I imagine there are/will be a bunch of people from the Rose Garden ceremony testing positive that we'll never hear about, as well.

I think there were around 300 people at the Bedminster event, so if enough of them get sick, it's bound to leak. Although, NJ has had problems in the past with people not wanting to cooperate with contact tracers.

Christie said on his twitter yesterday that he felt fine and had no symptoms. He got the diagnosis today and said that he would seek medical attention.

You know what they say: you lie down with dogs, you wake up with COVID-19.

R74 - who you calling a bitch?

[quote]Anybody else who tests positive without symptoms is told to go home and take Tylenol.

Why would you take Tylenol if you don't have any symptoms? Tylenol is bad for your liver.

[quote]So if people at the Bedminster gathering get sick, wanna bet that information will be suppressed?

[quote]I think there were around 300 people at the Bedminster event, so if enough of them get sick, it's bound to leak.

I heard Alex Witt say on MSNBC earlier today that some report she saw stated that the donors who attended the Bedminster event on Thursday with Trump "freaked out" after hearing he had tested positive.

R77 - you would too if you paid $250,000 for COVID. Serves them right. I hope everyone at that lunch gets it. They could have donated those millions to something that would have made a real difference.

Not a photo-op with a buffoon trying to kill democracy.

[quote]R77 the donors who attended the Bedminster event on Thursday with Trump "freaked out" after hearing he had tested positive.

OMG David Tyler Muir!

^^ who are you responding to?

If being a fat disgusting pig increases your chances of getting infected, then how did Melania Trump get it?

Because she’s one inside.

R82, I think obesity is correlated with the mortality rate, not the infection rate.

And fit, healthy people die of it, too.

[quote] you would too if you paid $250,000 for COVID.

Worst swag gift EVER!

Wolf Blitzer just said he's overweight and has a lot of problems...oh the SHADE of it all!

And he's now checked into a hospital as a "precautionary measure."

While regular Americans get to just lay on the couch for 'precautionary measures.'

^^ or keep working, because they fear eviction.

David Tyler Muir sat next to Crispy.

ABC is making them isolate for 2 weeks!

Does he have the diabeetus too? He seems like he would.

Who the fuck (is allowed to) check into a hospital “as a precaution”? I’m calling bullshit.

Hospitals don’t admit people “in case they sick.”

I mean WTF?

You in trouble, gurl!

[quote]Who the fuck (is allowed to) check into a hospital “as a precaution”?

Rich people. They have better insurance and don't have to worry about being bankrupted for life with medical bills.

Anyway Fatso's story is that his doctors told him to check in because of his asthma. He says he has mild symptoms but he's pretty high risk. I suspect his symptoms aren't so mild.

Will GMA or WNT even be on next week?

And David Muir was on Kelly & Ryan last week, so there goes that show.

ABC, you in danger gurl.

I've read that some people who have that lap band surgery continue to eat like pigs and literally pop the band. Looks like that's what Christie did.

I’m kind of a fatty and honestly nothing has made me want to lose weight more than this recent fat crop of republicans. Trump and this thing proud of their fast food consumption and slovenliness.

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He’s in the hospital. He’s already showing symptoms and he’s panicked.

[quote]While regular Americans get to just lay on the couch for 'precautionary measures.'

Oh, dear.

That Lie/Lay Troll been such a work out lately.

**been getting

[quote]And he's now checked into a hospital as a "precautionary measure."

Uh, that's not something people do, at least it's not something people telling the truth do!

If you have an infectious disease but are otherwise ok. doctors will not admit you to a hospital where you can infect other people. Especially during a pandemic, when you would be taking resources away from other patients.

r102, it's not trolling to expect people communicating in a language actually be able to correctly communicate in that language.

Christie Death Watch

Apparently on Friday he was experiencing a low fever and some achiness. Because he's a high risk, they admitted him to the hospital sooner rather than later. Now he's got to ride it out. I imagine it's like Trump - the next 48 hours will be very important.

He was admitted because he has a pre existing medical condition that places him at high risk for death from covid. They are hooking him up to a heart monitor for a few days. He may lie to get into the same clinical treatment as trump, but get the treatment (not placebo) by saying he is meeting the criteria for compassionate use.

Meanwhile, the republicans are gutting medical care for the American people. The Republicans are the ones spreading the illness too, purposely not wearing masks, purposely not social distancing.

While Christie and Trump downplay the virus, they are so scared of it, they hightail to the hospital so that doctors can monitor them round the clock (on our dime) while normal people need to recover at home.

Imagine they had to put Trump and Christie into a weeks long coma, and then have them wake up right after Biden won the election.

Trump will recover, Kristy will not is my bet. He is getting the best treatment money can buy. They are both way beyond obese, but Kristy is on another planet. Being serious for a minute, all that visceral fat compresses his lungs on a good day. Add an infection and it can be the straw the breaks the camel's back.

Christie will likely die from this, hope he made his arrangements. Trump will survive but I think he will be permanently affected and unable to continue as president.

I just realized Trump is going to be like one of those people who check into the hospital and never want to leave. In a real hospital, there are always one or two patients that LOVE being there. It's the attention they don't get at home. I see Trump loving this since he is getting sympathy from both sides of the political spectrum. He's never had that before. It's like narcissist cat nip. I bet even if he could go home in a day or two, he will milk it for weeks up to the election and make a magic recovery and back in the White House a few day before election night.

[quote]Christie will likely die from this, hope he made his arrangements.

Doughnuts will be served curb side.

[quote]I just realized Trump is going to be like one of those people who check into the hospital and never want to leave.

Trump is the Huguette Clark of our time.

I have a question for DL people . Is FAT BOY Trump's BITCH?

I suspect that the relationship between Trump and Christie is very transactional at this point, complicated by Jared Kushner. Trump abuses Christie, but Christie has benefited in numerous ways from the relationship. And at this point, Christie is one of the few in what I call Trump's circle of trust, which is how Christie got the Covid.

[quote]r116 Trump is the Huguette Clark of our time.

Maybe Ms. Clark permanently checked into the hospital to get away from that vile yellow paneling and trim.

He’s getting dragged.

He probably thought he would get into the Intensive Cake Unit.

"We need 30 lbs of fondant, STAT!!

R121 HA!!

I liked Donna Brazile wishing him well on the George S. show. It was heartfelt and sincere and she gave him good advice to rest.

Chris Christie said it was fine to let Americans die of covid, even your grandma and grandpa, because he wanted his stock portfolio to do better.

He said this out LOUD.

Well, it will be nice of him to take one for the team, then.

R121

You win the thread award!

Christie advocated in the Washington Post for opening the country county by county, based on data,, which is basically what has been happening in the mid-Atlantic region. He criticized states that opened too quickly. He said there was risk to re-opening the country, but there was risk if the country didn't open. Christie, in fact, took that risk that he was advocating - and now he's facing the consequences. He always advocated for proper safety measures during re-opening - so that's where Christie failed to walk the talk. They all tested negative at the Rose Garden event, but that clearly wasn't enough, and he should have known better.

All that, R128, and he still supported a president and party that advocated the opposite and exacerbated this epidemic—another way he failed to, as you say, walk the walk.

[quote] They all tested negative at the Rose Garden event,

Nobody has come out and officially said everyone who attended that event was tested. I don’t think they were.

Why does anyone pay attention to what Chris Christie has to say in 2020?

R128 They did not "all test negative at the Rose Garden event."

Tests were offered in advance. Many attendees didn't bother, citing earlier negative tests results w/o any evidence being required that they'd even been tested or that they were negative. White House staff were said to be tested daily. Few people on the WH staff or at the ceremony wore masks

And we all know that you can be infected before developing antibodies to the disease, the very thing the tests rely on.

Is he dead yet?

Or at least, R133, is he on the way - like "in the ICU?"

Christie had an interview with a NJ journalist on Day 3 (Sunday?), who said that Christie was raspy but not coughing during their 10 minute call.

[quote] is he on the way - like "in the ICU?"

He will never be in the ICU because he’s not at a typical hospital and he’s in the Presidential suite, which is prepared to become an ICU room.

If anything, he may eventually get ICU care, but they’ll never admit that. Ever.

Corona must be like a bulldozer if it was able to knock Christie anywhere.

Good Lord. How can you have your stomach stapled and still be that fucking fat?

A friend of mine who is considering having her stomach stapled said her sister had the procedure done, and she gained weight. While it can limit how much a person eats in one sitting, it doesn't help when the person increases snacking throughout the day.

You have to staple both the stomach AND the snack purse!

My super obese cousin had the gastric bypass, lost 100+ lbs., but within 18 months he gained it all back and more, he restretched his stomach out. Christie must have done the same. Sad.

The guy who does work around the building for us did the same thing - a gastric bypass. He was fat before but Jeezus, now he's huge - the F250 rises up when he gets out.

I think he weighs 100 lbs more now. It is sad and WTF, any surgery is dangerous and expensive. Does it ever work?

It can, R142, just like other drastic techniques can, but without a permanent lifestyle change, such things never last.

I think you have to be seriously addicted to food to get that fucking fat in the first place, so the recidivism rate must be high. He just likes donuts more than he liked being able to see his feet again.

He must still be in the hospital since we haven't heard from him.

"Feet are overrated"

How did he even father his kids? I doubt he can find his penis

"Penis is overrated"

[quote] How did he even father his kids? I doubt he can find his penis

The youngest kid is 17, He wasn't always the Goodyear blimp. In 2003 Pitty Pat probably could still find it and hop on top (photo from 2003)

Not sure why the link at R149 didn't work

It’s hilarious that he cites his asthma as the condition to worry about with Covid, not his monstrous body

Yeah, he could totally get it in his younger days. Sad.

He has asthma too? He's toast, unless he's taking that experimental drug that trump is taking...

I put him in the death pool

Isn't it way too early to be making any declarations of feeling fine and minor setback?

Just like Trump - isn't it almost guaranteed to make a strong come back in a few days?

And Christie - if he has asthma on top of being 200 pounds overweight - it really doesn't look good for him.

Guys, can we stop fat shaming Christie now.

He already has enough on his plate.

😉

Marry me, R6!

R155, you just threw the fat trolls red meat.

I was hoping they’d get the pun.

As Trumps final act of making Krispy Kreme his bitch, the request for the same drugs to help him get over Corona with BE DENIED.

When he dies, instead of being embalmed, they're gonna send his body through the glaze shower at Krispy Kreme.

Is he dead yet?

How about now?

He hasn’t been heard from, so....

Nothing heard from Gov. Krispy or Melania for that matter. How are the other Rose Garden victims doing?

From the photos I've seen of men who died from Covid, Christie looks like a textbook case.

If he 'survives' then he never had it at all.

And I do believe the people at Amy's coming out party are lying. They volunteered to back-up Trump so it wouldn't look like he caught it at one of the rallies, which he did.

They don't want people scared away from the rallies; they need them for optics. But they don't care if the rallies are superspreaders.

11 staff members for the Cleveland debate and several journalists have now contacted covid you nutcase at r166.

Chris Christie!

Is that thing still around?

[quote] several journalists have now contacted covid

Were they calling for a quote or something?

No updates on Governor I-Get-The-Whole-Closed-Beach -To-Myself-During-a-Government-Shutdown?

I hope that means no news is good news. The good news being that he is not long for this world as a result of being a cult member.

Is he dead??

The Washington Post has an article that points how odd it is he preemptively checked into a hospital.

They can't cremate his corpse. It might start a grease fire.

Christie's son confirmed yesterday that his father is in a Covid isolation room and doing well.

If the danger zone is 7-10 days after diagnosis (?), then he's got another five days to go.

He’s in the Homer Simpson suite.

r175 Do they feature intravenous donut glaze?

Yes, r175!

R176, I mean.

So he gets to hang out In case he gets sick? Who the fuck is paying that bill?

Are they going to bury him in a piano case? That's the only thing big enough for fatsos.

[quote] So he gets to hang out In case he gets sick? Who the fuck is paying that bill?

He's no longer on the government payroll but I wonder if he has some sort of 'retirement' medical insurance. You know, the kind that most of us don't have, and those of us that do had to work 20 years to qualify for.

Who knows, maybe he has Obamacare. Let's be honest, you can't check yourself into the hospital is if it was the Marriott. He had to have his doctor call and get him admitted, which, if you have a regular doctor, isn't all that hard to do, especially if you're a former governor, 58 years old, asthma sufferer, morbidly obese, and just tested positive for a deadly virus. All he had to do was tell the doctor he was short of breath. Hell. CC probably experiences shortness of breath when he reaches for the remote control.

Anybody can go to the ER R181

For tracing purposes, has the CDC contacted any local mall employees who work at Sbarro, Orange Julius and Mrs. Fields?

[quote]Please everybody hang in there and reach out for help if you need it.”

Anybody else who goes the ER with "mild" covid symptoms is told to go home and take Tylenol. And "Come back if you can't breathe."

He didn't go to the ER. He was admitted

Christie and the medical center aren't commenting on his admission, but a news article explains what probably happened to get him admitted. The article says you don't check in like a hotel, but your doctor can get you in as a direct admission, so you can skip the ER. Christie had at least three risk factors, and people with underlying lung disease can turn very bad very fast.

BTW, we don't know what kind of insurance he has, but he's presumably a millionaire at this point, so he probably has the best plan available. Also, nobody has mentioned - he's a registered lobbyist and he lobbied on behalf of several NJ hospital systems in the past year. I don't know if this medical center is one of them, but I would assume that he's a favorite of hospital administrators.

[quote] For tracing purposes, has the CDC contacted any local mall employees who work at Sbarro, Orange Julius and Mrs. Fields?

Please don’t forget us. We’re scared too.

[quote]For tracing purposes, has the CDC contacted any local mall employees who work at Sbarro, Orange Julius and Mrs. Fields?

They tried, but they've all gone out of business after no orders from Christie for a few days.

Not much of an update other than he “remains hospitalized,” though he hasn’t been heard from publicly.

They’re not going to say much, and then announce in a week or two that he’s dead, just like with Herman Cain.

Well that’s impossible, r190. Why, Herman was tweeting right up until, and even beyond his death.

R191 In fact Herman Cain is tweeting now:

"I blame Donald J Trump. And my own willfully ignorant ass."

Herman Cain: “I’m a dead black voice for Trump!”

It does raise the question, r180....

Sen. Mike Lee is spreading the goodness and taking them all down!

R195 It's hard to fight stupid.

[quote]Rep. Salud Carbajal announced Tuesday he tested positive for the coronavirus

Rather ironic, since "salud" means "health."

Nomen ≠ omen in this case, R197.

DIE FAT MAN DIE.

Giuliani is taking hydro-what's-it even though he claims he tested negative. Preventative dose?

Giuliani is taking hydro-what's-it even though he claims he tested negative. Preventative dose?

Well, is he dead yet? What's the hold up?

How much does he have invested in it, r201?

Is he dead yet?

Who?

Is it terrible that I really want someone highly visible to really get sick from this or die from it? I guess i am being naive but I keep hoping if that happens SOME of the fools out there will finally open their eyes to this.

As of yesterday, he was not on a ventilator. Supposedly he's in good spirits,

If they try to intubate him, he’s going to aspirate doughnuts, and have aspiration pneumonia in addition to Covid...and then he’ll die.

R183. Cinnabon is Christie's main addiction.

Loving this alternate ending to the sopranos!!

[quote] Supposedly he's in good spirits,

Spirits are not of this world.

Is someone trying to tell us something?

Hmmmm.

I love a good sshhpirit!

Lol R210.

You’d think with all the speculation about how’s he doing, he’s on a vent, etc. as well as all three of these news people saying he’s not that, if he could, he’d hop on his twitter and say “I’m not in ICU,” or “I feel great,” or “I feel terrible but thank you,” or fucking anything really.

If he’s just sitting there in the hospital watching soap operas, why hasn’t he tried to quell some rumors?

r214

1. He's not a public official

2. There are HIPAA laws that prevent others from discussing his status.

I’m not talking about others discussing his status, I’m talking about HIM discussing it, or tweeting to at least dispel rumors.

And HIPAA only covers healthcare providers and insurers from revealing information, not friends who spoke with him or reporters who have reliable sources.

He's on a ventilator and Lean Cuisine.

fingers crossed!

Lean Cuisine?!

COVID won’t kill him but that will.

r218 Yes, for sure. His body would reject it.

Maybe a nice healthy vegetable platter will give him a hint.

He told the NJ reporter that he didn't want his treatment to be discussed. That's why we've only gotten second-hand reports that he's been on the phone with people.

Christie has now been in the hospital a full week. CNN reported yesterday that there was no indication that he was on a ventilator.

This weekend is 7-10 days from his diagnosis, so this is the time period everyone warns to look out for.

CNN reported yesterday Christie is on Remdesivir, the same drug Turd is on.

He must have a pretty serious case of it.

When someone whose lungs have been ravaged by Covid-19 is struggling to get enough oxygen into their blood, ICU staff can choose from various interventions to try to help them. One technique is high-flow oxygen therapy, which involves blowing oxygen up a patient’s nose via tubes. Another option is to use a CPAP machine, which provides oxygen via a tight-fitting face mask. These are relatively noninvasive methods — but early in the pandemic, many ICU physicians avoided using them because they feared they could help spread the virus around hospital rooms, potentially infecting staff.

Nuala Meyer, MD, professor of medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, recalls that in the first few weeks of the pandemic, she and colleagues more commonly opted for ventilator systems instead. Although air flow can be carefully controlled with these devices, ventilators are more invasive. They require putting patients into chemically induced comas and inserting tubes deep into their airway. This can cause complications, and it may be harder for patients to recover once they are taken off such systems.

As the pandemic unfolded, it became clear that appropriate PPE actually did do a sufficient job of protecting health care workers from the aerosolizing effects of less invasive therapies. It was one reason why ventilators were used less over time.

“One of the more dramatic changes is being less worried about that spread,” Meyer says. That had benefits for patients, too: “If you can avoid the ventilator, you avoid sedatives, and maybe there is a benefit there,” she adds.

It’s a balancing act, though, Morgan says, because it can also be detrimental to keep a patient on less invasive methods should they prove ineffective. The patient only becomes more exhausted, and switching to the ventilator at that point can be even more of an ordeal for them.

Overall, though, the consensus among ICU staff seems to be that being able to opt for CPAP or high-flow oxygen therapies is a good thing. In time, clinical studies may prove that this has had an impact on mortality.

Those drugs are pretty powerful, I just notice Remdesivir is made by Gilead, the same company that makes HIV drugs. They are basically using the same concept they learned from that to kill the virus. Actually in this case, keep it from multiplying further in you body in the hope that your immune system has time can overtake it.

That's why they keep saying if your immune compromised, this virus is a lot more dangerous. I am sure Christy's immune system has been compromised for a long time with his weight and other stuff he has going on.

I thought I read somewhere that by the time you go in a ventilator, your chances of survival is only 50%.

More like 20%, r226.

Cuomo used to say it in his daily briefings when he would give the numbers of those on ventilators. He would say “if you go on a ventilator, there’s an 80% chance you won’t come off of it” which gave me chills.

Thanks for that info, r224. Fascinating shit.

Gov. Kris Krispy has now been released from the hospital and, unlike some people I could name, has published a lovely note thanking the health professionals who saved his miserable life.

Here’s the thing guys. I’m starting to rethink this whole thing.

If a guy like Christie who is morbidly obese, older than me and has asthma survived this, I’m not going to be as worried about it as I have been. I’ll still mask up and take precautions, etc. but I’m not going to be as worried about catching it.

It’s almost freeing.

Good for you, R230! At the slightest symptoms, just have yourself helicoptered to a six-room suite at the best, all-expenses-paid hospital and get twenty-four-hour, cutting-edge care with the latest experimental therapies!

You'll do as good as me and the other fat fuck!

Damn it. Why can't we have ONE piece of good news?

I will be interested to hear Christie's position on Covid-19 and if there is a change. In the report he was discharging, it indicated that he would have further comment next week.

R230 I wish I could share your sanguinity. I'm venturing out to museums (and they seem to be doing a good job with crowd control and mask monitoring) but I'm not ready to resume indoor dining. It's going to be a long winter

Yes, very interested to hear what he has to say unless it’s bullshit like, “I wasn’t worried. I only had a sore throat and that was it. I was in there as a precaution. Don’t let this dominate your life.”

Then he’ll remind me why I hate him already.

Some ppl still die and get it bad. But mortality rates are falling rapidly. Doctors are finally getting better in managing this condition for most people.

However, there is more and more evidence that it has long-term health impact, particularly neurological.

Yes, r234.

As I said, I’m still taking precautions, masks, hand washing, etc., and I won’t have anyone over for Thanksgiving, which is exceptionally depressing, but what I meant, and I probably should’ve been more clear:

I’m an essential worker and have been out in this since the start. However, sometimes the fear of contracting this, or the fear of “did I just touch my eye?! Oh shit!!” can be so powerful, overwhelming and mentally crippling that it’s damaging.

My point could’ve been more clear and I apologize for that, but what I meant was I’m not going to worry [bold]as much[/bold] as I have been. For months I’ve been feeling that one lapse or one fuck up and I’m going to get this and maybe not survive. I’m going to calm down a bit.

TL;dr: I’m going to mentally relax a little bit.

Chris Christie seen recover and taking a morning jog!

Sending you a virtual hug R237. When we civilians feel overwhelmed it's easy for us to call out at work and crawl back under the covers, but you're right there on the front lines, making it possible for the rest of us to carry on with a degree of normality. Don't think for a minute we don't appreciate it.

Sorry about Thanksgiving, but if the museums are open in your city, I highly recommend an hour or two looking at great art which has survived plagues, pandemics, and pogroms. I find it quite restorative

Thank you, r239. From my heart, thank you. I felt your hug and it meant a lot.

Hang on, someone is ringing my doorbell. It’s probably the schmaltz police.

I'm glad Christie is okay. My guess is the reason that it didn't go bad is because they caught it right away. He was negative on Tuesday and positive by his test on Friday

[quote]My guess is the reason that it didn't go bad is because they caught it right away.

Which is a luxury most of us don't get. The common folk don't get checked into a hospital unless they're near death.

Yeah, I thought of that too.

The almost millisecond he tested positive he was under medical care and went immediately to the hospital where, inexplicably to us peons, was admitted.

R242, coz that's what they tell you to do. Stay the fuck home unless you start to get worse or some shit.

I definitely think this virus is less deadly but more infectious...

that's what the medical experts are saying.

In that photo he looks like he's wearing Trump's shade of Bronx Colors foundation.

[quote]he ignored all guidelines, didn't wear a mask, and breathed on everyone with his gamey breath.

Trump wants to take down as many people as he can, doesn't matter who as long as they die before he does.

They better hurry up then.

Fuck, why cant this tree of evil die already?

Christie's team made me take down exclusive video of him on a recent morning jog, sorry, new link. His team is vicious! This link should work.

In an interview with The New York Times and in a written statement, Mr. Christie said that he had believed he was in a “safe zone” at the White House while he was there. He urged people to follow best practices, like mask wearing and social distancing, but argued there’s a middle ground between extensive, large-scale shutdowns and reopening cities and states without taking proper precautions.

Mr. Christie said he had spent days in the intensive care unit of the Morristown Medical Center in New Jersey, after taking himself there on Oct. 3 at the insistence of his doctor. Mr. Christie, who was at high risk for negative effects of the coronavirus because of his weight and because he is an asthmatic, was one of several people around Mr. Trump, who announced early on Oct. 2 that he had tested positive, to contract the virus.

Mr. Christie had led Mr. Trump’s debate preparation sessions, and attended the Sept. 26 event honoring Ms. Barrett, the president’s nominee for the Supreme Court, in the Rose Garden. White House officials are looking at that event as a cause of the spread of the virus to more than a dozen people. “I believed when I entered the White House grounds, that I had entered a safe zone, due to the testing that I and many others underwent every day,” Mr. Christie said in the statement. “I was wrong. I was wrong not to wear a mask at the Amy Coney Barrett announcement and I was wrong not to wear a mask at my multiple debate prep sessions with the president and the rest of the team.”

“I hope that my experience shows my fellow citizens that you should follow C.D.C. guidelines in public no matter where you are and wear a mask to protect yourself and others,” he said.

Now you believe in masks, when it affects you personally? How Republican of you.

Typical.

Christie always supported wearing masks. He just didn't follow what he preached.... which is yes, very Republican of him.

I'm watching Christie on GMA. He looks like death warmed over. He talked about how he was being careful for seven months and he was able to avoid Covid, but he let his guard down at the White House and he was wrong. He is adamantly pro-mask.

[quote] Mr. Christie said he had spent days in the intensive care unit of the Morristown Medical Center in New Jersey,

That’s (relatively) new information. No one was able to confirm that in real time.

I hate his fat ass, but there’s more honesty and humility in his statement than we’ve heard from Trump in the last four years.

I’m with you, r256.

He gets a bit of a pass from me because he has now come out and said “I was wrong.” He also admitted that he was scared, which also is a helluva motivator.

I’ll give him credit where it’s due if only for admitting those two things.

Christie appeared on Governor DeWine's coronavirus briefing, touting masks. This was after Christie wrote an op-ed for the WSJ. He has become a true believer.