Trump is befuddled by the concept of change over time
She tested positive, out of the blue – this is why the whole concept of tests aren’t necessarily great. The tests are perfect, but something can happen between a test where it’s good and then something happens [gesture of hand up and over and then down on the table] and all of a sudden. She was tested very recently and tested negative, and then today I guess for some reason she tested positive.
Well…yes…that would be how it works. Things happen over time. One day you don’t have the virus, and the next day you do. One day the test is negative, and the next day it’s positive.
Hey did you ever stop to think, how do we know when somebody stops being short and starts being tall?
Trump is befuddled by the concept of change over time
But he always seemed so derivative to me.
Does he really believe, perhaps, that there was only one virus, or perhaps five or six of the blighters, or fifteen, and – since the only thing he seems to know about viruses is that they don’t reproduce by themselves – the first few people who were infected were it as far as the pandemic is concerned? That, in order for more people to catch it, someone has to ship a virus from China and deliberately give it to someone?
He certainly seems to have no understanding (OK, I know I could reasonably leave it there, but I’d like to finish the thought) that viruses come by the trillion, use someone’s body to reproduce, and then use that person’s natural tendency to cough (or even just to breathe) to spread themselves to other people.
Since his brain has now succumbed to the dementia to the point he can no longer remember where his VP is at any moment, it would be utterly pointless to attempt to explain disease spread to him. He might also have the strange concept-block that I have seen in otherwise highly intelligent people, whereby the statistics of pandemic deaths – what is it now over there, 2,500 a day or thereabouts? – are assumed to be total deaths for the day, and that no-one is dying of anything else any more, instead of them being over and above the background rate.