Russian roulette comes to mind this morning for several reasons you might expect. Everyone around the acting president has been spinning one cartridge in that revolver for months.
There will be more.
White House residence staff ‘nervous’ after Trumps test positive for Covid-19, source says
The acting president himself is now symptomatic. How symptomatic?
NBC News national security and intelligence correspondent Ken Dilanian did not mention “covid fog” directly in his TV appearance within the hour. He did, however, express concern that the man with the nuclear “football” containing missile launch codes may now be impaired.
Stat News reports that up to one-third of people who had Covid-19 report lingering neurological and psychological symptoms:
Even people who were never sick enough to go to a hospital, much less lie in an ICU bed with a ventilator, report feeling something as ill-defined as “Covid fog” or as frightening as numbed limbs. They’re unable to carry on with their lives, exhausted by crossing the street, fumbling for words, or laid low by depression, anxiety, or PTSD.
The man with access to that briefcase, the man charged with making clear-eyed, life-and-death decisions on a moment’s notice, now risks long-term covid fog.
Not that he wasn’t foggy before.
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