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posted by takyon on Friday October 02 2020, @05:25AM   Printer-friendly
from the very-busy-contact-tracers dept.

[20201002_054327 UTC: Added c|net link and quote.--martyb]

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1311892190680014849

Tonight, @FLOTUS and I tested positive for COVID-19. We will begin our quarantine and recovery process immediately. We will get through this TOGETHER!

A report from c|net adds:

White House physician Dr. Sean Conley said in a memorandum late Thursday that the president and first lady were "both well at this time, and they plan to remain at home within the White House during their convalescence."

The announcement of the president and first lady's positive coronavirus test results came just hours after the revelation that top White House aide Hope Hicks had tested positive for the virus as well. The president indicated in an earlier tweet that he and the first lady had begun the quarantine process.

Hope Hicks, who has been working so hard without even taking a small break, has just tested positive for Covid 19. Terrible! The First Lady and I are waiting for our test results. In the meantime, we will begin our quarantine process!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 2, 2020

President Donald Trump tweets he and first lady Melania Trump test positive for Covid-19

Trump tests positive for COVID-19 after his adviser and confidant Hope Hicks tested positive for the coronavirus

c0lo adds: Dow futures plunge more than 500 points after Trump says he tested positive for coronavirus


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  • (Score: 2) by pipedwho on Friday October 02 2020, @06:40AM (6 children)

    by pipedwho (2032) on Friday October 02 2020, @06:40AM (#1059755)

    Run it a few more times and it'll spew out "how good's the cricket!".

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  • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Friday October 02 2020, @06:55AM (4 children)

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Friday October 02 2020, @06:55AM (#1059763) Journal

    Noooo! That'll break the unit tests.

    (besides, I never understood team sports that keeps on for days on a single match)

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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 02 2020, @08:53AM (3 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 02 2020, @08:53AM (#1059792)

      I had an acquaintance from "Straya" (as he liked to call it) that insisted that Test Cricket was the ultimate sport. It was the best test of strategy, teamwork, endurance, etc. man has ever produced. Then he spent weeks watching Olympic Ice Hockey, men's and women's, and Paralympic Sledge Hockey. All the matches of each. He was hooked. By the time the Stanley Cup Playoffs Conference Finals were getting ready to start, you were hard pressed to get him to watch cricket at all.

      • (Score: 4, Informative) by PiMuNu on Friday October 02 2020, @09:56AM (2 children)

        by PiMuNu (3823) on Friday October 02 2020, @09:56AM (#1059804)

        I believe that cricket, like gardening, is a great opportunity to sip on your favourite tipple while reading a book and/or listening to Radio 4. The sport is secondary.

        • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday October 02 2020, @10:28AM

          by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Friday October 02 2020, @10:28AM (#1059813) Journal

          Well, the crickets do belong in the garden, so I think you are onto something there.

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 02 2020, @09:22PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 02 2020, @09:22PM (#1060111)

          I would have agreed with you, because I've seen how half of my guests treat the Super Bowl and Stanley Cup Finals. But with him and many of his friends, the sport was definitely primary, as is the actual football/hockey game is for the other half of my guests at said parties.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 06 2020, @11:13PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 06 2020, @11:13PM (#1061438)

    For the non-Aussies here, that's that line the prime minister here gave when he was trying to distract everyone from his government's total inaction during the catastrophic bushfires last year. It was not long after the 'thoughts and prayers' brush-off he'd given earlier after he'd railroaded any effective relief funding.