President Biden tested positive for COVID-19.

I know that COVID isn’t regarded to be a serious disease if you’re vaccinated and reasonably healthy, but I had mental fogginess for about 2 months after my infection.

I mostly seemed outwardly okay during that time, but it was a tremendous effort to just do the bare minimum.

I hope he ducks out if there’s even a fraction of those types of symptoms.

A roommate of mine was down for almost two months. He still has some mental lapses and foggy moments. That was over three years ago.
- That sounds completely awful. He has my sympathy.
- Same happened to my wife. Had long haul covid and now has a very hard time learning new things and retaining information for short periods. It’s been hard but she has learned to use better note Tekkno and task management apps to help.
- Isn’t this how planet of the apes story goes?
It is serious long term for 1/5 people.
COVID being no big deal is just a lie society agreed on for convenience.
I know that COVID isn’t regarded to be a serious disease if you’re vaccinated and reasonably healthy
Bruh...
At 81 years old, life is a serious medical condition.
People of that age die of "little" shit all the time.
And remember he's saying he just tested positive, it's not why he's been like this for at least the last year it's that he's going to be even worse through the election.
- This is the thing with old age that I think most people won't understand until it happens to them. The body's ability to deal with those things severely deteriorates with age. You can be peppy and active one day, and on death's door the next. COVID has proven to be particularly bad for the elderly, but every "minor" ailment or injury is much more serious, and possibly life threatening given the wrong mix of complications. Biden has probably the best chance being in the position he is, and testing positive isn't the same as being symptomatic, but he's by no means free and clear. It'll be interesting to see how this turns out.
I have two young, vaccinated and otherwise healthy family members who lost their ability to work or even walk for more than 100m outside their house for 6+ months. Covid can be extremely serious even now.
- I’m 42, vaxxed, and what passes for reasonably healthy in the US (which is to say, all kinds of fucked but still technically able to work). I had covid this week and at the peak I actually needed help standing up after kneeling to rummage through a drawer.
I didn't get the mental fogginess but even so, I really haven't ever felt that I fully recovered. I used to be an Ironman when it came to getting sick but now it's like I get knocked down every few weeks with some flu-like symptoms.
- That happened to me. I got COVID pre-vaccine, and for years after that I got every bug going, including multiple COVID infections. After time this seems to have passed. I have now gone one year without COVID, which is a miracle. I feel like my first infection buggered up my immune system. I think I have finally recovered now. I wish you the best of luck.
- Maybe you're just getting old?
I couldn't finish sentences or remember common words when I needed them for about 9 months.
- Oh good so more of the same
more than likely he is going to get the antivrals and such they would only used for hospitalized right off the bat. like paxlovid.
- You don't need to be hospitalized to get all the antivirals. In fact, that's the whole thing paxlovid is supposed to prevent. Anyone with risk factors can take paxlovid, and it's very effective at preventing severe covid. It should be started as soon as possible, not waiting until someone's already hospitalized. Even in unvaccinated people, if taken early in the course, is 90% effective at preventing severe disease.
  Remdesivir is the one that's generally only for hospitalized patients, though even that can be used pre hospital too.
  Anyways point is, if you get covid, and have risk factors for severe covid, call your doctor or urgent care to get paxlovid to take if you can, especially if you're unvaccinated.
  And yeah between getting diagnosed quickly, getting paxlovid I'm sure, and being immunized, Biden will very likely be fine.
  Edit: yes he started paxlovid https://www.npr.org/2024/07/17/nx-s1-5043814/biden-covid
- Paxlovid isn't just for hospitals, and for a time it was available for free with any insurance and the barest "medical need." I got COVID in 2023 and got Paxlovid just by asking the doctor nicely.
  (And despite that, my symptoms were awful and it took two months to fully recover. )
- My experience has been that the antivirals are pretty easy to get just for a regular case. If you catch it, don't assume you can't get them. But do contact your doctor early, as there is a time window. Better to get on them early when you're not feeling that badly than wait until you think you're sick enough to justify it.
80 year Olds tend to die from covid. Of the things to be concerned about, his mental sharpness is obviously not even a requirement.
- They're going to shove the entire nation's supply of steroids and antivirals down his throat
- Old people die at higher rates to covid, but when fully up to date on vaccines, the rate isn't very high to begin with.
I know that COVID isn’t regarded to be a serious disease
Generally by capitalists who want their workforce to keep making them money.
By the millions who actually get it and are left chronically ill (or who don't survive at all), many who aren't "reasonably healthy" yet don't deserve any less consideration - not so much.
Just to make things worse, aphasia is one of the most common type of long covid neurological effects
- It also exacerbates mental decline in elderly patients. You can also lose 3-9 IQ points with each infection. It stays in the brain for long after the initial infection and disrupts the brain-blood-barrier. It's honestly (still) pretty scary: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMe2400189
I’m guessing you didn’t watch the debate.
He'll be fine, and he's not going anywhere. I wish people would drop it.
I'd vote for his corpse if it will keep Trump out . It doesn't even matter.
- Good then anyone can replace him and we'll all vote for them instead
Damn, I can't imagine 2 months of mental fogginess... I'd probably lose my job if that happened to me.
We also need to take into account the guy is close to 90. He’s part of the high risk group.
Edit: Honest mistake, I legit thought he was older than 81 and closer to 90.
- 81 is an old enough age that you can make your point without just adding basically an entire decade to his age.
- He's not close to 90, he's 81.

Exit strategy?

dies
- God Almighty has decided.
I really hope if for no other reason that I spent a fair bit of time in 2020 telling my friends that Biden wouldn't make it all the way to the end of his term. I wish the guy well but I love being right.
- You might need to see a therapist.
- You're not right you fucking moron, so much so that he's literally running for pres again, that's how not right you are you fucking idiot.
  spent a fair bit of time in 2020 telling my friends that Biden wouldn’t make it all the way to the end of his term.
  god that's pathetic, a fair bit of time? You just hounding your peeps begging them to listen to your Biden-will-die-in-office theories? Lord knows they know just how fucking braindead you are.

[T]he President will be self-isolating in accordance with CDC guidance for symptomatic individuals

Is that still the guideline? I know several people who have gotten COVID recently and just went about like normal, like people used to do when they were sick pre-pandemic. I told one of them they were morons, but they claimed you don't have to isolate any more since the CDC changed their guidelines.

You're supposed to isolate until you don't have symptoms,however long that takes.
- It's actually worse than that. You're supposed to isolate until you're not feverish and your symptoms are improving. Which is not really at all related to when you can spread it.
https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2024/p0301-respiratory-virus.html
When people get sick with a respiratory virus, the updated guidance recommends that they stay home and away from others. For people with COVID-19 and influenza, treatment is available and can lessen symptoms and lower the risk of severe illness. The recommendations suggest returning to normal activities when, for at least 24 hours, symptoms are improving overall, and if a fever was present, it has been gone without use of a fever-reducing medication.
So yes, the guidance is that you isolate until you are fever free and other symptoms are at least improving. The major change is that they don't recommend a fixed length of isolation anymore.
- Supposed to mask and increase hygiene steps for 5 days after ending isolation as well.
Girlfriend had it couple weeks ago. She stayed at home. Missed some important events too. But she rather do that than risk spreading it even more or infecting someone at risk.
- Please tell your girlfriend thank you for being considerate of others.
His job is to meet many important people throughout the day - day after day. It’s probably applicable here.
All of those people are lying (or just stupid) assholes, and are spreading disease throughout our society.
Who do you think is better briefed on cdc guidelines?
- Probably not the person I called a moron.

It would be pretty funny if Trump survived a bullet, but Biden dies from turbo flu.

Funny isn't the word I would choose.
- What's comedy without a bit of tragedy?
- Hilarious?
We live in the Shit Timeline™
Biden will die, but only after the DNC shoves him in via the remote vote they're pushing, then we're stuck with Kamala instead of having the chance for someone like Warren to step up...
I wish we weren't so misogynistic and obsessed with name recognition... I think she would have been great if the old folks didn't just vote the name they know who's been around forever in the primaries in 16...
- Yes because picking Anyone over the current VP as the candidate signals you're doing so well.
  Who honestly thinks they'd pick Anyone but Harris? Again, it's all fan fic that Anyone but those two will be the nominee.
Depends on the timing tbh... If it was maybe 2-4 weeks out from the election, it could potentially galvanize Democratic voters and more people could end up voting for Harris because of it.

He is gonna get the same or better treatment as Trump when he got it. You know, the stuff that wasn’t available for us regular people.

You mean Paxlovid? That's widely available, although it may not have been when Trump got it.
- That stuff is wonderful. Everything tastes like metal for a while, but it made me not die or suffer long term effects (that I know of).
- You mean Paxlovid? That's widely available
  Cries in Canadian
- Transylvania? Goodness no. They make it in a factory in New Jersey now.

Well that may be it since he said he'd step aside for a medical condition.

But since COVID isn't all that threatening in most cases I doubt he'll consider that a condition.

- This was the most memorable thing about covid for me besides the fatigue. I rarely get headaches but it gave me the worst headache of my life for a solid week.
- It affects different people in different ways.
  I had zero headache, a runny nose (but only my right nostril), was a bit fatigued, and thirsty like a man in the desert for a 1,000 days. These lasted 3 days, the mild fatigue about a week.
  Hell of a birthday week that was!
- Plus the fatigue was horrible and lasted for weeks.
This seems like coincidental timing to me. He would definitely have something more severe than just COVID.
- I don't know, especially considering the effects of COVID on older folks and long COVID, he may be willing to use this as his step-down excuse.
- True.
since COVID isn't all that threatening in most cases I doubt he'll consider that a condition.
In the case of an 81yo with one of the most stressful jobs in the world, though? You bet your ass it is!

This spring, i had once a bit fever, nauseous, a little collapse too. After a day it was over, then a rebellious belly for a week. I was often sooner tired, less energy for a while after that. My sis, living with her husband, had the same. That was the new covid, right?

I think so. Myself, wife and kids all had the same thing, and tested positive for covid

Here's the "health issue" next comes the ending of the re-election. I really thought the cycle would have been a little slower.

The DNC is planning of formally nominating the democratic ticket on August 5, which does not leave much time to pick a replacement (even if the replacement is vice president Harris).
The August 5 date was picked back when everyone thought the nomination was a mere formality, in order to comply with an August 7 deadline from Ohio. Ohio, for its part, has pushed the deadline back to September, but I don't think the DNC wants to risk a ballot challenge making it's way to the Supreme Court.
- can’t they just slap a big mustache on obama and make him run again
- even if the replacement is vice president Harri
  I know that's who it would be, but I'd still be majorly disappointed.
They have to speed the fuck up. Compared to most other countries, US election campaigns take forever

🫡

I don't know whats more entertaining, The Boys finale or the actual election.

Didn't the VP's husband have COVID?

Most people have probably had COVID by now.

I heard he fucked a pangolin with Mickey mouse in the back of a limo

Jesus christ! If Biden drops out we might trully be fucked now, specially now that it's clear as day that Kennedy is working with Trump to take votes away from Biden in order to help Trump win. It would take a fucking miracle to get someone with so much energy and sufficiently known to stand against Trump.

Sorry for my pesism, but I really see things very bleak come November.

Literally any other democrat is polling better than Biden lmao
- Probably not Bob Menendez.
- And Kennedy isn't taking any Democrat away.
- I don't understand the down voting when this is factually correct.
- That's my hope, but the need isn't to beat Biden, it's to unify the beat Trump
Almost all the mainstream criticism against Biden is that he's too old and bumbling. Run ANYONE else and all that criticism goes away immediately.
It would take a fucking miracle to get someone with so much energy and sufficiently known to stand against Trump.
Bhahahahahahahahahahahahahaha, oh my gods 🤣 I needed a good laugh, thanks random bootlicker...
- Bootlicker your mom, I fucking hate Biden, but I'll be dammed if Trump wins. I'll vote for a turd over Trump if it keeps him out of office.

I'm just gonna see how real y'all are: I hope he drops out because of it

I’m just gonna see how real y’all are
What does this mean? Can someone explain?
I'm downvoting because of the whiny prefix. Not because I don't hope it kicks his ass
Downvoted but not taking part in your silly poll

And just earlier he said he could drop out if a medical issue came up. Maybe this is it.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/17/us/politics/biden-health-election-drop-out.html

Here's a tweet from after the notorious debate where he messed up, and claimed afterwards that he had a cold:

https://x.com/pot8um/status/1806520057003999491

I mostly don't want him to drop out, but after that debate performance, covid was the first thing I thought of.

You're being downvoted, but "muh odds": https://electionbettingodds.com/President2024.html
- What a reliable source you have there
- Those odds seem unrealistic but yeah. 538's odds are much better for him.
I've been posting for weeks that he's gonna back out because of a medical issue, which they will not disclose fully.
Historians will find years later that he had a contagious case of notgonnawinatall, compounded by inflammation of the opeds.

(chanting) Step down! Step down!

Thanks for your contribution, Donald
- We've all seen the debate. Biden was already losing in the polls before October 7th. Then the whole rift over Palestime happened, the disastrous debate, Trump getting shot at. It's a train wreck and Democrats are in denial about their own chances. I want Trump to lose which means I want the Democrats to put up their best candidates and not some frail old guy. That debate should have them panicking. He shouldn't have run at all. He should have made more work of setting up his successor in the first place.
- Get a clue
  Pelosi privately told Biden polls show he cannot win and will take down the House; Biden responded with defensiveness
  Sorry for the Apple News link

now he is going to hide inside and not do any campaigns or tough interviews until the DNC nomination.

This explains the debate, it was COVID! That's why his voice was strange, people were saying he seemed like he was sick.

So the 81 year old president has been lying about COVID since the debate?
Or are you saying the presidential doctor Biden picked is this incompetent they just ran a COVID test?
I mean. He did an interview right after the debate, he talked about an illness but gave like three conflicting answers, and none of them mentioned COVID.
- I'm saying it is more likely they knew he had COVID but thought cancelling / delaying would be a bad political move, and now are announcing it because it might achieve the opposite, concern and understanding.
  This also might be a prelude to him stepping down in favor of another candidate or Harris.
  So I think it's more likely it was known, and this is a calculated release of information.
He shouldn't test positive by now if he has it during the debate. Unless he was taking paxlovid and this is the typical rebound. I don't know.