Just got off the phone with a friend who called to ask, "What does this mean?" My reply: "Who the hell knows?" That's how this whole year has been. That's how this whole administration has been. One of the nine thousand things some of us dislike about Trump is how volatile everything is with him around. Things keep happening that make you say, "This has never happened before!" No precedents. No historical guidelines. And not much logic. Who'd have thought that a presidential candidate who bragged about planting unwelcome kisses on women and wanting to grab them by their privates would cause a lot of self-described Christians to say, "That's our guy!"?
It's been that way so long that a lot of us wake up and turn to the news to answer the constant question, "What's he done now?" There's too much Karma in this newest twist to even begin to unpack it. The man who mocked Joe Biden for wearing masks has tested positive for COVID-19 and so has his wife.
Or have they? I'm reticent to believe anything this man says.
My friend on the phone said, "I don't how to react." I told him, "You don't have to have a reaction now. You can wait a few days and see what kind of additional twists 'n' turns this story takes." It goes one way if tomorrow they test again and say "False positives!" It goes another if Trump and the First Lady make miraculous recoveries and yet another if they get sicker or if one of them gets sicker. And yet another depending on who else who's been around them gets it. And yet another if they infected others…
Do they cancel the debates? Who knows? This has never happened before.
Does this affect the ballots? Who knows? This has never happened before.
Whatever your reaction is, wait. It may be different tomorrow. Something will be. And it will never have happened before.