We should all be sending good wishes for a speedy recovery to the President, First Lady, and the more than seven million Americans who have been stricken by the coronavirus. However, Donald Trump's contracting COVID-19 was medically and karmically inevitable. You can't walk up to a rattlesnake, try and pick it up, and be surprised when you get bitten.
Despite the rapidly growing number of Republicans in Trump's orbit who are contracting the virus, including his campaign manager, press secretary, Chris Christie, and former aide Kellyanne Conway, the president and Republicans continue to deny the seriousness of the pandemic and put others they come into contact with at risk of contracting the virus. Rather than accepting contracting COVID-19 as a teachable moment for the country (and most importantly his supporters) and educate us on how communicative the disease is and how to avoid getting it, Trump tweeted: "Don't be afraid of COVID...I feel better than I did 20 years ago."
The president is a member of a high risk group for complications from COVID. He is a 74-year-old obese male. His doctor says he is "not out of the woods yet," so it's doubtful that he feels better than he did two decades ago. More importantly, he and Republicans continue to put others at risk as they set an example of denying a reality which has infected more than 7 million Americans and killed more than 200,000 of us; with no cure, or national plan to combat it in sight.