Trump Contracting Covid, Expecting...What?

 'WHAT DID HE EXPECT'? is, at this point, a perfectly reasonable question, asked without any intended insult. For that matter, what did his generally virally dismissive supporters, and his MAGA rally attendees expect? That none of them and the president would experience the consequences of his and their actions? To call Trump an "idiot" and to assert that he deserves what he got are both, although arguably true, unnecessary. President Trump is perhaps the most verbally vicious, hateful person I, or anyone else, has ever witnessed. Perhaps now he'll quit making fun of Joe Biden for wearing a mask, quit saying that wearing a mask is not necessarily important, quit ignoring basic science, arguing with his scientific advisers, quit casing enormous death and disease by ignoring the virus. Better than chastising the president, better  to say a speedy recovery to you, Mr. President, and leave it at that. But he, and we as a nation have simply got to start taking Covid 19 seriously, instead of half seriously. Just yesterday, even as the virus was infecting him, the president said, again, that the pandemic is almost entirely "behind us". That, of course, is nonsense, a blatant lie, as the numbers keep going up in one state and one country after another.Just like he knew early on that the virus is series but lied to the American people about it, he knows now, and how, that that the pandemic is not behind us, and yet he continue to downplay in a lame, disgusting attempt to avoid responsibility for it, when responsibility for its severity in the United States is clearly his. He called it a hoax, said it was no more serious than the ordinary flu, said it would vanish by  Easter, then said it would vanish by summer, and continued holding his famous mass MAGA rallies with huge crowds packed closely together, not wearing masks. The question now is, how many hundreds or thousands of people other than himself have been infected by his behavior? How many thousands of Americans have been infected and will die because of the MAGA rallies, and the arrogant stupidity of having them during a deadly nationally disastrous epidemic? Will he spend two weeks in quarantine, then go right back out on the campaign trail and continue having the rallies? Will he , if reelected, become serious about Covid 19, and at long last establish a strong, coordinated, effective national response to this horrible catastrophe? Will he, if he loses the election, continue having the MAGA rallies, one after another, until all of his supporters are either sick or dead? This sounds humorous, but its easy to imagine a defeated Trump, out of office and back on the street, having MAGA rallies nearly everyday, pursuing his campaign to get reelected and defeat Biden in 2024. Using the word "contract" to describes Trump's relationship with Covid 19 somehow seems strangely apropos: our transactional president, doing everything necessary to put himself at the greatest possible risk, then, getting it actualized. Almost like signing a contract. Now, the dreadful specter of Trump refusing to concede the election if he loses it, and refusing to leave the White house, and throwing the nation into chaos and violent controversy isn't even the worst case scenario, bad as it is. It is easy to imagine Trump recovering without symptoms, back on his feet, out of quarantine. fully loaded for bear, using his recovery to further downplay the virus, and using his election victory or defeat to spread the virus even further, either in or out of office. We should, at this point, be prepared to expect anything. What did he expect?