You’ll all hear the big news of the day before you read this, so I won’t repeat it here. This diary is, instead, an invitation to discuss how to absorb this news without going insane.
I suspect you’re all at least familiar with the concept of Schrödinger’s cat. If not, the Wikipedia page about it is an acceptable primer. It’s worth considering because we find ourselves in the same situation.
The White House says the President has COVID. The White House also lies constantly. The President is in isolation, and so we cannot observe him taking a test for COVID. Accordingly, as the rampant speculation on the Internets attest, the President both has and does not have COVID.
Thus, like the cat in a box that is both alive and dead, I present to you Schrödinger's Trump. Now, how do we cope with it?