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To: ArcadeQuarters
"Get this guy the best doctors and medication."

He's not going to get the "best doctors," he's going to get the most loyal and the most popular. He is a dead man walking.

There is a phenomenon called "celebrity care." It is almost always fatal.

James Garfield, the 20th president, was hit by two bullets, one a graze on his arm, the other breaking a rib and burying itself in the abdomen. He had a cloud of the finest doctors of the day, the "best in the country," and each of them probed and prodded him, sticking their filthy fingers in the bullet hole. (Consensus science of the time said that Lister's antiseptic methods were nonsense. Hmmm.)
Alexander Bell even showed up with a metal detecting device to see if he could locate the bullet. Bell blamed his failure on the bed springs underneath.

Thanks to the finest medical care, on the most important patient in the country, Garfield lasted over two months, lasting 78 days after he was shot, before dying of a massive infection.

Garfield was WAY more popular than Obiden. We are living in interesting times.

166 posted on 07/24/2022 12:07:38 PM PDT by jonascord (First rule of the Dunning-Kruger Club is that you do not know you are in the Dunning-Kruger club.)
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To: jonascord

Geo Washington’s demise wasn’t exactly attended to with the finest medical care available...or even with actual medical care to be honest, depending on your views of bloodletting (viewed in retrospect at least).


180 posted on 07/24/2022 1:39:26 PM PDT by one guy in new jersey
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To: jonascord

I’m still hoping for the best.


197 posted on 07/24/2022 10:38:34 PM PDT by ArcadeQuarters (Remember the 2020 backstabbers. No more RINOs ever!)
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