The pandemic has exposed so many crushing injustices. This is the most unequal recession ever. Millions lack health insurance. A rolling catastrophe in terms of testing access.

In so many ways, Trump getting infected throws this into even starker relief:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/10/02/wish-trump-well-then-get-right-back-work-removing-him/
You'd think Trump and all those around him would seize this moment to apologize to the country for their monstrous failures, now that those failures have deeply invaded the White House. How about showing some remorse right about now?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/10/02/wish-trump-well-then-get-right-back-work-removing-him/
Here @HeerJeet goes for this balance as well: The news can elicit sympathy on a human level but it builds the case against Trump.

"A president contracting a disease thanks in large part to his own rashness is a political fact as well as a personal one." https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/trump-covid-positive-election/
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