Trump's Disease(s)

When I first heard that Trump had tested positive for SARS-CoV-2, I had a series of reactions in rapid succession:

1. Serves him right.


2. Personally despicable as he may be, he's a human being, and I wouldn't wish this disease, or dying of it, on any human being.


3. It's always bad for the country when a President dies, or is incapacitated, in office.


4. But I hope he suffers just enough to gain some appreciation for other people's suffering.


5. Who am I kidding? No amount of suffering in the world would cause Donald Trump to connect his own experience with anybody else's. Other people are not real people, with thoughts and feelings and rights of their own; they're game pieces. Either they're his pieces to be moved around for his benefit, or they're enemy pieces to be destroyed. There's no realistic chance of him "learning a lesson" from this.


6. That said, if he gets through this and comes out the other end without much suffering, he will have "learned the lesson" that COVID-19 is no big deal, just as he said all along, and those who said otherwise were just trying to make him look bad for political purposes, and those who allegedly died of it were wimps and woopsies and big girls' blouses and Democrats. So I guess I am rooting, not for him to suffer, but for him to be visibly weakened in a way nobody can disguise.


7. Except it's generally not good for the country for the President to be "visibly weakened".


8. Unless that means he's subject to checks and balances from the other two branches, in which case it is a good thing.


9. I'm so confused....