How do you feel about injecting disinfectant into your bloodstream now, Donald?

I happened to be awake around 2:00 am last night, when it was released that the president of the United States had tested positive for COVID-19. And if I'm honest, I'm a little glad.

Not entirely because some (including myself) blame him for the over seven million Americans that have tested positive for the virus since the outbreak began and the 200,000 Americans that have died, but because now he'll have a personal connection to the pandemic ripping across our country. Now he'll know what we're up against.

I'm positive he'll have the best doctors in the country rallying around him making sure he'll be okay, just as I'm positive that (hopefully) some of his supporters that haven't been taking the proper precautions because of the president's downplay of the severity of the situation may take a step back and reassess the situation.

If the president of the United States can contract COVID-19, so can I

If the most important person in the country, with people having to be so careful around him, surrounded by the "best of the best" can still be in danger, maybe people across the country will start taking things more seriously. Put themselves into perspective that this can happen to anyone that isn't especially careful, and even can happen when you are.

Maybe they'll start wearing masks, as the president has dismissed them many times and contracted the virus.

Maybe they'll start social distancing and staying home in order not to spread the virus to others or contract it themselves.

Maybe. One can only hope.

Part of me hopes that Trump won't come out and downplay the severity of the virus once he has recovered

That would just undo all of the good things that him contracting the virus would inspire. As someone that's already had the virus and has been staying home and social distancing for the most part since the pandemic began, someone that's been doing their part for their friends, family, community, and country, I'm hoping that these other "Americans" will begin taking this crisis seriously.

And maybe the resident contracting the virus is the drastic thing that needed to happen.