Dmitry Peskov, a top aide and spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin, has been hospitalized with the Covid-19 coronavirus while Putin works remotely away from the Kremlin. --- I am looking forward to the next wall poster of Putin riding a horse or shooting arrows. Hoping he doesn't get sick. Question is, did he OR Peskov wear a mask while talking to each other.

I see that most of us have totally forgotten about the BIG Russian Collusion scam the Dems pulled. I can't get a single response on this thread and I consider that OK. There WAS no Russian collusion so we need to focus on our present difficulties. Here's hoping you all stay well.

He seems like the dangerous type who would not wear a mask if that was custom with the other.

Hope he is well too.

Putin looks fit and healthy ..Of course I don’t know his medical history but if he was considered vulnerable to covid he would not put himself at any risk.

Thanks ladies -- i think so much time is spent on Kim Un of north korea, and we forgot all about Russia. After UK's Boris Johnson, the prime minister almost died of covid, i think about other leaders and what they face.

Putin is a tough ol' bastard.

Lol rock I just checked his age .. 67 .... I thought he was much younger ., must be all the vodka .... and snow .

I would have said the same, if he were 27.


Approximately 6 weeks ago, Putin was filmed
by a few Russian television networks,
shaking hands with a gentleman, walking
shoulder to shoulder, then went to spend
the entire day in conference with the gentleman.

The next day, the gentleman tested positive
for the Wuhan virus.

A more recent exposure, would indeed
put Putin at greater risk.

Communist leaders of every ilk will of course have the absolute best of care, or else, out the window you go. Their rivals however may not be so fortunate with their medical outcomes.
Don't worry, the propaganda departments will make everything OK, no matter what.

Vladimir Putin has a big personality cult much like that of Yoseph Vissarionovich Stalin . Putin's propaganda team makes sure that his press conferences are scripted and well maintained. Putin answers with composure mostly or almost all time. But there has been an unscripted incident where a woman on streets in Leningrad asked him why her monthly pay is just 10,000 rubles while Putin's pay is almost 30 times. She informs him that its very hard for her to make ends meet and there are many like her. Putin just looks down embarrassed and tells her he is working on it and situation will improve. He avoids her and tries to walks away. But the woman stops him and still gets a selfie with him.

Vladimir Putin is not a man of steel or an invincible man. He is a man of words and he makes sure he not only gets support from his own people but from whole world as a leader. Maybe he will not let go off his tough man personality which he reflects to the world. He may get infected as well.

Vladimir Putin is not a communist leader. His Party is United Russia and its a reactionary party with nationalist sentiments. Communist Party of Russian federation is the rival of Putin's Party.

Who actually gets sick at top levels of governments anywhere, is difficult to be sure of, since political concerns of various kinds tend to limit how much straight information we get about anyone.

The more secretive the government, and the more limited average peoples access to the leadership there is, the less likely we'll ever know who's sick and who isn't.

Frankly, I suspect that a combination of behind the scenes protection, and unreported work by supporters of a given leader who pretends not to care about COVID is what keeps them well. Not their bravado, and it certainly doesn't prove anyone's claims that COVID is an exaggerated scam. Or that anyone who doesn't get sick is "tougher" than those who do.

Shouldn't everybody?


So what if he does?
Do you think it's an automatic death sentence? Or guarantee they'll become debilitated?
Seems most people that get it have mild symptoms and get better.
But just like any other disease there is a "chance" of greater severity.

And he's a very rich "world leader."
He's never going to be sitting in a hospital waiting room for hours and told to go away and come back if it gets worse, or have to wait weeks for medical supply shelves to be restocked.


Not sure that would have mattered.
I mean I went to a fast food place the other day and noticed the lady behind the counter handle several people's change wearing the same gloves, and I saw the guy at the drive through window wearing the mask under his nose, he changed his gloves, and then preceded to rub his finger under his nose like an itch.

I've seen people go into stores and put on their masks, leave the store, take off their mask, put it in a pocket, then go next door to a store and put their mask back on.

So let's say they wore masks...did they use the same pen? Exchange any paper?
Sanitize their hands then put their covid covered masks on then shake hands?

Gloves and masks aren't magic covid killing weapons.

Other than that, back in February the CDC stated it's not a question of "if," but "when."
My understanding is the whole "lockdown" was/is about "flattening the curve" so the number of people infected didn't inundate hospitals.
It's not too keep people from ever contracting it, but to manage its spread so health care can keep up.
I know the hospitals in my state are at under 44% capacity.

So IMO let the "world leaders" get it. Wear masks, don't. Watch them recover. Or not. I think it would be far more in the public interest for people to see those people they have to watch and listen to daily go through it (because again, it's a question of "when" not "if").

I just have not seen Putin on the news for awhile.but there is a lot of news from the COUNTRY..
Coronavirus has become a cascading crisis for Putin. In March, oil prices collapsed after Saudi Arabia launched a price war against Russia, its onetime ally in energy markets.

The country is now ranked second in the world for confirmed cases, behind the US, according to Johns Hopkins University data. Moscow is the worst hit city in Russia, with 121,301 cases.

Add to that two different hospital fires , one last Saturday and one Tuesday May 12. people died. the fires were caused by faulty ventilators. the ventilators were manufactured in Russia. I'm still waiting to see a news conference by Vladimir himself In Person.

yes, this is copy and paste -- but relevant ! however, its from the Washington Post so a bit iffy.

Globally, Russia now is second only to the United States in the number of citizens infected, and many suspect underreporting, especially regarding mortality rates.