How is Trump testing positive for Coronavirus not on the frontpage?

> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. [...] If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

It's being discussed on other sites and channels. It's not intellectually gratifying. Besides the market drop, it might not even be major news.

I find it weird how this can't be talked about on HN. This could have profound implications for the country, economy, and upcoming election. The President has been in contact with so many people over the past few days that many senior officials in the government could be infected.

These aren’t the normal political shenanigans, this is legitimate news and should not be filtered.

One consequence of this is that duplicates of the story keep getting posted. The original based on sharing the President's tweet appears to be this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24659207

"If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic." is probably correct, but, the other question related to that one is: Did they cover it on TV news?

The news broke overnight, when most print deadlines passed. It'll likely appear on the front page in tomorrow's papers, if that's what you're worried about. Otherwise, news organizations worldwide are currently covering it.

Because users keep flagging it. That's really all there is to it.

I felt the same way when Chadwick Boseman died.

Nobody is mentioning that Joe Biden took the day off today. I wonder if he is infected as well.

Does anyone see the bot attack on Trumps Twitter account? That is interesting. They are posting Satanist images with captions in the Aramaic language.

If you work at Twitter you might want to get to work and stop this state sanctioned attack on his account.