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White House rules out cognitive test for Biden’s upcoming physical, saying he’s ‘sharp’
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Oldest president ever, but no need for a basic test any other 80 year old would get?
Even trump did one
https://www.vice.com/en/article/d34e4v/trump-cognitive-test-iq-intelligence
You could argue he was prepped and scored generously so he'd pass, and I'd agree that's incredibly likely. But at least he did it.
It's a bad look to claim Biden's age isn't even a concern. At least admit the effects of aging are real, and take an opportunity for the easy win of passing the test
This just makes it look like they're hiding something and is another one of many things that will depress turnout.
It's also a bad look to run one at all because "Sure he may have passed but it says something about his faculties that his staff thought it'd be necessary."
This is really a damned if you do damned if you don't situation... we were all in middleschool once and know that the playground bully will use it regardless of the outcome.
Republicans will complain no matter what, who cares what they say.
But lots of people who don't want trump, aren't sure about Biden. They would be reassured that he took a test, and most of them understand that at 80 years old, it's a concern for everyone.
So Biden saying it's not even a possible concern...
Just makes it seem like we're being lied to. Because it's a concern for everyone even a decade younger than Biden, and he's about to run for the highest political office in America.
Hell, it's hard to find anyone over 70 that shouldn't have one just to keep a driver's license
These cognitive tests are the kind given to measure the onset of dementia when you suspect there is some sort of cognitive deficiency. This isn’t something you give senior adults just for funsies, doing unnecessary medical testing is not ethical, and it’s not some difficult test. Seriously, there’s questions where it’s connect the dots 1->A->2->B->3… and draw a clock with a specific time represented. It’s not a difficult test, and that’s the point.
You do it when there are other signs of dementia which Biden HAS NOT DISPLAYED in any sense.
Senior Citizen?
That's usually 62, 65 if people are being generous...
Biden will be 20 years older than that while president if he wins the next term.
Like, imagine if someone put off prostate checks for 20 years because "they didn't need it".
Aging is something that happens to all of us if we're lucky enough
Biden isn't Superman.
Nice disingenuous choice comparing a routine test that can detect something otherwise invisible to a measurement test used to view progression of an already suspected condition.
(Also, as more evidence you’re probably out of touch on the usefulness of the assessment, the term senior citizen isn’t the current term used, as it’s viewed as out of style and patronizing by members of that group. Senior adult itself is preferential to senior citizen while also declining in use and older adult seems more likely to be the current preferred vernacular by group members.)