Trump has tested positive for COVID-19 less than one month before the US election. What will this mean for the politics surrounding the upcoming election and could this revelation play for or against Trump’s faltering campaign? ( Trump has also received a kind of ‘cocktail’ of medication in response to contracting the virus, not all of which is available to the common American citizen. In the spirit of Right to Try, should this accelerate clinician’s access to beneficial drugs rather than just waiting for a vaccine? And are lockups and the wait for a vaccine just making people’s health worse? ( We discuss last night’s budget and our sudden emergence as a big-State social democratic country with a small state low(er) tax revenue base. Will this Keynesian but pro-business budget lift us out of recession, or is it time to look at productivity? ( Culture picks this week include Musical label, Cryo Chamber; Aeschylus’ play, The Eumenides; and a two-part TV series by Billy Ray, The Comey Rule. (   Show notes: “Effect of calcifediol (Vitamin D treatment; M Castillo, et al https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960076020302764?fbclid=IwAR0Cl-D-Qx9g7YqbesGxjzQYGJ7-o5s7VY144QDyqLpHRZ4ffPTKXIlpoko   Is it wrong if I ask for the same?; Tyler Cowen https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2020/10/is-it-wrong-if-i-ask-for-the-same.html   Donald Trump takes zinc. Maybe you should too; Allysia Finley https://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/the-wall-street-journal/donald-trump-takes-zinc-maybe-you-should-too/news-story/79c7e91c0476d0f44e3dd62cbdea3f02   Why Human Challenge Trials Will Be Necessary to Get a Coronavirus Vaccine; Alex Tabarrok https://nationalinterest.org/blog/coronavirus/why-human-challenge-trials-will-be-necessary-get-coronavirus-vaccine-152786   All the president's medicine: How doctors are treating Donald Trump; Sascha Pezenik, Sony Salzman and Dr. Divya Chhabra https://abcnews.go.com/Health/presidents-medicine-doctors-treating-donald-trump/story?id=73423761   Debt To Hit $2.05 Trillion, 60 Years To Pay Off; IPA https://ipa.org.au/ipa-today/debt-to-hit-2-05-trillion-60-years-to-pay-off   Culture Picks: Musical label, Cryo Chamber https://www.cryochamberlabel.com/   Play, The Eumenides, written by Aeschylus https://www.ancient.eu/The_Eumenides/   ‘Ah, how miserable! Three New Oresteias’; Emily Wilson, LRB https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v42/n19/emily-wilson/ah-how-miserable   TV series by Billy Ray, The Comey Rule https://www.stan.com.au/watch/the-comey-rule?gclsrc=aw.ds&ds_rl=1263226&gclid=CjwKCAjwq_D7BRADEiwAVMDdHt6ubXjhrdoUrrt45l3kabCA6giFROEhPY2VgHiqr7CE97modqG0QRoCXqoQAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds