Take many of the precautions recommended at the time. He would have taken that if he’d revealed a positive and canceled the debate - that would have been no different.

But there would have been no complaints about him canceling. You going to sit here honestly, knowing dem emphasis on not having gatherings - the way they held only drive up rallies, the abuse Biden took for hunkering down in his basement, etc - and say that dems would have attacked Trump for a decision not to debate while Covid positive?

Not a chance. They’d have said things like “well at least he was honest about his test and canceled the debate, but he’s still a dumb orange fuck for catching the thing with all his rallies, his maskless rose garden ceremonies…”. I’m not saying he wouldn’t have been criticized, which he was as it played out, but not if he’d tested positive before and postponed the debate.