Posted on 03/06/2020 1:13:59 PM PST by Kaslin
RUSH: Have you noticed, by the way, have you noticed that the Democrats and the media criticism of the Trump administration on coronavirus is starting to vanish? If you havent noticed that, pay special attention, because theyre starting to back off it. The Democrats, the media screaming about the governments lack of response to the coronavirus, theyre backing off of this, and Im gonna tell you why theyre backing off of it. Theyre backing off of it because its not becoming the pandemic in this country that they were all expecting.
And Ive got an audio sound bite here of a famous Democrat talking about what an opportunity the coronavirus is or was for the Democrats, for those of you who have doubted me about that.
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RUSH: The jobs report, the wage increases.Wages are up 3%. Job growth has just blown through all expectations for February. Unemployment is back down to 3.5%, 200-and-some-odd-thousand brand-new jobs, 273,000 new jobs, and the best anybody could say is (sniveling), Well, that was before the coronavirus hit. What effect is the coronavirus gonna have? You wait. The Democrats are backing off of this, because the way the Trump administrations reacting to it is reasonable and intelligent, and theyre trying to talk down the panic about it.
Theyre doing it. Trump was great last night in the town hall he had on the Fox News Channel.
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RUSH: I mentioned at the top of the program that I have noticed and its abundantly clear that the media and Democrats are really, really toning down their criticism of the Trump administrations reaction in dealing with the coronavirus situation.
Now, there are reasons for this. There are substantive reasons for this. First among them is somebody woke up and realized that the Democrat Party was looking awful by attempting to politicize this because the Democrat Party was setting themselves up where they benefit if you get sick. The more people that get sick, the better for the Democrat Party.
Thats not a tenable position for them. They decided to stand back. They dont need to talk people into any kind of reaction. Whatever happens is going to be obvious. Theyre rolling the dice here that Trump and his administration are going to blow it. But they have decided to stop trying to coax people into thinking that its been blown beforehand.
They also realized, by the way, that the Trump administration does not blow these things. And you think back, weve had a number of natural disasters since the Trump administration began in January of 2017. Can you think of one of them that people still remember as being a debacle?
Remember a hurricane, remember an earthquake, remember tornadoes, can you remember any natural disaster where the Trump administration is thought to have really blown it, meaning the recovery, the aftermath? No, you cant, because we havent blown it. Trump himself is a fixer. Trump himself is a builder. Trump himself is somebody that deals with these kinds of crises, with this kind of daily chaos. Hes been doing it his entire life in his primary business.
So Democrats are looking at this, and theyre understanding here that politicizing this is very, very unseemly. Now, I have a couple of sound bites here to illustrate that which Im referring to because you know that your host has come under all kinds of criticism for being insensitive and unkind and mischaracterizing.
Your host has been falsely accused of saying the coronavirus is no different than the common cold. When I made that comment, it was talking about the number of cases, the severity at the time, that we never have been in a circumstance that warranted shouting fire in a crowded theater. And we still arent. We are not in a panic situation in the United States. Now, let me go back, February 27th. I want to repeat to you, this is what I said about the mortality rate of the coronavirus.
RUSH ARCHIVE: Let me explain what the 2% is 2% of. The mortality rate of 2% for people coronavirus is 2% of the people who contract it. It means that 98% of the people who get it recover from it. The mortality rate for SARS was 10%. The mortality rate for MERS was 34%. Well, wait a minute, Rush. You said the flus survival rate was 0.1%.
Yeah, because that was of the whole population. When you talk about the flu, 30 to 60,000 people die from it a year, its about 30,000 the range is 30 to 60,000, depending on the years youre talking about. That is one-tenth of 1% of the population the whole country, not of the people who get the disease. Theres a confusion here over the fatality rate and what the universe is. In talking about the 2% mortality rate for the coronavirus, thats only the people who get it and its low compared to other diseases like SARS or MERS.
The world survived both of those. Its much lower than Ebola. (chuckles) You get Ebola, and your survival rate is in the single digits. So 98% of people who get coronavirus survive it. It is just within the universe of people that get the disease is what these numbers are, not of the If it were expressed as a percentage of the whole population, it would be as low as the reported numbers of people who succumb to the flu. But the number 2% has been used here only within the universe of people who get the disease, which is whats interesting to people now, given that the disease is new and just popping you will all over the place.
RUSH: And theres not enough data on it. Theres still thought to be a lot of people with the disease that dont even know they have it. People who have it are not suffering symptoms yet and may not, but who carry it, who may be transmitting it. The recovery rate for this disease worldwide is over 50%. And they never tell you that, by the way.
The most frequently used website for coronavirus now, the ongoing daily statistics, is the Johns Hopkins University website. If you look at that website it will tell you how many cases per country, how many fatalities per country, and the total recovery rate. And its always been the case, no matter what total number of cases reported, the recovery rate is well over 50%. And they dont tell you about that.
I dont know why, but what they focus on is the number of people who get the disease and then the number of people who succumb to it. I guess it makes for better news. But the recovery rate is very high here.
So given my sound bite way back on February 27th and the Drive-By Media saying, This guy, Limbaugh, hes dangerous. Hes not a doctor. He doesnt know what hes talking about. Yesterday in Washington, on Capitol Hill, the assistant secretary of Health and Human Services, Admiral Brett Giroir spoke to reporters about the coronavirus, and listen to what he said here.
GIROIR: The typical mortality rate for seasonal flu is about 0.1% or 0.15%. The best estimates now of the overall mortality rate for COVID-19 is somewhere between 0.1% and 1%, okay? Thats lower than youve heard probably in many reports. Why is this? Number one, its because many people dont get sick and dont get tested. So probably for every case, there are at least two or three cases that are not in the denominator. It certainly could be higher than normal flu, it probably is, but its not likely in the range of 2 to 3%. You have a denominator problem, and I want you to understand that. That only the people who are really sick or have symptoms come in and get tested.
WATCH: “The best estimates now of the overall mortality rate for COVID-19 is somewhere between 0.1% and 1%,” Adm. Brett Giroir, assistant secretary for health at HHS, says. “That’s lower than you heard probably in many reports … it’s not likely in the range of 2 to 3%” pic.twitter.com/ATnMRBLXVy
— NBC News (@NBCNews) March 6, 2020
RUSH: His point there is that there are many more people who have the disease and dont know it and no symptoms, not suffering from it, than they know. And so their universe here, theyre denominator is only of known cases, and that would be those who are showing symptoms of those who have been tested. We know that the number of tests is insufficient now because the number of test kits are still ramping up.
I just wanted to share this with you because assistant secretary of Health and Human Services, Admiral Brett Giroir, this is one of the reasons so much of the cacophony of criticism toward the Trump administration is being dialed back down. Its simply because all of the fear that the media has attempted to infuse in this thing simply isnt warranted yet, in the United States.
Now, here is David Plouffe. One more bite before we go to the break. David Plouffe is the former Obama campaign manager, 2008 and 2012, and this is just a couple of days ago on CNNs New Day. Listen
PLOUFFE: Does anybody have any confidence hes gonna improve his standing managing this crisis with the coronavirus? So I think weve got an opportunity to win this election. This is still our election to lose
RUSH: Stop the tape! There you have it. Rush, I never heard all these Democrats you said that are saying this is an opportunity. Right there it is, David Plouffe, Obama campaign manager: This is an opportunity, and hes not the only one. This is just the one sound bite we have. The Democrats have been running around saying the coronavirus is an opportunity for the Democrats. The media had people saying it. They were salivating over it!
How can that be? How can the coronavirus be an opportunity for Democrats? What has to happen for that to happen? A lot of people have to get sick and the Trump administration has to blow it in dealing with it. That is the opportunity for Democrats? They politicize virtually everything. The president from the get-go has asked people not to politicize this, to come together and solve this as a country, as a population, cause it affects everybody.
Coronavirus doesnt know whether youre male or female, doesnt know whether youre transgender, doesnt know what bathroom you use. It doesnt know if youre male, female, conservative, liberal, Republican, Democrat. It hits anybody who is susceptible to it, and yet here come the Democrats salivating over what an opportunity it could be. Well, Im tell, you combine that with Chuck Schumer at the Supreme Court threatening a couple of Supreme Court justices, and it is not looking good for the Democrats.
And then youve got Biden not knowing where he is as the presumptive, now, Democrat nominee and the Democrat establishment once again tightening the screws on Crazy Bernie and it is not looking good. The situation for Democrats in California is all of a sudden looking kind of iffy. And then all these Democrat conferences are being canceled because of the coronavirus. South by Southwest, movie openings. I mean, wherever where liberals get together, theyre having to cancel it.
And they want to come along and talk about what an opportunity it is for them?
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RUSH: The president is gonna go to the Centers for Disease Control this afternoon. Hes gonna be landing at Dobbins Air Force Base in Atlanta, in Georgia, about 3:30. He originally was not gonna go because somebody there supposedly had tested positive for the coronavirus. He said, No, no, no, no. So the president is gonna go. Hes gonna go to the CDC this afternoon, and then hes coming here when he finishes that.
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RUSH: Do I know these people or do I know these people? One hour ago, I started the program telling you that I had observed that the media and the Democrats are dialing back the criticism of the Trump administration on the coronavirus. Now here it is one hour later, and heres a headline from New York Magazine: Trump Declares Mission Accomplished on Containing Coronavirus.
JOHNNY DONOVAN: And now, from sunny South Florida, its Open Line Friday!
RUSH: A-ha! I see what theyre doing, folks. My first instinct was right, buttressed by the second news story. Theyre dialing it back because their plan is to run around and say that Trumps claiming its over, that Trump has fixed it. And theyre banking on the fact that its not over, that it isnt fixed. So theyre gonna be able to say that Trump doesnt know what hes doing, that Trump lied, Trumps not taking it seriously enough. Trump sent Larry Kudlow out there today to tell you that its pretty much come and gone, we got it handled and so forth and so on.
So the Democrats in the media are still banking on the fact coronavirus is gonna get worse. So theyre backing off claiming that Trump has declared mission accomplished, which he hasnt. He has not declared mission accomplished. What Trump has done is to be very calm and tell people its gonna be okay, that were gonna deal with it.
In fact, you know something, folks? Let me go out on a limb for you here and tell you that, as I have learned, by the way and Ive known this and Ive believed this my whole life, by the way that God is good and that there is good in everything that happens, if you just have the wide-enough vision to look for it, there is good in everything that happens. And Im gonna tell you that there is some good in this coronavirus situation. And you know what it is?
The good in the coronavirus situation Trump is out there, Ive got the sound bites coming from last night, town hall, he was with Fox. He was very calm, very reassuring, and told people its gonna be okay. Were gonna deal with it. Its going to end. Everything does. Everything always passes. Its replaced by other things, but well move on from this. At some point this will be over. Swine flu was over. Ebola was over. This is gonna be over.
Very important to have somebody not panicking at the top, somebody not trying to exploit your emotions do you realize what a big deal that is, that we dont have an Obama-like community organizer trying to manipulate your emotions on this, to make himself look better by making you feel more panicked? I mean, heres Trump doing the opposite. Heres Trump telling its gonna be okay. Because this is the United States of America, and thats how things end up.
Now, thats not gonna be pleasing to a bunch of leftists who dont like America, but still. If you want to look for something good in the coronavirus, how about the fact that somebody like Trump, who is a fixer, is actually the guy thats gonna unwind all of the confusion and chaos in government that delays things like this being fixed?
Okay. So here we have the CDC, Centers for Disease Control. Things are not running as smoothly as they should be there, odds are. And, you know, Trump even dealt with this last night. He was asked a question at the town hall about this. He said (paraphrasing), Well, look, you know, when we were first elected, dealing with things at the CDC was not at the top of the list. The CDC was not on anybodys radar. Nothing was going on that involved the CDC. So you cant blame me for not having fixed it when we took office. He said, Look. We have discovered a bunch of problems that we inherited from the Obama administration.
Now, I know that every administration, incoming administration likes to blame things on the predecessors. But in this instance Trump was being honest. In January of 2017 hes inaugurated, theres no health crisis, so theres no reason to be delving into whatevers going on at the CDC or the National Institute for Health or any of that. Now all of a sudden there is. Now weve got this worldwide outbreak of coronavirus, number 19, and all of a sudden the CDC and NIH and a number of these organizations are under the microscope.
And guess what? Some things are being found to be out of whack, that may be some things arent as streamlined or working as well as they should be. Who better than Donald Trump and his administration to be at the helm when its necessary to fix something like this? So I would go out on a limb and say that you could even say that would be one of the good aspects of the coronavirus, that at least its happening when weve got somebody who knows what theyre doing to fix and streamline and de-bureaucratize a major American bureaucracy that may be suffering roadblocks and obstacles simply because it is a bureaucracy.
In other words, the coronavirus has forced the Trump administration to dig into this, find out whats going on over there, to find out okay, why dont we have enough test kits, for example? Now, they tried to blame Trump for this last night at the town hall. Why dont you have enough test kits?
And Trump said (paraphrasing), What do you mean, blame me? This is the first thing thats come up. You cant zero in on every aspect of government in your first week, gonna fix that, gonna fix this, we had a lot of things we had to fix. We had to fix the border. We had to fix illegal immigration. We had to fix the economy. We had to fix the military. We had to fix health care. We had to fix a whole bunch of stuff. This thing never came up. But now it has. And he said, Were on the case. And we got good people working on this. And he does.
The Trump administration is now looking into these bureaucracies, and theyre gonna clean em up and improve their functionality. Just like the VA. Remember the VA was a big deal because that was military people. Trump loves them. That was on the radar shortly after the Trump administration was inaugurated and sworn in. So he is going to go to CDC today.
Now, by the way, I dont know enough to know who at the CDC is doing good, whos doing well, who isnt. But Im like you, I mean, I get emails from all kinds of people claiming this or claiming that. And theres some people at the CDC that are being pretty roundly attacked here for being slow on the uptake, late on the draw, whatever. I dont know about it specifically. All I know is that I feel confident somebody like Trump is rolling up his sleeves, getting to the bottom of it and fixing it. So that may be, if you want to look and try to find good or positives in things.
The CDC, man, thats a massive place trying to keep track of all kinds of out-of-control illnesses, viruses, bioagents, bioweapons. So hopefully theyll go in there, be able to make whatever adjustments necessary that will be able to tame this virus and viruses that are gonna be more deadly than this one down the road so that we will be more prepared.
Hes in Tennessee right now. The presidents in Tennessee. And we have a sound bite here. This is from Cookeville, the president speaking with reporters. He got a question, Mr. President, do you have a message for the survivors?
THE PRESIDENT: I do have a message and I have a message for the families of those that lost their lives. We love em, theyre special people, its an incredible place, incredible state, tremendous heart. Already you see people rebuilding. I mean, it took place literally hours ago, couple days ago, and theyre already rebuilding. Ive never seen we were flying over, you see the blue roofs going up. Its all over the place. Its just great people, its a great state, and they have great leadership in this state, and thats why its working out like it is.
RUSH: So this is what happens in states like Tennessee, people rebuild. And as Trump points out, he flew over and theyre already rebuilding, not sitting around waiting, not waiting for some rich people to give them money, although Im sure thats happening, by the way. Theyre not waiting around for government to move in. People are doing what they can.
Trump goes in and, you know, what can a president do in a circumstance like this? A president cant go in and help people to rebuild, and his presence there is not gonna speed it up. Just because Trumps there does not mean that somebody who lost their house is gonna be in it by the end of the day, obviously. But psychology is a strange thing. Its a comforting thing to people who have experienced this kind of you lose your house, lose the nest, I mean, theres nothing more unsettling, and you got nowhere to go if youve lost your house in a fire, if youve lost it in a tornado like these people in Tennessee or any other natural disaster. Its a feeling of utter helplessness.
And what leaders can do is simply let you know that youre not alone and that there is help, compassion, people paying attention to you, looking out for you. It matters. And some people are good at this and other people arent. As Peter Jennings said (paraphrasing), Some presidents are better at this kind of stuff than others.
He was doing that to be critical of George W. Bush after 9/11. I thought it was very unfair criticism of George W. Bush. But it does happen to be one of the things that Trump excels at. And its because hes likable, so people like having him around. People like seeing him. And Im telling you, Ive had enough personal experience with Donald Trump, hes got the ability to make things seem okay. One day Im gonna get permission to describe everything here I could tell you. I dont have that permission now. But believe me, it informs much of my thinking on Trump and his capabilities.
If they blame him often enough for his handling of the crisis, it may give some people cause to give him credit for it, if there is a positive outcome. Can’t have that.
” in states like Tennessee, people rebuild. And as Trump points out, he flew over and theyre already rebuilding, not sitting around waiting, not waiting for some rich people to give them money”
A terrible tornado hit Nashville after Katrina, and everyone was remarking on the difference between how the people handled it. Katrina people sat on their asses, whined, and waited for the gubment to give them handouts. The Tennessee people said nothing, asked for nothing, and took care of themselves and each other.
Honestly who in the clown cat would you replace Trump with during this blip.He may get a third term thanks to all the Democrats.
Marie Harf was saying much the same last week on 'Outnumbered' on Fox.
People who think this way are scum.
TN folks take care of their own.
That is perfect.
Calling all Chicken Freepers. First the President and now Rush. Maybe you are smarter then either of them but they are not supporting your end of the world scenario.
The money clip:
GIROIR: The typical mortality rate for seasonal flu is about 0.1% or 0.15%. The best estimates now of the overall mortality rate for COVID-19 is somewhere between 0.1% and 1%, okay? Thats lower than youve heard probably in many reports. Why is this? Number one, its because many people dont get sick and dont get tested. So probably for every case, there are at least two or three cases that are not in the denominator. It certainly could be higher than normal flu, it probably is, but its not likely in the range of 2 to 3%. You have a denominator problem, and I want you to understand that. That only the people who are really sick or have symptoms come in and get tested.
WATCH: The best estimates now of the overall mortality rate for COVID-19 is somewhere between 0.1% and 1%, Adm. Brett Giroir, assistant secretary for health at HHS, says. Thats lower than you heard probably in many reports its not likely in the range of 2 to 3% pic.twitter.com/ATnMRBLXVy
NBC News (@NBCNews) March 6, 2020
Bet a lot of them volunteered to help.
Just a hunch.
The absolute neutrophil counts were below normal....something knocked his immune system wacky and his white counts were below normal...not necessarily a good thing. Liver enzymes ast, alt were elevating and his lactic acid was rising. LDH was spiking...would love to have seen his troponin and ckmb(MI?). Platelets dropped slightly but they might have been giving him lovenox or subq heparin for dvt prophylaxis. Fibrinogen was elevating indicating a coagulopathy of sorts also referring back to the liver enzymes.
It would be interesting to note what his t cell counts/cd4 counts were.
Did patient “0” die?
Rush: lTheyre backing off of it because its not becoming the pandemic in this country that they were all expecting.
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Most of the Rush analysis is spot on. The death rates, for example. But the idea that the Dems believe a pandemic is not coming really stretches the facts.
The real truth: We have no idea if there is a pandemic in our future nor does Rush or the Dems. It is just too early in the cycle to make that call.
The rate of new infections is the U.S. and Europe are in the range of 35% increase PER DAY. That has to come down or we are indeed headed for a pandemic at some level. At this point there is very little if any evidence that this rate is falling.
HOORAY Chief. Thanks, Rush. (prayer)
Can’t blame Trump for an escaped Chicom bioweapon.
I guess they believe Trump personally hired everyone at CDC.
Mayflower, my sister-in-law lived in Chalmette where her house was under 16 feet of water. She evacuated before the storm and had to travel to Memphis before she could find a room. Usually, after a storm is gone, you return to your home, your schools, your jobs, your neighborhoods within a day or two. Janie was not allowed back into her neighborhood for almost an entire month after Katrina had destroyed everything. When she evacuated, as she had done before, she had planned for just a few days of being away, not a month. She stayed with family during this time and we all joined together to help once they allowed us entry into a month-old disaster scene that you had to see to believe.
Her home was gone. Her place of employment was gone. The schools were gone. The stores were gone. Please put yourself in her shoes the next time you think about the victims of Hurricane Katrina. None of them deserved the horrific impact it had on many of their lives and they don't deserve being insulted by those who don't know the entire story of what took place.
I actually think they are backing off blaming him for the disease and its spread, so they can focus more on blaming him for whatever negatives happen to the economy as the coronavirus plays out.
We should never assume they are just “being nice” or “being fair” to POTUS.
They greatly overestimate their powers of persuasion
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