Posted on 02/24/2020 12:27:35 PM PST by Kaslin
RUSH: Folks, this coronavirus thing, I want to try to put this in perspective for you. It looks like the coronavirus is being weaponized as yet another element to bring down Donald Trump. Now, I want to tell you the truth about the coronavirus. (interruption) You think I’m wrong about this? You think I’m missing it by saying that’s… (interruption) Yeah, I’m dead right on this. The coronavirus is the common cold, folks.
The Drive-By Media hype of this thing as a pandemic, as the Andromeda strain, as, “Oh, my God. If you get it, you’re dead,” do you know what the — I think the survival rate is 98%. Ninety-eight percent of people get the coronavirus survive. It’s a respiratory system virus. It probably is a ChiCom laboratory experiment that is in the process of being weaponized. All superpower nations weaponize bioweapons. They experiment with them. The Russians, for example, have weaponized fentanyl. Now, fentanyl is also not what it is represented to be.
If you watch cop shows, then you probably… Stick with me on this. If you watch cop shows, you probably believe that just the dust from a package of fentanyl can kill you if you’re in the same room with it. Not true. Not true. Even the cheap kind of fentanyl coming from China that’s used to spike heroin… They use fentanyl ’cause it’s cheap. It gives a quick hit, doesn’t last very long, which is really cool if you’re trying to addict people.
But it doesn’t kill people the way it’s projected on TV. It can if you OD on it. But inhaling a little fentanyl dust is not going to cause you to lose consciousness and stop breathing as they depict on cop shows. It’s dangerous. Don’t misunderstand. But it isn’t the way it’s portrayed in popular criminal TV shows, cop shows, and so forth and so on. The coronavirus is the same. It’s really being hyped as a deadly Andromeda Strain or Ebola pandemic that, “Oh, my God, is going to wipe out the nation. It’s going to wipe out the population of the world.”
The stock market’s down like 900 points right now. The survival rate of this is 98%! You have to read very deeply to find that number, that 2% of the people get the coronavirus die. That’s less than the flu, folks. That is a far lower death statistic than any form of influenza, which is an annual thing that everybody gets shots for. There’s nothing unusual about the coronavirus. In fact, coronavirus is not something new. There are all kinds of viruses that have that name. Now, do not misunderstand. I’m not trying to get you to let your guard down.
Nobody wants to get any of this stuff. I mean, you never… I hate getting the common cold. You don’t want to get the flu. It’s miserable. But we’re not talking about something here that’s gonna wipe out your town or your city if it finds its way there. This is a classic illustration of how media coverage works. Even if this media coverage isn’t stacked, even if this is just the way media normally does things, this is a hyped, panic-filled version. It’s exactly how the media deals with these things to create audience, readership, interest, clicks, what have you.
It originated in China in a little — well, not a little town. It’s a town that is 11 million people, Wuhan, China. One of the reasons they’re able to hype this is that the doctor what warned everybody about it came down with it and died. So if a doctor got it, “Oh, my God, Rush! A doctor got it? You can’t possibly be right if a doctor can’t protect himself.” He didn’t know what he was dealing with. He discovered it back in December. I’m telling you, the ChiComs are trying to weaponize this thing. Here’s the story on Russians and fentanyl.
Fentanyl is a very, very powerful opiate — and for those of you that haven’t had any experience with opiates, the people that get addicted to ’em take them and they get very euphoric. They kill pain. They do wonderful things. But they make you very, very euphoric. They act like speed. Other people take ’em, and they hate ’em. It makes ’em vomit, throw up, feel nauseous. It doesn’t do anything for ’em. They’re never gonna get addicted.
So in Moscow the Chechens, way back… I’m gonna go back now — what is it — maybe 10 years or longer. A bunch of Chechen rebels took over an opera house and had a bunch of Russian hostages in there and made all kinds of threats — and Putin, unbeknownst to anybody, had weaponized fentanyl. He’d turned it into a gas, an invisible gas. He just put it in the ventilation system of this opera house or whatever it was (I’m giving you the sketchy, short version of this) and everybody in there fell asleep and died. You know, in a drug overdose, you stop breathing.
That’s what… It slows down your respiratory system so much that you stop breathing. That’s what an OD is, and everybody in that place, including the Chechens — Pfft! — had no idea what happened to ’em. It’s not violent. You just fall asleep for unknown reasons at the amounts that Putin weaponized and put in there. If you take a normal dose of fentanyl that you get from a doctor in a hospital, it’s not gonna kill you, obviously. But the amount they weaponized — and up to this time, nobody had ever weaponized fentanyl.
Nobody had ever made it into an invisible, odorless, colorless gas, until it was discovered that the Russians had done it. Well, every nation is working on things like this, and the ChiComs obviously in their lab are doing something here with the coronavirus — and it got out. Some people believe it got out on purpose, that the ChiComs have a whole lot of problems based on an economy that cannot provide for the number of people they have. So losing a few people here or there is not so bad for the Chinese government.
There could be anything to explain this.
But the way it’s being used… I believe the way it’s being weaponized is by virtue of the media, and I think that it is an effort to bring down Trump, and one of the ways it’s being used to do this is to scare the investors, to scare people in business. It’s to scare people into not buying Treasury bills at auctions. It’s to scare people into leaving, cashing out of the stock market — and sure enough, as the show began today, the stock market — the Dow Jones Industrial Average — was down about 900 points, supposedly because of the latest news about the spread of the coronavirus.
And if you go deeper into China, you will see that all of the high-tech Silicon Valley firms are said to be terribly exposed. “They could be suffering a disastrous year. Why, you may not be able to buy a new iPhone of any model this whole year! Do you know that? Because the coronavirus is so bad that the factories may never open — and if they do, they may not be anywhere near full capacity.” So Apple may not be able to release any new product. You think that’s not gonna panic investors? It most certainly is.
So Apple is trying to do what they can to suggest that these rumors are not true. They got new products coming this year. But the tech media hates Apple. They love anti-Apple stories. They love anything that will let them report that Apple’s on its last legs. Of course, that’s not true. Warren Buffett came out today and said, “Apple is the best run company ever.” He’s a big stockholder. So people will say he’s biased about it. But the bias you have to pay attention to is how much money he invested. He got $36 billion in Apple stock that Berkshire Hathaway has.
The survival rate of this is 98%! You have to read very deeply to find that number, that 2% of the people get the coronavirus di
RUSH is smarter then this..the backlog of people in serious will die off even if the new cases decrease..this is why the death rate is now up to 3% using his flawed method (deaths/total cases)
he is being an idiot
example:
Hubie reported 406 new cases but 150 new deaths yesterday
Take a look at this lengthy post from yesterday’s Sunday Morning Talk Show thread. It’s lengthy and covers the spectrum from an ELE (think Deep Impact) to something equivalent to the SARs virus but not so deadly. A couple of points that are known now - it is easy to catch and you can be a carrier and spread it before you see any symptoms. Apparently it also has the ability to reinfect after you seemingly recover, sort of like HIV where it remains in the background.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3818763/posts?page=10#10
Exactly. Rush is correct on this. Way too much panic going on including the usual FR clutching pearls crew.
Most likely
Yeah, say that out loud. Again. Crash the Gulfstream G550 that often. Nuts.
Love Rush of course. I think here Wall Street is largely reacting to real data. For example, it is easy to track the number of flights over China and people are saying they are way down. Similarly, what goes on in Chinese ports is pretty visible. When ships are cancelled or are turned away because of stacked up containers, the market knows. Last week it was reported that ships arriving in China with refrigerated containers are being turned away because the plugs needed for the containers in the ports once unloaded are all already be being used because the workers (trucks?) needed to move out the previously unloaded containers are not there. I am guessing there are quite a few data points like this. IDK, just throwing this out there.
Dow just closed down 1,031 points, 27,961, -3.56%
I love Rush but on this thing I do believe that reasonable precautions are the order of the day and not just reckless disregard for a disease that has paralyzed an authoritarian state that doesn’t give a damn about their people.
If China is reacting strongly to this thing then it is serious.
Period.
Welcome to FR.
The REPORTED number of fatalities is 2,468
Based on that metric the effective fatality rate is 9.4%, if you think that all the cases and fatalities have been reported by the Chinese Communists...
South Korea is at Alert Level 2, Practice Enhanced Precautions. This isn’t the presidents decision what alert level each country gets.
Thanks and please post a link for this data and ping me.
“I just took a look a the Influenza A and B numbers on the CDC Web Page... way more scary than what we’re seeing out of this CoronaVirus which is peaking at a 2% mortality rate, meanwhile, the flu is at 7.9 - 9%.
Thanks
Dave
At a local high school here, a teacher told me that 200 kids were out with the flu on the same day recently. They should have just closed school.
It is not a common cold but it is also not Armageddon and in any case it is not close to the disaster the LSM claims it to be and after being active since by all accounts last November the death rate for what little it is seems to be among elderly Asian men and smokers but predominantly Asian.
There have been viruses like these before and there will be viruses after this, some worse than others.
We will survive them all.
And Limbaugh is correct on the media deliberately stirring up panic.
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Actually flu mortality is less than 1%.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_human_disease_case_fatality_rates
I think a lot of this will depend on:
Genes (ace2 issues)
Lungs (smoking)
Health care you obtain once you get sick.
Also, if you are taking Ace inhibitors like blood pressure meds perhaps you are less likely to get it or if you do you are more likely to survive
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Yes.
Except I have not seen any data showing ACE inhibitors are competitive with the virus binding site.
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