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 only people who will believe an economic downturn caused by this virus is to be blamed on Trump are the lunatics on the Left and they aren’t voting for him anyway.
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Maybe so in China, but younger people in the U.S. and most other countries tend to go into more crowds, they commute on mass transit, trains, aircraft, subways much more than older folks, they have to go to work, meetings, travel on business when they have no choice etc etc. While most older folks can just stay home and stay somewhat isolated if need be.
Coronavirus risk for “Asians, Africans, Caucasians revealed”:
based on ACE 2 receptor sites
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Asians are at the highest risk.
Americans with African DNA are low risk.
The really low risk are the snowflakes from the UK and Scotland.
So my blond siblings, my DNA offspring, grandkids, nieces/nephews with UK/Scottish Genes and African DNA are at the lowest risk of getting infected and have better survival rates, if we get infected.
None of us smoke nor live with nor work around people, who smoke.
Our DNA and lifestyles will either kill us or allow us to live long lives if we don’t do anything stupid.
Washout day.
A good conspiracy theorist would suggest that Rush is in on the “keep them docile” mindset that keeps the sheep calm while the world goes to hell.
//sarcasm
Trump can play this in his favor and make it a great re-election point. That we have become over reliant on goods from China, to the point it is a security threat, as these type of virus could become more and more common.
I heard Rush on this topic today. Actually I thought it was odd he would dismiss this virus out of hand...considering he is one likely most at risk.
Then I considered he is seeing some of the best doctors in the world for his lung cancer...maybe they told him something we don’t know or they outright lied to him.
I happen to agree with you MeganC. There’s something really, really wrong happening in that whole cities across the region are being quarantined. All the world is sheep or there’s a tremendous cover-up as to what’s happened.
I have followed a lot of outbreaks here on FR for years. Those that follow this stuff know the numbers a government is reporting are never accurate or in some cases even remotely true.
President Trump isn’t going to be honest on this one either. It is just too gruesome for many Americans to even remotely comprehend. Americans will riot in the streets as access to healthcare or food runs out.
Asian countries have dealt with this and have had their practice runs with SARS, MERS, etc. Americans? Well...we really have not been down this road.
Americans are not going to be able to comprehend it. And that scares me far more than passing away from it.
South Korea is at Alert Level 2, Practice Enhanced Precautions. This isn’t the presidents decision what alert level each country gets.
stop making excuses for him
he is the head of state
The infection rate is high Epidemiologists are now saying that 40-70% of the population of the entire world is going to get it. It is hyper-contagious. (SOURCE)
They are now touting a death rate of 2%. The flu is 0.1% - this is 20 times worse! That is not the common cold friends!
For elderly people, the death rate is 15%.
There are 7.7 BILLION people in the world, so if:
As Freeper 11th_VA has stated very well,
"This is likely to become the defining event of this generation."
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.
is a highly valid point.
Your own personal health, as an American, is not at risk. This disease will spread throughout the world until the weather warms up. Coronaviruses do not survive in sunlight, and when people can get outside, it stops spreading. Why isn't Africa affected?...its summer there. What about nearby Australia? Summer.
Another 2-3 months and we'll be in the clear.
Don't panic...in the long run, manufacturers will have yet another reason to appreciate the value of having things made in America instead of China.
And its another reason to BUILD THE WALL
COVID-19 is far more frightening in several respects. The death rate seems to be at least 2% (1 death for every 50 people with the virus, which is 15 times higher than the flu), and COVID-19 is also thought to be far more communicable than influenza. If COVID-19 becomes widespread in the US, it could have a severe impact on our economy, and completely overwhelm the healthcare system.
I would like to know how sick the people are that were brought back to the US, their ethnicity and did the ones who had mild cases take flu shots the last few years?
If that is true, then it may well be that the virus is weaponized, but against their own people.
One of the biggest issues facing China is their aging population, due to the one-child policy.
One way to prop up their economy would be to kill off their (economically non-productive) elderly, in a plausibly deniable way.
I have always believed this, this is an attempt to put trump in a position so they can attack him stating he is doing nothing while the yet to emerge last minute candidate Hillary will offer an amazing solution that all will drool over
>>”...but they did a mass quarantine and shutdown to hurt the economy of the US. That could be.”<<
Not likely. The damage to their own economy would be, and probably already is, tremendous. Plus a lot of Chinese companies are apparently strung out on debt already.
In fact, it’s more likely that the disease is progressing much faster in China than is being reported, but that it’s being played down so they can get people back into the factories.
I’m not going digging for your numbers, but everything I’ve read indicates that your numbers are two orders of magnitude off and that the flu fatality rate is around 1/10 of one percent, i.e., 0.1 percent. Check your source and see if it says 0.079 to 0.090 percent, not 7.9 to 9.0 percent.
If your numbers were right, we’d now be in worse shape than China by an order of magnitude.
Wow is Rush wrong .
He is the classic patient type for this virus .
Former smoker , older , compromised immune system . and traveler .
>>example:
Hubie reported 406 new cases but 150 new deaths yesterday<<
Though you didn’t show us your calculation, I assume it would be 150/406 = 36.9% death rate?
Assuming that is the case, how does your method work out in the following example: 100 new cases and 110 deaths yesterday? 110/100 = 110% death rate. Some of them died twice, maybe?
Exactly. The market can withstand the news that there will be 2% less people in the world by summer, but it can’t withstand the news that the world economy could be down 10% by then, as it could be if Xi can’t coax his people to return to their factory jobs.
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