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.
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?
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Are you being serious or are just an idiot .. even if there are magically no more new cases the 10,000 people in serious condition backlog will start to die off so it is possible to have zero cases and 50 deaths
Or do you think people just walk in .. get tested positive then either suddenly die that second or magically never die ever?
Geez
>>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...”
That might work if he hadn’t been one of the first world leaders to call for an end to all incoming flights from China. If this coronavirus turns out to be susceptible to warmer weather, he might just be singularly responsible for containing the virus in the U.S. Granted, that’s an optimistic read, but he’s certainly done more that most other leaders and so far to good effect.
Compare that to Japan, which let everyone who wanted to disembark the Princess after the original 14 day quarantine expired.
——” 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. “
I hate to say it, but RUSH is totally wrong on this one. Influenza death rates are typically 1 per 1000 (or 0.1%)
I had corona a few years back. It is a form of the common cold.
Okay, so explain your original example, because you implied that some sort of death rate could be derived by comparing those two numbers.
Enlighten this math “idiot”, please.
Yes, Rush is right that the common cold is a form of coronavirus (according to what I’ve read there are four different forms of it), but he’s wrong that the common flu has a 2% fatality rate. It’s more like 1/50 of that, or 0.1 percent. His accuracy score will take a ding on that one.
Rush is spot on, it's the MSM that is hyping the beer virus in the hopes that it influences the stock market causing a down turn in the economy.
That's the only way the Dems can possibly defeat Trump in November
Never mind. I was reading your reply as if it were coming from one of the panicked who claim the death rate will be sky high (and that Rush’s 3% is way low—and they’re out there, as you know).
I went back and looked at your original comment and now see what you were saying. We’re both looking at it the same way.
Okay, so explain your original example, because you implied that some sort of death rate could be derived by comparing those two numbers.
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Rush is getting that 2 percent death rate, as many do Incorrectly, by simply dividing the number of dead by the total cases .. 4 days ago that was 2.1 percent .. those were the days when Hubie was reporting 90 deaths but 1000’s of new cases eaxh day .. and all of China was reporting 95 deaths and 5000 new cases a day helping to keep the overall death rate around that 2 percent .. as the number of new cases in China drops each day the number of new deaths is remaining the same ... each day this happens the overall death rate inches up.. it is now 3% using his method
Maybe, but what’s really going to cause a severe downturn in our economy is Xi failing to get most of the workers back to his factories. Our supply chains are so interlinked now that if China slows significantly, so will we. (Just my opinion)
If 50% of Americans get it, at a 98% survival rate that’s over 3 million deaths.
I was just looking at the cdc page and all I found were deaths per 100,000 which isn’t helpful.
You must have the number infected to determine the death rate of the flu. If you can find the number infected for any given year, then please post a link.
Same with this corona virus. They are just going off the number of confirmed cases and the confirmed deaths. Yet, everyone says that the number of cases is actually much greater and has been assumed to be flu. So, we really don’t have solid numbers with corona, either.
Never mind. I was reading your reply as if it were coming from one of the panicked who claim the death rate
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It’s all good :)
Yes, I agree, as I explained above. I just mistook which group you were in and misread the meaning of your example.
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I’m with Rush on this HYPED by the media!!!
“If COVID-19 becomes widespread in the US, it could have a severe impact on our economy, and completely overwhelm the healthcare system.”
Thinking the same thing here. Supply chain disruptions will cause all kinds of havoc. Doubling the daily intake at hospitals will be crippling.
Panic buying will hit at some point and the stores will look like an Atlanta, GA grocery on the eve of a predicted one inch snowfall.
I’ve posted several times (though maybe not in here) that the Princess cruise ship will give us a very good estimate of the death rate if we just follow the first 600 cases. We can probably assume they’re getting reasonable care, for starters. With a total sample of 600, it will even be possible to break it into several subgroups by age ranges, sex, some pre-existing conditions, and ethnicity, for example.
We know they all have it, and by a month from now we’ll know how many survived, how many required acute care, and how many died. That will be the best sample we have, in my opinion anyway. And if it turns out to be low, say one percent or so, we’ll be able to relax a bit even if it spreads widely. But if it’s much above that....Well, one percent is over 3 million in the U.S. alone, and over 70 million world wide.
Rush has compromised lungs and he is down playing a respitory illness?
I love Rush, but he is wrong on this
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