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.
You need to show me how to do that. It was right on the CDC page though.
The cruise liner is a decent example, I suppose, but I think the care received in a US hospital is far better than the care received in a Chinese hospital. Their government’s valuation of life is far less than ours from what I’ve read.
I had corona a few years back, and I know because I was hospitalized at the time, and they had to find out if a cold I developed was a problem. So, they tested, and it came back corona. They wore masks, put signs on my door, etc.
It truly was like a cold, and it went away after a few days.
We’re hearing that the worst cases are among the elderly, and I just read one comment that spoke of how huge smoking is in Asia.
All of this is just to say there are a lot of variables.
No Rush is NOT wrong! More people are dying from the regular varieties of the flu than Coronavirus! You can spin your bull sh*t all you want, this hysteria is helpful to NO one!
The coronavirus you had was NOT this coronavirus.
You had the ‘common cold’ coronavirus. There’s not really any listed morbidity/mortality data for that particular one as it’s so mild.
Best evidence is that THIS particular coronavirus has about a 2% mortality rate. Or about 1 out of 50 people die. Not JUST the elderly either. In this country that’s about 6-7million dead out of our population of ~350M.
Flu might kill 100K/yr.
Literally Googled “flu numbers CDC” and it showed a link to ABC and CDC. 29 million cought the flu, 280,000 hospitalized and 16000 deaths in 2019 - 2020. If my math is right, that’s a mortality rate of about 6%.
I have family in Arkansas who teach. Her school was closed for three days.
Your math is off.
Try again.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_human_disease_case_fatality_rates
I’ve heard many on TV saying the numbers of actual infected are not clear. China withheld info and many assumed flu. So, we really don’t have a solid mortality rate yet. Nor do we know what better US care would provide in terms of lessening that rate.
I’m not anywhere near a panic stage yet. Folks should be taking the normal precautions for flu for this time of year, and that will be sufficient for this virus is what most talking head doctors on TV are saying.
From Breitbart and President Trump: only 53 cases in the US and 39 of those from that cruise ship in Japan.
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President Donald Trump reacted to the economic fears surrounding the coronavirus on Monday, leading to a stock market drop of over 1,000 points.
“The Coronavirus is very much under control in the USA,” he wrote. “We are in contact with everyone and all relevant countries.”
The president praised the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organization for “working hard and very smart.”
The Coronavirus is very much under control in the USA. We are in contact with everyone and all relevant countries. CDC & World Health have been working hard and very smart. Stock Market starting to look very good to me!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 24, 2020
President Trump expressed optimism about the stock market, despite big losses suffered on Monday.
“Stock Market starting to look very good to me!” he wrote.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed down 3.5 percent, falling 1,031 points. It was the biggest drop since February 2018.
Outbreaks of the virus in China have affected supply chains of products to the United States, as factory output has diminished amid the ongoing outbreak.
The disease is also spreading to other countries, including South Korea, Iran, and Italy.
There are now 53 confirmed cases of coronavirus in the United States, according to the CDC, after 39 U.S. nationals were brought back from a cruise ship that remains docked in Japan.
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The sheep are the people panicking from my viewpoint.
Sorry folks but i do not agree with Rush on this. In fact, i am pissed off at him for coming out and saying what he said. Its plain to see he is only worried about the stock market and nothing more.
Trump said this would be over by April. Explain why Singapore has active cases with daily weather temps 80°-90°. Maylasia isnt even reporting any infected. Yeah right.
This virus is reinfecting people again after they are released from the hospital.
Rush in his weakened state from lung cancer is not going to fare well when he develops this
virus.
IMO what we are seeing Italy , South Korea and Iran is what was going in China in the early stages of outbreak but we were not getting any true numbers.
40 creamatoriums in Wuhan running 24/7 couldnt keep with all the dead and STILL they brought in another 40 mobile creamatoruims to handle the overload of bodies that needed dealt with.
I have no confidence in our govt protecting us. We have to be proactive and do it ourselves.
Sorry folks but i do not agree with Rush on this. In fact, i am pissed off at him for coming out and saying what he said. Its plain to see he is only worried about the stock market and nothing more.
Trump said this would be over by April. Explain why Singapore has active cases with daily weather temps 80°-90°. Maylasia isnt even reporting any infected. Yeah right.
This virus is reinfecting people again after they are released from the hospital.
Rush in his weakened state from lung cancer is not going to fare well when he develops this
virus.
IMO what we are seeing Italy , South Korea and Iran is what was going in China in the early stages of outbreak but we were not getting any true numbers.
40 creamatoriums in Wuhan running 24/7 couldnt keep with all the dead and STILL they brought in another 40 mobile creamatoruims to handle the overload of bodies that needed dealt with.
I have no confidence in our govt protecting us. We have to be proactive and do it ourselves.
Yes, why let experience and common sense interfere with a good panic?!
We’re all dead - AGAIN! For probably the 20th time in my 51 years on this earth. I’ve seen a lot of mass hysteria media cycles come and go. I think I’ll pass on this one.
6 thousand people a week die from the flu
The flu generally has no more than a 0.1% death rate. Those are generally the really sick and elderly.
If Rush is right about the 2%, and if this virus goes global (which looks quite possible), we’re talking 120 million deaths.
I’m thinking we need to buy calls on casket makers stock.
And funeral homes.
Any publicly traded ones?
My bad. I used 16000 dead vs 280000 hospitalised which is 5.7%. Shoulda used 16000 dead vs 29000000 diagnosed which would be .06%.
Ya.
Not to be harsh, but this isn’t the flu.
Wish it were.
This becomes an epidemic here? Every ICU bed will be full for months.
Nope.
buy stock in crematoriums.
Embalmers won’t touch these bodies with a 20’ pole.
They will be cremated. Probably mass cremations. IF (if!) you are lucky you will get a jar of ashes that might (might) contain some of your loved ones ashes. In some months, once this is over.
That’s what’s going on China right now.
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