Posted on 03/10/2020 1:09:57 PM PDT by Kaslin
They’re Covering the Coronavirus Like a Hurricane
Mar 10, 2020
RUSH: You know, watching the coverage of this and the ongoing effort to create a panic — and let’s make no mistake here that that’s exactly what is happening here — I finally came up with what I think is a good analogy. The coronavirus is like a hurricane several days away from making landfall.
Take your pick of any hurricane out there in recent memory — if you want to use Katrina, any hurricane — and then remember how the media covers it. “It’s going to devastate wherever it’s headed. It’s gonna just obliterate! It’s a Cat 5. It’s going to mean total destruction.” No one knows the strength when it hits, despite their predictions. No one knows where it’s gonna hit. No one knows when.
Our forecasts have gotten better, but it’s still a gigantic crapshoot, particularly the farther out at sea the hurricane is. But the media knows that it’s gonna deliver clicks, it’s gonna deliver hits, it’s gonna deliver massive headlines, it’s gonna create massive attention by the public. It will deliver eyeballs — and they know they can blame Trump, right up until the moment they can’t. They know.
They know and they salivate over the chance to blame Trump. You’ve got an oncoming hurricane here. The outer bands have begun to strike the Continental United States. The evidence is there! They’ve got the reporters out on the beaches out on the Outer Banks, for example, of North Carolina, and they’re showing us the waves are about six inches higher than usual.
“See, it’s coming! It’s coming! There may be a flood here, a flood there. The initial reports of damage are coming in, and it all means it’s gonna be a grand disaster.” The Drive-Bys are all collected out on the beach. Their cameras are pointed westward, eastward, wherever it takes to get this hurricane, any indication of it whatsoever. The same thing was true of the impeachment hearings. The same exact thing was true of the impeachment hearings.
All we had was hearsay evidence.
We had endless speculation.
The same thing was true with the Russia-Trump collusion story. There was never any evidence, there was never a shred of evidence, and yet look at what we were told was coming. The walls were closing in on Donald Trump! We had these endless anonymous sources from the intelligence community who were telling us that it was only a matter of time before the evidence would be forthcoming.
Hearsay evidence before the impeachment hearings, endless speculation.
It was the same thing with the Mueller report.
The coronavirus is one of those moments for the Drive-By Media, and just as a hurricane is an opportunity to blame people who don’t believe in climate change — man-made climate change. Just as a hurricane is exaggerated and built up and lied about before anybody knows its true strength and nature in order to advance a political agenda (i.e., climate change), coronavirus is being used to advance the agenda that Donald Trump:
A. Doesn’t care about you; he only cares about himself.
B. Donald Trump is incompetent.
C. Donald Trump’s not taking it seriously enough.
D. You might die; it’s all gonna be Donald Trump’s fault.
E. It’s an opening for the Democrats!
They’re Covering the Coronavirus Like a Hurricane
Mar 10, 2020
RUSH: You know, watching the coverage of this and the ongoing effort to create a panic — and let’s make no mistake here that that’s exactly what is happening here — I finally came up with what I think is a good analogy. The coronavirus is like a hurricane several days away from making landfall.
Take your pick of any hurricane out there in recent memory — if you want to use Katrina, any hurricane — and then remember how the media covers it. “It’s going to devastate wherever it’s headed. It’s gonna just obliterate! It’s a Cat 5. It’s going to mean total destruction.” No one knows the strength when it hits, despite their predictions. No one knows where it’s gonna hit. No one knows when.
Our forecasts have gotten better, but it’s still a gigantic crapshoot, particularly the farther out at sea the hurricane is. But the media knows that it’s gonna deliver clicks, it’s gonna deliver hits, it’s gonna deliver massive headlines, it’s gonna create massive attention by the public. It will deliver eyeballs — and they know they can blame Trump, right up until the moment they can’t. They know.
They know and they salivate over the chance to blame Trump. You’ve got an oncoming hurricane here. The outer bands have begun to strike the Continental United States. The evidence is there! They’ve got the reporters out on the beaches out on the Outer Banks, for example, of North Carolina, and they’re showing us the waves are about six inches higher than usual.
“See, it’s coming! It’s coming! There may be a flood here, a flood there. The initial reports of damage are coming in, and it all means it’s gonna be a grand disaster.” The Drive-Bys are all collected out on the beach. Their cameras are pointed westward, eastward, wherever it takes to get this hurricane, any indication of it whatsoever. The same thing was true of the impeachment hearings. The same exact thing was true of the impeachment hearings.
All we had was hearsay evidence.
We had endless speculation.
The same thing was true with the Russia-Trump collusion story. There was never any evidence, there was never a shred of evidence, and yet look at what we were told was coming. The walls were closing in on Donald Trump! We had these endless anonymous sources from the intelligence community who were telling us that it was only a matter of time before the evidence would be forthcoming.
Hearsay evidence before the impeachment hearings, endless speculation.
It was the same thing with the Mueller report.
The coronavirus is one of those moments for the Drive-By Media, and just as a hurricane is an opportunity to blame people who don’t believe in climate change — man-made climate change. Just as a hurricane is exaggerated and built up and lied about before anybody knows its true strength and nature in order to advance a political agenda (i.e., climate change), coronavirus is being used to advance the agenda that Donald Trump:
A. Doesn’t care about you; he only cares about himself.
B. Donald Trump is incompetent.
C. Donald Trump’s not taking it seriously enough.
D. You might die; it’s all gonna be Donald Trump’s fault.
E. It’s an opening for the Democrats!
It’s an opportunity for the Democrats, just like impeachment was an opportunity for the Democrats, like the Mueller hearings an opportunity for the Democrats, and a gigantic hurricane is an opportunity for the Democrats and the climate change crowd. So the coronavirus is one of these moments.
This is the pattern. This is what Drive-By Media is. This is the utter definition. You’re looking at it here. The problem for them is, they have been wrong every time during the Trump administration. They have been wrong about every dire prediction they have made, and they have made these predictions with ontological certitude.
They’ve made these predictions with anonymous sources guaranteeing the “walls were closing in” on Donald Trump, guaranteeing the evidence was forthcoming that Trump colluded with Russia, guaranteeing the evidence was imminently forthcoming that Donald Trump did indeed cheat. “He might even be a Russian agent!” It never stopped. Even when the evidence never came in, the evidence was never forthcoming.
Even when the evidence was invisible, they continued to tell us that it was going to be the exact opposite of what it’s turned out to be every time. It’s always Trump’s fault before the facts are known. And when the facts are finally known and when the media is proven to be dramatically wrong again, they are never held to account. They are never to blame for whatever mess they have made, for whatever drive-by confusion they have made created.
Even hurricanes are attributed to Trump via the fact that he doesn’t believe in man-made climate change. Before there’s even a dollar’s worth of destruction, it’s all Trump’s fault. And then when their predictions of doom fail spectacularly, it’s off to the next hoped-for incident that will definitely take down Trump. When the impeachment bombed out, remember what I said?
“Folks, there’s 10 months to go. There’s gonna be something else. There’s gonna be something else. There’s gonna be many something elses between now and the election that are gonna get the same treatment,” and voila! Here we are: Coronavirus. “Mr. Limbaugh, are you saying the coronavirus is not…?” No, I’m not. Don’t attribute things to me that I’m not saying. I’m saying exactly what I mean to say, and I love hearing myself say what I say ’cause I’m right. I love being right.>
You would be, too, if you knew what it was like. I’m not saying things I’m not saying. Like I’ve got a sound bite coming up from Honore. Remember him? Hurricane Katrina, military guy. He got so fed up with the media, so fed up with the way Katrina and the whole thing was being covered, and he’s on a roll again today. He’s lashing out at Wall Street. (paraphrased) “Why the hell do they get to panic?
This time we're really gonna get him!!!
This is a picture of the virus
"Hi there! I'm the C-virus and I'm her to take you out"
Also, the Wuhanvirus is all one word as well.
I swear aome people believe anything. ROFL
Was listening to Rush when he did the comparison and said to myself, WOW! He’s absolutely right! “Making the complex understandable!”
Wash your hands with Jack Daniels and lick them dry and gargle with EverClear! But don’t spit out the EverClear!
If you are 70 or over or in bad health, it is: "Time to do a DNR or DO NOT RESUSCITATE ORDER:
A do-not-resuscitate order, or DNR order, is a medical order written by a doctor. It instructs health care providers not to do cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) if a patient's breathing stops or if the patient's heart stops beating.
What is a DNR and how is it created?
A DNR order is created, or set up, before an emergency occurs. A DNR order allows you to choose whether or not you want CPR in an emergency. It is specific about CPR.
We are Kaiser Members, and they have an electronic copy of our DNR wishes in their computer, which is accessible by any ER in the country as well as their doctors.
We discussed this with our adult sons, trust lawyer, regular lawyer, current FP at Kaiser, whom we have know for over a decade and our previous/now retired FP of 35 years and our priest. They all know our final desires.
This below is not how we want to finish our good lives here:
We can thank the peanut farmer from Georgia for the hostage crisis
I’ll be 79 in August ans my husband will be 83 next month.We are not worried about it, First of all we don’t go anywhere where we could catch it. I don’t even go out of the hose except twice a month to get into my car when my son takes me to the Commissary to go grocery shopping. The only time my husband goes outside is to check the mail
Look at those patients.
The one closer to the camera isn’t an old person. Look at the skin around the neck, hands, elbows. Not an old person.
That’s a young person.
Italy is triaging for ICU beds like mad.
Nobody over 65 gets an ICU bed.
Nobody under 65 gets one if they have any other conditions (hypertension, diabetes, cancer, etc).
If you look further down the DM page with all the Italian ICU pics you’ll see that most all of those pics are of young people. Ie, under 40.
The reason the old people are dying is that they’re being actively denied medical care in Italy.
I’ll be more concise.
Old Italians aren’t dying on the ventilator in the ICU.
They’re drowning in their own lung secretions at home. Gasping for air.
When did the swine flu happen? We were stationed at Fort Riley, Kansans during the 1970 (1972-1977 to be exact when there was talk about the Swine Flu, which I found ridiculous and impossible. I said I am not a pig after all
Maybe it’s you who is the idiot and not Rush.
Not a floral arrangement but a crown. The outside anyway.
Still no cases in New Mexico.
I think it is afraid to come here.
What is the weather like in NM?
I'm an idiot on a lot of things but this is not one of them. I'm almost convinced that Rush has been told to purposely downplay the virus to avoid panic. That's the opposite of the South Korean model where they made people hyperaware of it and it's danger.
This is orchestrated, this is a fraud...
https://summit.news/2020/03/10/mit-scientist-claims-coronavirus-is-a-deep-state-fraud/
Yup, and plenty here feed the panic as if they’re auditioning for a job on CNN.
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