Posted on 03/31/2020 3:10:25 PM PDT by Kaslin
RUSH: Well, I guess the big news now is Fredo Cuomo of CNN has tested positive for coronavirus and will be quarantining in his basement. His brother, the governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo, has just revealed details of all of this, continuing to speak about it. It was almost a life review here of Chris Cuomo, how he became a lawyer, then a journalist, and how the dad was a very domineering personality and told Fredo that he better become a lawyer. Its kind of I dont want to characterize it. But it was strange for somebody still alive.
Greetings, and welcome, Rush Limbaugh, the EIB Network at 800-282-2882. The email address, ElRushbo@eibnet.us if you want to communicate that way.
And once again great to be back with you. I have an overriding sense of foreboding here, folks. Im really in a dilemma as to how much of what I really think do I share with you. Some of it I cant. Id be run out of this studio if I were to tell you some of what I think. And Im talking about in terms of what needs to be done, not the circumstance that were in, but the solution, because the overriding sense of foreboding I have is that this cannot go on.
This just cant go on. We cannot go on like this for months. We are going to destroy the country or the economy, however you want to look at it. The favorite word of Millennials is sustainable. Well, this isnt sustainable. And we, as a society, down the road are going to be faced with some really, really serious questions that we cannot avoid. The longer we go, the more unavoidable answering some of these questions is. I dont mean to be speaking cryptically. Im doing something thats somewhat uncharacteristic for me. Im speaking safely here. I may dance around this, but this just cant go on like this.
You know, somebody called me yesterday, Rush, what do you think the recovery will look like? And I kind of blew the answer. I was getting my feet wet yesterday. Ive been gone. Ive been gone for how many shows did I miss in a row? I was in such a fog, I dont even know. Was it five or six? It was 10 shows. My absence was not a vacation. I was not staying informed as I was away because I was not capable of it. So getting back yesterday was to get the voice back up to shape, in shape and in gear and getting my brain back up to speed and engaged. And so I kind of blew the answer.
I said its gonna roar back. Wait a minute. Thats not true because its gonna take what to roar back? Its gonna take money. Its gonna require people having money to roar back. And the longer this goes, the less people, the fewer people are going to have any money to ignite the economy. Now, there will be stimulus impact, no doubt about that. There will be a recovery, dont misunderstand. But the guy wanted to know, is it gonna be massive all at once, and I said, no, it wont be that. It will be phased simply because even if that magical day comes where somebody says who is it gonna be? Who is going to say, Okay, folks, go back to work? Well, the president might or might it be Dr. Fauci. But whoever says it are people gonna go, All right! And leave. Or are they still gonna be a little trepidatious?
Because all of this, all of this is based on one thing that we dont have. We dont have a vaccine for this. We dont have a vaccine, and until we get a vaccine like I was just listening to Governor Cuomo here, he was giving his daily briefing to the people of New York. And he said that when we finally get a test, when we get a widespread, quick test to determine whos got coronavirus and who doesnt, that will determine when people go back to work. Well, that would be great, but I dont know if thats true.
Okay. So you test negative, but theres no vaccine out there. What happens if everybody heads back out? And folks, a vaccine is not on the horizon for at least a year. Theyre doing clinical trials on drugs. You know, the chloroqiune and zithromiocin is the most promising thing. If there is developed a medicine that can deal with this, then that would change things dramatically and hold the line until there is a vaccine, but a vaccine, thats what separates the coronavirus from the flu. Weve got vaccines for it, we know the mutations. Were not up to speed on the coronavirus in that way.
So you have the medical reality and then you have the economic reality. This cant go on. I mean, how many people want to see the United States economy destroyed? I doubt very many. But then what is gonna be required to prevent that from happening? People going back to work. Its gonna be things reopening without a vaccine. Whats that expose people to? Its a serious, serious question.
All I know is that whats happening now cannot go on. This business of shutting down until the end of June or the end of July and putting people in jail if they leave their homes, which, what governor, Maryland said that? Thats not sustainable. Thats not (interruption) Mr. Snerdley here with a little prof note saying the ChiComs are back to work. Dont believe a damn thing coming out of there. Theyve already reopened the wet markets. Theyre selling bats. Theyre selling live bats for food at the Wuhan wet market. (interruption) I am not. They say that their number of cases is declining, the Chinese economy is getting back.
The Chinese government is so different, we dont know what they did to make this possible. How many people did they drag out of their homes in Wuhan and just murder and then bury in concrete plots to get rid of this virus? They dont have a vaccine, either. The ChiComs dont have a vaccine. If they do, theyre not sharing it with anybody.
Were not gonna do that. Were not gonna drag people out of hospitals or out of their homes and take them and put them in what are called reeducation camps or whatever the Chinese do. Look, this is a communist government. They have an entirely different view of the value of life, the quality of life and all that. And if they detect any single person being a culprit here, that person is in deep, deep trouble if the state finds out about them.
You cant trust anything coming out of China. It would be great if it were true. It would be great if you could look at the Chinese model and say, Okay. Theyre back work, their number of cases is falling, their economy is getting back up to running, and it took three months. So using that as a guideline But we dont see the same pattern happening here. However, there is this story. This is, interestingly enough, this is from CNN, but what is the actual source? The headline: Coronavirus Death Rate Is Lower Than Previously Reported, Study Says, But Its Still Deadlier Than Seasonal Flu.
Now, this is a study from good old Imperial College, again, in London, which gave us this original model that 2.2 million Americans could die if we did nothing; 500,000 in the U.K. could die if we did nothing. Of course, were not doing nothing. Were mitigating all over the place social distancing, quarantining, sheltering in place, and all of this stuff.
But this study from the Imperial College in London and it was published in a highly respected medical journal called Lancet says that fewer people die from coronavirus than previously thought. In fact, this report from Imperial College in London says that 0.66% of infected people die. Now, thats more than from the regular flu.
The regular flu mortality rate is 0.1%, but this is far lower than the 4% that we were told for months, and its lower than the 1%. Remember when Dr. Fauci This is the kind of stuff, I must say, it irritates me. Dr. Fauci came out and reported that the mortality rate for coronavirus is much lower than we thought. This is two or three weeks ago.
But, he said, its still 10 times deadlier than the flu. Well, guess what the headline was? The story was the coronavirus is much less deadly than we were originally told. Then Dr. Fauci said, But its still 10 times deadlier than the flu. The reason for that is the flu mortality rate is 0.1%. The coronavirus rate at the time was thought to be 1% or 10 times 0.1% of the flu.
Now Lancet is saying that 0.66% of infected people die.
So the number of deaths from coronavirus continues to be reported as declining. The study says the lower number is due to taking account of the number of people who have milder cases of the coronavirus. In fact, Governor Cuomo today made a big deal about the big number of discharges from New York hospitals, people that no longer need treatment.
Thats one aspect of this thats really not been reported since day one, since that whole John Hopkins website was first developed and first published. The number of recoveries has never been a singular item reported here, and then there is the undeniable fact that there are forces in the American culture who want you to continue to think the worst of this, and they want you to blame President Trump for it.
They want you to think it isnt getting better, that it wont get better because of Donald Trump and now the My Pillow guy. (Man, what a teachable moment yesterday that was as well. Well get to all of this as the program unfolds before your very eyes and ears today.) So the researchers estimate that the overall death rate coronavirus to be about two-thirds of 1%.
But that number goes up in older adults: 7.8% of those 80 and older are estimated to die after getting the infection, but the deaths were estimated to be exceedingly rare in children younger than 9. The fatality rate there is infinitesimal. So go figure. All I know is this is not sustainable.
Now theyre talking about giving everybody masks.
The surgeons are saying, Ah, I dont think we need to give everybody masks. You put masks on everybody and youre just gonna create a psychological downturn. This is not sustainable. I also want to share with you something Governor Cuomo said. He gave pretty rousing, attempting-to-be-motivating address here to the people of New York.
He put up a slide that said, We know what we have to do; we just have to do it, and here are the four things that we have to do, according to Governor Cuomo. We have to have individual discipline. We need government skill and performance. We need social stamina, and we need national unity. For what? To sustain this? The discipline to watch the economy peter out?
The discipline to watch government skill and performance try to manage the decline, once again, of the U.S. economy? Social stamina? Well, I know what that means. Social distancing and staying inside and having the discipline to do so and national unity. Well, thatd be great, but we got people that are working on trying to prevent national unity where this is concerned.
So I dont Thats the overriding foreboding thought that I have and, you know, who knows, folks. Listen to the whole program. It depends on where my mouth goes the remainder of the program. I might divulge even more of what Im thinking here.
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RUSH: I want to run a number by you, and I want to ask you if this number surprises you and Im gonna finish Obamas tweet; then we get to the phones. If youre on hold, hang on. Were coming to you. Now, of course, we here at the EIB Southern Command are in South Florida. Were in Palm Beach County, which geographically is a large county.
You look at the case data here for Palm Beach, the number of cases of coronavirus, the number of deaths. But one of the things that interests me is the hospitalization numbers. Because if you look at Drudge, if you look at the Drive-By Media, you would believe theres not a single hospital bed in this country, right?
You have been led to believe that every hospitals overflowing, that dead bodies are in body bags and refrigerated trucks that are being packed off to landfills or whatever. I mean, some of the most incredible reporting I have seen. It is in New York; it is in Washington, D.C., Maryland, the Eastern Seaboard states, that theres not a hospital bed around, that the hospitals are overflowing.
If you have to go to the hospital, you may as well just pack it in and die. So I wanted to find out what the hospitalization rates were here in Palm Beach County, because weve been shut down like everybody else has. Weve been shut down through the middle of April. We got, Shelter in place, and you better not be caught on the beach. The turtles can go to the beach and we cant.
You better not get caught on the beach. You better not be caught within 10 feet of anybody else or theyll write you up on the town website. (chuckling) Anyway, heres the case data for Palm Beach County. Total cases in Palm Beach County of coronavirus: 514. Of the 514 cases, 488 are residents of Palm Beach County; 24 are nonresidents.
The age range is 0 to 99: Men 268 cases, women 237. So its fairly equal. But there have been 11 deaths in Palm Beach County since this all began to be tabulated. Now, I dont have data for other states. That will come at some point. Ive got a website here. This is Floridas COVID-19 Data Surveillance Dashboard, and its the latest official numbers from the Florida Department of Health.
I know numbers on the radio are tough to follow, but let me go again.
Total cases in Palm Beach County: 514.
Total deaths: 11.
Hospitalizations (the number of people who are hospitalized with coronavirus): 57.
Does that strike you as a large number? I want you to think of the way this is being reported, particularly about New York and other places where theres not a hospital bed to be had, where theyre putting people in the hallways. Theres no ventilators. Theres no nothing. We havent got Were just in bad shape out there.
Of 514 cases, 57 hospitalizations. That sounds like a small number to me. Why arent the hospitalization numbers being reported to us? I mean, if you go to New York, a field hospital is being built in Central Park! Weve got the Mercy ship that floated in there. Theyre clearly trying to create the impression that we dont have any hospitals.
Were so overflowing with cases, that we dont have any hospitals. Now, it may be true in New York. But, again, 57 hospitalizations in Florida In other words, if you are in Palm Beach County and you happen to come down with this, theres gonna be room in hospitals. Im not urging people to go there. Dont misunderstand.
So much of what happens during crises like this So much of this has been politicized, folks, that its just impossible anymore to actually find factual truth.
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RUSH: Were gonna start with Chelsea, Chelsea in Cincinnati. Im glad you called. Its great to have you on the program. Hello.
CALLER: Hi, Rush. Its been Its an honor just to hear your voice. Ive been listening to you since I was a little girl.
RUSH: Thank you. Thank you very much.
CALLER: Im concerned about what our country is gonna look like when this is over, specifically here in Ohio. We have a governor whos been manipulating our state constitution. Hes a (deep breath) Pardon me. Im sorry. He unlawfully moved our March primary and then he closed down businesses and canceled schools.
All while manipulating our constitution saying it was for the public health. How many people are gonna be fine with it? But my problem with it the whole things done illegally, and it sets a terrible precedent. (groans) So how do we return to the rule of law and keep our leaders from any party from ignoring the constitution?
RUSH: Ah, I know. Chelsea, these are all valid concerns. You know, I hearken back to my brief appearance via phone call myself. I now know what it is to be a caller, by the way, on this program. I called into my own show last Friday. Its the only way I could do it.
I addressed the massive changes, that when this is over, what is this country gonna look like, what are the American people gonna accept. The mayor of New York literally said that if people went to churches or synagogues, he was gonna shut them down forever. Now, thats the First Amendment. He cant do that. (interruption)
Yeah, Ive got it in the Stack. You missed that? Youre probably watching Tiger King. By the way, I am (interruption) They arrested a pastor for holding (interruption) I know. I know all of this stuff, and people are accepting it. Not everybody, but people are accepting it on the basis of the health things that we have been told we have to do.
Yeah, what is this country is gonna be like when this is over? You know, how long is it gonna take to return to what we considered normal? If you go back to the Civil War and not a whole lot of people know this Abraham Lincoln arrested and put in jail a chief justice of the United States. He suspended habeas corpus. But we came out of it.
We came out of it with the Constitution intact. We came out of it with our freedoms intact because the Civil War ended with the right, correct side victorious. Now, if you go to the 1918 Spanish flu? (Snort!) The government didnt do diddly-squat about it. Woodrow Germany in World War I.
We didnt do diddly-squat. We didnt shut down anything. We didnt do anything to protect people. We just let whatever number of people get the disease get the disease, and they died, and thats how we dealt with it. If you got it, you got it. If you didnt, you didnt. But we didnt shut down the economy.
They didnt chain doors. We didnt stop people from going about their business. We didnt make people wear masks, any of that stuff. Of course, back then masks were not as prevalent; 1918 was a long time ago. In World War II, we suspended a lot of freedoms. We instituted federal withholding to make sure the government got its money to fund the war effort.
You know thats when withholding started is World War II. (interruption) Yeah, you didnt know that? Withholding of taxes began, and government-run health care got its start in World War II, centralize everything to make more efficient the war effort and some of the things that were instituted survive to this day like federal withholding and number of other things, health care related.
So these are valid, valid questions, and arbitrarily delaying Like the Democrat primary is considered to be over with because they have canceled all the primaries where Crazy Bernie might have a chance to regain his lead. But Crazy Bernie doesnt care. Theyve bought him a plane.
They did something. Hes gone docile. Biden is nowhere to be seen. Hes gonna be the nominee. He cant win it until June 2nd, and thats when hell be proclaimed the nominee. But its fixed. Its all rigged. Now theyre salivating over finding a way to get Cuomo to run. Things are in a huge, huge state of flux.
And the longer the American people are sequestered behind closed doors and not participating in anything, the more change there is going to be. Im getting dangerously close to getting in trouble here; so I am gonna go to a profit center time-out.
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RUSH: Now official, the number of deaths from the coronavirus in the United States is greater than the reported number of deaths in China. That is just mind-boggling to me, but thats what is being reported. Three out of four Americans are under orders to stay home. Seventy-five percent of the country under orders to stay home, and in some places theyre being threatened with jail if they leave home. This is not sustainable. This cannot go on, certainly with no end in sight.
Now CNN is reporting that Trump will formally unveil new distancing guidelines based on models. Its CNN. So it could be BS. So were just gonna wait and see what actually happens. But this models business, well, that means that theres no thinking involved here. That means were just reacting to whatever data is discharged in a computer model based on whatever data is put into it.
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RUSH: Manalapan, New Jersey. This is Robert. Its great to have you on the program, sir. Hello.
CALLER: Hey, Rush. How are you feeling?
RUSH: You know, Im feeling normal for the first time in about three weeks and I mean normal-normal, for the first time in three weeks. Thank you very much.
CALLER: (garbled cell) Im glad to hear that. That is my fifth time on your show, so I feel very lucky. I dont know how I get through to your show so many times. (chuckles) What I want to say, Im more concerned Listen, the human race is going to survive this. Weve survived wars, epidemics, flus, plagues. Well survive it. Im more afraid of how were gonna survive the people in this country. I mean, you got people rattin out neighbors because theyre having parties in their houses. Theyre calling the cops on them.
How quickly people are giving up their rights to move around freely, because theyre afraid governments gonna keep them safe. I dont know if were ever gonna come back to being the way we were. Whats gonna happen next year when it comes back again? Shut down the economy again and just stay home again? It just is insane.
RUSH: See, here we go. I understand your concern. It has long been a bugaboo of mine, a frustration of mine of how just naturally trusting people are in government. Its something thats bugged me my whole life, how people are just naturally trusting of so-called experts they dont even know. But its just the way it is.
People just are. People want to believe the governments looking out for em, the governments trying to help them. They just do. Believe me, after 30 years of hosting this program, it is a monumental feat. Its taken 30 years to persuade a whole lot of people that certain elements running government are not looking out for you, that theyre actually attempting to diminish you.
But you mention Dr. Fauci. See, Dr. Fauci said, Well, its going resurface in the fall, but it wont be the same because were gonna know a lot more. It is gonna be identically the same! Oh, one other thing. I meant to mention to a previous caller, were now entering the spring. In most of the country, its warming up, and we have been told that the virus doesnt do well as it warms up out there.
Outside the body outside the body the virus doesnt survive well. So were getting into the feel-like temperatures in the nineties down here in South Florida. Finally. Weve had a really rotten winter, folks. It never got above 75 down here all winter. Thats bad. I dont mean to be complaining about it, but its just the way it is. At any rate. So that supposedly should be good news.
So Dr. Fauci was asked a question by somebody in the media, Is there gonna be a rebirth of the virus in the fall? Oh, no question itll come back in the fall. Really? We know this? Yeah. And then they said, Well, thats not good, Doctor. Well, no. No, were gonna know a lot more in the fall than we knew when this started at the beginning of this year.
Well, were not gonna have a vaccine. Until we have had a vaccine, all this is academic, is it not? I mean, look at this. All of this social distancing, they say its working, and it probably is. But are we prepared for 18 months of this until we get a vaccine? Are we prepared for 12 months of this?
Do we get a vaccine or a pharmaceutical cocktail that defeats it, until theres a vaccine? And were really hoping that chloroquine is it and were also wondering if chloroquine is it, if anybody will actually admit it. So everybody quarantines or everybody social distances, and we flatten the curve.
We do a good job flattening the curve, and then somebody says, Okay, we flattened the curve! Were on the other side of the hill. Were on the downhill side. You leave home now. You can go to work. But wait. Theres no vaccine. People leave home, transmission starts all over again, and then what does government do?
Uh! Uh! Uh! We released you too soon. Youve gotta go back home, social distancing and so forth. No, Im just saying we have some serious questions that were gonna have to face and answer cause this is not sustainable. It just isnt. Taking this economy back to recession or Great Depression circumstances, does anybody want that? So whats the question?
Well, the question (chuckles) kind of asks itself, and Im kind of saved by the bell here.
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RUSH: Here is Tom in Chicago. Great to have you on the EIB Network, sir. Hello.
CALLER: Thank you, Rush. I have to take umbrage with you calling this a Chinese virus. It is a communist virus. Understand that communism is all about moving wealth out of private hands into public control, and that social progress has advanced so far in China that these poor people dont have enough wealth to get the basic subsistence of life.
They gotta go out and invent new food sources. Theyre eating bats, for Gods sakes, and that virus is now bringing the same social progress to America. Its descending on us faster than the headlines can keep up with it and Im not mad at the American left. Theyve been out there for decades clear about what their mission is.
Im mad about our side for not recognizing this communist revolution taking place from the highest offices of government, media, and education. If were not willing to admit the enemy among us, if were not willing to prosecute treason where treason is found, then we should stop complaining about it; just accept it.
RUSH: Okay. Well, Ill let that stand, as I know. Im being inundated with people who have that point of view, that its not the ChiCom virus, its the communist virus, and were being overtaken. The Chinese communists are doing it. Youre the only person I know who thinks its happening without the cooperation Democrat Party, however.
Most people tell me they think the American left is the worldwide Communist Party now and that they are willingly subverting this economy and destroying it for the purposes of eliminating and wiping out capitalism. (chuckles) Whether thats the design or not, that is happening. This economy is being shut down. Thats why this is not sustainable.
Im sorry. Im sounding like a broken record on this.
But it is not sustainable.
Are we just gonna sit by and watch $22 trillion
? Thats the value. Thats the sum total of the GDP. Thats the U.S. economy. Are we gonna sit by here and watch it evaporate? Cause thats what were doing under the guise of not losing any unnecessary life, meaning we want to try to save as many lives as we can.
This hoax is not sustainable.
lol...
And now with 6 trillion being added to the debt along with the usual 1 trillion deficit, we will be getting terribly close to almost 200 percent debt to GDP
Open up on Easter and SUGGEST that the elderly and sick quarantine another month.
Or there will be nothing left to save and go back to.
(I do wish him a quick and full recovery from this damned virus.)
Is Rush telling us its time to panic?
Hey you still hunkered down in NYC? Stay Safe!
“Or there will be nothing left to save and go back to.”
Yeah, everything is just going to be ash and cinders.
In fact, I think the whole nation will be a gigantic Sahara from one end to the other. Like Zaire, with just more Ethiopia!!!
No. I think Rush is saying that there is going to be serious, sustained damage to the US economy if such a large percentage of it is shutdown for an extended period of time.
I think he is telling us to prepare for the soon to arrive Time To Panic.
I am on staten island but i’ve started going to brooklyn to visit friends and NJ to visit family.
Screw this. I was cracking.
It’s nice. The roads have very light traffic :)
And nobody is getting pulled over for driving.
But that may still happen so i might as well get out a little now!
Another fruit terrified of this virus :)
The msm has done its job well.
It will never betime to panic.
It might be time for war.
Gov. Baker of my state Mass. just pushed this out to May 5th.
By then a lot more people will believe "this just can't go on like this".
Only the Trillions of dollars given to people will calm some of them down. -Tom
Depression is coming. Stock up.
I thought this monologue was pure bull sh*t! He kept hinting but said nothing! He does this crap tomorrow, without any explanation, and I’m turning him off!
Hannity does this type of drama crap!
I love Rush. . . Have missed him. Would have turned him off under different circumstances.
At first glance I thought the highway sign said “#FLATULENCE”
I’m not “terrified” of it, nor am I one of these nutters going on about “the economy will be destroyed” either.
Frankly I find the the hysterics of the political right these days to be an utter embarrassment, surpassing anything the Global Warming freaks have put on.
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