Posted on 04/07/2020 2:52:29 PM PDT by Kaslin
RUSH: My friends, just to be clear so that you’ll maybe be able to — not understand ’cause I know you understand — understand the context of much of the program today. None of this is making much sense to me. There’s so much of this that doesn’t make sense to me. And that is my overriding mindset here. I’m not off into conspiracyville, don’t misunderstand. There’s just some of this stuff that doesn’t make any sense. And I continue to be scared to death over what we are doing to our economy.
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I never have believed that anything like this would happen with people being ruined. It’s hard to quantify. It’s hard to describe. And I’m frightened for people. I’m more frightened — you know there’s a poll out that more people today are scared about the economic impact of all this than the virus. That makes perfect, total sense. I’m scared to death. I’m scared for the people of this country.
We had the world’s number one economy. We were roaring. We had a record number of people going to work. We had people earning wages that were record highs. Wages were increasing. We had a stock market that was up at 30,000. It doesn’t represent the economy as a whole. It was just one of the elements that indicated that the economy was roaring. And in many cases the record numbers were unprecedented as record numbers would be defined: number of people working, number of people in the labor force.
It was a three-year economic boom. And we ourselves turned it off. We ourselves shut it down. No matter where you go in the country, it’s a ghost town. It’s eerie. But underlying it all to me is just an abject fear for what this is doing to people. And then the long term changes to our country as a means of dealing with it that are being implemented and will be implemented down the line. And at the same time, aside from the president and other people like you and me out here, but in officialdom I don’t see this fear, I don’t see it reflected. I don’t see the concern — well, call it from the elites, call it from the establishment or whatever.
And that doesn’t make sense to me. It seems to me that every American ought to be concerned about the economic impact of this and at the forefront would be creative, productive ways of ending it. Right now, another scary thing to me is it looks like there’s no end in sight. There’s a lot of talk about going back to work, lot of talk about restarting economy, but there doesn’t appear to be because every time we talk about it, then we come back with “And this week and a half and is gonna be the absolute worst week and a half in the history of the country.”
So they’re saying forget anything in the next week and a half. And then when this week and a half goes by, what will be the excuse to forget the next two weeks? (interruption) No, I don’t want people to die. Of course I don’t want people to die. Do you know, in the Bill Bennett column that I cited, can I give you some stats that he has dredged up? Would you believe it if somebody told you that 98% of people who get this virus recover from it? You wouldn’t? Why? Because that’s not reflected in any media. Because the media reporting on this is creating the impression, if you get it, you’re toast. If you get it, you’re gonna croak. That is the overall attitude being conveyed.
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Here’s how Bill Bennett and Seth Leibsohn wrote it yesterday. “Did you know the chances of recovery from the coronavirus are about 98%–if you catch it? Did you know there are models showing 50% of the population may have already had it, never knew they had it, and recovered?” That would be herd immunity. Here’s how Bennett and Leibsohn began the piece.
“As you know, the coronavirus–if you catch it, and get very sick–is a terrible thing to go through and you may even die. The virus and the fear of it are sorely testing our medical capacity in some places. And the body count will get much worse this week, right before Easter. The heroic efforts and sacrifice of many doctors, nurses, and volunteer civilians are all notable and praiseworthy. Millions of Americans are pulling together. We all know this. But do you know the odds of any American getting this virus?”
In other words, what are your odds of getting it? Has anybody reported it? “One would think that number is easily known or available. It’s not.” Do we have a one in 10 chance of getting it? One in five chance? What are the circumstances in which our chances or odds increase?
Bennett writes that “a lot of digging into various municipal data portals reveals, based on the population tested, that rates can vary from, at most, eight-tenths of a percent in New York City to two-one-hundredths of a percent in Phoenix.” Let me put those numbers in perspective for you. In New York I just gave you the death toll: 5,500 deaths, 138,000 cases. New York has a population of eight million. So eight-tenths of a percent of the population of New York have contracted the disease. In Phoenix two one-hundredths of a percent have contracted the disease. And we’ve shut down the economy.
Bennett again writes here that the chances of recovery from the coronavirus is about 98% if you catch it. By the way, Rand Paul has tested negative. He’s just tweeted that he’s back to normal. “Again, one would think that this data -” 98% recover, models show 50% of the population may have already had it. “One would think this data would be widely available and reported. It isn’t. What is presented widely are numbers and warnings that scare and frighten us, and we are now being conditioned to a lot of panic and speculation. But part of the reason we are getting conditioned to a lot of panic is because of the wide range of speculation about other numbers we accept as our new fright-inducing reality, an increasingly confusing and frenzied set of numbers. And the normalization of our panic is having dire consequences and augurs for even worse.”
In other words, the longer it goes on, the panic becomes the normal state of mind. And as the panic becomes a normal state of mind, when everybody’s turned loose to return, a lot of people may not, not trusting it or be scared.
“Our officials and media have warned us of 2 million deaths in the United States. Then 200,000 deaths. Then 100,000 to 240,000. This needs to stop. There have been a total of 68,000 coronavirus deaths worldwide. And we are told we will see, just in America, three to four times that number. Does that even pass the plausibility test?”
Sixty-eight thousand coronavirus deaths worldwide, and we’re told that we’re gonna see, just in America, three to four times that number? Four times six, 240,000, that’s what the number is. Now, those numbers have been revised backwards, downward by the models.
“But there is more. With all the blaring chyrons and death and disease counts, has anyone tried to search for the average age of the death toll from this pathogen? It’s very hard to do–though we are told the virus more maleficently affects those over 65, and is worse with each year of age. Why do you think this point, this fact, is not everywhere available? Could it be there is an investment and interest in scaring all of us? You can find some stories with state and local data, but isn’t it interesting the general data is not available? Our best analysis shows in New York City 70% of the deaths are of those over age 65.”
I just happen to have the numbers on this right here in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers. It’s from the Rockland Westchester Journal News. It’s part of the USA Today Gannett news empire. The majority of New York’s more than 5,500 deaths due to coronavirus were among men, and 86% of these deaths were among people who already had underlying illnesses like high blood pressure and diabetes, and this is not this guy who wrote the story making it up. He says it’s state data.
The data, the stats released late yesterday, offer the latest glimpse in how the rapidly spreading virus has impacted New York and made it the epicenter. Of the 5,500 deaths in New York since the first on March the 14th, 61% were men, 39% were women. Sixty-three percent of the deaths were among those age 70 and older while 7% of the cases were those 49 and younger. Of the 4,089 of those who died had at least one other chronic disease, the record showed. The leading underlying illness was high blood pressure, which showed up in 55 of the deaths. Next, diabetes in 1,700 of the deaths, about 37% of the cases. Other top illnesses found in those who died from coronavirus were hyperlipidemia, coronary artery disease, renal disease — that’s kidneys, for those of you in Rio Linda — and dementia. For those of you in Rio Linda, think Joe Biden.
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RUSH: There’s still a couple things from the Bill Bennett column I want to share with you, but let’s get started.
This Sean in Portland, Oregon. I’m glad you called. You’re up first today. Great to have you here with us. Hi.
CALLER: Rush, good to hear your voice. Thank you. Happy Easter week to you. Hey, quick thought and question. Considering the low threshold of cases it took to have life and the economy shut down, I’m kind of wondering, what’s the opposite threshold? How many cases will it take to start relaxing these restrictions and go back to normal again?
RUSH: Well, this is a good question. You know why? Because it wasn’t the threshold of cases that shut the country down. It was these models projecting how many people were gonna die if we didn’t. It was the models, Sean.
CALLER: Yes.
RUSH: It was the models predicting mass death, 2.2 million! You can’t erase that number. It should have him been used, but it was; 2.2 million is the starting point. That gave them every weapon they needed to shut down the economy.
CALLER: Well, if that’s the case — and if these experts and their models set that up — then it gives me pause to think that they’re gonna want to drag this out until there’s a number of cases so they can cover themselves to say, “We don’t want it to spread rapidly again if we have even a small amount of cases.”
RUSH: Yeah.
CALLER: It seems like they’re gonna use the models to help protect themselves as well as give an excuse to (crosstalk) drag this out unnecessarily.
RUSH: Well, this is something that the vaunted task force will have to figure out, the task force on restarting the economy. Because I want to remind you that every day when the subject comes up in the briefing, Dr. Fauci manages to remind everybody that there will never, ever be a return to normal until we have a vaccine.
Translation: We can’t open up until we get a vaccine. Do you know that we still do not have a vaccine for HIV? And that virus hit in the 1980s. Now, they have ways of helping people who get it, but we still do not have a vaccine for HIV. Vaccines for viruses are really rare. There are many more viruses that are out there for which there is no vaccine than there are viruses with a vaccine.
We don’t have a vaccine for HIV, and that was Dr. Fauci’s specialty.
That’s what put him on the map.
We still don’t have a vaccine for it.
We’ve got treatment. We have very advanced treatments for it. So the idea of putting people back to work based on the current way we’re discussing this, you’d have to say never. If the objective remains what it is, never opening the economy. Now, that can’t be. This isn’t sustainable. We’re beyond what was sustainable now, if you ask me, my humble opinion.
Rush is so right about this. I just hope Trump is still listening. It will enormous courage to tell Dr Doom to go F himself when he goes into the Oval office again with his crap graphs at the end of the month.
Wait, does this make him a flubro?
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge.
When the going gets fearful, the fearful turn pro.
I fear the lying media more.
Like Rush said, either we go back to work or we surrender. Praying to God this country comes back to life after April 30th. This just can’t go on.
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I stated on this site that President Trump’s instincts were 100% spot on when he stated, the Cure cannot be Worse than the disease.
I further stated that the models were/are GIGO. And, seriously out of whack with reality. Just exactly like the Global Warming models.
I was hammered by the Freeper Littles on this site within minutes.
Now the models have been adjusted downwards 3 times and they are still showing numbers far above the reality on the ground.
Gov’t bureaucrats with Dr. in front of their names none of whom are frontline doctors but simply Lab Rat Bureaucrats have caused this great country needless pain with their overblown fearmongering.
Nancy wants to be able to say that the next Massive Package she puts out was rejected by Trump because he doesn’t care about the blah blah blah.
No, it will be because this thing will be relatively finished within a month and there will be an effective treatment out there for those who do get it in most cases.
I can’t imagine that Trump isn’t seeing what we’re seeing with regards to Dr. F. Why doesn’t he take over and end this self quarantine because this is getting so out of hand. Families are getting arrested for being in the park alone, and we’re not in Nazi Germany.
They’re talking about another stimulus package. We don’t need one if they just let us all go back to work.
The problem is, now that public health officials, governors and mayors have seized absolute power, they kinda like it and don’t want to give it up.
I don’t think we’ll come back life in one leap. I suspect it will go slowly until August.
Well Rush, (not u Kaslin). I’ve been out of work for a couple of weeks. Because the experts decided the risk of husband who has a wife that works with Kung Flu patients, would be detrimental to their business..
Yup. Looking for a new job... spit on the lot of them
Next stimulus package will be heavily tilted towards ..
.... I N F R A S T R U C T U R E !!!
Or PDJT is not President.
This should rattle the Fearpers’ cages.
Amen. Comrade Governors and Comrade Mayors will be very slow to give up their powers, in my view.
Part of the problem with this is that Comrade Pelosi wants to put in a bunch of far-left stuff that have nothing to do with the Coronavirus.
If there is another stimulus package, the #1 thing in it should be 100% funding for every inch of the wall. Surely people can now see that we need to control our borders.
I think it's time, or almost time to quarantine NYC and for the rest of us to get back to work.
“quarantine NYC and for the rest of us to get back to work.”
That is the most practical solution.
We will see if President Trump will do it.
I hope so. Flyover country IS NOT NYC.
By April 30th it’s over. That’s too long.
And mark my word, Trump will stupidly extend it to May 15.
The trillions in stimulus will destroy markets. Inflation will get worse.
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