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We’re Owed an Explanation
Rush Limbaugh.com ^ | April 9, 2020 | Rush Limbaugh

Posted on 04/09/2020 12:31:45 PM PDT by Kaslin

RUSH: They owe us an explanation. Now, I touched on this yesterday. We are owed a huge explanation. So, 2.2 million deaths. “Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Oh, my God, 2.2. We gotta shut it down. And if we mitigate, maybe 240,000 deaths. If we social distance, we stay at home, if we shut down, if we wear masks, we do all this stuff, maybe a hundred thousand to 200,000, maybe 240,000.” Guess what?

Sixty thousand. “Fauci Slashes U.S. Death Projection, Raising Hope for Reopening.” The doomsayers get to get away with everything. “Fauci Slashes U.S. Death Projection, Raising Hope for Reopening.” What is wrong with this headline? Does Dr. Fauci have anything to do with reopening? Yes. That’s what’s wrong with the headline. This is a Bloomberg News story. “Top infectious disease official credits social distancing.” I’m gonna start calling BS on this.

Now, don’t misunderstand. I’m not saying it’s not important. I’m not saying it’s not relevant. But there is no way social distancing has made the difference in 2.2 million down to 60,000 dead. There is no way that social distancing made the difference from 240,000 dead projected now down to 60,000 dead. And what do you bet that number gets revised down in the coming days? There has to be something else going on here, and it has to be the projections were wrong in the first place because of the models, and we know that they were wrong.

But these guys get to revise their projections and hold on to their expertise status throughout the entire process. I just don’t believe social distancing has suddenly changed the data that lowers the forecast death toll from 240,000 to 60,000. We’re not stupid here.

And I’ll give you another bit of evidence for why I don’t believe this. California, oh, man, is this a huge See, I Told You So. Stanford researchers are now thinking, you know what, maybe it was herd immunity. Maybe the virus has been in California since last fall, and maybe in California they’ve developed an immunity to it, herd immunity. Most of the people that have been exposed to it got antibodies ’cause it makes no sense that in a state of 40 million the death toll is still under – I forget what it was — 750 a few days ago. It’s phenomenally low.

In the state of Oregon practically statistically zero deaths. And it’s not because of social distancing. They told us, they tried to tell us that social distancing is what made the difference in California. California had a two-day head start on social distancing over New York. New York has more deaths than Italy. Are you telling me — see, we’re not stupid here. And you aren’t, either. You’re telling me that a two-day head start on social distancing in California is the reason why there are so few deaths in California compared to New York?

The data is bad. The input data was bad. We told you this my first day back. When I found out that that U.K. modeler could change his outcome from 500,000 dead in the U.K. to 20,000 dead simply by factoring in social distancing, then what good was the first model? And if the model has that wide a variance, if you can input one data point and create this massive shift in outcomes on the model, what good’s the model?

But these people get to hold on to their expert status throughout all of these revisions. They haven’t been right from the get-go. But the doomsayers are never wrong because whatever ends up happening, they can claim credit for it because of their mistakes. “Well, yeah, of course we overshot, but because we overshot we scared the hell out of people, people social distanced, people stayed home. Of course our work is responsible for this.” It’s just the way it works. And everybody got scared. Can’t blame ’em. Everybody got scared into using the data that was trumpeted, put out.

But we are owed an explanation.

“One of President Donald Trump’s top medical advisers slashed projections for U.S. coronavirus deaths on Thursday, saying that only about 60,000 –” And, by the way, I don’t mean to say that 60,000 is insignificant. Those are people. They are loved ones. They are part of families. I’m not trying to be cavalier about it. I’m simply talking about the statistics and the numbers.

Remember, we started with 2.2 million, and they did that on purpose so that they could show great success, 2.2 million, now 60,000. Look at the great work. No. That’s not the way to look at because 2.2 was never an active, real number, and we shut down a $22 trillion economy because of it. And now the death is 60,000, which is on par with the number of flu deaths in America every year.

They told us that this week, remember, “This is gonna be… oh ho, the next two weeks it’s gonna be armageddon, it’s gonna be the apocalypse, it’s like gonna be bad.” And in these two weeks they’re revising everything down. Remember, they said these two weeks, you better expect the worst. We may not have a country after these next tweaks. There may not be enough people to go back work. It’s gonna be bad, it’s gonna be really, really bad out there.”

Now they’re revising the numbers down, the death numbers down during the apocalypse week. It’s a Bloomberg story, by the. “The falling projection, the result of aggressive social distancing behaviors Americans adopted to curb the spread of the virus, may accelerate Trump’s effort to develop a plan to urge Americans to leave their homes and return to work next month.”

I’ll tell you something I’m a little worried about. How many people are gonna be scared to leave their homes? How many Millennials are gonna be scared to death to leave? They’re scared to death anyway. They make up the snowflake generation. They’re scared by a shadow of a conservative on a college campus. It doesn’t even take a real conservative to scare ’em on a campus, just the shadow of one. And if they’re scared of a conservative shadow on a college campus, are they gonna be scared to go back to work? Be concerned. We’ll have to wait and see if it happens.

So here’s Dr. Fauci. “The real data…”

The real data? Oh, we’re talking about real data now?

“The real data are telling us that it is highly likely that we’re having a definite positive effect by this mitigation things that we’re doing — this physical separation — so I believe we are gonna see a downturn in that. And it looks more like the 60,000 than the 100,000 to 200,000. But having said that, we better be careful that we don’t say, ‘OK, we’re doing so well we can pull back.'”

Uh… I… (sigh) Folks, they’re gonna have to explain this, and I know how they’re gonna do it. The doomsayers are gonna tell us, “Hey,” they’re already setting the stage for doing it, “our policies, our requests for social distancing and all that made all the difference.” I don’t…

If we’re gonna say that, that means we have to trust the computer modeling data and that’s the data that’s been all over the place, 2.2 million, 200,000, 100,000, 240,000, 500,000 U.K. The numbers have been all over the place, revised down


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To: DouglasKC

Go to: covid19.healthcare.org. It says, “Covid19 projections assuming full social distancing through May 2020.” The new U.S. death estimate is 60,000. A few days ago it was 80,000 and before that 100,000. All of these estimates have assumed social distancing.


181 posted on 04/09/2020 10:06:36 PM PDT by RedMominBlueState
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To: RedMominBlueState

That is correct these projections INCLUDED mitigation this whole damn thing has been complete BS!!!


182 posted on 04/09/2020 10:12:57 PM PDT by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: Repeal The 17th

For many years I have always used hand sanitizer....I wash my hands often, and never touch my hands to my face unless they are cleaned either after or while being out in public, or else I use my shirt to scratch an itch on my face..... I do this for the simple reason that I hate getting sick.... Now I see people on TV every day talking about how important is to do these things that I have always done..... I don’t wear a mask, don’t change my clothes or shower when I get home.... Considering how cautious I normally am, I don’t see any reason to over compensate, which seems to be what a lot of people are doing now


183 posted on 04/09/2020 10:15:12 PM PDT by The Fop (God Bless Donald Trump, Frank Sinatra, Joan Rivers, and the Fightin' Rat Pack Wing of the GOP)
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To: _Jim
Jim, Is there a similar source for other causes of death for the last three months?

It would be real interesting to see if other "usual" causes also precipitously drop off as well.

Especially if the timing is co incidental to the hockey stick rise in covid deaths.

184 posted on 04/09/2020 10:26:28 PM PDT by going hot (happiness is a momma deuce)
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To: DouglasKC
These TWO FRAUDS out Trump in a BOX....he's still in that box....he's damned if he does and damned if he doesn't!!

WAIT TIL THE NEXT DISEASE GOES AROUND!!

Thee TWO FRAUDS HAVE COST US TRILLIONS!! TRILLIONS!

185 posted on 04/10/2020 4:18:12 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: DouglasKC
These TWO FRAUDS out Trump in a BOX....he's still in that box....he's damned if he does and damned if he doesn't!!

WAIT TIL THE NEXT DISEASE GOES AROUND!!

Thee TWO FRAUDS HAVE COST US TRILLIONS!! TRILLIONS!

186 posted on 04/10/2020 4:57:40 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Travis McGee
Conservatives have always suffered from polarized thinking.

If A is bad, B is good.

Both A and B can be bad.

If the virus is being used for totalitarian means, then the virus must be fake. Ergo, I should 100% urge everyone to ignore it and get infected. Stange hill to die on, considering all the other injustices and destruction they've done nothing about but I digress.

The virus can be all these things: real, deadly, and unknown quantity as far as how it affects your health long term AND a tool for the globalist totalitarians.

187 posted on 04/10/2020 7:24:06 AM PDT by riri (If people still dropping, most aint shopping.)
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To: Yolanda; Travis McGee

I agree with everything you said. My comment was directed at the other poster’s ludicrous accusation that Travis McGee is “on China’s payroll”. Anyone who knows his background knows that nothing could be more asinine.


188 posted on 04/10/2020 8:25:35 AM PDT by Magic Fingers (Political correctness mutates in order to remain virulent.)
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To: DouglasKC
IF nothing were done THEN it would have been catastrophic

No way that is true. It is apparent that many pig headed people ( mostly old farts ) cannot accept that is an old persons disease. Young are not immune from the effects of COVID but are in no more danger than from the "regular" flu. Knowing this the economic shut down was unnecessary. The whole thing had been a mishandled pile of BS.

189 posted on 04/10/2020 8:33:11 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn....)
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To: Travis McGee
The lock down and economic close down would have made sense if all age groups and demographic groups were equally in danger and the disease itself was actually "deadly" in the 10% - 20% mortality range not .05% range that COVID-19 has been.

Back off. Accept this is not Armageddon...

190 posted on 04/10/2020 8:37:56 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn....)
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To: central_va
No way that is true. It is apparent that many pig headed people ( mostly old farts ) cannot accept that is an old persons disease. Young are not immune from the effects of COVID but are in no more danger than from the "regular" flu. Knowing this the economic shut down was unnecessary. The whole thing had been a mishandled pile of BS.

Donald Trump 100% believes it. And if he believes it I believe it. He's got the best interest of America in mind ALL the time. It's what he ran on. It's what he won on. Yet all you second guessers who don't have 1/2 a percent of the information and advisers that the President has think that HE'S the stupid one.

191 posted on 04/10/2020 10:37:59 AM PDT by DouglasKC
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To: Magnatron

Are you talking about the ‘population bomb’, peak oil, killer bees, silent spring (all birds dead), global cooling, global warming, climate change, acid rain, ... or any of other hundreds of BS Chicken Little crap liberals have been putting out for years?

Trust me - the liberal base is so stupid they always believe the ‘next one’...


192 posted on 04/10/2020 12:58:53 PM PDT by GOPJ (COVID Vulnerability Map: https://covid19.jvion.com/ Disease: https://tinyurl.com/cvirusmap)
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To: GOPJ

Lately, it is a Yellowstone eruption, a meteor strike, and the pink moon.


193 posted on 04/10/2020 1:06:16 PM PDT by crusty old prospector
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To: crusty old prospector

I love the ‘meteor strike’ one... what’s it been since the last BIG one? Twelve thousand years?

Or so...

And our idiots are sure the next one will be within the time frame of their puny little lives? Stupid on that level takes my breath away...


194 posted on 04/10/2020 9:30:22 PM PDT by GOPJ (COVID Vulnerability Map: https://covid19.jvion.com/ Disease: https://tinyurl.com/cvirusmap)
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To: DouglasKC

Some just fail to see what Happened in areas where they didn’t act or began too late should have been a wakeup.

I’m certainly convinced had we not taken the measures we did our work force would have been sick and dead, and companies, businesses, families crippled far worse and far longer than the few weeks we’ve been closed down.

Just understanding how terrible this virus affects the body’s system, how quickly it spreads, and without a vacccine or immunity or treatment was sufficient to call for measures. Not to mention the many Dr’s who consistently said they never saw anything like this affect patients so hard and fast.

I recall Emt’s saying they could actually tell which people they picked up would make it or not.........


195 posted on 04/10/2020 9:49:20 PM PDT by caww
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