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RUSH: The Drive-By Media wants you to think that this massive stock market plunge is because of the coronavirus. Some of it is, but the vast majority of this has nothing to do with the coronavirus, absolutely nothing to do with the coronavirus. I am here to tell you what the massive market plunge is all about. Now, I don’t know what’s gonna bring it to a screeching halt, but something will because this is gonna end as all things end. The coronavirus is being hyped beyond what it is. Rahm Emanuel, right here we have it, “Coronavirus Could Be...

I love Rush but he has stated several time today that the death rate of Corona virus is LESS than the death rate of influenza. This is just flat out wrong. From the CDC website Mortality rate of influenza: Deaths per 100,000 population: 2. So the CDC says that for every 100,000 people that get the flu, 2 of them will die from it. What is the mortality rate percentage?: 2 (the number of deaths) divided by 100,000 = .00002, or .002%. The estimated mortality rate of corona (which he is basing on the number out of China = 2-3%....

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