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<\/p>\nRUSH: I mentioned yesterday that all this coronavirus hype is aimed at getting Trump. Make no mistake about it: It\u2019s aimed at getting Trump. Here is a media montage that makes the point. Essentially, forget the Russians — at least today — because now the coronavirus is gonna be the end of Trump.<\/p>\n
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SARA EISEN: If the coronavirus spreads into a pandemic, it improves Bernie Sanders chances of beating Donald Trump.<\/p>\n
RUSH: How?<\/p>\n
RANA FOROOHAR: You\u2019ve got coronavirus potentially causing a real headwind to the economy around November, the time of the election.<\/p>\n
JAKE TAPPER: That could affect his re-election chances.<\/p>\n
JOHN THOMAS: Every indicator is fairly locked in at this point for Trump to get re-elected, unless there\u2019s a black swan moment like this.<\/p>\n
CHRIS BEDFORD: It wouldn\u2019t be too difficult to trigger a recession — especially with coronavirus raging — just in time for the election.<\/p>\n
JEFF MASON: It could potentially hurt President Trump\u2019s chances of re-election.<\/p>\n
JIM CRAMER: … the economy slows dramatically \u2019cause of the virus.<\/p>\n
DAVID FABER: Oh. Okay.<\/p>\n
JIM CRAMER: Right, so —<\/p>\n
DAVID FABER: That would bolster the chances —<\/p>\n
JIM CRAMER: — of the Democrats.<\/p>\n
BRIT HUME: With all these unpredictable factors including the coronavirus, almost anything can happen.<\/p>\n
TUCKER CARLSON: The coronavirus could get Bernie Sanders elected president of the United States.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Why couldn\u2019t the coronavirus get Donald Trump reelected? What if the United States comes up with a dramatically great policy to deal with it — and the number of cases in the United States dwindles, goes down, or does not expand like the cases around the world? Then why wouldn\u2019t that be beneficial to Trump? Notice: Here we are in February, and they\u2019ve already got this virus ruining the economy by November, in time to take out Trump. This is proof they\u2019ve got nothing. They know they can\u2019t beat the guy, folks.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: I want to share with you some of the Trump press conference, \u2019cause this is confidence, this is strength, this is a presence on the world stage that the Democrats again just don\u2019t have anybody who can match up. And in the bites that we have here, Trump deals with the Democrats and the coronavirus, goes after Justice Sotomayor — Sodamayor, for those of you in Rio Linda.<\/p>\n
And he really has gone after these two judges on the Supreme Court. That they need to recuse themselves from these immigration cases because they are taking open public political positions on these cases. And he\u2019s right about it. So here\u2019s the first bite.<\/p>\n
THE PRESIDENT: You may ask about the coronavirus, which is very well under control in our country. We have very few people with it. We think they\u2019ll be in very good shape very soon. I think that whole situation will start working out. A lot of talent, a lot of brain power has been put behind it. Two and a half million dollars we\u2019re putting in. I see that Chuck Schumer criticized it. He thought it should be more. And if I gave more, he\u2019d say it should be less. Automatic, with these characters. They\u2019re just not good for our country.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Now, I want you to pay attention to something Trump said here. Very well under control in our country. We have very few people with it. The fatality rate is something like 80,000 cases in the world that are known. There have been 2,700 deaths. You know what that translates to, a fatality percentage — it\u2019s like 2 to 3 percent, folks. The fatality rate of this virus is less than the flu, far less than the flu.<\/p>\n
But look at how it\u2019s been hyped. And it\u2019s being hyped because, as you heard in the first audio sound bite, the montage, media thinks this is the new Russia, this is gonna get Trump, they\u2019re gleeful, they\u2019re happy. This is gonna destroy the economy magically by November. And it won\u2019t.<\/p>\n
And Trump says: “Very well under control in our country.”<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Move on now to audio sound bite number five. This is Ron Brownstein this morning on CNN\u2019s Newsroom. He also works at The Atlantic magazine. And this is his take on how Trump is dealing with the coronavirus.<\/p>\n
BROWNSTEIN: The contrast with how Barack Obama handled the Ebola outbreak is very, I think illuminative, of the way they approach the world. Obviously, President Obama named an Ebola Czar, Ron Klain, who was Joe Biden\u2019s chief of staff and former White House counsel. But he also was very engaged with the frontline states in terms of sending U.S. assistance to them to help them manage the outbreak on the front lines. That if a pandemic develops, ultimately it is everybody\u2019s problems. Look at the contrast between the president\u2019s language when he said, you know, we\u2019re handling it very well and no sense of kind of interconnectedness with the other countries.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: This is precisely what these people do not get. Donald Trump is president of the United States. He is not president of the world. It is not his job to control the spread of the coronavirus in China. It\u2019s not his job to control the spread of the coronavirus in the U.K. There\u2019s nothing he can do anyway about it. He doesn\u2019t have the force of law behind him. All he has is the power that being the president of the lone superpower in the world gives him.<\/p>\n
But Trump\u2019s first commitment and first responsibility is to the people of the United States. Not only on the coronavirus, but on the economy, on trade deals, on whatever it is that affects the safety and prosperity of the people of America. His view is that his first responsibility is you and me and the 50 states in this country, 57 if you\u2019re Obama. And his belief is that if that happens, that if the United States looks after itself first — you know, this is what they say is nationalism. This is how they try to say that Trump is an equal authoritarian to people like Hitler. And nothing could be further from the truth, obviously.<\/p>\n
This is patriotism. And it may even be nationalism. What\u2019s wrong with nationalism? What is wrong with nationalism that is rooted in patriotism? Nationalism of Trump is not country right despite everything, it\u2019s not always right, right or wrong, America right, at the end of the day. It\u2019s not that at all. But his view is: I have the ability and the foresight and the responsibility to protect the people of the United States from illegal immigration, from economic calamity, from whatever it might be, including rampant disease.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s also his job to avoid creating a panic when one is not necessary in the United States. And so here comes Ron Brownstein, representative of all in the media, contrasting this with Obama. And look what Obama did. Obama not only tried to protect America from Ebola, but he tried to protect the world. He appointed an Ebola czar, Ron Klain, Joe Biden\u2019s chief of staff. Very engaged with the frontline states in terms of sending U.S. assistance to them.<\/p>\n
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These are for show moves. This is what Washington politicians do. Nothing but making it look like they\u2019re doing everything. The difference is Obama and his ilk are a bunch of phonies devoted to public relations victories. Trump is a real guy who is actually trying to protect the United States when it comes to coronavirus or anything else. And then he doesn\u2019t phony it up by appointing a coronavirus czar and sending him over to China to supposedly manage it there, where it originated, or anywhere else where it happens to be spreading. He deals with it here.<\/p>\n
But these guys, “Oh, man, we wish we had Obama. Obama would control it for the whole world.” What did Obama do for Ebola? How was Obama stopping Ebola? He didn\u2019t. You know what stops Ebola? I hate to say this, death. Ebola can\u2019t survive in dead hosts. It needs hosts. The more people with Ebola die, the faster Ebola dies out in that particular strain. If you can isolate the people who have Ebola, that\u2019s how you stop it.<\/p>\n
Ebola\u2019s a horrible, horrible virus, not even comparable to the coronavirus. It\u2019s literally horrible. And there\u2019s no antidote for it. It\u2019s a virus. Don\u2019t have a cure for viruses. Otherwise the common cold wouldn\u2019t be what it is, and the flu wouldn\u2019t be. These are all viruses. Now, we can mitigate the damage, treat the symptoms, maybe strengthen the immune system to make the effects of these diseases less, but we can\u2019t cure them, and there are very few — what do you call \u2019em? — vaccines for viruses. There are some, but it\u2019s a handful, folks. It\u2019s tiny.<\/p>\n
And there\u2019s no stopping Ebola. You don\u2019t want any part of it. An Ebola czar wasn\u2019t gonna do one thing to stop Ebola. It was just gonna make it look like Obama cared, which is exactly what liberals do. “We care. Other people don\u2019t. Vote for us.” Meanwhile, what do they do to solve problems? Zip, zero, nada. What happened to America during the eight years of Obama? Trump spent three years trying to fix it and has.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: John King at CNN brought in the chief medical correspondent, Dr. Sanjay Gupta, this afternoon to refute something I said yesterday about the coronavirus — and I want you to listen to this very, very carefully.<\/p>\n
KING: I want you to listen here, uh, to Rush Limbaugh\u2019s take on the coronavirus.<\/p>\n
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RUSH ARCHIVE: It looks like the coronavirus is being weaponized as yet another element to bring down Donald Trump. Now, I want to tell you the truth about the coronavirus. … The coronavirus is the common cold, folks.<\/p>\n
KING: Dr. Gupta, is the coronavirus the common cold?<\/p>\n
GUPTA: This is a brand-new virus. It\u2019s a novel virus. Uh, we don\u2019t know exactly how this virus is going to behave. And I think that would unfortunately, you know, be minimizing it. I think what, uh, Rush Limbaugh\u2019s sort of referring to is the idea that it is from a family of coronaviruses that is the family name of these viruses, and, uh, some of them in the past have caused symptoms that were more consistent with, uh, the common cold. But it\u2019s also been the same family of viruses that caused SARS, that called MERS — uh, the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome.<\/p>\n
RUSH: I said yesterday there are numerous types of coronavirus. This is coronavirus 19. Now, the official name of is COVID-19. But it\u2019s in common parlance so that even people in Rio Linda can follow along, it\u2019s coronavirus number 19. The fatality rate even in China is 2%. Now, that\u2019s greater than the common cold but less than the flu. It\u2019s a respiratory virus. That\u2019s what it does. It gets into your respiratory system and it causes symptoms like the common cold — or, at worst, the flu — and depending on your age, just like the flu, it can be fatal.<\/p>\n
Now, the question about this coronavirus is, “Where\u2019d it come from?” It came from, as best anybody can tell, a lab in Wuhan, China. Now, I don\u2019t know, but there are people who are speculating that the ChiComs were attempting to weaponize this virus, and somebody discovered this. Some scientist, some doctor discovered this independently back in December and tried to warn everybody about what he was seeing, because it looked like a virus that had a human element to it that was weaponized.<\/p>\n
That scientist\/doctor is now dead. Wuhan, China, is a town of about 11 million. It\u2019s a huge city by American standards. It\u2019s, you know, middle of the road by ChiCom standards. I looked at it on a map. It\u2019s right smack-dab in one of the most populated regions. And just for the sake of your information, the reason why there\u2019s all this talk about hard economic times for Apple and other tech firms that have their products assembled there is because the factories that employ 500,000 people are part of the Wuhan metro area.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s why these factories are shut down or were and why the numbers of people returning to work is less than 50%, and that\u2019s why there\u2019s all the talk here about potential economic problems, slowdowns for companies like Apple and so forth, \u2019cause Wuhan is right smack-dab in the middle of China. It\u2019s a large region. You got a billion people there.<\/p>\n
So you could go as far as 500 miles away from Wuhan and still be within a very centralized location where there are many factories that employ that many people who can\u2019t show up for work, who are now starting to trickle back to work. But I have here in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers: The World Health Organization says that the… Let\u2019s see. This is not the one. Yes. The head of the WHO, Tedros Adhanom “Boutros Boutros-Ghali” Ghebreyesus, said yesterday that “while Iran and Italy have reported a surge in coronavirus cases over the last several days” the coronavirus “has not yet met the criteria for a pandemic…”<\/p>\n
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In fact, Mr. Tedros Boutros Boutros-Ghali “said that the health agency has not found ‘uncontained global spread\u2019 of the virus, and has noted a steady decline in new cases in China…” So it may have peaked at the point of origin, and you know how you know that it\u2019s peaked at the point of origin? Because all of these tech firm factories are opening up, and these factories are now offering all kinds of incentives to get the employees to come back.<\/p>\n
The ChiCom government would not be permitting this if the threat were still expanding in the Wuhan area, and let\u2019s call it like a 500-mile radius or 400-mile radius. The ChiComs would still be trying to get a handle on it. You know, a lot of people — you know, cynics everywhere — say it\u2019s weaponized, potentially. China, ChiComs, communist Chinese, what are they doing here? You know, it wouldn\u2019t be bad for them if they lost some of their population. It\u2019s impossible to feed and keep healthy.<\/p>\n
Do you know where this virus is rumored to have come from? You may not know this. But food in China is such a different proposition. You try feeding a billion people as a communist economic system. These people eat anything. They eat live bats. They eat live snakes. Do you realize how easily contaminated this stuff can get? That\u2019s where it\u2019s thought that this might have originated.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: “Rush, what do you mean that an Ebola czar is just a PR move?” Okay, Ebola czar. Remember when Boko Haram kidnapped a bunch of girls in Africa? What did Michelle Obama do? Come up with a Twitter hashtag called #BringBackOurGirls.<\/p>\n
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What did that accomplish? Zero! But it sure made everybody think she cared a lot. It felt like they were doing something about it. That\u2019s what I mean by PR move.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Let me share with you a sound bite, again from CNN. This afternoon on Inside Politics. The guest is the national political correspondent from TIME magazine. Her name is Molly Ball. I don\u2019t know whose talking, I don\u2019t know who was asking her anything, John King or whoever. She\u2019s obviously been asked about me and my thoughts on the coronavirus and this was what she said.<\/p>\n
BALL: Everybody hopes that Rush is right and this is no more serious than the common cold, and even if lots and lots of people get it, it is not very deadly, but I think there is the potential for a situation, uh, where there\u2019s mass confusion because nobody knows what to believe because this president has such a track record of not necessarily being truthful, that you could have a panic, you could have all kinds of consequences of that.<\/p>\n
RUSH: So the coronavirus, we hope Rush is right, but Rush could be wrong because Trump doesn\u2019t tell us the truth. Rush could be wrong because Trump has such a track record of not being truthful that you could have a panic and he would deny it. And so you could end up getting a fatal disease and not know you\u2019re gonna die because Trump is telling you you\u2019re okay.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m sorry. This is how they\u2019re covering this. And, meanwhile, it was Obama who told a woman whose mother was a hundred years old (imitating Obama), “No, I don\u2019t think your Mom wanting to live is gonna be a factor in Obamacare. I think at that age, if she gets there, we\u2019ll just give her a pain pill so she\u2019ll be happy. Here\u2019s a happy pill and enjoy the rest of your life.”<\/p>\n
Who is it that doesn\u2019t appear to care about people? The idea Donald Trump doesn\u2019t care about people is so asinine. You couldn\u2019t have the trade policy, the economic policy, the tax policy, you couldn\u2019t have the foreign policy Donald Trump has if you didn\u2019t care about the American people. What we\u2019re looking at is a president who actually cares more about the American people than many of the presidents we\u2019ve had in our generation. And I am not exaggerating that.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: By the way, in that previous sound bite — I\u2019m not gonna replay it — the one with Sanjay Gupta on CNN, John King says, “So, Dr. Gupta, is the coronavirus the common cold like Dr. Limbaugh says?” And Dr. Gupta says, “Well, you know, I think what Rush was referring to is it\u2019s from a family of…” He did not say I was wrong. Can I ask you a question? You remember the cruise ship that was quarantined in Japan? What was it, the Virus of the Seas? Whatever the name the ship was.<\/p>\n
How many people were on board that trip, 2,500 or 3,000?<\/p>\n
What percentage of \u2019em were infected?<\/p>\n
Practically 80% of them were infected.<\/p>\n
How many have died?<\/p>\n
Pfft! Zero.<\/p>\n
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Fourteen Americans, I think, on that ship have been brought back under quarantine. How many of \u2019em have died? Look, folks, it is what it is. The media wants it to be what it not yet is. Now, it could be. It could evolve and who knows what it could be. Right now, the media is reporting on the coronavirus as they hope it evolves. They hope for hurricanes on the first day of hurricane season. They hope for Hurricane Katrina so they can say, “Climate change!”<\/p>\n
Anything to advance the leftist agenda. Now, the leftist agenda includes getting rid of Trump. They would love for the coronavirus to be this deadly strain that wipes everybody out so they could blame Trump for it. Don\u2019t doubt me on that. If you\u2019ve been paying attention to the mainstream media for the past four years, you can\u2019t doubt me on that. They haven\u2019t reported one thing true about these supposed Trump scandals.<\/p>\n
There was no collusion with Russia. There was not a shred of evidence. There was nothing he did wrong to be impeached — zip, zero, nada — and yet look at what they made of it. The news became what they wanted to be true, and because they wanted it to be true, they reported it as true. They\u2019re doing the same thing with the coronavirus. Just be patient. Just, you know, be in control. If it evolves and becomes something very bad, I am confident the United States will be prepared for it because we have competent people in these agencies now.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Okay, here is a confirmation of the Wuhan, China, coronavirus outbreak. The numbers (exactly as I mentioned to you mere moments ago) are 80,419 cases in a city of 11 million plus the surrounding region, 2,711 deaths from COVID-19, which is coronavirus 19. Somebody call Louis Farrakhan. This is coronavirus 19 — and you know in Calypso Louie\u2019s world, 19 unlocks the secret to everything. (impression) “There are 19 steps in the first three feet of the Washington Monument,” or whatever he came up with.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Livonia, Michigan. This is Michael, great to have you. We love calls from Livonia, Michigan. Great people there. How are you?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Rush, I want to tell you, first of all, that my family and I are praying every day for you to make a full, fast recovery.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Thank you, sir.<\/p>\n
CALLER: And easy recovery.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Very much.<\/p>\n
CALLER: So what prompted my call — we need you, Rush — what prompted my call was, and I don\u2019t want to nitpick too much here on the numbers. I appreciate what you\u2019re doing, but I think a lot of people are concerned, like I am, because we don\u2019t have all the information. Everything I\u2019ve seen — and I\u2019ve been trying to educate myself in a responsible way. And if I\u2019m using sources that you feel are discredited or not valuable, then tell me and we should, you know, know not to use these sources.<\/p>\n
But everything I\u2019ve seen, the flu rate, the death rate from the typical flu typically is somewhere between 1 to 2 percent. What we\u2019re seeing right now with coronavirus, COVID-19 in countries like Italy, I think it\u2019s around 3%. In Iran, I think it\u2019s somewhere closer to like 16%. South Korea, we don\u2019t know, but it\u2019s much higher.<\/p>\n
And so here\u2019s what I wanted to say to you yesterday. Because I haven\u2019t really heard everything that Trump has said, but as of yesterday I certainly felt when you made the comment that President Trump — that this is somehow being used to try to destroy President Trump, I was thinking, President Trump will hurt himself if he doesn\u2019t get out in front of this and make sure that the public — he needs to instill more confidence in the American public that he understands this, that he has this under control, and that we\u2019re doing the job we should be doing. The last comment —<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yeah, let me comment on the Trump thing first. I think Trump is a different ball of wax. If Trump were out there telling you, “I got it controlled. My team\u2019s working on it. We\u2019re doing everything we can,” even though that hasn\u2019t been done yet, would you feel better about it? You probably would. I think Trump\u2019s people, I think the National Institutes of Health, I think all kinds of people are working their butts off on this, and Trump knows not to assure people before it\u2019s time to.<\/p>\n
Assuring people that nothing\u2019s gonna go wrong until he knows that would be the biggest mistake in the world. This is what other people do, “We\u2019re working on it, we got it handled, we got a czar. We\u2019re gonna prevent the spread of this.” That\u2019s the total wrong way. Trump is not into PR on these kinds of things. He\u2019s into the reality of it. So I think he\u2019s not talking much about it yet because he\u2019s got nothing really to say about it until he gets reported to by people at various CDC agencies, National Institutes of Health, on what really is going on here.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Well, that\u2019s fair. But, like I said, even if he could just simply say that we\u2019re watching it very closely, we\u2019re taking it seriously, even that\u2019s something. I think he was saying yesterday something like the stock market looks great or never better and, meanwhile, it\u2019s dropping a thousand points. But let me mention this \u2019cause I think this is even more important than the real reason I called.<\/p>\n
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So I\u2019m looking at a source called pandemic.news. It\u2019s an offshot of NaturalNews.com. The gentleman\u2019s name is Mike Adams. I don\u2019t know if this is credible, but he claims to be using U.S. government and CDC and other U.S. government websites and statistics to prove all his points and he\u2019s got a background in pandemics or in science and health.<\/p>\n
So he\u2019s saying, as of yesterday, that there\u2019s hardly any testing going on in the U.S. So, therefore, we don\u2019t really know how many people in the U.S. have this or how serious it is, and the CDC kits are not reliable. I\u2019m not really sure, if this is to be believed, then we don\u2019t yet have a handle on this —<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, I can\u2019t help you \u2019cause I never heard of the guy. I mean, I know a lot of Mike Adams. Don\u2019t know this guy, don\u2019t know this website. I can\u2019t help you. These are the kind of things that — they\u2019re a challenge. Everybody wants to know more than what is being reported on something. And you glom on. If you\u2019re worried and scared and if you think this is gonna be bad and you run across a site that confirms your fears, then you tend to believe them. It\u2019s the nature of the internet today.<\/p>\n
Now, I do have a sound bite — this might make you feel better. This is Dr. Anthony Fauci. We lifted the ban. He was on MSNBC\u2019s ripping me. He\u2019s ripping me for being wrong about this. And here\u2019s what he said about it. This was just this afternoon.<\/p>\n
FAUCI: Well, first of all, the common cold rarely, if ever, kills anybody. Rarely. Truly rarely. And even seasonal influenza has a mortality of 0.1%.<\/p>\n
RUSH: It\u2019s higher than that.<\/p>\n
FAUCI: The current mortality of this outbreak, at least in China, was about two to two and a half percent. That\u2019s serious. So I think it would not be appropriate to say that this is just another common cold because it clearly is not just another common cold.<\/p>\n
RUSH: So the long knives are out for your host on CNN and on MSNBC. And the question that Dr. Fauci was asked, I want to share with you from the fill-in host, Chris Jansing. Are you ready for this question? “Dr. Fauci, one of the things the president said today was that I think the whole situation will start working out, and Rush Limbaugh, who is a big supporter of the president, said to his many listeners on his show Monday that we\u2019re basically overstating this, that it\u2019s the common cold.”<\/p>\n
So I\u2019m being lumped in with Trump and therefore I can\u2019t be trusted, Trump can\u2019t be trusted. We gotta go to Dr. Anthony Fauci, “Well, it\u2019s a little bit worse than the common cold because of the death rate and so forth.”<\/p>\n
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RUSH: The one thing that people do in all of these epidemic, pandemic things, people keep mixing up the mortality rate for the United States with the mortality rate for the rest of the world. And, folks, the mortality rate in the rest of the world is always gonna be higher than it is in the United States. And I\u2019m sorry if that offends anybody, but it\u2019s just the way it is. We\u2019re an advanced society.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: So just sitting here watching Fox, and, you know, it\u2019s panic city. CDC — Centers for Disease Control — “U.S. outbreak a question of when, not if. It could be bad. Americans should brace.” “CDC Urges Americans to Prepare for Coronavirus Outbreak: ‘This might be bad.'” It\u2019s a virus. What are you gonna do?<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s the substance of the story. “Americans should brace themselves for an outbreak of the deadly coronavirus to upend their daily lives.” That\u2019s a hell of a warning. Snerdley, everybody in there, you need to be prepared for your lives to be upended. (interruption) Well, you better be. You better be. Your life is about to be upended. Do you know what that means? (interruption) No. Your life being upended, it means what\u2019s up is down and what\u2019s down is up, including you. Your life is gonna be upended.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s just the first paragraph. Let\u2019s move on to the next one. “‘It\u2019s not so much of a question of if this will happen in this country anymore but a question of when this will happen,\u2019 the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention\u2019s Dr. Nancy Messonnier told reporters.”<\/p>\n
Somebody, quick, find out who she donates to politically. M-e-s-s-o-n-n-i-e-r, Dr. Nancy, CDC. I want to find out who she donates to. Next sentence. “We are asking the American public to prepare for the expectation that this might be bad.” Okay. How would you prepare for something that might be bad? Remember, now, there\u2019s not a coronavirus shot like there is a flu shot. There isn\u2019t one of those. So what are you gonna do?<\/p>\n
Next sentence. “Messonnier, director of the CDC\u2019s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, outlined what an epidemic here could mean for schools and businesses.” By the way, the number of cases in the United States right now is 57. I just saw it on a map, 57 known cases in the United States.<\/p>\n
“She said schools should consider plans to divide students into smaller groups, or use ‘internet-based tele-schooling.'” So keep the kids at home, maybe. Don\u2019t let \u2019em go to school. Don\u2019t let \u2019em in the incubator. Now, that could upend your life. Hee-hee-hee-hee. Next sentence. “For adults, businesses can replace in-person meetings with video or telephone conferences and increase teleworking options.”<\/p>\n
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So the CDC is telling everybody right now keep your kids at home and keep yourself at home and don\u2019t go anywhere, and communicate with people via FaceTime. There are 57 cases, known cases, reported cases in the United States. The CDC on Monday announced — I\u2019m sorry. It\u2019s 53. I was wrong.<\/p>\n
“The CDC on Monday announced there are now 53 confirmed cases of the coronavirus in the US, including people evacuated from the Diamond Princess cruise ship in Japan and from the Chinese city of Wuhan.”<\/p>\n
So the 53 cases are people who contracted the disease while not here. How many of the 53 have died? It doesn\u2019t say. So we\u2019ll have to just wait see. And now there\u2019s a market sell-off. The Dow was down about 600 points. Now it\u2019s down 824, 825 points. And the Drive-By Media is showing video clips of Donald Trump in India downplaying the coronavirus, saying we\u2019ve got it handled, we\u2019ve authorized two and a half billion dollars to get started on research and planning on this stuff.<\/p>\n
Alex Azar, who heads the Department of Health and Human Services, appeared before Congress, said that\u2019s what we\u2019re doing, we\u2019re getting full speed. And that\u2019s when Chuck Schumer said, not enough money, criticized Trump for not caring enough, not putting enough money at it. So that\u2019s that.<\/p>\n
So I\u2019m sure a lot of people are going to be appropriately concerned \u2019cause now you have the CDC telling everybody to stay home, don\u2019t let your kids go to school, start communicating with people on FaceTime or some other teleconference manner that you have. That just isn\u2019t practical. That isn\u2019t going to happen.<\/p>\n
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Okay. Back to the audio sound bites. And up next is Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel. He\u2019s from the famous Emanuel family of Democrat power brokers, including Rahm Emanuel, the former mayor of Chicago, and Ari Emanuel, who\u2019s one of the most powerful agents in Hollywood. I\u2019ve met Ari. He\u2019s a nice guy. And he knew who I was. He\u2019s a nice guy.<\/p>\n
Now, Zeke Emanuel was very, very, very, very closely tied to the creation of Obamacare during the Obama “adminishration,” as so many Democrat women pronounce the word, “adminishration, schuggle.” He was on CNN Newsroom this afternoon with the infobabe Brooke Baldwin. And she said to Zeke Emanuel, “What do you make of how Trump characterized the virus -” by the way, Trump characterized the virus as “we got it under control. We\u2019re dealing with it. Two and a half billion dollars have been appropriated. We\u2019re gonna study it, we\u2019re gonna keep things under control.”<\/p>\n
That\u2019s what Trump said and the media is livid saying that Trump doesn\u2019t care, Trump\u2019s not out front enough, Trump\u2019s not doing enough. Trump said, “Don\u2019t worry, we got it under control.” So here is her question: “What do you make of how Trump characterized the virus?” Here\u2019s Zeke Emanuel.<\/p>\n
EMANUEL: It\u2019s gonna get worse before it\u2019s gonna get better and we need to be well aware of that. We\u2019re gonna have more faces before it\u2019s going to taper off and decline, and the idea that we\u2019re not gonna have more than a 50 or a few more cases, that\u2019s just not likely. It is a low-risk situation now, given what we know, the death rate is 2.5%, mainly among old people and people with other complicating diseases like diabetes or heart failure or emphysema, and that seems to be where the real problems are. But we\u2019re gonna have a lot more cases in the United States.<\/p>\n
RUSH: It sounds like he\u2019s making my point, does it not? It sounds like old Zeke Emanuel here is kind of making my point, two and a half percent, mainly old people, people with complicated — it\u2019s a respiratory thing. Same thing they say about the flu. The flu is gonna grab you if you\u2019re elderly.<\/p>\n
Look, folks, I hate doing this, but I\u2019m gonna do it anyway. I\u2019ve been to a lot of hospitals lately. I\u2019ve been talking to a lot of doctors lately. I\u2019m a naturally curious guy. I was even in the hospital for three or four days with the flu about three weeks ago. And it was the flu. They did the test where they send a probe up your nose and they try to find it. It came back negative. And then they ran a blood test and they found it. And I got fluids and I got all kinds of stuff thrown in me, and I was basically over it in a day, I was able to go home in two days.<\/p>\n
And I asked them, and I\u2019ve asked other doctors I\u2019ve been dealing with about this coronavirus, and there\u2019s not a one of them yet that\u2019s been taking it seriously. There\u2019s not a one. Now, admittedly… (interruption) Have I had the corona test? No. I haven\u2019t had the corona. No. But my only point is, in recent weeks, I\u2019ve been asking every doctor I\u2019ve come in contact with because every day the media says we\u2019re gonna die, oh, my God.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s a pandemic, not an epidemic, a pandemic, it\u2019s going to soak and clothe the entire world. I\u2019ve been asking, “Are you guys worried about it?”<\/p>\n
“Nah, this is basically a Chinese disease because of the way they eat. Nothing is pasteurized, purified, I mean, they eat raw everything. They don\u2019t have any food in China, Rush,” these doctors say. They eat raw bats, they eat raw snakes, unrefrigerated. That\u2019s where this disease comes from.<\/p>\n
Now, here\u2019s another thing, folks. As coldhearted as this may sound, the Chinese are a nation of a billion people they can\u2019t feed, losing 3,000 people ain\u2019t any big deal to a communist government, okay? They kill that many in the concentration camps over the course of months. Don\u2019t doubt me. I know you\u2019ve been romanticized in education about communism and how much it cares.<\/p>\n
The Chinese communists don\u2019t care if they lose 3,000 citizens. They don\u2019t care to even know their names, it doesn\u2019t matter. The number of people that are in political prison and reeducation camps that are being starved into getting their minds right in China would blow your mind. Try being a Muslim in China. Try being from Tibet, get caught in China, I mean, you\u2019re getting the crap kicked out of you if you just look the wrong way in that country.<\/p>\n
So they look at a stat of 80,000 cases, 3,000 dead, that\u2019s a success story in China. Do not doubt me. A communist government has nothing in common with the government of the United States in any which way, matter, or form, including compassion and care for the citizens. In this country it\u2019s the people who make the country. This is one of the problems the Democrats are having is they\u2019ve kind of lost touch with the fact that it\u2019s the people who make the country work, not Washington.<\/p>\n
But Trump is totally in touch with that. He respects the people who make the country work. He cares about the people who make the country work. That\u2019s why he\u2019s doing what he\u2019s doing. That\u2019s what his agenda is. That\u2019s what getting these trade deals right is. That\u2019s what bringing jobs back is all about. That\u2019s what tax cuts and creating wage increases, that\u2019s what it\u2019s all about for Trump.<\/p>\n
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He\u2019s making America great again and you can\u2019t do that without improving life for the majority of people who live in the country. A great country requires great people accomplishing great things. And too many people in Washington think the world centers around them and that their policies are responsible for this or that and the other thing. And they look down on people in flyover country who actually make the country work.<\/p>\n
Well, Trump doesn\u2019t. Do not think for a moment that he\u2019s not concerned about this coronavirus, and do not think for a moment that he\u2019s not got people looking into this. And I\u2019ll guarantee you he didn\u2019t authorize the CDC to start creating a panic like they did today. I mean, I can\u2019t guarantee that, but the last thing in the world that I would believe that he did was authorize something like that. It doesn\u2019t jibe with his press conference today in India about this.<\/p>\n
If we lose 3,000 people, it\u2019s a big deal. That is going to be a major problem. If we have stats like that in this country, there\u2019s gonna be hell to pay. Because it\u2019s not necessary in this country. It\u2019s not necessary for people to die from this disease, folks. Not in an advanced country like the United States.<\/p>\n
Barring preexisting conditions. Diabetes. Like Zeke Emanuel here says (summarized), “If you\u2019ve got emphysema, if you\u2019ve got a respiratory problem already? Well, this is not a good thing to get. But if you\u2019re young, vibrant, and healthy, you can survive it.” But they\u2019re not telling you that. They\u2019re making it look like (sobbing), “We\u2019re gonna die! Oh, my God. (sniffle) Don\u2019t go to work. Teleconference, telework, do whatever.” We\u2019re not there yet. There are 53 cases. Now, Zeke says it\u2019s gonna be more than that, and it will be. But let\u2019s just see.<\/p>\n
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