{"id":338053,"date":"2020-02-26T16:15:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-26T21:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=338053"},"modified":"2020-02-27T15:45:34","modified_gmt":"2020-02-27T20:45:34","slug":"bernie-sanders-and-the-democrat-party-pose-a-bigger-threat-than-the-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2020\/02\/26\/bernie-sanders-and-the-democrat-party-pose-a-bigger-threat-than-the-coronavirus\/","title":{"rendered":"Bernie Sanders and the Democrat Party Pose a Bigger Threat Than the Coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Look, I have a bunch of different takes on the Democrat debate last night, and I\u2019m gonna get to that. But as part of it, you know, I opened the program yesterday saying, “What are we really most afraid of? Are we more afraid of the coronavirus or are we more afraid of Bernie Sanders?”<\/a> And the answer remains we should be more afraid of Bernie Sanders and the Democrat Party.<\/p>\n

\"\"But the Democrat Party, folks, in their debates, is trying, all of these candidates are trying to say, like Mayor Pete did, “We need to end the chaos. We need to end the partisanship. We need to end the stress that our politics is causing.” So what is this party doing?<\/p>\n

They are trying to weaponize a virus that doesn\u2019t know a Democrat from a Republican, from a conservative, from a liberal. They are trying to use this coronavirus to scare the hell out of everybody in their madcap hopes of finding something that will get rid of Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

And there\u2019s something else, I don\u2019t know if you\u2019ve noticed, if you paid attention last night. What is the Democrat solution to every freaking thing? Money. Chuck Schumer says we need to have eight and a half billion dollars to spend on coronavirus. Why eight and a half billion to spend on coronavirus? Trump said two and a half billion. Schumer said that\u2019s not enough.<\/p>\n

Their solution is always more money. They never have any actual solutions to anything. Just throw money at it. And I\u2019m not even talking about the aspect of money from the standpoint that we don\u2019t have it or that it\u2019s a budget buster or that it\u2019s a waste. Spend the money on what?<\/p>\n

You know that the greatest threat we have to the coronavirus right now is open borders. If you happen to be an open borders supporter, then you happen to be an advocate for the coronavirus. I\u2019m sorry. That\u2019s just the way it is it is.<\/p>\n

If you want to really get a handle on the coronavirus, shut the border, stop airplane flights from China, stop airplane flights from where we know this virus has infected a lot of people. If we\u2019re serious about it — how much money does that take? It doesn\u2019t take that much money, and it certainly doesn\u2019t take new eight and a half billion dollars. It just takes a little fortitude.<\/p>\n

But guess who would stand up and object to closing the borders? And Trump has already done this with certain airline flights. But I\u2019m talking about the southern border where illegal immigrants and who knows whoever else attempt to get into the country. We\u2019ve always been vulnerable in this way, be it from weaponized ammo, weaponized guns, now weaponized viruses and who knows whatever else. Our greatest vulnerability is our wide-open border. Shut it down. And you listen to howls of protest from the Democrats. They won\u2019t support that and I\u2019m telling you if they don\u2019t then they\u2019re not serious about this.<\/p>\n

This coronavirus — I\u2019ll tell you what\u2019s gonna happen today, folks. I can predict this as practically easily as I predicted anything that came true. What\u2019s gonna happen all day today, no matter where you go when you turn on any media, you turn on cable news, if you get your media via internet, Web streaming, no matter where you go, you\u2019re gonna get panic, paranoia, crisis, and chaos.<\/p>\n

\"\"You\u2019re gonna hear how the coronavirus is deadly, it\u2019s a pandemic, and that Trump isn\u2019t doing anything about it because Trump\u2019s too stupid to know what to do about it. Trump is too uninterested, Trump doesn\u2019t care, Trump is an idiot, Trump has gotten rid of all the smart people. We need people like Obama to save us and Obama is nowhere around. Where is Obama, anyway? Not that I care. But you\u2019re gonna hear this all day long just like you heard every day for two years that Trump colluded with Russia, just like you heard every day that Trump was trying to dig up dirt on Biden and should be impeached for it with the phone call to Ukraine.<\/p>\n

You\u2019re gonna hear about the coronavirus all day long. The stock market, by the way, is trying to rebound from it. The stock market, last I saw, was up a couple or 300 points, the Dow Jones Industrial Average. So they want to come back from it. Everybody knows that there has been this gigantic overreaction to this, as there always is when the media and the Democrat political complex gets in gear, when they think they found something that can do great damage to Trump.<\/p>\n

So all day long you\u2019re gonna hear nothing but Trump incompetence, Trump doesn\u2019t care, Trump has endangered the country because Trump was out of the country, Trump doesn\u2019t care, he knows he\u2019s not gonna get sick, he\u2019s not gonna care about you. And then at 6 o\u2019clock tonight Trump is gonna address the nation and Trump\u2019s gonna tell you the truth about it.<\/p>\n

After consulting with his health people all day long, Trump\u2019s gonna tell you the truth about it, whatever it is. I don\u2019t know what he\u2019s gonna say, obviously. But it is going to calm everybody down, it\u2019s gonna reassure everybody that their government is on top of it with the best people that can be found to be on top of it.<\/p>\n

You\u2019re gonna be told that there\u2019s no reason to panic. You\u2019re gonna be told that it\u2019s not a pandemic in the United States yet. That the United States has done a good job so far in getting a handle on this and isolating the few cases that have sprung up, and they are all travel cases, by the way. And they have been properly quarantined, and they have been isolated, and it is not spreading in the United States.<\/p>\n

And by the end of the president\u2019s address you\u2019re gonna be going, “Well, what the hell was this I heard all day today?” And then you should remind yourself, it\u2019s exactly like the panic and fearmongering you heard for two years over Russia meddling in and stealing the election. And then the same thing you heard for another six months about Trump supposedly committing impeachable offenses in a phone call (for which the transcript was released) with the president of Ukraine.<\/p>\n

\"\"You need to be scratching your head already over this. It is so obvious that they\u2019re trying to weaponize this thing to do damage to Trump throughout the Drive-By Media. The Dow Jones Industrial Average is now up 79 points, but they\u2019re trying. The market is trying to rebound. Now, I did. I opened the program yesterday asking which is more dangerous for the country, Bernie Sanders or the coronavirus? And I said Bernie Sanders, of course. I\u2019ve gotten some pushback on that.<\/p>\n

But think about it. The coronavirus has a mortality rate of 2%. The mortality rate for countries with socialism is 100%. Socialism kills every country it comes in contact with, folks. Socialism destroys wealth — everybody\u2019s wealth except the leaders. Socialism destroys liberty. It destroys freedom. It destroys prosperity. It destroys dreams. Socialism destroys 100% of every country it comes in contact with. Ditto, communism.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s no question that Bernie Sanders poses a far greater threat to this country and the Democrat Party than the coronavirus — and I mean to say that. The Democrat Party, as it\u2019s currently constituted, poses a much greater threat to this country than the coronavirus does. And you can quote me on that, and you can tell Anthony Fauci at the National Institutes of Health I said it and see what he says, and you can tell anybody at the CDC.<\/p>\n

The Democrats are doing this, by the way. Do you know this, my friends? Your host is being quoted by members of Congress to National Institute of Health experts and the CDC experts and getting them to respond to me. Me! A little old radio talk show host, a Medal of Freedom winner. It just grates on \u2019em. Just grates. They have to mention that in every question they ask about every quote of mine. They just can\u2019t see straight over it.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: I think that the Democrat Party and all these people public speaking — like Pelosi, Schumer, media — I don\u2019t think they\u2019re really that worried about the coronavirus. Because if they were, they\u2019d be going about this an entirely different way. If they were really worried about this, they would not be trying to weaponize this as a way to end Trump\u2019s presidency or to blame it all on him. They\u2019d be worried about getting it and they\u2019d be demanding that somebody do something to protect and save everybody.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re not doing that. You know, this is the point. They keep talking about, “We need to end the partisanship, we need to end the chaos, we need to get back to where things are peaceful!” Now we got the supposedly deadly pandemic virus, and what are they doing about it? Nothing but trying to say, “This is a reason why we gotta get rid of Donald Trump.” They don\u2019t even believe it yet that it\u2019s that big a deal.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s just the latest thing that\u2019s come along that gives them hope that somehow, they can get him thrown out of office before the next election. Let me give you give an example of the kind of stuff going on. At 12:05 this afternoon, right as this program began, the FDA — an anonymous person at the FDA, Food and Drug Administration — “warned the coronavirus is on the cusp of a pandemic.” I\u2019m sorry, it is not a pandemic yet in the United States. There are 57 cases.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re all known and contained. “12:05 — FDA Official Warns Coronavirus on the Cusp of a Pandemic<\/a>.” At that time, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 300 points. It\u2019s now down to being up 65 points. Do not doubt me. The forces arrayed against Donald Trump are doing everything they can to weaponize this to harm the economy, to harm the stock market in hopes of harming President Trump. The people doing this do not present the profile of people seriously worried about a pandemic disease, and they need to be called out on it.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s go to audio sound bite number 1 here just to illustrate how my name, your beloved host, is being quoted even on Capitol Hill. This morning, the House Appropriations Subcommittee hearing on Trump\u2019s 2021 budget request. The Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar testified, and here is Mark Pocan (Democrat-Wisconsin), asking Azar about the coronavirus and Azar\u2019s reaction…<\/p>\n

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POCAN: You\u2019ve heard Larry Kudlow say it\u2019s contained. We have heard Rush Limbow (sic) — Medal of Freedom winner and White House surrogate — say it\u2019s no worse than the common cold. And yet we have also heard from CDC officials it\u2019s not a question if this will happen anymore but rather a question of exactly when — and Dr. Fauci, who many of us really respect said it\u2019s inevitable this will come to the United States.<\/p>\n

AZAR: The risk right now is very low to Americans. As Larry Kudlow said, from a public health perspective, we technically are in a state of containment in the United States. But we have always been clear that, number one, that could change rapidly — and from the outset, I and the public health experts have said we fully expect we will see more cases here in the United States.<\/p>\n

RUSH: “The risk right now is very low…” It\u2019s not a pandemic. It\u2019s just a panic — a created, coordinated, media-driven, Democrat Party-sponsored panic. People are smart enough. They hear this thing\u2019s floating around, and people smart enough to do what it takes to protect themselves. But see, the media thinks, “You\u2019re not capable of protecting yourself. You\u2019re not capable of it. You can\u2019t stop from getting this virus because of Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

“Since Donald Trump\u2019s president, you\u2019re gonna get it. You may die. That\u2019s why they got rid of Donald Trump, \u2019cause Donald Trump doesn\u2019t care and Donald Trump is incompetent — and Donald Trump wasn\u2019t even in the country when this thing happened. He was over in India and so forth. Donald Trump doesn\u2019t even care about you,” whatever the hell these people are trying to say today.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s all rooted in the fact you have no idea how to take care of yourself. You have no idea how to fend for yourself — and if you get it, you\u2019re gonna die. They\u2019re trying to make everybody think this stuff. Last night, Fredo Cuomo had the director of the National Institutes of Health, Anthony Fauci, on. Once again, I\u2019m not gonna play the bite, but he\u2019s quoting me (impression), “Limbaugh says it\u2019s no big deal, just a common cold. What do you think about that, Mr. Fauci?”<\/p>\n

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FAUCI: Well, right now we\u2019re pretty well prepared for what\u2019s going on right now. We have 14 cases in the United States that are travel related. Twelve are travel; two are spouses. The rest of the individuals we actually evacuated from the Diamond Princess ship in Yokohama. So the idea of identification, isolation, and contact tracing has been successful in the limited number of individuals we have.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, so this is the second government official saying, “We\u2019re prepared. Everybody is prepared. The risk, right now, is low. It may get worse.” All I\u2019m trying to do is illustrate that we\u2019re nowhere near the level in this thing that the media and the Democrat Party are trying to convince you we\u2019re at today — and they\u2019re doing that, trying to make it look like, “This thing has snuck up on us \u2019cause Trump doesn\u2019t care! He\u2019s not even smart enough to know that there was a coronavirus out there, and then he\u2019s not smart enough to know what to do about it because he has dumb people working for him.”<\/p>\n

That\u2019s essentially the message out there, and you just wait \u2019til the press conference at 6 o\u2019clock.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: By the way, in addition to sound bites 4 and 5 have number 24 standing by. That\u2019d be Pelosi. I\u2019m gonna play you a couple more bites here, going back to CNN. I\u2019m not gonna play you the bite of Fredo \u2019cause Fredo\u2019s question is nothing more than a 25-second attack on me and asking these guys to respond to it.<\/p>\n

“Rush Limbaugh says it\u2019s just a common cold, what do you think of that?” And then these guys answer, and it\u2019s their answer, Sanjay Gupta is the medical expert, whatever, at CNN. And “So you\u2019ve heard Limbaugh say that it\u2019s not bad, but people are walking around with masks in and out of airports, political season -” Political season? So he then gets to the “What are the realities here, Dr. Gupta?”<\/p>\n

GUPTA: Look, if you talk about the risk to the average person still in the United States as things stand, it\u2019s still low. Those are still low numbers. You know, the numbers are still small here. With flu in 2017-2018, 60,000, roughly, 61,000 people died of flu. The fatality ratio with flu is .1%. With this coronavirus it\u2019s closer to 2%, depending on how you look at the numbers.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Two percent in China, where they don\u2019t care, where they don\u2019t have advanced medical care, and believe me, they don\u2019t care as much about individual patients in China. The government, the health care could not — folks, they got a billion people they can\u2019t feed as it is. I\u2019ve seen video of Chinese authorities taking suspected coronavirus patients, literally kicking them out of their houses, dragging them out of their houses, taking them to camps. They don\u2019t care. They\u2019re not taking \u2019em so hospitals.<\/p>\n

So the fatality rate — I\u2019m gonna go out on a limb — the fatality rate for coronavirus in an advanced health care system like ours may not be 2%. So far it isn\u2019t. We have 57 cases in the country. Nobody\u2019s died yet. Look at the flu numbers here that Sanjay Gupta — stop and think of this now, if he\u2019s right about this. He said, “With flu in 2017-2018” — so that\u2019s two years, two flu seasons — 60,000 people — I want somebody that\u2019s good with numbers to run some numbers for me here in a second. ‘Cause Dr. Gupta said 60,000 people died of flu, and he said the fatality ratio of flu is .1%.<\/p>\n

So would somebody tell me if 60,000 people died, that 60,000 is .1% of what number? It must be millions and millions who get the flu, if the fatality rate is one-tenth of 1%, and one-tenth of 1% is 60,000. I got numbers crunchers working on this right now. I know this is gonna be a challenge. This is something I can\u2019t do without a calculator, even with a calculator I have to use a piece of paper and a pen. ‘Cause I have to start… (interruption) How many? Did you say 60 or 50?<\/p>\n

Okay. So roughly 60 million people — that makes sense — 60 million people would have had the flu over two years if 60,000 of them died, and that\u2019s .1%. We\u2019d have to look up those numbers, see if that\u2019s right. I\u2019m not questioning Dr. Gupta, do not missunderstand. Those are incredible numbers. Sixty million people with the flu, 60 million with the flu, 60,000 of \u2019em died, 150 million people died with guns, according to Joe Biden at the debate last night.<\/p>\n

And here comes the coronavirus. We\u2019re not gonna have a population, maybe, by the end of the year, folks. Better cram all your living in as fast as you can here, \u2019cause between Joe Biden\u2019s guns — 150 million people a year. I mean, it could wipe out the country in two years if he\u2019s right about that. Now the coronavirus with a fatality rate that\u2019s much higher than the flu, according to Dr. Sanjay Gupta, 60 million. Does that sound right, 60 million people had the flu every year, out of a population counting — mostly the people that die from the flu are elderly. But still you could use the whole population, 300 million people, 60 million of them get the flu. Is that accurate, do you think? I would have no idea. I don\u2019t spend my time studying this stuff, so I don\u2019t know. Look that up.<\/p>\n

\"\"Next sound bite is CBS This Morning, cohost Anthony Mason talking to the CDC principal deputy director, Dr. Anne Schuchat. Now, I want you to remember something. It was yesterday that the CDC\u2019s infectious disease director, Nancy Messonnier, who is the sister of Rod Rosenstein, came out and panicked everybody. Do you remember?<\/a><\/p>\n

She said (paraphrasing), “It\u2019s not a question of if, it\u2019s a question of when. We\u2019re gonna have to make sure kids don\u2019t go to school and that they learn on FaceTime, communicating televideo with their teachers. We\u2019re gonna have to make sure people don\u2019t go to work in order to keep \u2019em safe. You\u2019re going to have to go to work via FaceTime on your iPhone, your iPad, or your laptop computer.”<\/p>\n

This is what she said yesterday, Rosenstein\u2019s sister, head honcho at the CDC. Remember this? And everybody\u2019s panicked, “Oh, my God. Can\u2019t leave our homes? When?” So this morning the CDC principal deputy director, Dr. Anne Schuchat was asked this question. “Who is most at risk for getting infected by coronavirus?”<\/p>\n

SCHUCHAT: Based on what we know so far, the severe cases are primarily occurring in the elderly, in adults with chronic conditions like diabetes or chronic lung disease. We haven\u2019t seen disease to any great extent in children, and that\u2019s a difference with seasonal flu or other influenza. One of the big drivers of our flu outbreaks each year is the high rates of illness in children, but we haven\u2019t seen that with this virus. It\u2019s something we\u2019re on the lookout for, but that hasn\u2019t been detected so far.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Uhhhh, so the virus is not that severe. You know what else is very possible, folks? What time of year is it? Why, it\u2019s wintertime. Why, we\u2019re not even out of February yet. What happens if this virus doesn\u2019t survive springtime and summertime temperatures? What if it\u2019s seasonal, like the flu is? What if it just up and goes away sometime?<\/p>\n

Who\u2019s gonna take credit for it? Chuck Schumer and his eight and a half billion dollars? The CDC? The National Institutes for Health? The ChiComs? Who\u2019s gonna take credit for it? Who knows how it\u2019s gonna behave. That\u2019s my point, we don\u2019t. All we know now is that Donald Trump needs to be thrown out of office because of it, if you listen to the Drive-By Media and the Democrat Party.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, yeah, grab sound bite 24. I forgot. I told you I was gonna play that and I didn\u2019t get to it. It\u2019s Nancy Pelosi today. I guess she had a little confab with reporters up on Capitol Hill.<\/p>\n

PELOSI: This is shameful. He puts forth a proposal now that is meager, anemic in terms of addressing or… (sputtering) With Ebola, we did $5 billion. Now they\u2019re trying to take the Ebola money and spend it here. So what he\u2019s doing is late, too late, anemic. Hopefully we can make up for the loss of time.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: You see how this works? How stupid does she think we are? For crying out loud. This woman is an embarrassment, saying it\u2019s shameful what Trump has suggested money-wise. Puts forth a proposal that\u2019s meager, anemic. How does she even know? She has no idea what we\u2019re dealing with yet. “With Ebola, we did $5 billion.” Yeah, and how much of it was spent, and how much of that money actually made a difference in Ebola? What, is the Ebola virus saying, “Oh, my God, $5 billion coming my way? We\u2019ll go back to Africa.”<\/p>\n

Is that how the Ebola virus reacted? Do these viruses recognize how much money we\u2019re throwing at \u2019em, Madam Speaker? Is the coronavirus laughing at Trump\u2019s $2.5 billion? “It\u2019s not near enough! I\u2019m gonna infect every American. I\u2019m gonna infect every Democrat.” What? What? How does this work? This is asinine. Now they\u2019re trying to take the Ebola money and spend…” What, what, what? You mean there\u2019s money left over from the Ebola fight? Who knew?<\/p>\n

If there is, it makes all the sense in the world to go get the money from the Ebola budget. Does anybody remember the Ebola budget? Do you remember this Ebola business? I don\u2019t even remember. (sigh) But this allows them to hearken back to how prepared Obama was and how on top of things Obama was and how Obama cared — anything to contrast anybody with Trump. So automatically, before… We don\u2019t even have 60 cases in America, and it\u2019s too late!<\/p>\n

What Trump is doing is too late. It\u2019s too late; it\u2019s anemic. Hopefully we can make up for the lost time.<\/p>\n

You know… Mr. Snerdley, do you remember former Democrat…? No, he was a Republican, a RINO Republican from Massachusetts named Bill Cohen, William Cohen. He married the TV anchor, infobabe in Washington. This guy was on TV today announcing that he has formed a group of former members of Congress, 70 of them<\/a> — former members of Congress — to deal with the inaction of the current Congress. He is upset that the current Congress isn\u2019t doing diddly-squat about anything compared to past Congresses when he was a member which did great things.<\/p>\n

So while Pelosi\u2019s out whining and moaning that Trump isn\u2019t doing enough, Bill Cohen\u2019s coming along and saying, “Hey, this current Congress is a bunch of deadbeats not getting anything done. We have formed a blue-ribbon panel of ex-members of Congress to try to tell \u2019em how to get in gear.” This is hilarious! Meanwhile, we have one of the most competent presidents we\u2019ve had in a long time running rings around all these establishment types. It\u2019s exactly what\u2019s gonna happen in the press conference at six o\u2019clock today.<\/p>\n

You just got a sound bite from John King, and I put it somewhere. I don\u2019t know what the number is, Mike, but you\u2019ve got it there. Go ahead. You do have it, right? I\u2019m assuming you know what I\u2019m talking about even though I don\u2019t have it in front of me. (interruption) Okay. Here. This is an example, folks, of how they are trying to insert me into this while they desperately hope — oh ho, they desperately hope — that I\u2019m wrong about this, and here\u2019s how they\u2019re using it…<\/p>\n

KING: The president\u2019s saying everybody in our business is trying to undermine him. No. Uh, no. I hope his friend Rush Limbaugh is right and this is like the common cold. However, uh, at a time like this, you want consistent, clear, and trustworthy information from people in charge, not mixed signals.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Like who? You want trusted information from who? Mitt Romney? You want trusted information from Nancy Pelosi? So far what we\u2019re getting, Mr. King, from NIH and CDC is it\u2019s under control right now, and it ain\u2019t a big problem in America right now. That\u2019s what we\u2019re being told. So as it is right now, it\u2019s not even the common cold in terms of number of people affected. It could become more than that. Right now, this level of panic that they\u2019re trying to create is way, way out of proportion.<\/p>\n

We all live in the United States of America with the best health care system in the world, the most advanced medical science in the world. We are not communist China which doesn\u2019t care about citizens it will never meet contracting a virus and dying. We are not some backwater like Cuba or Venezuela that cannot handle something like this. We are the United States of America. We are the best at dealing with things like this, and history is replete with examples of it.<\/p>\n

Where have many of the cures or vaccines for some of the most deadly viruses been found, developed, and perfected? Right here in the United States — and not with government money. But, folks, I\u2019m just telling you something: When there is a disease like this that\u2019s scorching the earth, being in the United States of America is the best place you can be. It\u2019s the safest place you can be and it\u2019s the place with the best odds.<\/p>\n

I think that\u2019s what I resent most about this is these people trying to make it look like, “We have no hope! Oh, my God. This is a pandemic. It\u2019s sweeping the globe — and because Donald Trump is president, we have no hope.” That\u2019s what I resent most about this. Okay. I just talked my way through my intended debate analysis. Let me now grab a phone call here. I\u2019ll do the debate stuff at the top of the next hour. This is Chris in Franklin, Tennessee. I\u2019m glad you called, sir. Thank you for waiting and hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thank you, Rush. Such an honor to talk to you, and you and Kathryn are in our prayers every day.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you, sir, very much.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Real quick: 0.1% would be a tenth of a percent of death rates on COVID-19, which if 60,000 people die from the flu every year — I\u2019m sorry, in the past two years, there\u2019s 60,000 deaths from flu, that would mean everyone in the U.S., that would be 600,000 cases. That would be everyone in the U.S. for the past two years would have to have gotten the flu to have 60,000 deaths.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah. I have a table here, Chris, that I can\u2019t make head nor tails of. It\u2019s an official table from the CDC, and it\u2019s “Estimated Rates of Flu-Associated Disease Outcomes per 100,000 by Age-Group in the United States, 2018-2019.” Nowhere on this chart is the number 60,000. Nowhere.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right. Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: It\u2019s divided by age-group, and the estimated number of people with the illness — how many medical visits there were, the hospitalization and the mortality rate — and there isn\u2019t a 60,000 figure on here anywhere.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right. Right. Yes. No, that would mean everyone in the U.S. in the past two years would have had to have gotten the flu — the entire country, for two years in a row.<\/p>\n

\"\"RUSH: Why? The population of the country is 300 million. So how are you getting these numbers? See, that\u2019s —<\/p>\n

CALLER: No, it\u2019s 600 million, sir. It would have had to have been 600 million; 0.1% is a tenth of a percent. So if there were 60,000 deaths —<\/p>\n

RUSH: You\u2019re saying if a tenth of a percent is 60,000 —<\/p>\n

CALLER: Correct.<\/p>\n

RUSH: — then the big number would have to be 600 million?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Exactly, sir, exactly.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Not 60 million, 600 million?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Exactly. It\u2019s 600 million to have 60,000 deaths at a tenth of a percent.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right. Okay. Look, I\u2019m glad you squeezed that in. Your timing was perfect \u2019cause I just ran out of it.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right. I ran the numbers myself here when I had time, the caller was wrong. It\u2019s not 600 million. Our original number, 60 million is correct. So Sanjay Gupta says the flu mortality rate, if you average it out among all age groups, it\u2019s higher among, you know, infants and the elderly, but if you average it out he says .1% of people that get the flu die from it. And he said over a two-year period 60,000 people die, 30,000 a year. And 60,000 is .1% of 60 million, 30 million a year get the flu. It could be accurate. Those numbers could make sense.<\/p>\n

But it\u2019s not 600 million as the caller stated. I wanted to make sure I corrected that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

RUSH: The coronavirus has a mortality rate of 2%. The mortality rate for countries with socialism is 100%. 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