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And I\u2019ve got an audio sound bite here of a famous Democrat talking about what an opportunity the coronavirus is or was for the Democrats, for those of you who have doubted me about that.<\/p>\nRUSH: Have you noticed, by the way, have you noticed that the Democrats and the media criticism of the Trump administration on coronavirus is starting to vanish? If you haven\u2019t noticed that, pay special attention, because they\u2019re starting to back off it. The Democrats, the media screaming about the government\u2019s lack of response to the coronavirus, they\u2019re backing off of this, and I\u2019m gonna tell you why they\u2019re backing off of it. They\u2019re backing off of it because it\u2019s not becoming the pandemic in this country that they were all expecting.<\/p>\n
And I\u2019ve got an audio sound bite here of a famous Democrat talking about what an opportunity the coronavirus is or was for the Democrats, for those of you who have doubted me about that.<\/p>\n
BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n
RUSH: The jobs report, the wage increases.Wages are up 3%. Job growth has just blown through all expectations for February. Unemployment is back down to 3.5%, 200-and-some-odd-thousand brand-new jobs, 273,000 new jobs, and the best anybody could say is (sniveling), “Well, that was before the coronavirus hit. What effect is the coronavirus gonna have?” You wait. The Democrats are backing off of this, because the way the Trump administration\u2019s reacting to it is reasonable and intelligent, and they\u2019re trying to talk down the panic about it.<\/p>\n
They\u2019re doing it. Trump was great last night in the town hall he had on the Fox News Channel<\/a>.<\/p>\n BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n RUSH: I mentioned at the top of the program that I have noticed — and it\u2019s abundantly clear — that the media and Democrats are really, really toning down their criticism of the Trump administration\u2019s reaction in dealing with the coronavirus situation.<\/p>\n Now, there are reasons for this. There are substantive reasons for this. First among them is somebody woke up and realized that the Democrat Party was looking awful by attempting to politicize this because the Democrat Party was setting themselves up where they benefit if you get sick. The more people that get sick, the better for the Democrat Party.<\/p>\n That\u2019s not a tenable position for them. They decided to stand back. They don\u2019t need to talk people into any kind of reaction. Whatever happens is going to be obvious. They\u2019re rolling the dice here that Trump and his administration are going to blow it. But they have decided to stop trying to coax people into thinking that it\u2019s been blown beforehand.<\/p>\n They also realized, by the way, that the Trump administration does not blow these things. And you think back, we\u2019ve had a number of natural disasters since the Trump administration began in January of 2017. Can you think of one of them that people still remember as being a debacle?<\/p>\n So Democrats are looking at this, and they\u2019re understanding here that politicizing this is very, very unseemly. Now, I have a couple of sound bites here to illustrate that which I\u2019m referring to because you know that your host has come under all kinds of criticism for being insensitive and unkind and mischaracterizing.<\/p>\n Your host has been falsely accused of saying the coronavirus is no different than the common cold. When I made that comment, it was talking about the number of cases, the severity at the time, that we never have been in a circumstance that warranted shouting “fire” in a crowded theater. And we still aren\u2019t. We are not in a panic situation in the United States. Now, let me go back, February 27th. I want to repeat to you, this is what I said about the mortality rate of the coronavirus<\/a>.<\/p>\n RUSH ARCHIVE: Let me explain what the 2% is 2% of. The mortality rate of 2% for people coronavirus is 2% of the people who contract it. It means that 98% of the people who get it recover from it. The mortality rate for SARS was 10%. The mortality rate for MERS was 34%. “Well, wait a minute, Rush. You said the flu\u2019s survival rate was 0.1%.”<\/p>\n Yeah, because that was of the whole population. When you talk about the flu, 30 to 60,000 people die from it a year, it\u2019s about 30,000 — the range is 30 to 60,000, depending on the years you\u2019re talking about. That is one-tenth of 1% of the population the whole country, not of the people who get the disease. There\u2019s a confusion here over the fatality rate and what the universe is. In talking about the 2% mortality rate for the coronavirus, that\u2019s only the people who get it — and it\u2019s low compared to other diseases like SARS or MERS.<\/p>\n The world survived both of those. It\u2019s much lower than Ebola. (chuckles) You get Ebola, and your survival rate is in the single digits. So 98% of people who get coronavirus survive it. It is just within the universe of people that get the disease is what these numbers are, not of the… If it were expressed as a percentage of the whole population, it would be as low as the reported numbers of people who succumb to the flu. But the number 2% has been used here only within the universe of people who get the disease, which is what\u2019s interesting to people now, given that the disease is new and just popping you will all over the place.<\/p>\n RUSH: And there\u2019s not enough data on it. There\u2019s still thought to be a lot of people with the disease that don\u2019t even know they have it. People who have it are not suffering symptoms yet and may not, but who carry it, who may be transmitting it. The recovery rate for this disease worldwide is over 50%. And they never tell you that, by the way.<\/p>\n The most frequently used website for coronavirus now, the ongoing daily statistics, is the Johns Hopkins University website. If you look at that website it will tell you how many cases per country, how many fatalities per country, and the total recovery rate. And it\u2019s always been the case, no matter what total number of cases reported, the recovery rate is well over 50%. And they don\u2019t tell you about that.<\/p>\n I don\u2019t know why, but what they focus on is the number of people who get the disease and then the number of people who succumb to it. I guess it makes for better news. But the recovery rate is very high here.<\/p>\n So given my sound bite way back on February 27th and the Drive-By Media saying, “This guy, Limbaugh, he\u2019s dangerous. He\u2019s not a doctor. He doesn\u2019t know what he\u2019s talking about.” Yesterday in Washington, on Capitol Hill, the assistant secretary of Health and Human Services, Admiral Brett Giroir spoke to reporters about the coronavirus, and listen to what he said here.<\/p>\n GIROIR: The typical mortality rate for seasonal flu is about 0.1% or 0.15%. The best estimates now of the overall mortality rate for COVID-19 is somewhere between 0.1% and 1%, okay? That\u2019s lower than you\u2019ve heard probably in many reports. Why is this? Number one, it\u2019s because many people don\u2019t get sick and don\u2019t get tested. So probably for every case, there are at least two or three cases that are not in the denominator. It certainly could be higher than normal flu, it probably is, but it\u2019s not likely in the range of 2 to 3%. You have a denominator problem, and I want you to understand that. That only the people who are really sick or have symptoms come in and get tested.<\/p>\n WATCH: “The best estimates now of the overall mortality rate for COVID-19 is somewhere between 0.1% and 1%,” Adm. Brett Giroir, assistant secretary for health at HHS, says. “That\u2019s lower than you heard probably in many reports … it\u2019s not likely in the range of 2 to 3%” pic.twitter.com\/ATnMRBLXVy<\/a><\/p>\n — NBC News (@NBCNews) March 6, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/APP-030620-Trump-coronavirus-bill-2.jpg\")
Remember a hurricane, remember an earthquake, remember tornadoes, can you remember any natural disaster where the Trump administration is thought to have really blown it, meaning the recovery, the aftermath? No, you can\u2019t, because we haven\u2019t blown it. Trump himself is a fixer. Trump himself is a builder. Trump himself is somebody that deals with these kinds of crises, with this kind of daily chaos. He\u2019s been doing it his entire life in his primary business.<\/p>\n\n