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<\/a><\/p>\nAnd where did it come from? It came from China. And who has been warning us about the ChiComs for longer than anybody else?<\/a> That would be Donald Trump. He was right about them. He has been right about them. Look, I know that there\u2019s a lot of people genuinely scared out there. I know there are a lot of people really, really scared out there and it would be futile on my part to try to talk people out of that. I wouldn\u2019t even try.<\/p>\n But all I can tell you is I\u2019m not and maybe tell you why. As I say, I have a different perspective on this than many do. At any rate, all of this will become clear to you.<\/p>\n BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n RUSH: I\u2019m telling you, folks, there\u2019s so many red flags about things happening out there. This coronavirus? All of this panic is just not warranted.<\/p>\n I\u2019m telling you, when I\u2019ve told you that this virus is the common cold? When I said that, it was based on the number of cases. It\u2019s also based on the kind of virus this is. Why do you think this is COVID-19? This is the 19th coronavirus! They\u2019re not uncommon. Coronaviruses are respiratory cold and flu viruses. There is nothing about this except where it came from and the itinerant media panic. You can\u2019t blame people reacting the way they\u2019re reacting if they pay any — even scant — attention to the media.<\/p>\n If you read just two or three media headlines a day — pick one, pick two, pick three at random — you\u2019re going to think that if you leave your home, you\u2019ve got a good chance of dying, and you don\u2019t. But I can\u2019t… There\u2019s no way we here can stop a panic. There\u2019s no way we can talk sense into a panic. I wouldn\u2019t even try. But I\u2019m telling you, just… (interruption) To me, this is just a gigantic series of question marks and red flags, all this stuff that is… It\u2019s just the timing of it; the gleeful, gleeful attitudes in the media about this; the gleeful attitudes that Democrat leaders have about this.<\/p>\n I\u2019ll tell you what\u2019s really more scary than anything is how the American people — some Americans, I don\u2019t know how many it is — seem to be okay with being told they can\u2019t do this and they can\u2019t go there and, “You\u2019ve got to stay here and we\u2019re gonna quarantine you there and we\u2019re gonna wrap you up over there. We\u2019re gonna put you in this cocoon here and you can\u2019t leave and you…” “Okay. Okay. Fine with me!” No, not okay.<\/p>\n Do you think Andrew Cuomo knows what\u2019s best for you? He put this little quarantine around New Rochelle. I mean, this is just… Too much of this, to me, appears to be made to order for objectives that have long been held by the American left, the Democrat Party, the media, what have you. In Chicago, the mayor of Chicago has just announced that they\u2019re not gonna dye the Chicago River green. It\u2019s St. Patrick\u2019s Day next week. They\u2019re gonna eliminate it. They do it every year. They dye the Chicago River green for St. Patrick\u2019s Day.<\/p>\n They\u2019re not going to do that. The downtown parade and the South Side Irish Parade have all been postponed as part of this weekend\u2019s St. Patrick\u2019s Day. Over a hundred thousand people were expected to fly to Chicago. They\u2019re not gonna go to Chicago. South by Southwest gets canceled. The mayor in Austin cancels it, and shortly after then starts begging people who live in Austin, “Hey, go ahead and go outside. Go ahead and go patronize some of our businesses. Go ahead and go out to eat.”<\/p>\n Well, okay. If it\u2019s okay to do that, why did you cancel South by Southwest? “Well, because the inertia was set in motion. We\u2019re gonna be canceling everything. We\u2019re canceling everything we\u2019re gonna do, any public meeting. We\u2019re gonna play basketball games with no crowds. The baseball season\u2019s coming up. We\u2019re gonna play baseball games with no fans in the stands.” How long is it gonna be before the NFL decides, “You know what? We\u2019re gonna do studio only. No fans allowed in any of our stadiums.”<\/p>\n Where does this end, especially when you realize there are diseases out there that kill many more than are being killed by this, and the people that are suffering mostly from this are elderly people who already have respiratory problems of one kind or another? Anyway, look, I\u2019m sure you can tell I\u2019ve gotta be very careful how I navigate this, \u2019cause the media is just waiting for people to come along and act like it isn\u2019t a big deal so they can point fingers.<\/p>\n I am fully aware of this, folks, but you know me. I can\u2019t fake it in here, and I can\u2019t act out things that I don\u2019t believe. Well, actually, I probably could. You know, J.R. Ewing said, “Once you fake integrity, the rest is easy,” and I don\u2019t like going down that road. I don\u2019t even want to have to try anything like that.<\/p>\n BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n RUSH: The stock market\u2019s down, what, a thousand points again today? I haven\u2019t checked it in about an hour. Yeah, 929. So down. That wipes out everything that was regained yesterday. The stock market, the Dow Jones Industrial Average, is down 5,000 points since February. That\u2019s almost 20% of the decline in the last 40 days, folks.<\/p>\n We were on the way to 30,000. This is on the way to wiping out the U.S. economy, and it\u2019s gonna be more than just Donald Trump and his reelection chances that get hurt if that\u2019s what happens here. We\u2019re almost back down to 23,000 now when just a few short days ago we were on the cusp of hitting 30,000 on the Dow Jones Industrial Average. Nothing like wiping out the entire U.S. economy with a biothreat from China, is there?<\/p>\n Oh, and you can\u2019t call it the China virus! You can\u2019t say anything about it coming from Wuhan. No, no, no. See, that\u2019s racist. Can\u2019t do that. Even if you try to urge calm, they\u2019ll say that you are in denial and that you are not serving people properly. So we\u2019re all supposed to be in panic. Well, uh… (sigh) What are those of us who are not panicking supposed to do, act like we\u2019re in panic so that we can relate to people? ‘Cause if you don\u2019t act like you\u2019re in panic, then you\u2019re in denial.<\/p>\n If you point out that this whole thing came from China, why, that\u2019s racism and xenophobia and all that — and yet we\u2019ve got a biothreat. We got a biothreat, and it in fact started in China, and look at the damage that it is doing to American industry and the American economy. You know, watch TV, watch the news. Bernie Sanders has an announcement, by the way, at the top of the hour. In 32 minutes, Crazy Bernie going to make some announcement. He lost four primary states yesterday.<\/p>\n I don\u2019t know what he\u2019s gonna say.<\/p>\n All I know is that Bernie has vowed to support Biden if he wins. Bernie doesn\u2019t have any fight in him. I\u2019ve told you this for the longest time. Bernie is not a fighter. He can be bought off with another house, maybe a Hawker 800 private jet. So I don\u2019t know what he\u2019s gonna say. But with the coronavirus out there as bad as it is, why is anybody talking about anything else? Why does it matter the Democrat Party primary and the campaign? Why does it matter with the coronavirus? Why is anything other than the coronavirus even being talked about by people? Huh?<\/p>\n BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n RUSH: I have seen it officially. I\u2019ve been told that the World Health Organization has now officially declared the coronavirus outbreak a global pandemic. Now, I\u2019ve not seen that anywhere. I\u2019ve had that told to me. Grab audio sound bite number… No, ladies and gentlemen: Make sure you wash your hands 20 seconds with warm — preferably hot — water and soap, and make sure it\u2019s not scented soap. That stuff could be…<\/p>\n Go out and get something plain and dull and dryball like Dove soap or some such thing as that, and make sure you drink water. Consume fluids every 15 minutes! You know, set a reminder on your phone: DRINK WATER. (interruption) Sparkling water is fine. Effervescence and bubbles in there is fine. Make sure you have a bottle of water next to you. Just set a reminder every 15 minutes on your phone. Just if say, “Siri, remind me to drink water every 15 minutes.” It\u2019s all you gotta do.<\/p>\n SIRI: (wake noise)<\/p>\n RUSH: Hey, Siri, stop! HomePod. Thank you.<\/p>\n SIRI: All right, I\u2019ve added to reminders.<\/p>\n RUSH: No, I don\u2019t need to be to reminded! I was just demonstrating for people how to do it. Hey, Siri!<\/p>\n SIRI: (wake noise)<\/p>\n RUSH: Cancel my last reminder about drinking water every 15 minutes.<\/p>\n SIRI: I didn\u2019t find any reminders about drinking.<\/p>\n RUSH: All right, good. See, I don\u2019t need… (sigh) And remember, if somebody sneezes on you, turn away as fast as you can and sneeze yourself — get it out of there — and then turn around and slap \u2019em for being rude. Tell \u2019em not to do that again; it\u2019s very impolite and so forth. Here\u2019s Donna Shalala. Grab audio sound bite number 23. Right on cue, right on schedule, this morning on Bloomberg TV\u2019s Balance of Power, a question for Donna Shalala of the Clinton administration. (sniveling) “How far behind this virus are we? There\u2019s a perception that we got off to sort of a slow start with it. Is that fair?”<\/p>\n RUSH: She\u2019s member of Congress now from Florida. She lives down in Miami, Coral Gables. So there\u2019s another virus coming. Did you hear that? She doesn\u2019t know the name of it, and she doesn\u2019t know where it\u2019s coming from. There\u2019s another virus coming right on the heels of the coronavirus. Now to me, this is irresponsible. She\u2019s speaking statistically. She doesn\u2019t know there\u2019s another virus coming!<\/p>\n Who\u2019s next? We\u2019re gonna start on the phones. Marlboro, New York. Stewart, welcome, sir. Great to have you on the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n CALLER: Rush, many prayers to you. Just to put this in perspective, these are statics from the National Institutes of Health and the CDC. Over 70,000 people in 2017 died of opioid overdose. There were 38,000 auto deaths last year in the United States alone. These statistics are for the United States alone. Nearly 99,000 people died in the United States alone in 2018 when they entered hospitals. It\u2019s called acquired — like, staph, strep and other — illnesses.<\/p>\n RUSH: Right. They were perfectly fine, they went to the hospital, they got infected, and they didn\u2019t get out. Yeah.<\/p>\n CALLER: And they died. It was confirmed today, there are over 220 confirmed cases of malaria in New York City alone. In the last flu epidemic of 2018, 41,000 people died. In 2016, 62,000 —<\/p>\n RUSH: Wait, wait. What is your point here?<\/p>\n CALLER: My point is this is all blown out of proportion. This is all a setup. In fact, the good tyrant, Cuomo, said today, “I\u2019m worried about the health care system being overwhelmed,” and if this is not a play to take over the health care system of this country, I don\u2019t know what is. Thank you for taking my call.<\/p>\n RUSH: You… Well, wait a minute. They already have the health care system. Government already runs the health care system. What do you mean, the play to take over the health care system?<\/p>\n CALLER: To eliminate private health care.<\/p>\n RUSH: Ohhh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Ohhhhh. I see what you mean. Yeah. With all those statistics (chuckles), especially about… Folks, I guess, should we be surprised that any of us are still alive?<\/p>\n BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n RUSH: All right. Here it is. 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SHALALA: We have not understood that we needed to fund state and local health departments at a very high level because they\u2019re our first line of defense. Now we have to understand that there\u2019s another virus coming, maybe a year or two from now. I don\u2019t know its name. But we better be ready the way we are for hurricanes in my community where we have the staff in place, we have the systems in place, we have the resources in place — and if we need additional resources, we can automatically get them.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>She\u2019s the former CBS infobabe — way back, a long time ago, former CNN infobabe — and she writes, “To sum: Majority of 30+ US coronavirus deaths occurred in Wash. State elderly facilities. The handful of additional deaths are among elderly & sick, mostly 80+ yrs. Be very careful if you\u2019re elderly, or have sick, older loved ones. Everyone else (so far) is ok or recovered.”<\/p>\n