The fatality rate of the coronavirus is 1%. “Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told lawmakers during a House Oversight Committee hearing Wednesday that COVID-19 — the disease caused by the novel coronavirus — is probably about 10 times more lethal than the seasonal flu. …<\/p>\n
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“At the same time, he did clarify that 10 times figure actually brings the new coronavirus\u2019 fatality rate lower than official estimates, which hover around 3%. The flu has a mortality rate of about 0.1%, so … Fauci places the new coronavirus\u2019 lethality rate at somewhere around 1%.” That\u2019s the story. It isn\u2019t that it\u2019s 10 times more lethal than the flu, and this is how this crap gets politicized!<\/p>\n
Pardon my yelling, but this stuff is what ticks me off, and my instincts tell me this. I know this kind of trickery and monkeying around with stuff is going on in these things because I know the media, I know the left, I know the Democrat Party, and I know how they\u2019re trying to scare everybody — and now they\u2019re using Fauci here. (panicked) “This is Trump\u2019s guy! Trump\u2019s guy is saying it\u2019s 10 times more lethal than the flu,” which means nothing.<\/p>\n
Ten times more lethal? Lethal than what? What does lethal mean? Does lethal kill you? Does lethal infect you? Does lethal give you a temperature of 102 versus 100? What does it do to you? It\u2019s a meaningless comparative. Ten times more lethal? The only thing worth knowing in this story is that Anthony Fauci says the fatality rate of coronavirus is much less than what they believed.<\/p>\n
It is 1%. It is not between 3 and 6%, and that number 3% and 6% has been out there for a couple of weeks. So here comes a news story saying, “Guess what? The fatality rate\u2019s only 1%,” and that\u2019s not the headline. The headline is: “Coronavirus Is 10 Times More Lethal Than the Seasonal Flu, Trump\u2019s Task Force Immunologist Says.”<\/p>\n
Well, yeah, he may have said it, but it was a setup for the actual lede in the story, and you have to read to the last paragraph to get to the nut. “At the same time, he did clarify that 10 times figure actually brings the new coronavirus\u2019 fatality rate lower than official estimates…”<\/p>\n
So what the hell is the point of a headline that says the coronavirus is 10 times more lethal than the flu, if what that means is the fatality rate is actually much less than we thought it was? It isn\u2019t 3 to 6%. It\u2019s 1% tops. So, no, I\u2019m not apologizing for one damn way I\u2019ve approached this today, and I\u2019m not gonna apologize. Not that anybody\u2019s demanding, anyway.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: So this is how it works. I\u2019m just watching CNN during the break, and Jim Acosta is saying (summarized), “It\u2019s not going great for the White House today! Anthony Fauci has been contradicting the president all day, and most recently pointing out that the virus is 10 times more lethal than the flu.” So the Drive-By Media has their headline based on something Fauci said, but they\u2019re leaving out the lede.<\/p>\n
They\u2019re leaving out the main point that Fauci made.<\/p>\n
They\u2019re even lying about Fauci “contradicting” Trump all day long now. “Anthony Fauci\u2019s got his work cut out for him. He\u2019s having to contradict the president all day long by pointing out today that the virus is 10 times more lethal than the flu!” It doesn\u2019t matter! What Fauci said is that “10 times more lethal than the flu” figure actually brings the coronavirus fatality lower than official estimates!<\/p>\n
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Why can\u2019t they say that? Why can\u2019t they say that the new discovery is that the coronavirus fatality rate is not 3 to 6%; it\u2019s 1% and falling, by the way? Why don\u2019t they say that? Well, because it doesn\u2019t fit the agenda because there\u2019s a political agenda behind this. They have weaponized this, and they\u2019re doing everything they can to damage Trump.<\/p>\n
This is no more than the continuation of Trump-Russia collusion and the meddling and all that, and then you have the Ukraine impeachment phone call. It\u2019s so tough not to just blow my gasket sitting here, folks, because every day my instincts are proven right on the money. Don\u2019t ever become a conformist. The best way to be made a fool every day is to become a conformist.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Okay, Keith in Palm Bay, Florida. I\u2019m really glad you waited. I appreciate your patience. Hello.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Mega dittos, and prayers for you and your family, Rush.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Thank you very much, sir.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Being a longtime student of yours — and even though me and Jeannie are Boomers — we still stay informed as much as possible. We haven\u2019t panicked. We are still treating this like flu or anything else. As far as preppin\u2019, because of the government and hurricanes, we\u2019ve already been prepped. The only thing I had to get was some Louisiana hot sauce.<\/p>\n
But I do have a concern after seeing a report from the End of the World News out of Italy. As you know, Florida is a microcosm of Italy in population and age, you know, The Villages and assisted living on every other corner. Their report was about hospital capacity, and they said because of the panic of the public which the media is ramping us up into, their hospital capacity is so overwhelmed that their doctors are literally becoming death panels and deciding who is healthy enough to treat and who is not.<\/p>\n
So I hope Florida is ramping up on their hospital situation. You know, I think it\u2019s ridiculous that local paramedics and firemen say that they\u2019re not ready. They\u2019re waiting for word from the federal government. Haven\u2019t we been ramping up for this pandemic for a long time? Don\u2019t they already know? I mean, a lot of this is common sense. And I do have a little disagreement on your sneezing situation.<\/p>\n
RUSH: A little disagreement on the sneezing situation?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yeah. I wouldn\u2019t hit \u2019em. I\u2019d kick \u2019em in the royal jewels and then get (crosstalk) afterwards.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, yeah, it\u2019s degrees. How much pain you want to inflict if somebody with the virus sneezes on you? Look, I\u2019m looking… Here\u2019s CNN. “Coronavirus Probably 10 Times More Lethal Than Seasonal Flu.” It\u2019s not the… Why don\u2019t you tell people what you know? They\u2019re just openly lying to you, folks. “Well, did Fauci say it?” Yes, Fauci said it, but he also said what it means is the fatality rate for this virus is not 3 to 6%.<\/p>\n
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It\u2019s 1%. The point of the story is they have learned that the fatality rate is not nearly as high as they thought it was for coronavirus. That\u2019s what CNN ought to be telling people! Dishonest bunch of SOBs is what they are. They\u2019re doing it on purpose. They know full well! If I can read the story, they can. Fauci knows how they\u2019re misreporting it.<\/p>\n
Where\u2019s Fauci correcting them on this?<\/p>\n
Now, about your point about Italy and Florida. I haven\u2019t forgotten it. Here\u2019s the thing. You people may not know this, but the ChiComs have been buying up Italy faster than you can say “coronavirus.” The ChiComs have been buying up the Italy soccer league. There is so much travel between China and Italy, you wouldn\u2019t believe it — far more than there is between China and Florida.<\/p>\n
The virus does not know Italy from anywhere else. The virus can only go where people who have it take it. Italy is not getting this virus because they got so many old people stranded on street corners. Italy\u2019s not getting the virus because there\u2019s a bunch of water flowing around Venice. Italy is getting the virus \u2019cause a lot of travel happens between China and Italy.<\/p>\n
The state of Washington is getting hit because there\u2019s a lot of travel between China and the state of Washington. It\u2019s the same thing in California. Now, if you can find where a lot of people from China are traveling to Florida, or a lot of people in Florida have gone to China and come back, then you have reason to be concerned.<\/p>\n
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But Florida is not Italy simply because of an elderly population. The virus does not say, “Yeah, you know what? We only get elderly people! So let\u2019s go where they are. How \u2019bout…? How \u2019bout we go to Italy?” And one virus says to the next virus, “Fine! We\u2019ll meet in Italy. See you.” That\u2019s not how it happens.<\/p>\n
Viruses have carriers. Same thing we were talking about here with this containment story. The containment story is a fool\u2019s errand. We don\u2019t contain anything. Viruses contain themselves. Curing a virus is containment, and we haven\u2019t cured a virus yet, folks. We have vaccines, but we don\u2019t have a cure for a virus. We have success with vaccines like polio and this kind of thing, but in terms of a cure, that\u2019s something mankind hasn\u2019t come up with.<\/p>\n
Ebola. We don\u2019t contain Ebola. Ebola runs out of healthy hosts by killing them. So the way to contain Ebola is to make sure that people who get it are quarantined, sadly, but that\u2019s it. But we don\u2019t contain it with medicine that attacks it. We contain Ebola by making sure it runs out of healthy people to infect. It\u2019s the same thing with a lot of other viruses. It\u2019s gonna be true with the coronavirus as well.<\/p>\n
You\u2019re being set up. When these same lying SOBs at CNN tell you that containment efforts are failing, well, guess what? They\u2019ve never succeeded in the sense that CNN\u2019s trying to convince you. We can\u2019t contain the virus by coming up a medicine that stops it. Have we contained the common cold? Have we contained the flu? No. People who get it have to have it run its course. There isn\u2019t medicine that shortens the cold.<\/p>\n
You can go get over-the-counter things to treat symptoms, and if you get the flu you can ask people to give you some IV fluids to speed your process through it, but there\u2019s no containing it. The language and the way the media is treating this virus is they\u2019re setting everybody up to be fooled into thinking that we can contain others but we can\u2019t contain this one \u2019cause this one\u2019s really bad, this one\u2019s really bad because of Trump or whatever connection they\u2019re trying to make.<\/p>\n
We don\u2019t contain the cold. We don\u2019t contain the flu. You get it, you get it. There\u2019s no stopping it. You can get a flu shot, but that\u2019s not gonna guarantee you don\u2019t get the flu, is it? How many get a flu shot and still get the flu? Then you tell yourself, “Well, it\u2019s not gonna be as bad because \u2019cause I got a flu shot.” It may be just as bad. We don\u2019t know. How many of you get a common cold shot every year? Oh, yeah, there\u2019s not a common cold shot. Wonder why there\u2019s not a common cold shot?<\/p>\n
You ever wondered with the most common virus in the world, why we can\u2019t stop it, why we can\u2019t contain it, why we can\u2019t cure it, why we can\u2019t prevent it? It\u2019s the common cold, for crying out loud. It\u2019s a runny nose. It\u2019s a cough. And we can\u2019t even stop that. It\u2019s the most basic virus there is, and we have absolutely nothing we can do about. And we\u2019re being told, we may not be able to contain coronavirus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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