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<\/p>\nRUSH: Well, I guess the big news now is Fredo Cuomo of CNN has tested positive for coronavirus and will be quarantining in his basement. His brother, the governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo, has just revealed details of all of this, continuing to speak about it. It was almost a life review here of Chris Cuomo, how he became a lawyer, then a journalist, and how the dad was a very domineering personality and told Fredo that he better become a lawyer. It\u2019s kind of… I don\u2019t want to characterize it. But it was strange for somebody still alive.<\/p>\n
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Greetings, and welcome, Rush Limbaugh, the EIB Network at 800-282-2882. The email address, ElRushbo@eibnet.us if you want to communicate that way.<\/p>\n
And once again great to be back with you. I have an overriding sense of foreboding here, folks. I\u2019m really in a dilemma as to how much of what I really think do I share with you. Some of it I can\u2019t. I\u2019d be run out of this studio if I were to tell you some of what I think. And I\u2019m talking about in terms of what needs to be done, not the circumstance that we\u2019re in, but the solution, because the overriding sense of foreboding I have is that this cannot go on.<\/p>\n
This just can\u2019t go on. We cannot go on like this for months. We are going to destroy the country or the economy, however you want to look at it. The favorite word of Millennials is “sustainable.” Well, this isn\u2019t sustainable. And we, as a society, down the road are going to be faced with some really, really serious questions that we cannot avoid. The longer we go, the more unavoidable answering some of these questions is. I don\u2019t mean to be speaking cryptically. I\u2019m doing something that\u2019s somewhat uncharacteristic for me. I\u2019m speaking safely here. I may dance around this, but this just can\u2019t go on like this.<\/p>\n
You know, somebody called me yesterday, “Rush, what do you think the recovery will look like?” And I kind of blew the answer. I was getting my feet wet yesterday. I\u2019ve been gone. I\u2019ve been gone for — how many shows did I miss in a row? I was in such a fog, I don\u2019t even know. Was it five or six? It was 10 shows. My absence was not a vacation. I was not staying informed as I was away because I was not capable of it. So getting back yesterday was to get the voice back up to shape, in shape and in gear and getting my brain back up to speed and engaged. And so I kind of blew the answer.<\/p>\n
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I said it\u2019s gonna roar back. Wait a minute. That\u2019s not true because it\u2019s gonna take what to roar back? It\u2019s gonna take money. It\u2019s gonna require people having money to roar back. And the longer this goes, the less people, the fewer people are going to have any money to ignite the economy. Now, there will be stimulus impact, no doubt about that. There will be a recovery, don\u2019t misunderstand. But the guy wanted to know, is it gonna be massive all at once, and I said, no, it won\u2019t be that. It will be phased simply because even if that magical day comes where somebody says — who is it gonna be? Who is going to say, “Okay, folks, go back to work”? Well, the president might or might it be Dr. Fauci. But whoever says it are people gonna go, “All right!” And leave. Or are they still gonna be a little trepidatious?<\/p>\n
Because all of this, all of this is based on one thing that we don\u2019t have. We don\u2019t have a vaccine for this. We don\u2019t have a vaccine, and until we get a vaccine — like I was just listening to Governor Cuomo here, he was giving his daily briefing to the people of New York. And he said that when we finally get a test, when we get a widespread, quick test to determine who\u2019s got coronavirus and who doesn\u2019t, that will determine when people go back to work. Well, that would be great, but I don\u2019t know if that\u2019s true.<\/p>\n
Okay. So you test negative, but there\u2019s no vaccine out there. What happens if everybody heads back out? And folks, a vaccine is not on the horizon for at least a year. They\u2019re doing clinical trials on drugs. You know, the chloroqiune and zithromiocin is the most promising thing. If there is developed a medicine that can deal with this, then that would change things dramatically and hold the line until there is a vaccine, but a vaccine, that\u2019s what separates the coronavirus from the flu. We\u2019ve got vaccines for it, we know the mutations. We\u2019re not up to speed on the coronavirus in that way.<\/p>\n
So you have the medical reality and then you have the economic reality. This can\u2019t go on. I mean, how many people want to see the United States economy destroyed? I doubt very many. But then what is gonna be required to prevent that from happening? People going back to work. It\u2019s gonna be things reopening without a vaccine. What\u2019s that expose people to? It\u2019s a serious, serious question.<\/p>\n
All I know is that what\u2019s happening now cannot go on. This business of shutting down until the end of June or the end of July and putting people in jail if they leave their homes, which, what governor, Maryland said that? That\u2019s not sustainable. That\u2019s not — (interruption) Mr. Snerdley here with a little prof note saying the ChiComs are back to work. Don\u2019t believe a damn thing coming out of there. They\u2019ve already reopened the wet markets. They\u2019re selling bats. They\u2019re selling live bats for food at the Wuhan wet market. (interruption) I am not. They say that their number of cases is declining, the Chinese economy is getting back.<\/p>\n
The Chinese government is so different, we don\u2019t know what they did to make this possible. How many people did they drag out of their homes in Wuhan and just murder and then bury in concrete plots to get rid of this virus? They don\u2019t have a vaccine, either. The ChiComs don\u2019t have a vaccine. If they do, they\u2019re not sharing it with anybody.<\/p>\n
We\u2019re not gonna do that. We\u2019re not gonna drag people out of hospitals or out of their homes and take them and put them in what are called reeducation camps or whatever the Chinese do. Look, this is a communist government. They have an entirely different view of the value of life, the quality of life and all that. And if they detect any single person being a culprit here, that person is in deep, deep trouble if the state finds out about them. Now, this is a study from good old Imperial College, again, in London, which gave us this original model that 2.2 million Americans could die if we did nothing; 500,000 in the U.K. could die if we did nothing. Of course, we\u2019re not doing nothing. We\u2019re mitigating all over the place — social distancing, quarantining, sheltering in place, and all of this stuff.<\/p>\n But this study from the Imperial College in London — and it was published in a highly respected medical journal called Lancet — says that fewer people die from coronavirus than previously thought. In fact, this report from Imperial College in London says that 0.66% of infected people die. Now, that\u2019s more than from the regular flu.<\/p>\n The regular flu mortality rate is 0.1%, but this is far lower than the 4% that we were told for months, and it\u2019s lower than the 1%. Remember when Dr. Fauci… This is the kind of stuff, I must say, it irritates me. Dr. Fauci came out and reported that the mortality rate for coronavirus is much lower than we thought. This is two or three weeks ago.<\/p>\n But, he said, it\u2019s still 10 times deadlier than the flu. Well, guess what the headline was? The story was the coronavirus is much less deadly than we were originally told. Then Dr. Fauci said, “But it\u2019s still 10 times deadlier than the flu.” The reason for that is the flu mortality rate is 0.1%. The coronavirus rate at the time was thought to be 1% or 10 times 0.1% of the flu.<\/p>\n Now Lancet is saying that 0.66% of infected people die.<\/p>\n So the number of deaths from coronavirus continues to be reported as declining. “The study says the lower number is due to taking account of the number of people who have milder cases of the coronavirus.” In fact, Governor Cuomo today made a big deal about the big number of discharges from New York hospitals, people that no longer need treatment.<\/p>\n That\u2019s one aspect of this that\u2019s really not been reported since day one, since that whole John Hopkins website was first developed and first published. The number of recoveries has never been a singular item reported here, and then there is the undeniable fact that there are forces in the American culture who want you to continue to think the worst of this, and they want you to blame President Trump for it.<\/p>\n They want you to think it isn\u2019t getting better, that it won\u2019t get better because of Donald Trump — and now the My Pillow guy. (Man, what a teachable moment yesterday that was as well. We\u2019ll get to all of this as the program unfolds before your very eyes and ears today.) So the researchers estimate that the overall death rate coronavirus to be about two-thirds of 1%.<\/p>\n But that number goes up in older adults: “7.8% of those 80 and older are estimated to die after getting the infection, but the deaths were estimated to be exceedingly rare in children younger than 9.” The fatality rate there is infinitesimal. So go figure. All I know is this is not sustainable.<\/p>\n Now they\u2019re talking about giving everybody masks.<\/p>\n The surgeons are saying, “Ah, I don\u2019t think we need to give everybody masks. You put masks on everybody and you\u2019re just gonna create a psychological downturn.” This is not sustainable. I also want to share with you something Governor Cuomo said. He gave pretty rousing, attempting-to-be-motivating address here to the people of New York.<\/p>\n He put up a slide that said, “We know what we have to do; we just have to do it,” and here are the four things that we have to do, according to Governor Cuomo. We have to have “individual discipline.” We need “government skill and performance.” We need “social stamina,” and we need “national unity.” For what? To sustain this? The discipline to watch the economy peter out?<\/p>\n The discipline to watch government skill and performance try to manage the decline, once again, of the U.S. economy? Social stamina? Well, I know what that means. Social distancing and staying inside and having the discipline to do so — and national unity. Well, that\u2019d be great, but we got people that are working on trying to prevent national unity where this is concerned.<\/p>\n So I don\u2019t… That\u2019s the overriding foreboding thought that I have — and, you know, who knows, folks. Listen to the whole program. It depends on where my mouth goes the remainder of the program. I might divulge even more of what I\u2019m thinking here.<\/p>\n BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n RUSH: I want to run a number by you, and I want to ask you if this number surprises you — and I\u2019m gonna finish Obama\u2019s tweet; then we get to the phones. If you\u2019re on hold, hang on. We\u2019re coming to you. Now, of course, we here at the EIB Southern Command are in South Florida. We\u2019re in Palm Beach County, which geographically is a large county.<\/p>\n You look at the case data here for Palm Beach, the number of cases of coronavirus, the number of deaths. But one of the things that interests me is the hospitalization numbers. Because if you look at Drudge, if you look at the Drive-By Media, you would believe there\u2019s not a single hospital bed in this country, right?<\/p>\n You have been led to believe that every hospital\u2019s overflowing, that dead bodies are in body bags and refrigerated trucks that are being packed off to landfills or whatever. I mean, some of the most incredible reporting I have seen. It is in New York; it is in Washington, D.C., Maryland, the Eastern Seaboard states, that there\u2019s not a hospital bed around, that the hospitals are overflowing.<\/p>\n You better not get caught on the beach. You better not be caught within 10 feet of anybody else or they\u2019ll write you up on the town website. (chuckling) Anyway, here\u2019s the case data for Palm Beach County. “Total cases in Palm Beach County of coronavirus: 514. Of the 514 cases, 488 are residents of Palm Beach County; 24 are nonresidents.<\/p>\n The age range is 0 to 99: Men 268 cases, women 237. So it\u2019s fairly equal. But there have been 11 deaths in Palm Beach County since this all began to be tabulated. Now, I don\u2019t have data for other states. That will come at some point. I\u2019ve got a website here. This is Florida\u2019s COVID-19 Data Surveillance Dashboard, and it\u2019s the latest official numbers from the Florida Department of Health.<\/p>\n I know numbers on the radio are tough to follow, but let me go again.<\/p>\n Total cases in Palm Beach County: 514.<\/p>\n Total deaths: 11.<\/p>\n Hospitalizations (the number of people who are hospitalized with coronavirus): 57.<\/p>\n Does that strike you as a large number? I want you to think of the way this is being reported, particularly about New York and other places where there\u2019s not a hospital bed to be had, where they\u2019re putting people in the hallways. There\u2019s no ventilators. There\u2019s no nothing. We haven\u2019t got… We\u2019re just in bad shape out there.<\/p>\n Of 514 cases, 57 hospitalizations. That sounds like a small number to me. Why aren\u2019t the hospitalization numbers being reported to us? I mean, if you go to New York, a field hospital is being built in Central Park! We\u2019ve got the Mercy ship that floated in there. They\u2019re clearly trying to create the impression that we don\u2019t have any hospitals.<\/p>\n We\u2019re so overflowing with cases, that we don\u2019t have any hospitals. Now, it may be true in New York. But, again, 57 hospitalizations in Florida… In other words, if you are in Palm Beach County and you happen to come down with this, there\u2019s gonna be room in hospitals. I\u2019m not urging people to go there. Don\u2019t misunderstand.<\/p>\n So much of what happens during crises like this… So much of this has been politicized, folks, that it\u2019s just impossible anymore to actually find factual truth.<\/p>\n BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n RUSH: We\u2019re gonna start with Chelsea, Chelsea in Cincinnati. I\u2019m glad you called. It\u2019s great to have you on the program. Hello.<\/p>\n CALLER: Hi, Rush. It\u2019s been… It\u2019s an honor just to hear your voice. I\u2019ve been listening to you since I was a little girl.<\/p>\n RUSH: Thank you. Thank you very much.<\/p>\n CALLER: I\u2019m concerned about what our country is gonna look like when this is over, specifically here in Ohio. We have a governor who\u2019s been manipulating our state constitution. He\u2019s a… (deep breath) Pardon me. I\u2019m sorry. He unlawfully moved our March primary and then he closed down businesses and canceled schools.<\/p>\n RUSH: Ah, I know. Chelsea, these are all valid concerns. You know, I hearken back to my brief appearance via phone call myself. I now know what it is to be a caller, by the way, on this program. I called into my own show last Friday. It\u2019s the only way I could do it.<\/p>\n I addressed the massive changes, that when this is over, what is this country gonna look like, what are the American people gonna accept. The mayor of New York literally said that if people went to churches or synagogues, he was gonna shut them down forever. Now, that\u2019s the First Amendment. He can\u2019t do that. (interruption)<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/APP-CNN-TEARAWAY-033120.jpg\")
<\/a>You can\u2019t trust anything coming out of China. It would be great if it were true. It would be great if you could look at the Chinese model and say, “Okay. They\u2019re back work, their number of cases is falling, their economy is getting back up to running, and it took three months. So using that as a guideline…” But we don\u2019t see the same pattern happening here. However, there is this story. This is, interestingly enough, this is from CNN, but what is the actual source? The headline: “Coronavirus Death Rate Is Lower Than Previously Reported, Study Says, But It\u2019s Still Deadlier Than Seasonal Flu.<\/a>”<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/APP-033020-WH-Rose-Gar-COVID-Elmhurst-2.jpg\")
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If you have to go to the hospital, you may as well just pack it in and die. So I wanted to find out what the hospitalization rates were here in Palm Beach County, because we\u2019ve been shut down like everybody else has. We\u2019ve been shut down through the middle of April. We got, “Shelter in place, and you better not be caught on the beach.” The turtles can go to the beach and we can\u2019t.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/APP-033120-Trump-Pence-COVID-BRIEFING-1.jpg\")
All while manipulating our constitution saying it was for the public health. How many people are gonna be fine with it? But my problem with it the whole thing\u2019s done illegally, and it sets a terrible precedent. (groans) So how do we return to the rule of law and keep our leaders from any party from ignoring the constitution?<\/p>\n
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So these are valid, valid questions, and arbitrarily delaying… Like the Democrat primary is considered to be over with because they have canceled all the primaries where Crazy Bernie might have a chance to regain his lead. But Crazy Bernie doesn\u2019t care. They\u2019ve bought him a plane.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/APP-033120-COVID-BRIEFING-Faucci.jpg\")
But you mention Dr. Fauci. See, Dr. Fauci said, “Well, it\u2019s going resurface in the fall, but it won\u2019t be the same because we\u2019re gonna know a lot more.” It is gonna be identically the same! Oh, one other thing. I meant to mention to a previous caller, we\u2019re now entering the spring. In most of the country, it\u2019s warming up, and we have been told that the virus doesn\u2019t do well as it warms up out there.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/APP-031120-Coronavirus-Doctor.jpg\")
They gotta go out and invent new food sources. They\u2019re eating bats, for God\u2019s sakes, and that virus is now bringing the same social progress to America. It\u2019s descending on us faster than the headlines can keep up with it — and I\u2019m not mad at the American left. They\u2019ve been out there for decades clear about what their mission is.<\/p>\n