{"id":343163,"date":"2020-04-09T16:15:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-09T20:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=343163"},"modified":"2020-04-10T16:06:49","modified_gmt":"2020-04-10T20:06:49","slug":"were-owed-an-explanation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2020\/04\/09\/were-owed-an-explanation\/","title":{"rendered":"We\u2019re Owed an Explanation"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: They owe us an explanation. Now, I touched on this yesterday. We are owed a huge explanation. So, 2.2 million deaths. “Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Oh, my God, 2.2. We gotta shut it down. And if we mitigate, maybe 240,000 deaths. If we social distance, we stay at home, if we shut down, if we wear masks, we do all this stuff, maybe a hundred thousand to 200,000, maybe 240,000.” Guess what?<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Sixty thousand. “Fauci Slashes U.S. Death Projection, Raising Hope for Reopening.”<\/a> The doomsayers get to get away with everything. “Fauci Slashes U.S. Death Projection, Raising Hope for Reopening.” What is wrong with this headline? Does Dr. Fauci have anything to do with reopening? Yes. That\u2019s what\u2019s wrong with the headline. This is a Bloomberg News story. “Top infectious disease official credits social distancing.” I\u2019m gonna start calling BS on this.<\/p>\n

Now, don\u2019t misunderstand. I\u2019m not saying it\u2019s not important. I\u2019m not saying it\u2019s not relevant. But there is no way social distancing has made the difference in 2.2 million down to 60,000 dead. There is no way that social distancing made the difference from 240,000 dead projected now down to 60,000 dead. And what do you bet that number gets revised down in the coming days? There has to be something else going on here, and it has to be the projections were wrong in the first place because of the models, and we know that they were wrong.<\/p>\n

But these guys get to revise their projections and hold on to their expertise status throughout the entire process. I just don\u2019t believe social distancing has suddenly changed the data that lowers the forecast death toll from 240,000 to 60,000. We\u2019re not stupid here.<\/p>\n

And I\u2019ll give you another bit of evidence for why I don\u2019t believe this. California, oh, man, is this a huge See, I Told You So. Stanford researchers are now thinking, you know what, maybe it was herd immunity. Maybe the virus has been in California since last fall, and maybe in California they\u2019ve developed an immunity to it, herd immunity. Most of the people that have been exposed to it got antibodies \u2019cause it makes no sense that in a state of 40 million the death toll is still under – I forget what it was — 750 a few days ago. It\u2019s phenomenally low.<\/p>\n

In the state of Oregon practically statistically zero deaths. And it\u2019s not because of social distancing. They told us, they tried to tell us that social distancing is what made the difference in California. California had a two-day head start on social distancing over New York. New York has more deaths than Italy. Are you telling me — see, we\u2019re not stupid here. And you aren\u2019t, either. You\u2019re telling me that a two-day head start on social distancing in California is the reason why there are so few deaths in California compared to New York?<\/p>\n

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The data is bad. The input data was bad. We told you this my first day back. When I found out that that U.K. modeler could change his outcome from 500,000 dead in the U.K. to 20,000 dead simply by factoring in social distancing, then what good was the first model? And if the model has that wide a variance, if you can input one data point and create this massive shift in outcomes on the model, what good\u2019s the model?<\/p>\n

But these people get to hold on to their expert status throughout all of these revisions. They haven\u2019t been right from the get-go. But the doomsayers are never wrong because whatever ends up happening, they can claim credit for it because of their mistakes. “Well, yeah, of course we overshot, but because we overshot we scared the hell out of people, people social distanced, people stayed home. Of course our work is responsible for this.” It\u2019s just the way it works. And everybody got scared. Can\u2019t blame \u2019em. Everybody got scared into using the data that was trumpeted, put out.<\/p>\n

But we are owed an explanation.<\/p>\n

“One of President Donald Trump\u2019s top medical advisers slashed projections for U.S. coronavirus deaths on Thursday, saying that only about 60,000 –” And, by the way, I don\u2019t mean to say that 60,000 is insignificant. Those are people. They are loved ones. They are part of families. I\u2019m not trying to be cavalier about it. I\u2019m simply talking about the statistics and the numbers.<\/p>\n

Remember, we started with 2.2 million, and they did that on purpose so that they could show great success, 2.2 million, now 60,000<\/a>. Look at the great work. No. That\u2019s not the way to look at because 2.2 was never an active, real number, and we shut down a $22 trillion economy because of it. And now the death is 60,000, which is on par with the number of flu deaths in America every year.<\/p>\n

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They told us that this week, remember, “This is gonna be… oh ho, the next two weeks it\u2019s gonna be armageddon, it\u2019s gonna be the apocalypse, it\u2019s like gonna be bad.” And in these two weeks they\u2019re revising everything down. Remember, they said these two weeks, you better expect the worst. We may not have a country after these next tweaks. There may not be enough people to go back work. It\u2019s gonna be bad, it\u2019s gonna be really, really bad out there.”<\/p>\n

Now they\u2019re revising the numbers down, the death numbers down during the apocalypse week. It\u2019s a Bloomberg story, by the. “The falling projection, the result of aggressive social distancing behaviors Americans adopted to curb the spread of the virus, may accelerate Trump\u2019s effort to develop a plan to urge Americans to leave their homes and return to work next month.”<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll tell you something I\u2019m a little worried about. How many people are gonna be scared to leave their homes? How many Millennials are gonna be scared to death to leave? They\u2019re scared to death anyway. They make up the snowflake generation. They\u2019re scared by a shadow of a conservative on a college campus. It doesn\u2019t even take a real conservative to scare \u2019em on a campus, just the shadow of one. And if they\u2019re scared of a conservative shadow on a college campus, are they gonna be scared to go back to work? Be concerned. We\u2019ll have to wait and see if it happens.<\/p>\n

So here\u2019s Dr. Fauci. “The real data…”<\/p>\n

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The real data? Oh, we\u2019re talking about real data now?<\/p>\n

“The real data are telling us that it is highly likely that we\u2019re having a definite positive effect by this mitigation things that we\u2019re doing — this physical separation — so I believe we are gonna see a downturn in that. And it looks more like the 60,000 than the 100,000 to 200,000. But having said that, we better be careful that we don\u2019t say, ‘OK, we\u2019re doing so well we can pull back.'”<\/p>\n

Uh… I… (sigh) Folks, they\u2019re gonna have to explain this, and I know how they\u2019re gonna do it. The doomsayers are gonna tell us, “Hey,” they\u2019re already setting the stage for doing it, “our policies, our requests for social distancing and all that made all the difference.” I don\u2019t…<\/p>\n

If we\u2019re gonna say that, that means we have to trust the computer modeling data and that\u2019s the data that\u2019s been all over the place, 2.2 million, 200,000, 100,000, 240,000, 500,000 U.K. The numbers have been all over the place, revised down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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