{"id":344657,"date":"2020-04-16T16:15:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-16T20:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=344657"},"modified":"2020-04-17T16:17:36","modified_gmt":"2020-04-17T20:17:36","slug":"open-the-economy-and-we-will-adapt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2020\/04\/16\/open-the-economy-and-we-will-adapt\/","title":{"rendered":"Open the Economy and We Will Adapt"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: All right, this cannot go on, folks. It cannot go on. Even Barry Diller now is calling this cataclysmic<\/a>, and it is cataclysmic, and we\u2019ve done it to ourselves, and it\u2019s time we stop. We\u2019re at a point now where, no matter how many people die from coronavirus, it\u2019s not gonna equate to the damage done to the U.S. economy.<\/p>\n

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Twenty-two million people have lost their jobs. Stop and think of this. This is not some academic number. This is a number that\u2019s affecting everybody. The 22 million who are without work, the rest of us who are without what they do, we are without the job, the production, the service, whatever those 22 million people do, we don\u2019t have.<\/p>\n

It is hurting all of us. And it\u2019s scary that there are still people who want to maintain this and have it get even worse. Literally scary. But as I have been saying — I\u2019ve been overusing the word — this isn\u2019t sustainable. It hasn\u2019t been sustainable for a month. It has to change. We have to get serious about some things and we have to admit some things to ourselves. And we have to adapt, which is what we human beings are great at doing. We adapt to whatever we find.<\/p>\n

This is why the apocalyptic nature of climate change is ridiculous. We\u2019ll adapt, whatever happens. The climate is always changing, the argument over whether man\u2019s doing it, we adapt. Human beings always have. Others in the life chain, other animals adapt or they don\u2019t make it. Some people call adaptation evolution. I want to stay away from the word. The point is we\u2019re gonna have to adapt. And by that I mean we\u2019re gonna have to adapt and accept that people will continue to die after we reopen the economy.<\/p>\n

We have to remember that people died every day in America before the coronavirus came along. I love the flu comparison that I gave yesterday<\/a>. This is stunning. And, by the way, the modeler who hasn\u2019t yet been right, was on TV again today saying breathlessly he\u2019s going to have new data this afternoon. And the new data is gonna project even fewer deaths than the current 61,000 deaths that his model is projecting by August.<\/p>\n

In 2018, in that year\u2019s flu season, 810,000 people were hospitalized, and it did not put any pressure on the American hospital system. You don\u2019t even remember it. Nobody was even complaining about it because we\u2019ve accepted the number of flu deaths. Because we\u2019ve got a vaccine people think there\u2019s something we can do about it. The number of hospitalizations from COVID-19 doesn\u2019t even approach 100,000. We have not stressed the hospital system.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve had one area of the country which has received the bulk of this. It\u2019s New York, and the media has tried to portray New York as a forerunner to what was gonna happen to the rest of the country, just as they did in the eighties when they tried to tell everybody that AIDS was going to jump the chain and become a heterosexually spread disease and we were all dead. That never happened. The same thing here, projecting what\u2019s happening in New York. New York\u2019s the forerunner. New York\u2019s the cutting edge. Get ready. New York is coming to your neighborhood.<\/p>\n

It isn\u2019t. New York\u2019s hospitalizations are way down, according to Governor Cuomo today, and they are now giving ventilators away<\/a>. The original demand, Governor Cuomo originally demanded 30,000 ventilators, and the president said, “What are you talking about? We don\u2019t need 30,000 ventilators.” And the media jumped all over Trump. “What do you mean? You\u2019re being really, really mean. The governor knows what he needs.”<\/p>\n

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Ultimately they needed 5,000 ventilators in New York. I\u2019m not trying to start an argument with those of you in New York. I\u2019m not trying to say it wasn\u2019t bad. I\u2019m saying that we have to get this economy going. It doesn\u2019t matter what happens. We will adapt. I have far more faith in the American people\u2019s ability to adapt than I do in a bunch of bureaucrats trying to tell all of us how to live, which is what we\u2019re up against.<\/p>\n

I mean, that\u2019s the basic, if you want to call it a competition, that\u2019s the competition that\u2019s been set up today. A group of the best and brightest, the elites, whoever they are, wherever they are, believing that you and I can\u2019t deal with the hardships of life without being sheltered, protected, covered, advised, what have you. And, course, we can because we do every day. We probably deal with hardship better than they do. If anybody\u2019s shielded and protected from it, it is them. That\u2019s one of the reasons why they want to be elites and be in the club.<\/p>\n

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But now with 22 million weekly jobless claims, the new number is 5.245 million. So if you add that to previous weeks\u2019 claims, 22 million people. This data proves that the number of deaths from the severe economic downturn will dwarf the deaths from the virus. And there won\u2019t be any need for padding. This economy, if we don\u2019t get it back up and running, is going to kill its own subset of people. There will be people who will die from it for any host of reasons. It simply isn\u2019t a matter of debate any longer. It\u2019s not a matter of discussion.<\/p>\n

I saw Senator Kennedy from Louisiana on the tube last night, and I was so happy to see it because he was essentially saying what I\u2019m saying now. We have to get the economy going. We don\u2019t have any choice, folks. We can\u2019t wait any longer. There is no ifs, ands, or buts about it. The number of deaths are coming in way below the projections. And, yes, I\u2019m gonna admit, people are gonna continue to get this virus after we reopen the economy, and yes, Donald Trump is gonna get blamed for it, and yes, Donald Trump knows.<\/p>\n

We all know what\u2019s gonna happen. We all know what\u2019s gonna happen in the news. We all know what\u2019s gonna happen politically. It doesn\u2019t matter. We have to be up and running. We cannot allow this to continue. It has gone on way, way too long. No matter what, this is not sustainable.<\/p>\n

So much news. Bret Baier of Fox News broke the news yesterday that indeed the virus came from a lab in Wuhan<\/a>, accidentally. It was not weaponized, it was not a bioweapon. The point is it didn\u2019t come from the wet markets. And we knew this. We knew the virus didn\u2019t come from the wet markets when the ChiComs reopened the wet markets last week. They wouldn\u2019t have reopened the wet markets if that was the source. We know where this came from.<\/p>\n

The question is, what did the ChiCom leadership do when they found out about it? We discussed it yesterday and I subscribe to the theory that the ChiComs decided to shut up about it, pretend it wasn\u2019t happening, lie about it, pretend that it wasn\u2019t contagious. They knew it was going to cause big problems for them in Wuhan. They knew it was going to cause economic turmoil, and they didn\u2019t want to be the only ones suffering the economic turmoil in their worldview of worldwide competition.<\/p>\n

They weren\u2019t gonna be the only ones hit even though the virus is owned and operated by them, even though it originated in their country. So what did they do? They stood down and didn\u2019t do anything to stop its spread. They allowed travel. They encouraged it. They used puppeteers at the World Health Organization to assure everybody there was no danger, that it was not contagious, it was not transmissible, that you have nothing to worry about.<\/p>\n

American leftists and Democrats believing in global institutions immediately picked up the World Health Organization chant. By the way, you know what you can\u2019t find anymore, Mr. Snerdley? You can\u2019t find the video of Nancy Pelosi urging people to come to Chinatown in San Francisco to have a party back in January. She\u2019s taken it down. You know what she replaced it with? You talk about tone-deaf. Nancy Pelosi appeared on one of the late-night shows, so-called, comedy shows last night. And you know what she did?<\/p>\n

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She posed in front of two $5,000 Sub-Zero refrigerators to show everybody how the Pelosi family is dealing with this. And then she opened the freezer in one of the Sub-Zeros and it\u2019s nothing but ice cream<\/a>. Nancy Pelosi says she loves ice cream. She\u2019s very fortunate to be able to get it. She bragged and talked about all the flavors that she had in there. She said that the ice cream gives her energy. And she did all this with an attitude that she honestly believes we all care and we hope that she\u2019s bearing up.<\/p>\n

You want to talk about how smart Donald Trump is. The United States Congress has fled Washington. He owns it. He is alone in Washington, D.C. He is alone appearing to be engaged. He is alone appearing to be working on it, and meanwhile Congress is acting afraid to come back, afraid to come back, afraid they might be infected, afraid of this, afraid of that. The irony is that Congress wants to change the rules so that it can actually change the rules from afar. Right now rules in Congress, rules changes have to occur by virtue of people being present in the chamber to vote on it.<\/p>\n

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So if they want to change the rules to allow rules votes while members are not in the chamber, they still have to come back to the chamber for that vote, and they\u2019re not gonna do it — and Trump owns Washington.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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