It was the Comfort ship. Yeah. That went to New York City. The Navy ship<\/a>. There are two of them, the Mercy and the Comfort. Anyway, stop and think of that — and it\u2019s one of the bases for which Governor Kemp says, “Look, we did what they said. We flattened the curve. We flattened the curve. We kept everybody home.<\/p>\n“We kept the number of infections down, the number of reported cases down to handle the overload of COVID-19 cases in the hospitals. They never materialized.” That\u2019s not only true in Georgia. There\u2019s a lot of hospitals across the country that lost a lot of money, because they had been turning away patients they would otherwise see.<\/p>\n
This is Carrie in Greenville, South Carolina. Hey, great to have you. I\u2019m glad you waited. Hi.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Hey, Rush. Mega dittos, mega prayers. I\u2019m so excited to speak to you. I listened to you since high school and I\u2019m now 46. So I\u2019m a huge fan.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Thank you. Thank you very much.<\/p>\n
CALLER: You\u2019re welcome. Getting to the point, you talked about hospitals losing money for not seeing patients. But there\u2019s actually people that I believe are losing their lives because of this. My cousin\u2019s 22-year-old son, he went to the hospital in Detroit, and he has brittle diabetes. They sent him home that same day. He was found in his apartment with his discharge papers still clutched in his hands, dead —<\/p>\n
RUSH: Ah, I\u2019m sorry.<\/p>\n
CALLER: — because they are not only still leaving beds open. They don\u2019t want to keep people who are non-COVID. They want to keep those beds saved. Detroit laid off 400 employees from their hospital. So they\u2019re not overrun. Here in South Carolina we\u2019ve laid off thousands and thousands of employees. People are waiting to get gall bladders removed.<\/p>\n
We\u2019re not doing testing for things like melanoma and stuff, early detection tests. So the cost of lives for non-COVID people, are we even gonna see that anywhere? Looking at New York City, how many homeless people are gonna be dead that they\u2019re counting as at-home deaths that they added to their numbers, because homeless people were forced out of shelters? Did they die of exposure in the subways? Elderly people and old folks, in assisted-living homes in New York —<\/p>\n
RUSH: Let me play devil\u2019s advocate for a moment. Let\u2019s pretend that we run a hospital, any hospital. Take your pick. You run a hospital in Detroit, let\u2019s say, or you run a hospital in Greenville. And then the coronavirus hits. And you turn on the television every day. And there you\u2019ve got the coronavirus briefing, and you are told horror stories about the coming number of infections.<\/p>\n
“We need to flatten the curve!” All these things that these hospitals were told, they were told by people they intimately respect. They were told by CDC people, National Institutes of Health people, Health and Human Services people. Every one of them was told, “You better get ready because you haven\u2019t seen anything yet.<\/p>\n
“We\u2019re gonna have this disease is spreading, it\u2019s more contagious, more virulent. Oh, we don\u2019t have any idea, and you need to be keep your hospitals available for COVID-19 patients.” They believed it. I mean, you can\u2019t blame them! They were told. They were warned by people they respected and trusted that the apocalypse was about to descend upon them, and that they had to be patriotic and they had to be prepared.<\/p>\n
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They had to get ready for this, while everybody worked hard to flatten the curve — and, again, I want to remind everybody: Flattening the curve was not about reducing infections. It was not about reducing the spread of the virus. That\u2019s not what flattening the curve was. Flattening the curve was delaying infections and preventing mass infections that hospitals couldn\u2019t handle.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s why we\u2019ve been staying home. That\u2019s why everything\u2019s been locked down is to protect and make sure that hospitals were not overrun. Well, now the hospitals weren\u2019t overrun. That\u2019s why they\u2019re now — all of a sudden today and yesterday — saying, “Don\u2019t get comfortable! A second wave is coming in the fall! It\u2019s gonna be even worse than this one was, because it\u2019s gonna happen at the same time as the flu.”<\/p>\n
I just saw some guy in a white lab coat warning everybody about this on CNN. So even though their projections and predictions for what was gonna happen to hospitals in the last two months didn\u2019t happen, it doesn\u2019t matter. They\u2019re warning everybody it\u2019s gonna be even worse once we get to September and October.<\/p>\n
Now, the point about other people dying because they can\u2019t get into hospitals because the hospitals were not treating anything other than COVID-19? I\u2019ve seen those stories like you have reported here. And like you, I have seen stories of nurses and other health care professionals and hospitals saying they\u2019ve been laid off.<\/p>\n
Because there isn\u2019t enough work because the COVID-19 patients never materialize in the massive numbers that were forecast. I\u2019ve seen those like you have — and, of course, “Those are anecdotal!” We can\u2019t go by those stories. If they\u2019re not officially reported from the CDC or from the NIH, then it\u2019s just anecdotal.<\/p>\n
“We have to be very, very careful \u2019cause anybody could write a column claiming they\u2019re a nurse working at a hospital where a bunch of people are being laid off because there aren\u2019t enough patients coming in.” So they have their story, and they are sticking to it. Look, folks, there was gonna be a breaking point. There has to be a breaking point — and we\u2019re reaching it. Economically, we are being destroyed.<\/p>\n
At the individual level, people are being ruined. People are being wiped out. Not because they\u2019re losing in bloody competition and capitalistic free markets. No. They\u2019re losing everything because they were ordered to shut down. We all were. And at some point people are just not going to sit there without fighting back against it. It\u2019s kind of like tax increases. Government comes up with a massive new tax increase.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ll give you the greatest example I can think of. There are better ones probably if I thought about it longer. Bill Clinton takes office in 1993 and immediately comes up with a plan to make it look like he is going to limit the amount of money CEOs can be paid. CEOs are overpaid, they\u2019re being paid way more than their workers, it isn\u2019t fair. So Clinton comes up with an idea. He\u2019s gonna limit the deductibility of CEO pay to $1 million. Meaning a company can only deduct, as a business expense, $1 million of the salary paid to the CEO.<\/p>\n
The government thinks that these people are just gonna sit there and take it. They\u2019re just gonna sit there and not try to find ways around it. Well, they didn\u2019t just sit there in corporate America. They found a way around it, and you know what the way they found around it was? Stock options. Which people hate even more than CEO pay. So corporations decided, rather than just pay a straight salary to the CEO, that they would pay a million dollars or less in salary and the rest would be in bonuses and stock options. Which the tax writers had failed to include.<\/p>\n
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And you know what? The whole thing was a scam anyway. ‘Cause Bill Clinton was never actually gonna end up punishing CEOs. It was just done to make voters think the CEOs were gonna get stuck. They were gonna get theirs finally, gonna finally get away with screwing everybody else. It was all a PR show. So people are gonna innovate and find ways around it. You can\u2019t just tell somebody that owns a business and put their life\u2019s blood, sweat, and tears into it to stay home.<\/p>\n
At some point they\u2019re gonna go back to it. At some point they\u2019re gonna try to revive it. At some point they\u2019re gonna try to reopen it. No matter what the instructions on high — that is part of American DNA. We have not lived in totalitarian regimes where we obey and believe every command from government officials. We\u2019re trending that way with way too many of our population. But the entrepreneur portion of the population is not gonna sit there and take it.<\/p>\n
They\u2019re gonna find ways around it. They\u2019re gonna find ways to reopen. They\u2019re gonna find ways to thwart this circumstance that is wiping them out. They\u2019re not just gonna do that. And that\u2019s what we\u2019re seeing now. People are beginning to find ways to fight back against it. And they could sit up there all day long and talk about their social distancing and flattening the curve and all that. It\u2019s gonna take second fiddle to eating. It\u2019s gonna take second fiddle to providing for people\u2019s families. It\u2019s gonna take second fiddle to going bust and broke forever, having the credit rating destroyed and never being able to open another business. They\u2019re not gonna sit there and just let this happen.<\/p>\n
And that\u2019s what we\u2019re beginning to see now. That\u2019s why these people are protesting. They\u2019re not protesting \u2019cause Trump\u2019s telling them to. They\u2019re not protesting because I\u2019m telling them to. They\u2019re not protesting because they\u2019re malcontents. They\u2019re protesting because they\u2019re sick and tired of having to deal with nonsensical policies which they don\u2019t see as having much benefit anyway. Especially when they find out that flattening the curve has nothing to do with reducing the spread of the virus.<\/p>\n
When they learn that, when they learn that flattening the curve was only done to handle this predicted, massive onslaught in the hospitals and then that massive onslaught doesn\u2019t happen, and then they learn the computer models haven\u2019t been right yet in predicting, then it\u2019s only human nature what\u2019s gonna happen. Look, I can\u2019t deny this virus is killing people, it\u2019s killing way too many. I mean, we\u2019re up to 43,000 now and climbing. And those are real people that are passing away. And it\u2019s really a tough balancing act. But it\u2019s like I\u2019ve said.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Joe in Buffalo. Great to have you. I\u2019m glad you waited, Joe. Welcome to the program.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Thank you, Rush. I\u2019m a longtime listener. Massive dittos. I\u2019ve been listening to you since the fall of 1988. Can\u2019t tell you how delighted I am to talk to you today. I\u2019m a registered nurse. I work in a what\u2019s turned out to be a COVID-19 center hospital — a suburban Buffalo, New York, hospital. I work in intensive care, so we have the sickest of them there. But when I left work Monday morning, we had 98 patients. They\u2019re coming in constantly. Probably half are in indent care, which means they\u2019re on ventilators. They\u2019re on a ton of drugs —<\/p>\n
RUSH: Wait. They\u2019re all…? Wait, wait. Just understand here, Joe, all 98 are COVID-19 patients?<\/p>\n
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CALLER: Every one of them, Rush. Every one. Yeah, the only way in to this hospital is if you\u2019re COVID positive and you\u2019re from another hospital, then that\u2019s how you get into our hospital; so yes, they are.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Okay. So, 98, is that putting stress on your ICU approximate? Do you have room for that many?<\/p>\n
CALLER: We\u2019ve actually expanded. We used to have one ICU. Now we have four ICUs. We\u2019ve turned the emergency department into an ICU. We\u2019ve turned the surgical recovery area into an ICU and ambulatory surgery unit into also an ICU. Then we have medical floors as well. It has been beyond anything I could have ever imagined.<\/p>\n
We have nurses from all over the country coming in. It\u2019s what we call “travelers.” They come in and pick up a contract assignment, and it\u2019s very intense. You\u2019re in full isolation regalia the entire time you\u2019re there just trying to defeat this. It\u2019s just unbelievable, and yet we\u2019re seeing… We had our 100th discharge one day last week. So we are seeing people get better, even people that are on ventilators, they are getting extubated and taken off the ventilators and recovering and going home. So —<\/p>\n
RUSH: Just a sec. Just a sec. Just a sec. For those of you in Rio Linda, “extubated” means they\u2019re pulling the tube out of the throat and they\u2019re starting to breathe on their own.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Exactly right, Rush.<\/p>\n
RUSH: I need to make sure everybody understands when you start using these big medical terms.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Okay. All right. Yeah. So it has been, you know, I\u2019ve met people that I\u2019ve worked in the hospital with and never even crossed paths, and now we\u2019re working side by side. We\u2019ve got, you know, as a critical care —<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, is the reason for your call to suggest that you\u2019ve been overrun and the hospital as had trouble keeping up with it, or that you\u2019ve done a great job keeping up with it and it\u2019s serious, it\u2019s kicking people\u2019s butts and so forth, and that\u2019s what you want people to know?<\/p>\n
CALLER: It is kicking people\u2019s butts. We are keeping up with it. And, you know, even with all that having been said, I would definitely favor having the economy open with a certain amount of safety measures in place because people not working is just no good. Eventually we\u2019re gonna have to pay for all this, and it\u2019s —<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, those people, I\u2019ll tell you, as somebody that works in a hospital in ICU — look, I don\u2019t want to put words in your mouth. But would it be logical to expect that as people\u2019s livelihoods are denied them, as income is denied them, as their ability to provide for their families is denied them, as their ability to go to school, what kind of things are gonna happen to these people? It\u2019s not normal to sit at home and do nothing with nothing, with no end in sight to it.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s gonna drive people crazy. It\u2019s gonna make some people sick in their own right. It\u2019s gonna cause psychological problems as well. It\u2019s not as though people are just sitting around watching Netflix all day thinking, “Man, this is cool.” At some point people are gonna start questioning their self-worth if they don\u2019t get up and do anything.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Very true. Very true. Even us, my wife works at the same hospital so she\u2019s in the same boat. And even we\u2019re getting a little stir-crazy, and we get to go to work our regular shifts.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n
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CALLER: You can\u2019t go out for breakfast. You can\u2019t go for a dinner and a drink. You\u2019re just inside.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Are you adequately protected, do you think, from these patients? Meaning, are you being given what you need equipment and clothing-wise to stay safe —<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n
RUSH: — surrounded by people with the virus?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yes. Yes, we are. So far there\u2019s plenty of the N95 that everyone\u2019s heard about, they are collecting them now when you\u2019re done with them, they\u2019re trying to find a way that they could resterilize them so they could be reused. I hope it doesn\u2019t come to that. But for the time being, yeah, we have plenty of personal protective equipment available.<\/p>\n
RUSH: That\u2019s good to hear. Well, I appreciate the call, Joe. Now, he\u2019s in Buffalo. He said normally they\u2019re equipped in their ICU for 40, and they\u2019ve had to expand it by a factor of four but that they have. They\u2019ve been able to accommodate and handle it. And that\u2019s the thing. You know, in New York City I think, what is it, half of the nationwide deaths are in New York City, and then the second big factor is nursing homes. Nursing homes are suffering mass infections for obvious reasons. Well, anyway, Joe, I appreciate the call. He\u2019s been out there since, he said, the fall of 1988. That makes him a lifer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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They got 1,000 beds on that ship, and at the most that were occupied at any one time was 20. So they retooled that ship, the Navy ship, to handle COVID-19 overflow; that didn\u2019t happen. So the governor of Georgia is saying, “We\u2019ve got hospitals in my state that are losing money because they were prepared for an overrun of COVID-19 which didn\u2019t happen.”<\/p>\n