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<\/p>\nRUSH: I want you to listen to this from the Scarf Queen, Dr. Deborah Birx. This is Saturday night. She was on with Judge Jeanine on the Fox News Channel. And the question from Judge Jeanine, “As we test people, we know more and more have it, and we\u2019re learning that the lethality rate,” the mortality rate, the death rate, “is so much lower than we thought.”<\/p>\n
BIRX: I think we underestimated very early on the number of asymptomatic cases. And I think we\u2019re really beginning to understand there are people that get infected that those symptoms are so low grade that they don\u2019t even know that they\u2019re infected. And we\u2019re beginning to see that with the New York studies of their sero-antibody studies.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Wait just a second. This is not some indiscriminate, minor little miscalculation. This may be one of the primary bits of evidence why the country should never have been shut down. Asymptomatic, meaning the number of people who have it and never know it because they do not suffer any symptoms. For those of you, that\u2019s what asymptomatic means. And what this is doing is lowering mortality rate by a huge number, and particularly in certain demographics, like younger people, the mortality rate among that demographic is even less.<\/p>\n
But this was something that, you know, testing, it was hard to reveal. Now they\u2019re starting to figure it out. But it\u2019s just more evidence that the Draconian shutdown has not been nearly as necessary. It has been devastating. We\u2019re looking at unemployment levels to the tune of the Great Depression.<\/p>\n
Let me get to the phones. Rob in Long Island. I\u2019m glad you waited, sir. You\u2019re next. It\u2019s great to have you here with us. Hi.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Hey, Rush. Thank you for taking my call. And I really wish you the best of health.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Thank you, sir.<\/p>\n
CALLER: I\u2019m hearing from no one about a 20-year, like a Marshall Plan, to bring back these businesses, to pull up stakes out of China. I mean, if you go around your house, you flip your baseball cap, your air-conditioning, your musical instrument, everything is made in China.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Right.<\/p>\n
CALLER: And no one talks about the cost of business as it relates to commercial property taxes, your liability costs, your workers\u2019 comp.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: All right. Now, wait. Wait just a second. I gotta run a risk here because this is not fanboy, and I\u2019m not being a sycophant. But I\u2019m telling you, somebody has. Donald Trump has been trying to warn everybody about that very thing since before he even ran for president in 2015. And he\u2019s the one guy who has been trying to deal with it by putting tariffs on their products, by negotiating new trade deals with \u2019em.<\/p>\n
Look, I\u2019m not trying to take the steam out of your call, \u2019cause you\u2019re absolutely right. We are way too dependent on all kinds of things that come to us from China. And the reason for that is globalism. I\u2019ll take the time, if you really want, I\u2019ll take the time to try to explain how I think all that happened, and it took years, decades for it to happen. But Trump has been trying to warn everybody. He\u2019s been insulting previous American leaders as stupid for making deals that made all these kinds of things possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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