{"id":347395,"date":"2020-05-06T16:07:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-06T20:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=347395"},"modified":"2020-05-07T16:16:15","modified_gmt":"2020-05-07T20:16:15","slug":"my-theory-on-democrats-and-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2020\/05\/06\/my-theory-on-democrats-and-death\/","title":{"rendered":"My Theory on Democrats and Death"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Okay. I want to ask you all a question. I want you to be thinking about it, and maybe you have. I have. I\u2019ve been thinking about this, the answer to the question. The president\u2019s got something going on at the Oval Office right now, let the press in there and they\u2019re shouting questions at him, and John Roberts of Fox News just shouted a question at Trump.<\/p>\n

And if some lamebrain from CNN had asked it, there would have been a tone, it could have been seen as a disrespectful question, but it\u2019s actually a good question. It is this: So, we were locked down for, what, seven weeks, two months? And we were locked down to flatten the curve. And the sole reason, folks — and people have forgotten — the sole reason for the lockdown to flatten the curve was to make sure the American hospital system was not overrun with cases of COVID-19.<\/p>\n

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Locking down was not to prevent the spread of the virus. Well, in a sense it was, but it was only temporary. There\u2019s nothing permanent that can be done. This is the key here. The lockdown and the shutdown would have no impact on the spread of the virus eventually, \u2019cause people, at some point, are gonna have to come out of their hovels. And, if there\u2019s no vaccine, and if there\u2019s no therapeutic treatment or cure, then we\u2019re right back where we were before we shut down.<\/p>\n

So, the reason for the shutdown, flatten the curve so the hospital system was not overwhelmed. Turns out that the hospital system was not overwhelmed and there are many hospitals that are flat-out empty right now because they were so prepared for COVID-19, and they didn\u2019t get any, they were not overwhelmed, and elective surgeries were prohibited. And, so you have a lot of hospitals across the country now where there were not peak periods of the pandemic that are losing money because they don\u2019t have any patients. People were told not to go to the ER for anything other than COVID-19. And people didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

But after seven weeks or two months, the decision was made to reopen \u2019cause we\u2019re killing the country. We\u2019re killing the economy. We are at unemployment levels that rival the Great Depression. Coming back from this is going to take some time. So, the question that John Roberts just asked Trump, “Mr. President, if it\u2019s true that opening the country expands the likelihood or the probability that more people will contract the virus, are you saying that people are just gonna have to adjust and learn to live with this?” That\u2019s my question to you. Because to me there\u2019s only one answer to this.<\/p>\n

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Do you want to stay locked down until there\u2019s a vaccine when there may never be one? That\u2019s no way to deal with this. We can\u2019t deal with it that way. But there are people who want you to answer the question unlike the president answered it. There are people, when you ask that question, do you think the spread of the virus is gonna increase here and people are just gonna get used to it, there are people that want — no, we need to keep the shutdown, we need to stay on lockdown, we need to keep people sequestered, we need to make sure people don\u2019t get the virus, we need to destroy whatever in order to save every life.<\/p>\n

Now, I mentioned in the previous half hour of today\u2019s exciting program that somebody will put out some good news, like FISA has put out good news today about, “Hey, we may have a vaccine, we begin clinical trials on Monday. We may have a vaccine by September.” I said it will be followed immediately, the next day at the latest, some health expert somewhere will come out with a story, “We may never, ever have a vaccine.”<\/p>\n

Well, we\u2019ve been through that cycle. I have here a story from Monday, right here my formerly nicotine-stained fingers. A CNN story, headline of the story: “What happens if a coronavirus vaccine is never developed? It has happened before.”<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s routine. There are far many more viruses for which we do not have a vaccine than there are viruses for which we do. The norm is we don\u2019t have a vaccine. I don\u2019t care what you think. We do not have a vaccine for the flu. If we did, we wouldn\u2019t have 60 million people a year getting it. We wouldn\u2019t have 30 to 60,000 people a year dying from it. But we do.<\/p>\n

We call flu shots vaccines, but they\u2019re not. You can go get a flu shot and still get the flu. But if you take the polio vaccine, you\u2019re not gonna get polio. If you take the smallpox vaccine, you won\u2019t get it. We don\u2019t have that for the flu. We don\u2019t have that for HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. So how do we possibly get through the day? How do we possibly survive? How do we live, folks?<\/p>\n

Well, we just gut it up and do what we have to do because there aren\u2019t really many alternatives. You can\u2019t stay hunkered down and shut in for your entire life. You cannot hide from something that\u2019s gonna get everybody. There is only one person in the history of the world who conquered death, and that person is Jesus Christ. Nobody else has conquered it. Nobody else will. It is going to happen to each and every one of us.<\/p>\n

And I have to tell you something, folks. I was thinking about this. I\u2019ve mentioned this before, but the audience here, you know, our computer models show our audience is now 43 and a half million. The latest model forecast and prediction, 43 and a half million people. There are people tuning in every hour for the first time. So they have not heard the point I\u2019m gonna make. And I think it\u2019s a very important, crucial point.<\/p>\n

We human beings are born with the robust awareness that we are gonna die. Yet the vast majority of us go through our lives thinking it isn\u2019t gonna happen. It\u2019s gonna happen to everybody else, but it isn\u2019t gonna happen to us. I think that that fact is one of the greatest bits of evidence of creation that you could possibly need, if you don\u2019t believe in it. Here God has created the only species on the planet that can ponder its own existence, the only species that is aware of its existence, the only species that has any kind of self-awareness.<\/p>\n

And part of that self-awareness is the knowledge that we\u2019re gonna die. We don\u2019t know how. We don\u2019t know when. But we know it\u2019s gonna happen. Yet we somehow are able to go through our lives not living every moment in abject fear that we could die tonight, this afternoon, tomorrow, next day, whatever. Even when we go to funerals, death still remains something that largely happens to somebody else. Until you get older and your friends start dying or getting sick that will lead to death, or until those kinds of things start happening to you.<\/p>\n

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So we don\u2019t have a vaccine. We know we\u2019re gonna die somehow, someday, somewhere. We don\u2019t know what\u2019s gonna do it. But we know it\u2019s gonna happen. We don\u2019t want to think about it. We don\u2019t think about it. We shove it aside until something like this comes up. And then we have governments and politicians and leftists telling us that we could die every day unless we do this and this and this and this and that and that. And before I finish the thought of what happens if a coronavirus vaccine\u2019s never developed, I want to tell you one more theory that I have developed based on what I just shared with you.<\/p>\n

Just to restate this, it boggles my mind that somewhere in the human existence, in the human brain, in the human psyche, in the human wherever, the human soul, that we\u2019re able to, despite the knowledge we\u2019re going to die, to live while basically forgetting it. We\u2019re able to put it out of our minds.<\/p>\n

I think some people aren\u2019t. The wires have gotten crossed in their brains, something is wrong. They\u2019ve been educated in a foul way. I think a lot of people are unable to put it out of their minds that they\u2019re gonna die. I think they live with the fear most every day. I think they happen to be liberals. I think it\u2019s one of the factors, in fact, that makes liberals, liberals, is they are unable to get past the idea and live a normal life without being governed by the idea they\u2019re gonna die.<\/p>\n

Look at what liberals are made of. Everything about liberalism is what\u2019s gonna kill us, what\u2019s gonna kill you, and how not to be killed, and how to avoid it. And these are the same people who at the same time don\u2019t want any religion. They don\u2019t want any god. They don\u2019t want any way of finding a way of dealing with this reality. They want you to join them in the perpetual never-ending fear over death. And so they concoct all these things that they tell you are gonna kill you, from oat bran to caffeine to too many eggs, you take your pick, virtually everything in life that you do, particularly if you\u2019re in America, is going to kill you.<\/p>\n

I believe they can\u2019t put it out of their mind. And I\u2019ll tell you something else. This theory of mine was confirmed. I\u2019m gonna let you all in on a secret that you will not believe unless I had built up to it this way. On Sunday I actually watched Michael Moore\u2019s latest documentary<\/a>, Planet of the Humans. I watched it because I had read that it destroys the environmental movement. So I wanted to see if it\u2019s true.<\/p>\n

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It does. It literally destroys the Sierra Club. It destroys everything. It destroys Algore. It destroys every environmentalist wacko theory that\u2019s out there. It goes to Chevy where they\u2019re going crazy over their new electric car, the Volt, and they got some guy from General Motors plugging in the charge, you know, like when you go to the gas station, you fill up by plugging the pump into it. This guy\u2019s plugging his hose that\u2019s got the charger on it, and the guy in the documentary is saying, “Well, where is the power to charge this car\u2019s battery coming from?”<\/p>\n

And the guy says, “Uh, the power plant.”<\/p>\n

“Well, what\u2019s powering the power?”<\/p>\n

“Coal.”<\/p>\n

“Are you telling me that coal is powering electric cars?”<\/p>\n