{"id":347550,"date":"2020-05-07T16:09:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-07T20:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=347550"},"modified":"2020-05-08T16:30:46","modified_gmt":"2020-05-08T20:30:46","slug":"why-trump-is-right-to-shelve-the-cdc-guidelines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2020\/05\/07\/why-trump-is-right-to-shelve-the-cdc-guidelines\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Trump Is Right to Shelve the CDC Guidelines"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: I got a flash message from one of the staff. “Well, you\u2019re really making us New Yorkers and New Jersians — you\u2019re really hurting our feelings.” I\u2019m not trying to hurt anybody\u2019s feelings. Look. I lived in New York for eight years. I enjoyed it. I loved it. But I paid my dues. I had to get out. I have no animus against New York at all. I mean, but the numbers are the numbers. And the point in reciting them is not to shame anybody. It\u2019s so inform people.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s all that this is about each and every day is informing people with the belief that the people listening to this program have the ability to think and decipher and critically think, analyze, make up their own minds about things. As long as it agrees with what I\u2019m telling them, everything is cool. He-he-he. But no. The fact that 52% — if you take New York and New Jersey and Massachusetts out of the equation, we\u2019ve got a non-event. But you can\u2019t take \u2019em out. I know you can\u2019t because they happened, they are happening.<\/p>\n

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But, in terms of policy, sometimes I feel like — even though I know I\u2019m not — I feel like a lone wolf in my concern for the country and the economy. I know I was one of the first to publicly and openly start fretting about what we were doing. It\u2019s never made any sense to me. Beyond the first month, it has never — and even then, could I tell you why I think we shut down? This makes me even angrier.<\/p>\n

We shut down over a number, 2.2 million. The bogus number of deaths that that fraudulent modeler told us about, Neil Ferguson, now shamed in the U.K. Remember that first projection, 2.2 million people will die in the United States, 500,000 people will die in the U.K. Okay. So, you take that number and you get the crew from the CDC and the National Institutes of Health and you get in your official CDC and National Institutes of Health vehicles with all the proper decals on the doors and you drive up to the White House and you go very solemnly into a meeting with the president, “Mr. President, if you don\u2019t do something today, 2.2 million people, your fellow citizens, many of them your voters, will die by the end of the month.”<\/p>\n

“Oh. Really? Oh, my God. Who says?”<\/p>\n

“Well, we have this expert modeler that we\u2019ve relied on for decades. He\u2019s currently having an affair with a climate change activist, but we can look past that. His name is Neil Ferguson, and he\u2019s predicting 500,000 people will die in the U.K., and among them might be Boris Johnson.”<\/p>\n

“No kidding?”<\/p>\n

“Yeah, yeah, it\u2019s bad, Mr. President, 2.2 million.”<\/p>\n

“What do we gotta do?”<\/p>\n

“Mr. President, you gotta shut it down. You gotta shut it down.” So we shut it down. Then we find out that that 2.2 million figure has never been valid because it did not accommodate or account for any action that we might take to avoid that number of people being killed.<\/p>\n

And when this clown plugged in one variable, social distancing, staying six feet apart from people, the 2.2 million number became 60,000 in America and 20,000 in the U.K. But it doesn\u2019t matter, because by that time the 2.2 million number\u2019s out there. And to this day it\u2019s cited by advocates. “If we hadn\u2019t done anything, 2.2 million, maybe more. I couldn\u2019t afford that. I couldn\u2019t take the chance. Not on this watch, 2.2 million.”<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the people in the NIH and the CDC get back in their official vehicles with the decals on their doors, go back to their office, mission accomplished. So 2.2 million dead is why we shut down. It was a bogus, invalid number from the get-go. But it worked. It was a big enough number to scare the hell out of everybody.<\/p>\n

Now, a couple of other stories about the CDC here. Here\u2019s the first one. Right here in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers. Here\u2019s the headline: “The Centers for Disease Control,” which, by the way, I don\u2019t think they\u2019ve got a lot to hang their hat on in this episode, if you ask me. Where were they discovering the existence of this thing? Where were they taking steps to see to it that it never got to the United States? What the hell is their job?<\/p>\n

\"\"Why are these people still held up on pedestals as experts on whom we can rely? Is the federal government not filled with people who\u2019ve been Peter principled way above their abilities? (interruption) The ChiComs did it, of course. And who doesn\u2019t know that the ChiComs lie? We\u2019re dealing with communists. You know what else the ChiComs are doing? How did this not get noticed?<\/p>\n

Xi Jinping, president for life, communist head honcho, he ordered Chinese embassies around the world to go out wherever they were in the world and buy up every PPE device, equipment, mask, ventilator,<\/a> whatever they could find and send them back to the motherland so that Chinese citizens who got the virus could be treated and dealt with. They went on a worldwide buying spree to buy up everything so that they, the Chinese, could hoard it. How did that not get noticed?<\/p>\n

“Boy, Rush, you\u2019re really being hard on –” Look, folks. Is it so mean to want some accountability here? It\u2019s not. Why do we keep regarding people that don\u2019t do their job? I tell you what. There are business requirements for this show and shows like it that have to be met. And if they\u2019re not, it\u2019s sayonara, El Rushbo. Performance based, easily measurable. People in government somehow seem to be able to escape this kind of accountability. Not just federal government. Every level of government, they seem to escape it.<\/p>\n

So the Centers for Disease Control is supposed to know these things are happening, ferret them out, do what they can to prevent them from coming into the country. They\u2019re supposed to have a lab where every known virus in the world is kept and studied. But, yeah, it\u2019s easy to say the ChiComs lied, the ChiComs withheld everything. They are communists. And, by the way, we are now discovering that there were cases of coronavirus diagnosed in this country in December, in various states.<\/p>\n

Anyway, here\u2019s the headline: “CDC recommends mail-in voting due to coronavirus despite Trump\u2019s concerns about voter fraud.”<\/a> What the hell does the CDC — The CDC is now urging mail-in voting? I wonder why not just say the CDC is recommending voter fraud as a way to deal with coronavirus? Why not just tell us, Mr. Redfield, what you\u2019re recommending? This is on the CDC website.<\/p>\n

If grocery stores are open, if subways are open, then we can damn well go vote. It\u2019s ridiculous that you can\u2019t open a retail establishment that might have 12 customers a day, but you can open a grocery store. “Well, it\u2019s essential, Mr. Limbaugh, because people need food.” I agree. I totally understand. But common sense, there\u2019s a disconnect here. I\u2019m just telling you, if we can get on Andrew Cuomo\u2019s not disinfected subways and if we can send seasoned citizens in New York to nursing homes, and if we can go to grocery stores, then we can damn well go vote in person. We do not need to have mail-in voting.<\/p>\n

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Here\u2019s the second CDC story, and this just happened. It happened during the top-of-the-hour break. That\u2019s when the story was published. It\u2019s an exclusive from the Associated Press. “U.S. Shelves a Detailed CDC Guide to Reopening Country.”<\/a> By this I mean they shelved it. There was a guide, there was a pamphlet, there was a list of recommendations for how to reopen the country. Who do you think put it together? The Centers for Disease Control. The Trump administration has decided to toss them.<\/p>\n

“A document created by the nation\u2019s top disease investigators with step-by-step advice to local authorities on how and when to reopen restaurants and other public places during the still-raging outbreak has been shelved by the Trump administration. The 17-page report by a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention team, titled ‘Guidance for Implementing the Opening Up America Again Framework,\u2019 was researched and written to help faith leaders, business owners, educators and state and local officials as they begin to reopen.”<\/p>\n

Because, of course, ladies and gentlemen, none of you know how to do it. You have no idea how to reopen your store. You have no idea how to reopen your business. You have no idea how to maintain a separation of six feet. You have no idea how to do diddly-squat until some bureaucrats you didn\u2019t elect come along and give you the guidelines.<\/p>\n

“It was supposed to be published last Friday, this 17-page report by the CDC. “but agency scientists were told the guidance ‘would never see the light of day.'” This is the Trump administration telling these people to go pound sand, essentially. This little pamphlet of yours is never gonna see the light of day. You\u2019re not in charge of reopening, Trump said. The states are. The governors are in charge of when they want to open their states, not you.<\/p>\n

“The official [at the CDC] was not authorized to talk to reporters and spoke to The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity. The AP obtained a copy from a second federal official who was not authorized to release it. The guidance was described in AP stories last week, prior to the White House decision to shelve it.”<\/p>\n

Let me tell you what these guidelines would have done. I mean, I\u2019m gonna guess. These guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control would have forced you to live under a permanent state of paranoia. These guidelines would be written in a way that life would never be normal again. How many people have you heard now say, “Oh, we can\u2019t go back to the way it was, Mr. Limbaugh. No. No. Things are not gonna be normal in the sense that we\u2019ve known \u2019em as normal.”<\/p>\n

\"\"Why not? “Well, because we got the virus out there, Mr. Limbaugh. You never know. It\u2019s never gonna be the same.” I understand that, but, for crying out loud, what do you mean we can\u2019t go back to being? “Well, the federal government is gonna have to be more and more involved in making sure that people follow the guidelines.” Oh, so you\u2019re gonna have a bigger police state, is what you mean. That\u2019s what you mean when you say we can\u2019t go back to normal.<\/p>\n

We gotta take as much fun out of life we can and turn it into guilt. We gotta turn kids into paranoid tattletales. Anyway, Donald Trump can sniff this stuff out. I am so glad he she would have this. I\u2019m so glad he shelved this because where\u2019d that 2.2 million number come from? Well, from the fraudulent modeler in the U.K. But who were its domestic sponsors? The CDC has no business telling you or setting voting policy, and they certainly should not be granted such a wide berth as to be the final authority on who, what, when, how, and why the American economy reopens.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Somebody just sent me a tweet. It\u2019s somebody asking, “What happened to all those spring breakers in Florida that violated the stay-at-home order to go ahead have spring break on the beaches? How many of \u2019em died?” Has anybody seen any news on that? (interruption) Really? (interruption) I wonder why.<\/p>\n

Why are there no stories on how many people died in Florida on spring break and elsewhere? ‘Cause, you know, these kids, they went down there and they violated the stay-at-home order. They went down there and they had spring break anyway, and they were doing their usual spring break debauchery on the beaches.<\/p>\n

\"\"Everybody said, “You can\u2019t do that! You gotta get out of there.” The governor Florida said, “Yeah, you bet. We better shut it down after a while.” Now, I would assume that a whole lot of those kids have died, right? (interruption) Well, that\u2019s… They told us that. They told us that that was gonna happen. It\u2019s why… (interruption)<\/p>\n

Well, but… (interruption) No, no, no. Yes, but we didn\u2019t know that it was rare then. We\u2019re going back to March now, Mr. Snerdley. You remember the pictures. It\u2019s a great question, because the answer is, they haven\u2019t died, \u2019cause if they had the media would be all over it and Donald Trump\u2019s picture would be on every story with every death.<\/p>\n

But they haven\u2019t died, and these were people… You want to talk about getting closer together than six feet? How about on top of each other (for hours on end) and then you throw in the adult beverages and who knows whatever the hell else? And you know, you know the Drive-By Media had to be following along waiting for the carnage.<\/p>\n

But they haven\u2019t reported on any carnage, which must mean that there wasn\u2019t any. Yeah. Now we can say we know that, well, young people are the least likely among us to acquire it. Oh!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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