{"id":348048,"date":"2020-05-11T16:05:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-11T20:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=348048"},"modified":"2020-05-12T16:04:47","modified_gmt":"2020-05-12T20:04:47","slug":"willie-brown-gets-antsy-over-california-lockdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2020\/05\/11\/willie-brown-gets-antsy-over-california-lockdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Willie Brown Gets Antsy Over California Lockdown"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Willie Brown, the speaker, former speaker of the California assembly, former mayor San Francisco, now columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle, has written a piece in the Chronicle saying this can\u2019t go on<\/a>. California has to figure a way out. California has to open up. “When people were asked to shelter-in-place they did so in amazing numbers with no plan. But nobody envisioned the shelter in place would last this long.” Yes, they did, Mr. Speaker. Oh, yes, they did, and the vast majority of them are in your party. They sure as hell intended it to last this long, and they intend it to keep lasting longer.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>There are still to this day people that do not want this economy reopened. They don\u2019t want the shutdown ended. They don\u2019t want the lockdown ended. I\u2019m reading sports media stories. NFL sports media every day making the case how it\u2019s gonna be impossible to play NFL games this fall, ain\u2019t gonna be possible. People in the sports media are trying to talk everybody into accepting the fact that this economic shutdown and lockdown has no end in sight, as evidenced by, well, the NFL\u2019s not gonna be able to play.<\/p>\n

Dr. Fauci says if just four players on a team test positive, you gotta shut down that team for two weeks. Maybe if one player gets sick you can do without that one player. My point is that the psychology of this is being transmitted to the American public on a daily basis in such a way that the very idea of opening up the economy is a death sentence. You can\u2019t do it. You better not look forward to it. It can\u2019t be done. And they are all making the case that it won\u2019t be possible to open up the economy until we can get to the point that nobody\u2019s ever gonna get the virus. Come on? Seriously?<\/p>\n

They don\u2019t say it specifically that way, but that\u2019s what they mean. Short of a vaccine, if just one person, if one player gets it, we gotta cancel the season. This is the sports media whose lifeblood is the NFL playing games so that these people have jobs covering what happens in the NFL, and they\u2019re advocating, they\u2019re trying to create the psychological mind-set that it would be insane to open up. And Willie Brown in California is starting to get antsy and itchy over this. And I don\u2019t doubt that he believes that the original shelter-in-place was a very, very limited, temporary thing.<\/p>\n

I think a lot of people believed that at the start. And then as time went on and there wasn\u2019t any talk about opening up, and even from the Coronavirus task force at the White House, a month went by, you couldn\u2019t find in that daily briefing, you couldn\u2019t find any discussion of opening up. It was all about the medical progress being made in dealing with the ever increasing number of cases.<\/p>\n

Willie Brown says the people who have lost their jobs or fear that they\u2019re likely to lose their jobs, they want California to open. But so far the authorities who have locked this in have yet to figure out how to get us out. The authorities? Who would they be? Well, that would be the governor, Gavin Newsom, and they\u2019d be the various mayors of San Francisco and Los Angeles and all the other places in between. Willie Brown says if they don\u2019t figure it out soon the public\u2019s gonna find a way to get out on its own. That\u2019s what\u2019s already happening all over the country.<\/p>\n

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“In fact,” says Mr. Brown, “some counties and some professions are already opening up and trying to keep businesses from opening with threats of suspending their liquor license or cosmetologist license won\u2019t work. Not on a mass scale.” Then he says this: “The goal of the shutdown was to curb the coronavirus and keep the hospitals from being swamped. We kept the hospitals working. But we have yet to curb the virus, and a vaccine, it\u2019s probably at least a year away. In the meantime, we\u2019re headed over the economic cliff. We\u2019re facing unemployment numbers the likes of which we have never seen before. It looks like we\u2019re gonna be stuck in place until June 1st at least no matter what.” He\u2019s talking about California here.<\/p>\n

But he said, “June 1st may also be the boiling point. Like it or not, we may have to trust the public to be as safe as possible with masks and hope for the best until a vaccine is found.” This is a rising, percolating public opinion. You know what? This can\u2019t go on. We cannot stay locked down. I\u2019ve been shouting this for two months. Not to make it about me. I\u2019m sure many of you have too.<\/p>\n

Now we have some people arriving at this reality late. But what Brown\u2019s saying here, “Hey, you know what? We can\u2019t do this. This is unsustainable. We\u2019re gonna have to open up. We\u2019re gonna have to trust people to do what they can do to protect themselves.” But that flies in the face of the way the Democrat Party and the American left want to try to manage you, the American people, and also destroy Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Here\u2019s Marian as we head to the phones in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. Hi. Great to have you here with us. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hello. On Thursday evening — well, 8 o\u2019clock Thursday night — our governor extended our lockdown \u2019til June 4th, which, interestingly enough, is two days after our primary.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, I know. (chuckling)<\/p>\n

CALLER: The next day — and there was a weekend then — 11 counties wrote up letters. Now, these letters included senators and representatives and county commissioners and things, saying that they were not waiting \u2019til June 4th to open, that they\u2019re opening this Friday or sooner.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So there\u2019s insolence! There\u2019s insolence out there.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Counties are standing up and opposing the governor!<\/p>\n

CALLER: Absolutely. Absolutely. One county is, you know, out close to Pittsburgh, but a lot of them are in south-central Pennsylvania here, because he\u2019s kept us on lockdown even though our numbers are way less than 1% of cases, let alone recovery and all that.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right. Right.<\/p>\n

CALLER: So people are saying, “Nope! We\u2019re not doing it. We can\u2019t.” Like you\u2019ve been saying, “We can\u2019t keep doing this. We have to open.”<\/p>\n

\"\"RUSH: Yeah. This is an interesting thing to me, too, because when this lockdown first happened, I was asking myself, “How long is this gonna go on? How long do people intend this to go on? The authorities\/the people, how long do they intend this to go on?” And I was suspicious from the get-go, and I started looking at various people at the daily White House briefing, the coronavirus task force.<\/p>\n

And I started to pay attention to people in the media, and I got the impression that these people, they\u2019re happy about this, and this is no short-term thing as far as they\u2019re concerned. This is a long-term thing. They started talking about and I was hearing about, “Well, we can\u2019t reopen \u2019til we get a therapeutic treatment or vaccine or whatever,” and then as it reached three weeks…<\/p>\n

I think that was the breaking point. Three weeks and no discussion of opening up? That\u2019s when I began — inside myself — to panic over what we had agreed to do and what the real purpose of it was, because everything — I don\u2019t care what, and it\u2019s a damn shame — is politicized. Everything is politicized. Everything has a political component, including this.<\/p>\n

We know the unending, absolutely illegal efforts that have been underway to get rid of Donald Trump – and a virus is not gonna change those people\u2019s minds. It\u2019s gonna make them try to get rid of him even more. So I\u2019ve been suspicious of this whole lockdown\/shutdown thing for three weeks, and even now, you don\u2019t find massive numbers of people eager to reopen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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