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<\/p>\nRUSH: Dr. Fauci is now saying that he would not go to the Trump rally. I guess we need to wait for John Bolton to weigh in on whether he would go to the Trump rally. Somebody will ask him, “Would you go to the Trump rally in Tulsa over the weekend, Mr. Bolton?” “No!” “Do you think you\u2019ll ever speak to the president again?” “Nope.”<\/p>\n
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“What was the first thing the president said to you when you first spoke to him?” “It was a lie. I don\u2019t know what it was, but he lied, lied all the time.” “So you wouldn\u2019t go to the rally?” “No.” “Well, if Bolton wouldn\u2019t go, we can\u2019t go!” And then Fauci says, “Oh, no, no, no!” Fauci says, “I will not go to the Trump rally. I wouldn\u2019t go.” Now, Dr. Fauci ought to be in heap big trouble, but he\u2019s not.<\/p>\n
Dr. Fauci admitted to lying to the American people in the early days of all this. He told people that wearing face masks was no big deal. He said it\u2019s not guaranteed to protect you; you don\u2019t have to wear a mask. He knowingly lied to people, and he\u2019s now saying he did that so that the general public would leave these masks alone so that the medical community could have them all because there was a shortage of them, particularly the N95 masks.<\/p>\n
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But just think about it. You want to throw all of this stuff into the hopper and expect the American people to trust the world\u2019s foremost authorities in white lab coats, and even Dr. Fauci admits now to misleading people. Experts told us that masks don\u2019t work, all the while knowing that they did work. Experts told us we had to wipe down every surface to protect ourselves.<\/p>\n
We now know that\u2019s not necessary; that\u2019s not how the virus is spread. We were told to “social distance,” but the Democrats say that\u2019s nonsense if you are outside attending a protest, a riot, or a looting event. The same people tell us we don\u2019t need the police anymore. We don\u2019t even need the Second Amendment to stay safe.<\/p>\n
Now the same people are dictating what T-shirt you can wear, and they want to censor your online presence — and we\u2019re being called (chuckling) the fascists! Just amazing. Remember, folks, you\u2019ve gotta keep in mind… I know the news is filled with brand-new record cases, and they love pointing out that they\u2019re happening in Republican-led states that opened up, like DeSantis in Florida, Greg Abbott in Texas, Brian Kemp in Georgia.<\/p>\n
The Drive-By Media is ecstatic. The Drive-By Media is thrilled! They can\u2019t wait to tell you record number of daily cases. They don\u2019t bother to explain that a lot of this is because there\u2019s testing being done more frequently than ever. They don\u2019t tell you that most of the cases are asymptomatic. They don\u2019t tell you. In fact, they lie, and they try to convince you that cases equal deaths, that cases equal sick.<\/p>\n
You\u2019ve gotta remember something as all this happens, because they are trying to get these governors to lock their states down again. They\u2019re trying to get DeSantis to do it. They want Greg Abbott to do it in Texas. The Democrat mayor of Houston is thinking of shutting down Houston, turning NRG stadium into a hospital. That\u2019s all being done to put pressure on the governor.<\/p>\n
Same thing in Georgia and anywhere else that\u2019s opened up. The Drive-By Media is being its activist self, attempting to convince these governors that they need to buckle to pressure and close and lock down. Remember something: The lockdown, the shutdown was never intended to protect people from getting the virus. It was never intended to reduce the numbers of people who get the virus.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s no way it could. If you lock people down for two months, they\u2019re still gonna come out at some point. All you\u2019re doing with a lockdown or shutdown is a delay of people who are eventually going to become infected. But, folks, it\u2019s important to remember: The lockdown, the shutdown, the shelter-in-place was never about preventing the spread.<\/p>\n
It was about one thing. It was about flattening the curve temporarily so that hospitals would not be overrun by patients who could not be treated. Well, now that\u2019s not a factor. We got ventilators out the wazoo. We got masks out the wazoo. We\u2019ve got all kinds of PPE and medical equipment that we didn\u2019t have two months ago or three, and the hospitals are not overrun now.<\/p>\n
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You ought to hear the anecdotal stories of people who end up in the hospital now for something else, and they talk about how deserted the hospitals are \u2019cause a lot of people are still not going in for elective treatments. Hospitals are being reserved for COVID patients, but they\u2019re not overwhelmed.<\/p>\n
But the point is, there\u2019s no need to lock down again. It was not… The lockdown could not prevent people from getting the disease. It could not prevent the spread. But the media is doing its level best to convince people, “We gotta shut down to stop the spread.” It was never about that. It was about protecting the hospital system, not being overrun.<\/p>\n
But now the hospital system can handle many more patients of COVID-19 than they could three months ago, precisely because the Trump administration got into gear and made sure there were ventilators and made sure there were masks and all kinds of other PPE-type of equipment. Don\u2019t fall for this, “We need to lock down again!”<\/p>\n
There\u2019s no reason for it. There\u2019s no reason to lock down. It\u2019s not gonna change in the long term the number of people who become infected. It\u2019s not gonna change the number of people who don\u2019t become infected but become asymptomatic. It isn\u2019t going to change anything.<\/p>\n
They\u2019re just trying to scare the heck out of you into supporting another shutdown, because they want the economic crash that would come along with it, because what they really want is Donald Trump out of the White House.<\/p>\n
BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n
RUSH: Okay. So supposedly, now, the coronavirus is percolating all over again in China. “New China Outbreak Raises Fears for World,”<\/a> Drudge lead headline. “Schools Shut, Flights Halted in China,”<\/a> Drudge headline. “Residents Rounded Up,” Drudge headline. “Six U.S. States See Record Jump in Cases.”<\/a><\/p>\n Oh, my God. It\u2019s coming again. We\u2019ve gotta lock down. That\u2019s not stated, but that\u2019s implied. And then the final headline, “Dr. Fauci: I would not go to Trump rally.” I would not be caught dead at Trump rally. I would not be caught dead where Trump is period.<\/p>\n My point, folks, you can\u2019t believe anything in the news, because there isn\u2019t any news anymore. And I\u2019m sorry for being redundant. There\u2019s a media, but they don\u2019t do news. They are not journalists. They\u2019re hiding as journalists. They are activists every bit as much as liberal judges are not judges; they, too, are activists. There is no pretense of doing news. There\u2019s no pretense. The only thing that\u2019s happening is destroy Donald Trump, destroy Trump voters, destroy the Republican Party, reelect Democrats. That\u2019s all that\u2019s going on.<\/p>\n You cannot believe this stuff. You can\u2019t believe the virus numbers. Look, the hospitals have every incentive to call every patient a virus patient \u2019cause they get money for it. The press, the media has every incentive to hurt Trump. And the people counting and adding up all these numbers, they have issues with counting, and they\u2019re hiding their math. The modelers, the projections, we\u2019re not getting the truth out of anything.<\/p>\n “Are we on the verge of a second wave of coronavirus infections? Is there a spike in infections in states that reopened first? The only way to answer that question is to watch as the data roll in.” This is Stephen Miller at the American Institute for Economic Research.<\/p>\n “Arguably the best data to look at to see if a second wave is beginning are the hospitalization numbers. The media frequently reports the biggest and most dramatic numbers, often devoid of context. The number of cases has been reported regularly since the early days of the pandemic, and yet we know that the number of cases can be misleading,” particularly as the incidence of testing, which identifies cases, increases.<\/p>\n The point is this story says hospitalization data right now shows no indication of a rise in infections and the hospitals have every insensitive to show that. They get money for it.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/APP-AIER-News-Tearaway-061720.jpg\")
<\/a>Okay. So let\u2019s look at some contradictory stories. American Institute for Economic Research: “What Spike? Hospitalization Data Show No Indication of a Second Wave.”<\/a><\/p>\n
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<\/a>How does somebody decide what to do? It always amazes me. Anyway, this guy specializes in bat-borne — thank God for these people, don\u2019t misunderstand. He\u2019s a visiting lecturer in mathematics at the Budapest University of Technology. And he says, you know, by now we ought to be seeing massive numbers of new cases from the looting and the rioting and the protesting and in Seattle where all this other stuff is going on, and we aren\u2019t. He\u2019s contending that the anti-lockdown rallies of a month ago have not shown any increase in cases when everybody thought that they would.<\/p>\n