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<\/a>And I think one of the reasons why they are the only ones who have the story is this is the kind of story that has to be buried because it suggests progress. The Drive-By Media is attempting to keep everybody scared, keep everybody alarmed, keep everybody in a state of panic to one degree or another. There is not a single day that goes by that the media will let you have a day off, let you take a break, will let you have a break.<\/p>\nThere will not be a day that goes by without you being flooded with news that is designed to panic you, scare you, frighten you, depress you. So that\u2019s why this kind of news is not widely out there today, because it suggests progress. It suggests the economy should not be shut down again. It suggests that mail-in voting isn\u2019t necessary.<\/p>\n
The Democrat narrative is pretty much this: It\u2019s too dangerous to leave your home. It\u2019s too dangerous to go to work. It\u2019s too dangerous to vote in a voting booth. It\u2019s too dangerous, almost, to live. But if you follow our guidelines, we can, the Democrat Party, we can show you how living might be worth it. But you can\u2019t leave home, and you must vote by mail. And you must not go back to your job.<\/p>\n
The Democrats need fear so they can create chaos, so they can take advantage of a crisis that they like to amplify. But the news is: “For the second day in a row, researchers say new COVID-19 cases in the United States have numbered under 50,000.<\/p>\n
“About 45,400 new cases were recorded Monday, according to data from Johns Hopkins University, the first time since late June with two straight days under 50,000. There were about 47,500 on Sunday. U.S. cases averaged about 60,000 per day in July,” the number is down by about 15,000, which is trending in the right direction.<\/p>\n
And this is one of the areas that Trump got into trouble with the Axios people. Trump is a realist. He deals with things as they are. I am a realist. I\u2019m Mr. Literal. I am the mayor of Realville. You know me. One of my all-time favorite, little, short, philosophical sayings: It is what it is.<\/p>\n
Now, some people think that\u2019s become a cliche, and maybe so. But I think that it still sums up the reality of things in as few words and in as penetrating a way as possible. It is what it is. It isn\u2019t what you want it to be. It isn\u2019t what you hope it\u2019s gonna be. It isn\u2019t what you hope it is. It isn\u2019t what you regret that it is. It is what is. And finding people to deal with things as they are is a challenge.<\/p>\n
A lot of people can\u2019t, especially if it\u2019s at all considered bad news, a lot of people don\u2019t want to deal with that, particularly in politics. They\u2019ll find a way to dress it up or make it look like something that it isn\u2019t. The Democrats will try to find a way to make it look worse than it is, which is literally what we\u2019re dealing with every day with the Democrat Party.<\/p>\n
Now, here\u2019s President Trump. Yesterday he repeated that a strategy of a longtime or permanent lockdown was never an option to defeat the coronavirus entirely. He said it\u2019s important that everybody recognize that a permanent lockdown is not a viable path toward producing the result you want, certainly not a viable path forward. Lockdowns do not prevent infection in the future. They just don\u2019t. It\u2019s gonna come back many times. It\u2019s gonna come back. Quote, unquote.<\/p>\n
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There\u2019s not a single thing in that statement that\u2019s untrue. However, my guess is, remember the news that we had last week that the average American thinks 30 million people have already died from the coronavirus. Nine percent of the population. Why do they think that? Because they watch the news. They see all the new cases announced every day. To them new cases equals death. That\u2019s the way it\u2019s being reported. New cases is being reported as some of the worst news that could ever be.<\/p>\n
Why is it bad? Well, because everybody gets it dies. They don\u2019t come out and say it specifically. It\u2019s implied. And people are in fact drawing the inference. And so the lockdown, a lot of people believe the lockdown was to stop the spread. The lockdown was to arrest the spread of the virus. It couldn\u2019t do that, and that was not the intention of the lockdown. The purpose of the lockdown, again, was to spare the hospital system, was to give it a break. It was to limit the number of infections so that hospitals would not be overrun with people suffering from the virus, particularly back in the early days when not as much was known about it therapeutically as is known now.<\/p>\n
It was not to stop the spread. It was not to arrest the spread. It was not to reduce. ‘Cause nothing can. And Trump is exactly right. All Americans must recognize that a permanent lockdown is not a viable path. Even a second lockdown. The Democrats are pushing even now for a second lockdown. And as you will hear as the program unfolds, Thomas “Loopy” Friedman, New York Times, loves the ChiComs, was on CNN last night.<\/p>\n
Wolf Blitzer, “When does this all end? Mr. Friedman, when does all this coronavirus stuff, when this all end?” And you know what Friedman said? He said it ends in November. Exactly as we predicted. It ends in November when the election\u2019s over, all of this panic is over. When the election\u2019s over, we have accomplished our mission or we have not, but that\u2019s when it\u2019s all over. Just flat-out came out and admitted it.<\/p>\n
But lockdowns do not prevent infections in the future. Without a vaccine and without therapies, if you lock yourself down, if you quarantine yourself, which you\u2019re free to do, and you decide to reappear, say, six weeks later, two months later, you\u2019re just as exposed as you were before you locked down. Because nothing has changed about the infectious nature. There isn\u2019t a vaccine yet. Nothing\u2019s changed other than you have sequestered yourself. But at some point that\u2019s gonna end. You can\u2019t quarantine yourself for the rest of your life.<\/p>\n
So the idea that locking down or sequestering people, quarantining is gonna stop the spread or is gonna stop the virus is nonsensical. Lockdowns do not prevent infectious in the future. Keep that in mind. That\u2019s Trump. It is what it is. Let\u2019s go to the audio sound bites. We\u2019re starting here at number 2. The Drive-Bys are going nuts about this, as I told you, because of how Trump says it. But you tell me after you hear this, is Trump right or wrong?<\/p>\n
He makes the point that we\u2019re not eradicating this virus anytime soon. This is the epitome of it is what it is. This is the epitome of dealing with reality. He said we have to learn how to treat it, and we\u2019re making progress. We\u2019re having all kinds of advances therapeutically in how to treat it. So what difference does it make how many cases. What\u2019s important now is deaths per case, but that\u2019s not how Axios and the media want to tabulate it.<\/p>\n
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