{"id":385597,"date":"2021-03-10T16:15:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-10T21:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=385597"},"modified":"2021-03-11T16:17:00","modified_gmt":"2021-03-11T21:17:00","slug":"as-biden-celebrates-a-year-of-lockdown-rush-puts-the-pandemic-in-perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2021\/03\/10\/as-biden-celebrates-a-year-of-lockdown-rush-puts-the-pandemic-in-perspective\/","title":{"rendered":"As Biden Celebrates a Year of Lockdown, Rush Puts the Pandemic in Perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"

TODD: Tomorrow, Joe Biden will read something he\u2019s a probably been rehearsing for months, and it\u2019s gonna smell like a celebration of the lockdown, and it\u2019s gonna be that. It\u2019s gonna be for them. I think it\u2019s a celebration of the pandemic. This has been the most politicized thing I\u2019ve ever seen.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s changed my personal view of our national public health authorities and state public health authorities, and we\u2019ll talk about that. I want to kick this straight off, though, with just going back to something that Rush taught us very clearly, that Democrats, for them, everything is political. And he spoke very clearly, though. This is one year since this was named a pandemic.<\/p>\n

In this hindsight, listen afresh and think about one man in D.C. who seemed obsessed with doing everything he could to protect people while others around him — many, far too many — seemed obsessed with politicizing. So Rush Limbaugh reminded us how President Trump\u2019s swift action to attempt to keep the virus out of the country<\/a> was assailed by the Democrats and their mockingbird media members.<\/p>\n

RUSH: In the very early days of this, you could see every government official not wanting people to panic and trying to keep \u2019em from panicking by saying, “Come on. Everything\u2019s fine. This thing is no different than the flu.” Everybody was trying to downplay the potential badness of this thing, and then as time went on one guy — one guy — didn\u2019t have the freedom to act like, “Hey, everything\u2019s fine.”<\/p>\n

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Trump banned all incoming travel from China, and guys like Biden and the rest started calling him a racist and a xenophobe. The one guy that was trying to do something about it. And Trump saying, “I didn\u2019t want people to panic.” You\u2019re exactly right. We do panic! There\u2019s no reason for there to be a toilet paper shortage. There\u2019s no reason for a run on toilet paper in any kind of a viral pandemic.<\/p>\n

I think it\u2019s all an exercise here in finger-pointing that is not going to carry any weight with anybody because everybody was in one degree of panic or another back in the beginning and didn\u2019t know anything about it. Everybody was alternately scared or not. You can find people contradicting themselves from the highest level of expertise our country has to offer.<\/p>\n

TODD: Absolutely. Early on in this pandemic as we were trying to figure it out, there was reason to be very concerned. And what we observed, again, is a Trump-and-Limbaugh dynamic. Here\u2019s what I mean. I don\u2019t believe President Trump would be president, would have been… Wishful thinking. (laughing) Would have been. I was wishing he still was.<\/p>\n

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