{"id":394854,"date":"2021-04-28T15:45:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-28T19:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=394854"},"modified":"2021-04-29T15:32:44","modified_gmt":"2021-04-29T19:32:44","slug":"rush-believed-in-the-power-of-positive-thinking-the-covid-scolds-dont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2021\/04\/28\/rush-believed-in-the-power-of-positive-thinking-the-covid-scolds-dont\/","title":{"rendered":"Unlike the Covid Doomsayers, Rush Believed in the Power of Positive Thinking"},"content":{"rendered":"

BRETT: So overhanging all of what it is that we are facing in this country today is the continuing fight against the covid-19 virus, right, which has been ravaging — or is not ravaging now, but at one point was ravaging — the United States of America. We have seemed to have gotten much more of a handle on it at least at this point as people are getting vaccines.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re getting permission to walk around outside without masks on if we\u2019re vaccinated and spending time with people who are also vaccinated. I mean, that is the ultimate punch line of the last number of days, the idea that the CDC comes out and tells everybody, “You\u2019re allowed now to go outside without a mask as long as you\u2019re vaccinated and those around you are vaccinated.”<\/p>\n

\"\"The vast majority of people that I know, that I\u2019ve been around didn\u2019t even know there was a federal mask mandate on being outside. But the CDC has listed it. It\u2019s been described by the people at the New York Post as the CDC\u2019s “reign of error,” giving you mixed messaging, telling you all sorts of different things emerging in a given point. “Officials are offering mixed messages about masks.<\/p>\n

“In the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, before embracing them as a simple but effective tool for slowing the spread of covid-19…” That\u2019s what the New York Times defines this as. Well, Rush talking about covid which would ultimately have a tremendous impact on our economy and our spending and our election, Rush talked about covid and the power of positive thinking in this way.<\/a><\/p>\n

RUSH: The case fatality rate, again, how many people have tested positive, whatever number that is, versus how many are dying. And that gives you the morbidity rate. As far as I\u2019m concerned, personally and being interested in it, that latter way would be of more relevance to me. ‘Cause if you don\u2019t get covid-19, then the odds of dying from it are pretty slim. So what does it matter what percentage of the population? But if you do get it, okay, now we\u2019re talking. Now what are the odds of survival?<\/p>\n

Well, that\u2019s what you can calculate with the case fatality rate. And that\u2019s what Trump said. So these guys, “Well, he has a different way of thinking. Trump has this really curious thing called positive thinking. It\u2019s a philosophy, the idea that you say something and you believe it and it happens.”<\/p>\n

I\u2019m telling you, folks, the disconnect between, say, people under 40 and everybody else in terms of traditional, human philosophy, American values, it is stunning. No, no, no, I\u2019m not naive. I\u2019ve known all kinds of people make fun of positive thinking. Don\u2019t misunderstand. If it happens in a specific personal way, not an overall rebuke of the effort or of the mind-set.<\/p>\n

\"\"Have these people never listened to professional athletes talk about how they go about their jobs? Have you ever listened to people that play golf? Folks, you cannot be a PGA tournament champion without the ability to think positive and to banish, you not only have to do that, you have to banish negative thoughts about yourself and your ability as often as you can. If you can\u2019t do that, you\u2019re never gonna win. If you get caught up in the “I can\u2019ts” or the “I am horrible, I can\u2019t play this game,” if you get caught up in that, you\u2019re cooked, you\u2019re done, you\u2019re toast.<\/p>\n

How many of you have seen Tiger Woods didn\u2019t make the cut in the post-round interview talk about how well he thinks he\u2019s playing, just didn\u2019t make enough puts or just, you know, wasn\u2019t quite good enough off the tee. You never hear these guys saying that they suck. Never. And all professional athletes, I mean, the true champions — and there are very few of those — all of them are the same way when it comes to the notion of positive thinking.<\/p>\n

In fact, I would venture so far as to say that most successful people have a modicum or a portion of their existence that is devoted to positive thinking, that they can do it, that they are good. You can\u2019t otherwise achieve great heights if you are obsessed with negativism, particularly about yourself. And here\u2019s another thing. How many of you have encountered people who are just constantly negative all the time about themselves and about you and about this — you don\u2019t want any part of \u2019em.<\/p>\n

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