{"id":398285,"date":"2021-05-19T16:03:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-19T20:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=398285"},"modified":"2021-05-20T15:19:54","modified_gmt":"2021-05-20T19:19:54","slug":"liberals-cant-let-go-of-what-rush-called-the-symbol-of-fear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2021\/05\/19\/liberals-cant-let-go-of-what-rush-called-the-symbol-of-fear\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberals Can\u2019t Let Go of What Rush Called the &#8220;Symbol of Fear&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BRETT: The left continues to freak out about their masks. I\u2019ll tell you, it\u2019s a depressing thing to look at, the way the panic is setting in with people when they realize, &#8220;No, no, it\u2019s time to move away from the mask.&#8221; You\u2019ve got the headline from TheHill.com: &#8220;Mask Rules Spark Confusion, Tension in Congress.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-395061\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/APP-20201-042921-Biden-First-Address-CONGRESS-Harris-Pelosi.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/APP-20201-042921-Biden-First-Address-CONGRESS-Harris-Pelosi.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/APP-20201-042921-Biden-First-Address-CONGRESS-Harris-Pelosi-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/APP-20201-042921-Biden-First-Address-CONGRESS-Harris-Pelosi-480x270.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Nancy Pelosi is yelling and screaming at Republicans who don\u2019t wear their masks. The New York Daily News says, &#8220;Don\u2019t Throw Out That Mask Yet &#8212; Masks should remain with us, becoming part of our everyday lives even as the covid-19 pandemic, science willing, subsides. We should never fully return to our maskless society where only health care providers donned a mask, because judicious use of masks will continue to save lives.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>CNN tells you, &#8220;To help address social needs, it is my view that we should continue to feel comfortable interacting unmasked and in close contact with those in our &#8216;pod,'&#8221; tell me about your pod, &#8220;a small number of family and friends who explicitly agree to a similar level of mitigating behaviors, such as always wearing masks and maintaining physical distance, around those outside the pod.&#8221; Stick only with your pod.<\/p>\n<p>Your pod? Great.<\/p>\n<p>We now have covid-19 cliques forming, and they\u2019re supposed to continue. Rush had it spot-on when he said the mask is a symbol of fear.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Don, Salinas, California. Welcome to the program.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Hi, Mr. Limbaugh. Let me first thank you for your courage and inspirational voice in this corona mess. I really appreciate it. And I would like to put this observation that I have. You know, the visual representation of how devastating this virus is never appeared. The truckloads of dead bodies never really happened. The overflowing hospitals with people dying on the sidewalks outside never really happened.<\/p>\n<p>So now the curve is flattening and they\u2019re desperately looking for some way to show us how bad this disease is, so, all of a sudden, it morphs from being a hand-to-mouth disease to the coronavirus is an aerial Ninja and you need to put a mask on when you leave your house to when you come back. And the main reason I can see for this is, it\u2019s the only visual they have of this virus being dangerous. And, if you say, &#8220;I want my life back, please give me my job back,&#8221; they\u2019ll say, &#8220;No, no. Can\u2019t you see? Everybody\u2019s wearing a mask. It\u2019s dangerous out there. It\u2019s dangerous.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div id=\"zype_5ec681cf2f29ec0001e78d4d\"><\/div>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/player.zype.com\/embed\/5ec681cf2f29ec0001e78d4d.js?api_key=6yUf3WZePk78GtpC3BXdZSqZ5ma_gYmV_rEJ8OYJZ0wq3AlDKM2RFnOcBN0xiMco&#038;controls=true\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>RUSH: So, let me make sure I understand your theory. Your theory, the mask, everybody wearing masks is about the only sign they can make us use to create the impression that there\u2019s a silent, deadly killer out there. And so&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: That\u2019s it, yes.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Everybody\u2019s gotta wear a mask. And, by the way, I have heard, I\u2019ve seen members of the Drive-By Media, by the way, very supportive of the idea that the mask may become a permanent aspect of American public life.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: It\u2019s insane. If you remember at the very beginning it was wash your hands, don\u2019t touch your mouth. Then, all of a sudden, no, no, this thing is, it will fly around corners and jump in your mouth and you\u2019ll die.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Oh, yeah, we have videos of how it spreads across supermarket aisles when you\u2019re buying frozen peas.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: (laughs) Yes. It\u2019s insane. But this is like the flailing of &#8212;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-385404\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/APP-20201-030921-Statue-of-Liberty-COVID-MASK.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/APP-20201-030921-Statue-of-Liberty-COVID-MASK.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/APP-20201-030921-Statue-of-Liberty-COVID-MASK-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/APP-20201-030921-Statue-of-Liberty-COVID-MASK-480x270.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>RUSH: How dare you laugh during this time of national &#8212; you\u2019re laughing out there while this is happening. I can\u2019t believe you. No. I\u2019m just, I\u2019m just kidding. The mask is the symbol of fear, the sign that you\u2019re at risk, the sign nothing is going to get better.<\/p>\n<p>A note from Mr. Snerdley: &#8220;Can you explain to me why TV people doing outdoor shots with nobody nearby are wearing masks? The cameraman\u2019s the only person nearby, and they can be over six feet away.&#8221; I think it\u2019s precisely to create the image of fear.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re wearing a mask because either they legitimately are afraid that that virus is lurking out there and it\u2019s racing through the air and targeting them or because, it\u2019s how they\u2019ve been ordered to behave by their boss. I mean, if the people that employ you tell you to wear a mask out there, that\u2019s what you\u2019re gonna do.<\/p>\n<p>But it is clear that the mask is a symbol of fear, and when you see various people suggesting that we may now have masks as part of our public lives for the rest of our lives? Uh, why? You know, why? What happened to the simple question of, &#8220;Why?&#8221; We\u2019ve had pandemics before. We\u2019ve had runaway viruses, and we\u2019ve had highly contagious and virulent viruses. We\u2019ve not done this.<\/p>\n<p>BRETT: The thing that\u2019s most striking to me about the mask enforcement provisions of our life for the last year, would be the complicity and compliance with which big companies and retail establishments and restaurants, that role that they played in pushing this narrative.<\/p>\n<p>Because if the supermarkets, if the big box stores, if the restaurants don\u2019t say you to you, &#8220;You must not come in unless you have a mask,&#8221; well, that is the logical choke point, because government has no power to make you come and put a mask on as you leave your house.<\/p>\n<p>I mean, they literally have no power to do that, so they turn to the companies and the corporations and to the social media outlets and to the universities. You think back to when the sports programs were first canceled. It was Harvard University, it was the Ivy League that started the shutdown of sports.<\/p>\n<p>It was the corporations and the companies and the retail outlets who endorsed the masking project, \u2019cause they had no way to otherwise force you to put the mask on. Fauci couldn\u2019t come to your house and duct tape it to your face. So they had to get people that were gonna be the local enforcers. Schools, airlines, those sorts of things.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-379902\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/APP-012121-fAUCI-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/APP-012121-fAUCI-1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/APP-012121-fAUCI-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/APP-012121-fAUCI-1-480x270.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>This has been an interesting dry run to see how it is you can control the people of the United States. I cannot remember, looking back across my life &#8212; and I\u2019ve been alive for a while &#8212; a generation as fearful as this current generation. The World War II generation wasn\u2019t like this.<\/p>\n<p>The Vietnam generation wasn\u2019t like this this. The people were genuinely walking around panicked &#8212; panicked and fearful. This is the first generation to demonstrate that. Covid-19 is a terrible thing, but I don\u2019t believe that we should become a panicked generation clutching our masks for the rest of our lives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BRETT: We now have covid-19 cliques forming, and they&#039;re supposed to continue. 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