The following was broadcast by Rush Limbaugh this afternoon. The complete transcript is available HERE.
I mentioned that I had come across a couple of pieces today that attempt to bring some perspective to the coronavirus. One of the pieces is found at the American Institute for Economic Research. It’s a piece written by Jeffrey Tucker. And the headline is: “Why This Draconian Response to COVID-19?” One of the things that I’ve observed as I’ve watched Anthony Fauci, National Institute for Health, and as I’ve watched any number of other experts speak, you know what I’ve observed, ladies and gentlemen? Is that medical professionals seem the least panicked of anybody.
The people that seem the most panicked are politicians, followed by media. And it’s a close first and second there. I’ve not seen anybody more panicked than I just saw the governor of Washington, Jay Inslee, who I think is a little bit of a nutcase anyway. And then you’ve got Governor Cuomo in New York, and then you’ve got the media, CNN, NBC, MSNBC. These people are panicking out of their gourds, happily. I mean, it’s a happy panic that the media has.
But medical professionals seem to be the least panicked of anybody. It’s almost as if the media and the left and the Democrats want to inflict damage on our economy. It’s almost like they’re more eager to report that than they are to report that the virus may be contained. If we are to believe the ChiComs — it’s a big if — the cases of coronavirus in China are now on the downhill side of things. They have peaked in China. That would seem to be big news, but it isn’t.
They’re hardly interested in reporting that. Instead, the damage done to the U.S. economy. Now we’ve shut down the University of Wisconsin for the next month. Here in Florida I’m told that the school systems are telling students to not go to school but to do learning online. There still will be education taking place. Let me ask this.
What happens if all these places shut down, what happens if after a month they realize that the University of Wisconsin, that we don’t have to reopen, we can do every bit of educating that we do here online. We don’t have to have the buildings open. We don’t have to pay for electricity. We don’t have to pay for the heat or to air-condition the place. We don’t need to do this. We don’t need to do that.
As these institutions shut down places, don’t think that there isn’t gonna be some kind of reaction. You can’t shut down a university for a month without somebody having a reaction to how that went, how that goes. We will just have to see. There’s also a gigantic move being made in the Drive-By Media to try to get Trump to cancel his political rallies. Yeah, they’re concerned that Trump’s deplorables might get coronavirus. Don’t give me that.
You can’t make me believe that the Democrats and the media are concerned about the health of Trump supporters attending a Trump rally. That’s not why they want the rally shut down. They want the rally shut down so that Trump doesn’t do any rallies. So here’s a pull quote from this story by Jeffrey Tucker.
Quote: “What’s interesting, Psychology Today points out, is that your doctor is not panicking.” Exactly what I just observed. “COVID-19 is a new virus in a well-known class of viruses.” Well-known class of viruses. “The coronaviruses are –” dadelut, dadelut, dadelut, dadelut, dadelut “– cold viruses.”
Why, who said that? Who said the coronavirus is a cold virus? Who said that, Mr. Snerdley? I think it might be Mr. Limbaugh who said that. And it’s Mr. Limbaugh who has been reamed and chastised as usual by a bunch of nobodies, know-nothings for a proper characterization.
Mr. Tucker writes: “I’ve treated countless patients with coronaviruses over the years. In fact, we’ve been able to test for them on our respiratory panels for the entirety of my career. We know how cold viruses work: They cause runny noses, sneezing, cough, and fever, and make us feel tired and achy. For almost all of us, they run their course without medication. And in the vulnerable, they can trigger a more severe illness like asthma or pneumonia. Yes, this virus is different and worse than other coronaviruses, but it still looks very familiar. We know more about it than we don’t know.”
Really? Wait, wait, wait. We know more about this coronavirus than we don’t know? How can that be? “Doctors know what to do with respiratory viruses. As a pediatrician, I take care of patients with hundreds of different viruses that behave similarly to this one. We take care of the kids at home and see them if the fever is prolonged, if they get dehydrated, or if they develop breathing difficulty. Then we treat those problems and support the child until they get better.”
Sounds rather simple. Sounds rather common. Here’s another pull quote. “Are we really ready to imprison the world, wreck financial markets, destroy countless jobs, and massively disrupt life as we know it, all to forestall some uncertain fate, even as medical professionals do know the right way to deal with respiratory illness in general from a medical point of view? It’s at least worth debating.
“Meanwhile, governments are willy-nilly making drastic decisions that profoundly affect the status of human freedom. Their decisions are going to affect our lives in profound ways. And there has thus far been no real debate on this. It’s just been presumed that containment of the spread rather than the care of the sick is the only way forward.”
You know, it’s such a great point. Rather than treat the sick we’re all obsessed with containing the spread. Well, good luck with that. Has anybody ever contained the spread of the common cold? Has anybody ever contained the spread of the flu? No. It’s a guaranteed failure, and when the failure is announced, guess what? It’s more panic. “We have lost the ability to contain the spread of COVID-19!” Well, you can’t contain the spread of anything else, either.
These diseases run their course. But when you announce that your objective is to contain the spread, you are… I’m sorry, folks, that’s a political decision, and it’s guaranteed to fail, by design. Have we contained the spread of cancer? Have we contained the spread…? Take your pick of any disease you want. Have we contained the spread? Have we stopped people from getting it? No.
That would truly be a miracle, if we had actually contained the spread.
The way they’re talking about it, we do contain the spread by limiting the number of people. But normally it’s the viruses that do that. The viruses need healthy hosts, and once they run out of healthy hosts, they themselves fade away, the viruses. It’s what happens to Ebola. We don’t defeat Ebola. Ebola runs out of health hosts. I know many of you think that Obama cured Ebola, but I hate to tell you that wasn’t the case.
There is a reason I DON’T listen to or watch right wing media like Rush or KC O’day. Low information, dumbed down diarrhea of the mouth with a bunch of Repug-ocrat sauce poured on top. I can just see a bunch of closet republicans soaking this shit in, bobbing their heads and saying GOP GOP GOP over and over.
Rush, or whatever his real name is, needs to first get a clue. Colds are not caused by corona viruses, they’re caused by rhino viruses. Why is this important? Validity. Just like libtards talking about high capacity clips and shoulder thingys that go up. This paragon of right wing ism just joined that crowd.
Look at the numbers. Look at what is happening at unprecedented levels. Yes, people get all sorts of corona viruses, just not this Frankenstein one. They’re not the same and stop saying, “it’s just the flu, bro”.
Perhaps you SHOULD pay more attention to “right wing media”. You might check your assumptions and pursue facts. A simple search at WebMD would more accurately inform your opinions:
Cold viruses have a lot in common, but each type has its own style, too.
Rhinovirus. This bunch is most active in early fall, spring, and summer. They cause 10%-40% of colds. You’ll feel plenty miserable when you catch one, but the good news is they rarely make you seriously sick.
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Coronavirus. These tend to do their dirty work in the winter and early spring. The coronavirus is the cause of about 20% of colds. There are more than 30 kinds, but only three or four affect people.
RSV and parainfluenza. These viruses cause 20% of colds. They sometimes lead to severe infections, like pneumonia, in young children.
https://www.webmd.com/cold-and-flu/cold-guide/common_cold_causes
(PS -- Rush has an exceptional track-record of presenting verifiable facts.)
By all means great guru, tell me what I watch on TV. Go ahead, I’ll wait.
The comments presented by Rush on the reaction and the numbers of those infected with the Swine flu also should be noted.
Does anyone recall those that Donald Trump first surrounded himself with? What they believed?
Do you see that they are still carrying His water?
The same plan is and has been advancing. Perhaps the 500 billion the fed is footing in also gave the markets a boost. A flash in the pan!
Have you noticed the world and the markets all react well to the influence of “gov.” $$$
https://www.gq.com/story/steve-bannon-shadow-president
First, here’s Trump in an interview with Fox News in 2014 (quotes via the New Statesman):
“A lot of people live better without having a job, than with having a job. I’ve had it where you have people and you want to hire them, but they can’t take the job for a period of nine months because they’re doing better now than they would with a job.”
“You know what solves it? When the economy crashes, when the country goes to total hell, and everything is a disaster, then you’ll have riots to go back to where we used to be, when we were great.”
Remember? Now mahap they can do many controlled burns? But this has always been the plan. Burn it down and reform, rebuild…
Get it? Are we along for the ride? i believe so.
Seek out God daily Trust in Him only. Do not fear what we see as the clown show, the world stage etc. All this will and must come to pass.
These people have not changed, perhaps we can?