{"id":347032,"date":"2020-05-05T12:35:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-05T16:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=347032"},"modified":"2021-09-20T10:33:20","modified_gmt":"2021-09-20T14:33:20","slug":"if-you-want-to-survive-move-to-a-red-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2020\/05\/05\/if-you-want-to-survive-move-to-a-red-state\/","title":{"rendered":"If You Want to Survive, Move to a Red State"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: By the way, you know what the Democrats states are doing? Do you know what this is all about? The states that are not opening up, the Democrat states continue — and, by the way, as I interrupt myself for the third time in 30 seconds, you know the greatest death rate in this country is in blue states? If you want to survive, move to a red state. I have documentation and backup for this coming.<\/p>\n

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Anyway, what these states — and, you know, Ralph Northam of Virginia, he\u2019s the latest to announce they\u2019re not opening up. It\u2019s all about getting bailed out. These states — I\u2019m not kidding you — these states are trying to have a total economic collapse so that there is only the federal government bailing them out as an option. And, along with the bailout would come eliminating the problems they have with their unfunded pension liabilities, that\u2019s in addition to their attempt to harm the economy, to then, in turn, harm Trump\u2019s reelection chances.<\/p>\n

I mean, there\u2019s so much going on with all of this that has nothing to do with the virus. It has nothing to do with saving lives. It has nothing to do with revitalizing the economy. And all of this strategizing, all of this deceit, the manipulation, all of this is occurring in the blue states run by, of course, Democrat governors.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: The Democrat governors that want to keep their states locked down may be having a problem. “Germany has decided to reopen all of its shops and allow soccer matches. Italy, Spain, and France are easing the lockdowns in their countries after Europe\u2019s hot spots now see a record-low number of coronavirus cases.”<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s see what else we have. Other news about the… Sweden. You know, Sweden… We\u2019ve been up and down about Sweden and how their experimenting. They never did lock down. Sweden has done okay without a lockdown; so they\u2019re at the plus column as well. Then there\u2019s this — and this is from Millennial news service Axios.<\/p>\n

“Americans\u2019 Worries About Leaving Their Homes Are Fading.”<\/a> Remember before we had lifted any of the lockdowns and they were just on the table for being discussed, a lot of people said, “You know what, Rush? It ain\u2019t gonna work anyway. People are scared! They\u2019re gonna be scared. They\u2019re gonna be scared to leave home.<\/p>\n

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“They\u2019re gonna be scared to get the bus, gonna be scared to go to restaurant, gonna be scared. You go ahead and reopen, Rush. I think people are gonna be scared and be staying home.” Well, apparently conventional wisdom is wrong again. “Americans say they are getting less worried about leaving their homes and taking part in large group activities, according to the latest installment of the Axios-Ipsos Coronavirus Index. …<\/p>\n

“As states start to relax shelter-in-place orders and allow more businesses to open, there is increasing public appetite for the kind of activities that could help spur the economy toward recovery…” Oh, no. Not what Axios had in mind. So… “Pollsters caution the responses may be more a reflection of cabin fever than confidence.”<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Every state, every circumstance is different. And people are free to try what they think works, like in Florida. You know, Ron DeSantis, he was also accused of hating people and wanting people to die because he opened up the beaches up in Jacksonville. And it turns out that it\u2019s been a major success story.<\/p>\n

He had a 5:30 little press event yesterday to document it and the fact the state of Florida has been an overall success story in how the situation\u2019s been dealt with. As DeSantis points out, it\u2019s a very diverse state. We can\u2019t have a one-size-fits-all policy. The most stringent policies are for South Florida — Broward, Miami-Dade, Palm Beach counties.<\/p>\n

But as you go north and the west in the state, those kind of restrictions relax considerably, because there has been much less evidence, instance of cases and deaths throughout the rest of the state. And so pretty much everything the doomsayers predicted has turned out to be wrong. But as I pointed out about doomsayers, they actually never can be wrong. The doomsayers are never wrong because they always have built-in excuses.<\/p>\n

And when they are wrong they say, “See? The reason this news is so good is because we warned everybody how bad it could be and we scared people into behaving the right way.” But for your purposes, folks, these people have been predicting doom and gloom about opening the economy, so far they are as wrong as anybody could be, and they know it, and they\u2019re trying to double down on it with leaks like this story in the New York Times.<\/p>\n

Now, back for a second to this Axios story. People are starting to lose their fear about leaving home. Now, this is another thing the experts told us would not happen. They told us that people would remain afraid, that the lockdown seven, eight weeks, the virus is still out there, that people are gonna be scared. “You may be able to open up, Mr. President. You may not be able to get your economy going again. People might be afraid. They might be worried. They might be scared to leave home.”<\/p>\n

Turns out that the fear is abating. And here\u2019s the thing about it psychologically. When the fear is gone, the consequences of the fear will be long lasting. The plague narrative gets harder to support every day. Now, if you want to believe the worst, I mean, you can find plenty of news that will tell you, “Oh, this is the worst, it\u2019s hopeless, we\u2019re all gonna die, it\u2019s over, it\u2019s just a matter of time.” But a lot of people are just, “You know what? All this horrible stuff that they\u2019ve predicted, it isn\u2019t happening, it hasn\u2019t begun to happen.”<\/p>\n

\"\"But what\u2019s really fascinating about this Axios piece is the difference between the response of Democrats and Republicans. Now, let me just give you the details first, and then I\u2019ll break it down Republican-Democrat.<\/p>\n

“Americans say they are getting less worried about leaving their homes and taking part in large group activities, according to the latest installment of the Axios-Ipsos Coronavirus Index.” It sounds like a lip balm, Axios-Ipsos Coronavirus Index. Anyway, then their paragraph, “why it matters,” \u2019cause they\u2019re readers are too stupid to know why this matters. So Axios tells its readers, “As states start to relax shelter-in-place orders and allow more businesses to open, there is increasing public appetite for the kind of activities that could help spur the economy toward recovery.”<\/p>\n

Oh, you mean we weren\u2019t able to figure that out when you tell us Americans are getting less worried about leaving their homes, we\u2019re not smart enough to figure out that could mean a rebirth of economic activity?<\/p>\n

But pollsters are cautioning that the responses of people who say that they are getting less worried may be “more a reflection of cabin fever than confidence.” So if you\u2019re desirous of getting out there, you want to go back to work, you want to reopen your business, you want to get out and start living again, it may not have anything to do with the fact that you\u2019re confident you can do it. No. It has to do with you\u2019re going crazy, you\u2019re going nuts, you\u2019re getting cabin fever out there and you\u2019re not even thinking straight. That\u2019s what they want you to believe.<\/p>\n

“In week eight of the poll, which took place May 1-4, just 36% said they viewed attending a gathering of friends and family outside the house as a large risk.” Only 36%. But “Democrats are twice as likely as Republicans to see leaving the house and getting together in gatherings as risky.”<\/p>\n

Now, why would that be? What is the difference in Democrats or Republicans here? Why would Democrats think, “It\u2019s much more risky. Oh, it\u2019s gonna be terrible. Oh, my God. We can\u2019t go out there. We could die. We could get sick.” Why do so many more Democrats have this pessimistic, negative, scared-to-death attitude about living? Are Democrats not able to think logically? Are they not able to use common sense? Are they consuming too much Democrats in the media? Are they just sick?<\/p>\n

“Black and Hispanic respondents also were much more likely to perceive a high risk of engaging in these activities.” It\u2019s amazing how partisan everything is in our country today. Even the opinion, or the thought, or the awareness of risk in leaving your house and venturing outside has a partisan divide to it.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Gavin Newsom looks like he may be caving and opening the state. Audio sound bite number 7, yesterday, Sacramento, California.<\/p>\n

NEWSOM: We are entering into the next phase this week, end of the week. With modifications we will allow retail to start operating across the spectrum. We will allow regional variation, but only after self-certification of particular criteria that will allow even further implementation of our Phase Two. This is a very positive sign, and it\u2019s happened only for one reason.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah?<\/p>\n

NEWSOM: The data says it can happen.<\/p>\n

\"\"RUSH: Oh. So he\u2019s changing his tune out there because he says the data has changed. But, you know, the truth is that the data or the data, however you choose to pronounce it, the data in California has never supported a lockdown. California hasn\u2019t been overrun with cases. They haven\u2019t been overrun with deaths. In fact, it\u2019s just the exact opposite. California, number of cases, number of deaths was so dramatically lower than New York that people started asking, “How the hell did this happen?” And remember Gavin Newsom said, “Well, we got a head start on social distancing.”<\/p>\n

Yeah? What was your head start? It was two days. Two days explains this big difference? No way. He\u2019s doing this because the people in California are pressuring him to do it. They don\u2019t understand why there is a one-size-fits-all policy for a state as large and diverse as California and they want to get out and they want to get to it.<\/p>\n

This is Good Morning America today. The CEO of Starbucks, a guy named Kevin Johnson. Robin Roberts is doing the interview. She said, “Okay. So the vast number of stores, Starbucks stores, are opening again. How do you respond to some people who may feel that with the rise in projections of coronavirus deaths that this is too soon to go that fast?”<\/p>\n

This is all based on the bogus FEMA prediction that the New York Times ran with today, 3,000 deaths every day in just three weeks, 200,000 new cases every day in just three weeks. It\u2019s the New York Times running the story and she\u2019s asking, “How the heck can you open up, how can you open up now? So many people think it might be too soon to go this fast.” And he said…<\/p>\n

JOHNSON: We\u2019ve managed through this COVID-19 crisis in over 82 countries around the world and we\u2019ve used three simple principles to guide every decision we\u2019ve made. First, we prioritize the health and the well-being of our Starbucks partners and the customers we serve. We support our government as they work to contain the virus. And third, we want to show up in a positive and responsible way in the communities we serve. Now those three simple principles have guided us every step of the way. And as we open in the United States 85% of our stores this week, we are doing it with enhanced safety protocols in the stores and experiences that we know we can deliver to customers in a safe way.<\/p>\n