{"id":348987,"date":"2020-05-15T16:03:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-15T20:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=348987"},"modified":"2021-04-15T10:03:10","modified_gmt":"2021-04-15T14:03:10","slug":"stats-show-georgias-early-reopening-is-a-phenomenal-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2020\/05\/15\/stats-show-georgias-early-reopening-is-a-phenomenal-success\/","title":{"rendered":"Georgia Phenomenon: New Cases Down As Testing Increases"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Now, there\u2019s an interesting statistic coming out of Georgia today. It\u2019s a tweet of a chart by Erick Erickson<\/a>. And I\u2019m not gonna put the chart on the Dittocam<\/a>. It\u2019s impossible to read this thing. It\u2019d be too small on the screen, and I can describe the chart better than what the chart shows.<\/p>\n

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Georgia\u2019s one of the states that\u2019s opened up. Georgia opened up early. There was incredible pressure on Governor Kemp not to do it, to change his mind. He stuck to his guns and opened up. New daily cases in Georgia are going down even as the testing increases. That, folks, is phenomenal. It should be the exact opposite. The more you test, the greater the number of people you will find who have the virus. Not all of them are feeling the symptoms. Many of them asymptomatic.<\/p>\n

But remember when the whole subject of testing came up everybody says there\u2019s a phenomenon that you\u2019re gonna have to adapt to. As we start testing the number of cases is going to skyrocket. The only way we know how many people have the virus now is if they show up at the hospital. But we start randomly testing people outside the hospital when they\u2019re not suffering any symptoms, we\u2019re gonna find a lot more people have become infected.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Now, as that happens the mortality rate plunges because the number of deaths are what they are. There\u2019s no test for death. There\u2019s actual death and not death, and if people die and if they attribute the death to the COVID virus, that\u2019s a static number. It changes every day as they change the count, but it\u2019s still a static number. It does not change with testing. So as more people are found to be infected, the mortality rate plunges because the denominator stays the same and the numerator skyrockets. So you have an ever bigger universe of people who have the disease to compare against the number of people who are dying from it.<\/p>\n

Now, what\u2019s remarkable about what\u2019s happened here in Georgia is that as they ramp up testing, the number of cases in Georgia is going down. Now, you would think that this would be huge news. You remember how the increase in tests was supposed to reveal an increase in cases that otherwise would have been missed. In other words, the reason for testing is to find out the people that have got this disease that we don\u2019t know have it.<\/p>\n

And we gotta test and we gotta find out so we can keep people safe. We gotta find out if you have it, for example, so we can limit your contact with people. We have to find out if you have it so we can keep people from having contact with you. We gotta test, we get test, we can\u2019t open up \u2019til we test. We need more tests and we now have more tests than anybody in the world. They complain and gripe to Trump for pointing out that.<\/p>\n

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The number of new daily cases in Georgia is flat. It\u2019s infinitesimally small compared to the number of people who are being testing. This goes against everything we\u2019ve been told about how this is gonna work. And all it does, aside from conveying really fascinating good news, is to tell us once again that there isn\u2019t a singular foremost authority on this who, more than anybody else, knows what they\u2019re talking about. Because I\u2019m telling you, folks, as you start testing, it should be axiomatic the number of reported infections should be skyrocketing. And it isn\u2019t in the state of Georgia, a state which has opened up.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Here is Brian in Athens, Georgia, we head back to the phones. Great to have you, sir. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, Rush, big thrill to talk to you. You speak about the curve, and I was told to tell you that I have a science background. When we were told about mitigation, the authorities never said, “If we mitigate, less people get the virus.” They never said that. They said we will not… They didn\u2019t say we were gonna have a smaller curve. They said we are going to “flatten the curve.” If you flatten the curve, you\u2019re changing the shape of it and the peak gets smaller. But the wave gets longer, at least twice as long, and the peak\u2019s longer and the wave is longer.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right.<\/p>\n

CALLER: But the area under the curve doesn\u2019t change, so that means the same amount of people get the virus one way or the other. They just get it in a very short period of time, if you don\u2019t mitigate — and if you do mitigate, the same number of people get it, but it\u2019s over a much longer period of time. The waves last longer with mitigation.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right. All of that is true. So the question then becomes, “Well, then what was the point of flattening the curve?” and the reason to flatten the curve was to make sure the hospitals were not overrun, to make sure that we kept the number of people being infected and suffering the ravages of the disease spread out rather than happening in a concentrated period of time so as to make sure our hospitals and ICU units were able to handle it.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s why in New York, Trump sent the Navy ship up there to the harbor. And that\u2019s why “the corpse,” as Obama pronounces it — the Corpse of Engineers — built a field hospital in Central Park, and that\u2019s why they turned the Jacob Javits Convention Center into a hospital is because they thought they\u2019re gonna be overrun. Now, the problem here is that there was a lot of deception involved, and a lot of people who were advocating flattening the curve — mitigation — said, “You stay home!<\/p>\n

“You don\u2019t go out. You keep six feet of distance between you and everybody.” Many people thought that was a way of stopping the virus. Many people went along with it because they thought, because they were deceived and misled that this is how we\u2019re gonna stop the virus. And flattening the curve was never gonna stop the virus.<\/p>\n

As Brian said, all it was gonna do was extend the time over which people got the virus. As a means of illustration, let\u2019s say you hear them say, “You gotta stay home and you can\u2019t go out. You gotta keep six feet of distance. You do this and you won\u2019t get the virus.” So you do it. You don\u2019t get the virus.<\/p>\n

\"\"But some day\u2019s gonna come, you\u2019re gonna leave. You can leave the house or you\u2019re gonna go out or whatever, and the virus is still gonna be out there until there\u2019s a vaccine. So you can shelter for six months. It doesn\u2019t mean you\u2019re not gonna get the virus, unless you stay sheltered and do not come in contact with anybody who has it — and that\u2019s not reasonable to expect, anyway. But there was a lot of deceit.<\/p>\n

They were honest about it, too, but there was a lot of deceit here. They had a lot of people who wanted this shut down. Folks, how many people do you think when this shutdown began thought that it was gonna be a multiple-, three- or four-month thing? I\u2019ll bet you that not… I\u2019ll bet it wasn\u2019t a majority. I\u2019ll bet a majority thought it was temporary, two or three weeks.<\/p>\n

Get a handle on this thing, slow it down, come up with ways of deal with it, and we open back up. I\u2019ll guaran-damn-tee you that when this thing was shut down, they did not think it\u2019s gonna be shut down to September. Maybe some did. I mean, there\u2019s all kinds out there. But I think there was… There\u2019s always been so much — a little, a little — deception in parts, \u2019cause they need…<\/p>\n

If there\u2019s a government policy that we\u2019re gonna shutdown and that you\u2019re gonna mitigate, and that you gotta stay home — and you don\u2019t go out and you don\u2019t get within six feet of other people — they\u2019ve gotta find a way to make that happen, short of sending the cops out, knocking on every door. The way to do that is to scare the heck out of you and to mislead you, mislead you into thinking that kind of behavior — following the wishes of the authorities — will provide the fastest cure and the fastest route to the solution.<\/p>\n

So they had to find a way to make people compliant with their desire to flatten the curve. It turns out, it wasn\u2019t even necessary. The hospitals weren\u2019t overrun. Even in New York, they didn\u2019t use the external hospital beds that were built. They didn\u2019t use the hospital ship that the Navy sent in there, that Trump sent in there. They didn\u2019t use the Central Park beds. They didn\u2019t use the Jacob Javits Center that was converted to beds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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