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And all the while, trying to convince people that flattening the curve was actually curing or getting rid of the virus, which was never gonna happen by flattening the curve or staying home or locking down. Locking down was never gonna get rid of the virus. Then one month ago, they said, “We can\u2019t open until we have massive testing. We can\u2019t open until we have massive contact tracing. We can\u2019t open \u2019til we got all these new things.”<\/p>\n
Moving the goalposts. Two weeks ago, “We can\u2019t open \u2019til we have a vaccine!” Today, “We can\u2019t open until Biden\u2019s elected!” As far as the people on the left are concerned, we can\u2019t open period. We cannot have an economic rebirth. We cannot have economic growth, because all of this is tied to trying to tie Trump to what they\u2019re trying to create as an economic disaster.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: So far this morning, the Dow Jones Industrial Average is up around 600 points. Let me check it to get the actual most recent here. It\u2019s 565… Let me get it right: 570 is what I\u2019m showing here. So figuratively nearly 600 points up. Now, this supposedly is on big hopes for a vaccine and the economy\u2019s reopening. But my friends, look, as we have said for weeks now, whenever there is good news, somebody always comes along, usually Dr. Fauci…<\/p>\n
Who, by the way, has done a 180 now on reopening. You know, Dr. Fauci supposedly the gospel. Dr. Fauci comes out and says what I said two weeks into this — and, you know, he\u2019s the oracle. (interruption) No, no, no. I don\u2019t have any animus toward Dr. Fauci. It\u2019s just a comment on media. More on it in just a second.<\/p>\n
But whenever there\u2019s any good news, somebody — usually it has been Dr. Fauci — comes out to rain on the parade, and it hasn\u2019t happened yet.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Some interesting COVID-19 data. Chuck DeVore has a great piece at The Federalist. Here\u2019s the headline: “Data: Left-Demanded Mass Transit Fueled Covid-19 Deaths<\/a> — There appears to be…” This is a pull quote. “There appears to be no statistical connection…” I want to be very precise reading this to you, because this is absolutely true, and it\u2019s gonna nuke everything we were told starting with these coronavirus task force updates by the science community and the medical community.<\/p>\n There is no evidence, data — none — that flattening the curve improved anybody\u2019s health outcomes, anybody individually or in whatever demographic group. In other words, it was useless. It was unnecessary. Said another way: “There appears to be no statistical connection between the economic pain of the nationwide shutdowns and the number of COVID-19 cases or fatalities.”<\/p>\n In other words, we\u2019d have the same numbers whether we shut down or not. This is data. This is not somebody\u2019s opinion. He says, “Let that sink in for a moment, given we were told we had to lock down America to ‘flatten the curve\u2019 and save lives,” and we had to protect our hospitals. “On the other hand, the data does suggest that reliance on mass transit is connected with virus cases and fatalities.”<\/p>\n In other words, Andrew Cuomo keeping the subways open for his essential people to get to and from work? There can be a statistical connection made between mass transit and increased cases and fatalities. But there is no statistical connection between the shutdown and the number of COVID-19 cases and fatalities.<\/p>\n Let me try it another way, because, folks, I think this is… (sigh) What\u2019s the term? This is Moneyball. “Allowing for the fact that some places, such as Hawaii and Nevada, are heavily dependent on tourism while others, such as Connecticut and the District of Columbia, have a large share of white-collar workers who can work from home, the data shows no connection between the increase in unemployment and either COVID-19 case rate, fatality rate, or even age-adjusted fatality rate.”<\/p>\n In other words, it\u2019s just stunning. “[T]here appears to be no statistical connection between improved health outcomes and pandemic policies that” shut down the country and put 40 million out of work. In other words, shutting down and putting 40 million out of work and on unemployment and causing all this massive stimulus spending had no connection to improving anybody\u2019s health.<\/p>\n It had no connection to keeping people from getting the disease. It had no connection to preventing people from dying from the disease. It was totally unnecessary, 100% unnecessary. That\u2019s statistical data. And then if you… Let me find a quick statistic here, depending on where I put it? Getting… (muttering) Here it is. Try this. On top of all that, only 1.8% of U.S. residents live in nursing homes or assisted-living facilities.<\/p>\n Just 1.8% of the population live in nursing homes or assisted living facilities. Yet these facilities have tallied 42% of all COVID-19 deaths<\/a> — and we shut down for that? It\u2019s 1.8% of the population lives in nursing homes or assisted living, yet these facilities had 42% of all COVID-19 deaths — and most of those are in New York, New Jersey, and Minnesota.<\/p>\n BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n RUSH: Let me get back here to the subject at hand. I\u2019ve got a series of stories here in the Stack of Stuff that are really aimed as demonstrating how pretty much everything we\u2019ve been told here from beginning of this has not been true. Some of you sly dogs out there, you\u2019ve sent me emails. “Do you realize when you say this, you\u2019re including Trump? You\u2019re saying Trump lied…”<\/p>\n No, I\u2019m not including Trump in it. I mean, I guess I could, but I think Trump was lied to, too, by people he wanted to believe. He was lied to by people he wanted to respect. He was lied to by people he wanted to respect him. Look, I know the person Donald Trump better than some of his close friends know him. I just do. Do not doubt me on this.<\/p>\n I know the president\u2019s psychology. I know his… Not as a trained psychologist. I\u2019m just telling you: I know the guy. I know what motivates him. I know what makes him happy. I know the kind of things that he would hope to have had. He didn\u2019t want any of this! He fully expected… I\u2019m not making it up.<\/p>\n He fully expected that a month after he was inaugurated, that all this stuff would go by the wayside and the country would unify. His experience in New York has been universal love. They loved him when he was on The Apprentice. They loved him when he was operating his casinos in Atlantic City. They loved him when he was the back page, front page, New York Post, Page Six.<\/p>\n He did not change and bend to their will in order to make it go away. He stood up and took the fight to them. But this, in one sense, is one of the major disappointments of his life, this whole hoax, the coup. It\u2019s not a badge of honor. I don\u2019t care what anybody says, it\u2019s not a badge of honor. It ticks you off. But it informed him. It alerted him to what he was up against and who he was up against and it prepared him for doing battle with them.<\/p>\n And he still is taking it to them. And I, for one, am grateful that he does. I\u2019m grateful that he has not succumbed to it. Most people would have by now. Donald Trump didn\u2019t even need any of this. Donald Trump had what many people would consider the ideal life. He didn\u2019t need to do any of this — meaning run for president, meaning any of this grief. He didn\u2019t need it.<\/p>\n His life could have been perfectly fine and enjoyable without any of this. But he did it. And then when the excrement show started, he hung in there and he is still hanging in there. But, yeah, they continue lying to him. They lied to him about the virus. They lied to about 2.2 million people might die. And it was only because the people he was talking to are the creme de la creme in American health care, in American disease, in American medicine.<\/p>\n And he also wanted to believe they were on his side. Despite what he\u2019s seen from the FBI, despite what he\u2019s seen from Comey, despite what he\u2019s seen from Mueller — despite all that — in this instance, he still wanted to believe that people were on his side and were willing to work with him, because of the nature of this virus and disease and the potential problem.<\/p>\n But it didn\u2019t take him long to figure out what their really objective was. Their really objective was to get the country shut down, get the economy stopped, keep it shut down as long as possible so that the negative impact on him would be insurmountable. He would not be able to win reelection in November. Once he figured that out… I know many of you are saying, “He should have known it from the get-go.”<\/p>\n Maybe. I\u2019m not gonna comment on it. Remember, Trump — even after all of this — is not instinctively political, meaning he\u2019s not instinctively ideological. He still looks at all of these Democrats and he does not see liberalism first. He sees it at some point as he\u2019s assessing them. But he sees them as the opposition. He sees them as Democrats. He sees them as fake news or liars or what have you.<\/p>\n Now, let\u2019s get into some of the data here. This is John Solomon\u2019s website, Just the News. Headline: “CDC: Coronavirus Fatality Rate Could Be as Low as 0.26%<\/a> — New estimates released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention indicate that COVID-19 may have an infection fatality rate as low as 0.26%, a number that is double the seasonal flu,” which is 0.13%. But that 0.26% is “significantly lower than” what they were telling us at the outset of this.<\/p>\n They had it at 6%; they had it at 3%; they had it at 9%. It was all over the place! The world\u2019s economies… It\u2019s the way to look at this. The world\u2019s economies were shut down for a virus that is double the fatality rate of the seasonal flu — and we don\u2019t shut down anything for the flu, and we never have. We don\u2019t take precautions to protect hospitals. We don\u2019t do diddly-squat every flu season.<\/p>\n For healthy people, people with no preexisting conditions, COVID-19 is essentially the flu. “Experts,” quote-unquote, were spectacularly wrong. Politics. Politics, not health. Politics, not medicine. Politics — computer models that have never been right — drove America\u2019s economy into the ground, and it was an excuse to destroy Donald Trump\u2019s presidency. Destroy Donald Trump.<\/p>\n Because they are the ones who are doing everything they can to convince people that we shouldn\u2019t be opening up, lockdown should not end. Despite the facts, despite the science of the virus, they continue the charade that the general population is as much as risk as the nursing homes they packed with COVID-19 patients, and it isn\u2019t. Now, that number, 0.26%, let\u2019s look at this a different way, a different story.<\/p>\n This Jacob Sullum at Reason magazine. It\u2019s a Libertarian publication. Headline: “The CDC\u2019s New ‘Best Estimate\u2019 Implies a COVID-19 Infection Fatality Rate Below 0.3% <\/a>— That rate is much lower than the numbers used in the horrifying projections that shaped the government response to” this. If this number had been used from the get-go, we wouldn\u2019t have shut down, not to the extent that we did.<\/p>\n A longer-than-two-week shutdown was never necessary.<\/p>\n BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n RUSH: Okay. Just to review. We blew up the economy. We robbed 25%-plus of the people in this country of their jobs. We shut down their jobs. We shut down their businesses — some of them, sadly, maybe permanently. We have printed\/borrowed enough money to put our children and grandchildren into even deeper debt.<\/p>\n We\u2019ve installed a pandemic of fear that causes many people to walk around with worthless masks and avoid being civil to each other, likely for years. It\u2019s amazing to me we were able to do all of this destructive damage in two months. In two months, we were able… You look at it one way: In two months, we were able to unravel over 250 years of the country\u2019s existence, all for something that kills almost exclusively the very old who already have existing serious health issues.<\/p>\n “I\u2019m afraid they\u2019re gonna get comfortable out there getting these checks that come in every two weeks.” Well, what this has done, among other things, is it has exposed the sheep among us. It has exposed the people among us who prefer assumed security from an all-powerful, authoritative government from the liberty-loving people among us.<\/p>\n The liberty-loving people among us want no part and wanted no part of any of this and have been pushing back against it for quite a while now. Other people have just acted like sheep, done whatever the authoritarians told them to do. But the scary thing is that so many people in this country would willingly give up the authority in their lives to a command-and-control bunch of politicians.<\/p>\n It either does or does not speak highly of our educational system, and it certainly doesn\u2019t say much for how we\u2019ve been teaching liberty and freedom. It certainly doesn\u2019t say much about how we\u2019ve been teaching the Constitution, if it\u2019s this easy — and we have, you know, quite a difficult job getting people back oriented toward fending for themselves. We have to do it, though.<\/p>\n BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/APP-FEDERALIST-TEARAWAY-052620.jpg\")
“There appears to be no statistical connection between improved health outcomes and pandemic policies that forced nearly 40 million people into the unemployment lines.” In other words, putting 40 million people out of work by shutting down, by locking down… There is no evidence that doing that improved anybody\u2019s health. There is no evidence that sequestering people worked.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/APP-051420-99-Closed-Covir.jpg\")
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They loved him constantly. He got used to it. Now, not everybody in Manhattan. There\u2019s still some rivalries and so forth. But he didn\u2019t want any of this. The amazing thing is… You talk about adaptation? Once it started — once this vitriol, once this hatred, once he realized what they were trying to do to him — he did not change to try to make them go away.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/APP-051520-Covid-Coronavirus.jpg\")
The coronavirus was gonna finish what the Obama deep state started. What Robert Mueller couldn\u2019t finish, what Adam Schiff couldn\u2019t finish, the virus was going to finish. Even today, a handful of blue state governors continue to fearmonger — and I\u2019m just gonna tell you: If the economy doesn\u2019t bounce back strong, the blame is gonna land squarely on Democrats.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/APP-Just-News-TEARAWAY-052620.jpg\")
<\/a>We\u2019ve done all of this in a country where 99.7% (it\u2019s even more) do not die. We\u2019ve done all of this! It\u2019s just stunning, and the last thing it is, is adult-level thinking. You know what it\u2019s done? You know, people talk about what they\u2019re afraid of, what scares them. Remember some people saying, “I\u2019m afraid, you know, people ain\u2019t gonna want to go back to work, Rush.<\/p>\n
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We need to get young, healthy people outside, doing what they were born to do — the sooner, the better. Now, it\u2019ll trigger. Look, I\u2019m not naive here. If the NFL starts playing to full stadiums and baseball does the same, it\u2019s gonna trigger a new round of social media hysteria. But I am so fed up with social media governing things too. A bunch of anonymous nabobs that we don\u2019t even know get to sit in for public opinion. When did this happen?<\/p>\n