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<\/p>\nRUSH: Dr. Fauci… Dr. Fauci has finally admitted — this happened back on Friday — that the lockdown might do “irreparable damage,” something I opined on, something I told you two weeks into this. Dr. Fauci, up until last Friday, was dead set against any opening. Now, what happened? What made Dr. Fauci…? I mean, this is not just changing his mind. This is a drastic misdirection of opinion. Big, big-time change.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Okay, here\u2019s the Dr. Fauci sound bite. This is from Friday. He was on CBS\u2019 Fast Money Halftime Report. Co-host Scott Wapner, talking to Dr. Fauci, said, “How do you address what others have said, that it is just time to open the country now. It\u2019s time to protect just the most vulnerable?”<\/p>\n
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FAUCI: We certainly want — in a cautious way — reopening. We can\u2019t stay locked down for such a considerable period of time that you might do irreparable damage and have unintended consequences, including consequences for health. And it\u2019s for that reason why the guidelines are being put forth so that the states and the cities can start to reenter and reopen.<\/p>\n
RUSH: All right. I\u2019m genuinely curious. Do you know what changed for Dr. Fauci? ‘Cause, folks… (interruption) What was it? (interruption) Okay. So you think that Dr. Fauci has been forced into revising his opinion because the states have reopened and everything is fine, and Dr. Fauci will look like an idiot if he doesn\u2019t acknowledge this? That is your theory? (interruption) Well, I guess we can go with it. Now, don\u2019t misunderstand, folks, but I have been saying this exact thing since two weeks into the shutdown.<\/p>\n
Now, don\u2019t misunderstand. I know that the Drive-By Media is never gonna treat me as the oracle they treat Dr. Fauci. The media is gonna sit around and wait for me to do what they think is step in it, examine, then report that, whereas Dr. Fauci… “Oh. Dr. Fauci says it\u2019s okay to open. Lockdown might do irreparable damage!” You can\u2019t find him even alluding to that as recently as three weeks ago. Anytime reopening came up… Look, I\u2019m not dumping on Dr. Fauci.<\/p>\n
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But anytime there was a good story, anytime there was good news, who was it usually throwing cold water on it? It was Dr. Fauci, or it was somebody from the coronavirus task force, and it was like clockwork. Anyway, I\u2019m glad that Dr. Fauci has moved in our direction here, \u2019cause it\u2019s only common sense. This is something that anybody should have known two weeks into this. Irreparable damage has been done by the lockdown — irreparable damage to the economy, to the American people, to their lives, to their livelihoods, to American cities.<\/p>\n
It still is what has me bamboozled about these Democrat blue state governors. They seem obsessed remaining locked down. Look, we all know why. They probably got their marching orders from somebody. It\u2019s a political objective — damage Trump, do whatever they can — \u2019cause some of these blue states happen to be battleground states where Trump, in specific places, did well. It\u2019s sad that they would behave this way and have these objectives. But don\u2019t doubt me; they do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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