It’s Hard For a Non-Conformist to Watch This
Mar 13, 2020
RUSH: (accent) El presidente is going to declare a national emergency this afternoon after this program. El president is addressing the people of America at 3 p.m. National emergency. I’ll tell you what that means as we get rolling here, folks.
JOHNNY DONOVAN: And now, from sunny South Florida, it’s Open Line Friday!
RUSH: I have to tell you, I’m just… (sigh) I’m gonna have to be so careful today. The smart thing for me to be would have been to call in and say, “You know what? Not feeling it today. Maybe I should stay home.†But I didn’t do that. The evidence is I’m here. But, mean, I am primed to jump into this with both feet. (sigh) You know, I’m not a conformist, and I’m watching all this go on, and I just can’t believe it.
Major League Baseball is delaying the start of the season for two weeks. Zeke Emanuel of Obamacare fame is saying this could go on for a year! I’ll get the exact… Zeke Emanuel says it could go on for a year. De Blasio says New York will not be the same for six months! Come on. Zeke Emanuel says we are gonna be in this situation for a couple years — I’m sorry, a couple years! Folks, we’re gonna be in this situation for a couple of years.
The mayor of New York, Bill de Blasio, says the New York crisis will last six months. A bunch of Democrats who spent the last three years telling us what an authoritarian and dictator Trump is are now bellyaching and whining and moaning he’s not doing enough! If you want to know what the Green New Deal would look like, you’re starting to see it. You’re starting to see what will happen.
No airplane flights from Europe. No airplane flights to Europe except for the U.K. If you want to see what the Green New Deal, if you want to see what climate will do to your world, you are watching it has been right now under the guise of dealing with the coronavirus. Now, look. I understand. You know, the ChiComs are already over the hump on this. The ChiComs are seeing…
They’ve gone over the hump and now they’re seeing reduction the number of cases and all that, and the story behind that is… Did I play the Open Line Friday jingle or not? (interruption) I did or didn’t? (interruption) I did? Okay. Good. ‘Cause it is Friday, right? (interruption) Anyway, the ChiComs are over the hump, and you know why? Do you know why, everybody’s saying?
“Because the ChiComs got a handle on it and they locked down Wuhan! They locked down their country.†Oh, goody! So the way to fix this is to empower the central government to lock everybody down. Wow! Doesn’t that make you feel better? “That’s what we’re gonna do, Rush.†How many deaths have we had, ladies and gentlemen? I have the number right here in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers — and, Brian, you can put ’em up on the Dittocam.
Put up the first one I sent you with many different colors in the circle. There you go! Here we go. U.S. coronavirus deaths by state. Total: 40 deaths. That big blue circle… If you don’t have this on the Dittocam, if you’re not a subscriber — if you’re cheap and you haven’t joined RushLimbaugh.com — fear not, because we will put this graphic on the website, on the free side there.
But just for now, the big blue portion of that circle is the state of Washington with 77%. It’s 40 deaths; 77% of those deaths have occurred in Washington state, where a Democrat’s the governor (slap me), 10% of the deaths have occurred in California where a Democrat (slap me) is governor, and 5% of the deaths have occurred in Florida. That’s the gold section there, where a Republican is governor. Slap me. I’m making this partisan. See, I shouldn’t be doing that.
I’m violating all the tenets. And then the other 3% in New Jersey, 3% South Dakota, and 3% in Georgia. That’s as of yesterday, 40 deaths. Forty deaths! There have been 40 deaths, and Major League Baseball’s delayed the season two weeks. The NBA has suspended the season. The NHL has suspended the season. The charitable golf tournament I was gonna play in, they’ve canceled that on Monday (snort), and what else? Oh. The Masters!
Augusta National! They’ve postponed the Masters until who knows when. They hope to get it in later this year. Let’s see. (sigh) Now, put the next graphic up, Brian. The solid blue circle here is next coming up on the Dittocam. There you go. You know what this shows? This is death by age of the coronavirus. The giant blue is plus 50. The green is under 50. Oh, wait! There isn’t any green. It’s plus 50.
Of the 40 deaths that have occurred, 77% occurred in one place: A nursing home in the state of Washington where a Democrat’s governor. Pardon me. I know doesn’t have anything to do with anything. If they’re gonna politicize this, then I’m gonna politicize it. Hang on. I am just getting started with this. So that blue circle that you see there represents all 40 deaths in America for which our country is being shut down.
And that blue circle represents deaths of people 50 years of age or older.
The green in that chart there, that diagram, is people under 50. There isn’t any green.
There’s no green there.
That’s as of yesterday.
Now, can I go back and remind you of something? 2009-2010 swine flu, Barack Hussein Obama, first year as president, 60 million Americans infected in a 10-month period, 300,000 hospitalized. 18,000 deaths. This is just 10 years ago now, folks, 10, 11 years ago. We didn’t suspend anything. We didn’t stop anything. The Masters happened. Major League Baseball season happened. The NFL draft and the NFL season, the preseason happened, spring training happened.
Do you realize what it takes to cancel March Madness? Do you realize what it takes to cancel the NCAA basketball tournament? Holy smokes. And then Adam Silver, who is the cadaver-like commissioner of the NBA said, “Hey, you know what, when I announced that our season has been put on ice, not one owner asked me about money.†So we’re supposed to think that the owners of the NBA are stupid? Not one of them is concerned about money? And then Mark Cuban, who is the owner the Dallas Mavericks said, “Wuh wuh wuh wuh do we have insurance?†So an owner did ask about money.
But, folks, look. Again, 2009-2010, swine flu, that’s deadly. Sixty million infected, 300,000 hospitalized, 18,000 deaths. I went back to the archives, the Grooveyard of Forgotten Sound Bites, and we found something here from May 1st, 2009, October 25th, 2009. So we’ve got a montage here of the Drive-By Media praising President Obama after a thousand Americans had died. At the time this montage begins, a thousand Americans had died, not 40, 1,000 Americans had died, Obama finally declared a national emergency after a thousand deaths. And listen.
OBAMA: (5/1/2009) We don’t know for certain that this will end up being more severe than other seasonal flu’s that we have. This is why this is a cause for concern, but not alarm.
FREDRICKA WHITEFIELD: (10/24/09) Something that is concerning a whole lot of people these days, we’re talking about the H1N1, and now, the president, President Barack Obama, declaring the swine flu outbreak a national emergency.
ELAINE QUIJANO: (10/24/09) Should there be a worst-case scenario, but administration officials are emphasizing here, Fredricka, it’s not that they are expecting one.
DR. NICOLE LURIE: (10/25/09) Well, the first thing to say is people shouldn’t panic when they hear this.
RUSS MITCHELL: (10/25/09) Health officials battling the H1N1 flu virus this weekend have received two booster shots of their own. President Obama has declared the virus a national emergency.
LESTER HOLT: (10/25/09) More than a thousand people in the U.S. have died from the H1N1 virus, 90 in the last week. When we hear emergency, alarm bells start to go off, what exactly does this declaration mean?
RUSH: What does this declaration mean? It means Obama’s doing a wonderful job. Why, after a thousand Americans assumed room temperature, Barack Hussein Obama declares a national emergency, and he’s praised to the hilt by the Drive-By Media.
Here, up next is sound bite 10. This is Juliet Kayyem. Juliet Kayyem, this is this morning on CNN’s New Day and Alisyn Camerota talking to former Homeland Security assistant secretary Juliet Kayyem. “Every administration briefs the incoming administration about global pandemic, right? Isn’t this one of the scenarios that you game out?â€
KAYYEM: Remember, President Obama’s first major crisis was not terrorism. It was H1N1. That hit us like March or April of our first year. Then later on as Lisa Monaco, his Homeland Security advisor, said yesterday, her outgoing briefing was a pandemic briefing. So we knew that this was coming.
RUSH: Oh, yeah, we knew this was coming, absolutely. We in the Obama administration, we were competent, we knew it was coming and we told other people that it was coming. Right. Okay. So again 60 million infected, 300,000 hospitalized, 18,000 deaths, the president praised to the hilt for astounding, competent leadership. Forty deaths in America so far. The numbers of people infected are in the thousands or less. And our president today is being portrayed as incompetent, bumbling, idiotic, and buffoonish.
And we’re all at great risk. And so the country has to shut down because Trump is such an idiot. The country has to shut down because that’s what the ChiComs did. No, the ChiComs did not shut their country down. They shut down a city. They isolated a city, maybe a province. They didn’t shut down the whole country. They only shut down the parts of China that would harm America, by the way. The iPhone manufacturing factories, they shut down parts of China that would impact the United States. But they didn’t shut down their whole country.
Places where the ChiComs trade freely and share a lot of travel, like Italy, are experiencing a lot of different cases, a lot of increased number of cases compared to here. But, I mean, I’m at home yesterday minding my own business, I’m sitting there on the sofa in my library, not bothering anybody. And I’m looking at this thing, it’s announced it’s shut down, that’s gonna get shut down, it’s closed. And I can’t believe it.
Then I get the call at my own charity — well, not mine, but the charity golf tournament I’m playing in on Monday has been shut down, too, and I said, “Well, hey, let’s play anyway.†I told the organizer, “I’ll come out and play.â€
“No, no, because I’ve five other events I’m involved in that have been shut down and I need to go get drunk.â€
I said, “Oh. Well, I don’t want to join you in doing that. I need to keep my wits about me because I have a radio show I have to host sober.â€
He said, “I understand.â€
Now, I have a story. You know, me, folks, I’m not a conformist. I don’t go along with the conventional wisdom and it gets me in trouble sometimes. And I have here a story published yesterday at a website called TechStartups.com, and it is a story based on a couple tweets that were published by a biologist at MIT. You know what MIT is, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It’s a deep state university. I mean, the people that go there, the people that get in there, it’s in the Harvard Ivy League world of things.
And there’s this guy there — and I don’t know for how long he’s gonna be there after this — his name is Dr. Shiva Ayyadurai. And I know that because I’m a highly trained broadcast specialist, so I’m an expert at pronouncing names of people outside our own country. Dr. Shiva Ayyadurai. He’s an MIT scientist and researcher on the human immune system. He tweeted that fearmongering on the coronavirus is gonna go down as one of the biggest frauds to manipulate economies he has ever seen.
He thinks the media, and in his own terms here, the deep state, are doing the world a disservice by exaggerating the impact of this virus, said it’s time to stop scaring people and start talking about immune health. Dr. Shiva may be right, says Tech Startups. I can’t believe I got a thing called Tech Startups that’s not some uber-left publication, but they say that Dr. Shiva may be right. Back in October — and now see here these guys, I like this because these guys are starting to use the swine flu numbers from 2009 that nobody seems to be paying any attention to.
How in the world do you go from doing nothing when 60 million are infected, 300,000 hospitalized, and 18,000 people dead and the president gets praised for fast action and decisive action, and we’ve got 40 people dead and the president’s being held up as an absolute buffoon and we’ve gotta shut down the country for this. Oh. Forgot. Trump has also announced he’s gonna cancel his rallies ’til further notice. That is mission accomplished as far as Trump’s political opposition is concerned.
Dr. Shiva Ayyadurai said it’s time to stop scaring people, start talking about immune health. He may be right.
“Back in October 2009, the swine flu killed 1,000 people in the U.S. — no, it’s 18,000 “– including almost a hundred children before Obama declared a national emergency. †A 1,000 people before Obama declared — by the way, what is a national emergency? It just means the federal government’s gonna give money like you’ve never seen ’em give money to anybody who needs it, makes a claim for it, or wants it.
At the time the media hysteria was nonexistent. I wonder why that is? Because they were trying to sell Obamacare at the same time the swine flu hit.
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