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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to today's edition of the Rush Limbo Show podcast. Yes,
America's anchor man is away and this is Mark Stein,
your foreign virus coursing through the bloodstream of the Excellence
in Broadcasting Network. We're here at ice Station EIB and

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I drove over the border earlier this morning loaded up
with premium Canadian two ply toilet paper. I'll be selling
that off the back of the truck after the show.
But don't try anything, because it got me one of
these fancy new assault weapons that Joe Biden is all
worried about, the the AAR fourteen. It's way better than

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the AAR thirteen. So don't try anything. Yeah, Rush is
out for a couple of days. We have your pals
and mine, Ken Matthews, Todd Herman coming in later this week,
and then Rush all close things out. And Todd Todd Herman,
I think this is at his Twitter feed, he posted

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a lovely thing this morning of a big moose wandering
through his backyard and he said that this is God's
way of telling him that the Lord will provide even
in desperate time. So Todd, even as we speak, is

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dressing that moose and settling in for a full bowl
of moose stew a little later, Ken and Todd in
later in the week, and Rush. It's a busy newsweek.
It is a Monday like no other in the United States.
For quite some time, I noticed just I live in

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a lightly populated rural area, but I still notice that
driving into the studio there was nothing on the because
normally I find myself behind some Vermonta going at twenty
eight miles an hour and have to pick the tiny
little spot in the unbroken double yellow lines surpass the guy,

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and the Vermonta driving twenty eight miles an hour is
not on the road. Today. Busy newsweek, Florida. Let's get
the politics out of the way first, because the politics,
in some ways is the least important of this thing.
Florida is still planning at this hour to go ahead
with its primary, which is scheduled for tomorrow. And as

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you know, Florida is a state with many old people
in it. But the Florida authorities have said that they
can handle it and it is safe to go out
and vote. This is a state that is by far
totally incompetent at holding an election in the best of times,
but it still purports to be able to hold an

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election in the midst of this coronavirus thing with with
with old people standing in line for hours and hours. Now,
the interesting thing about this is whether the poll workers
who do not seem to me to be Now, if
you're a Florida poll worker, feel free to stop dimpling

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your chat and give me a call one eight hundred
two eight two two eight eight two. But they do
not seem to be to be necessarily the most scrupulous
human capital on the planet. The interesting question will be
how many of them actually show up for work tomorrow
when polls open, and in that case, how many more
hours people are going to have to wait to stand

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in line, And just going on the anecdotal evidence of
the light traffic around my own part of the world,
whether those Florida elderly voters will bother going out to vote. Now,
that's interesting because if the if the older people don't

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go out to vote, that leaves an electorate that skews
artificially young, which works in Bernie's favor. Early voting, Bernie
was riding high, so early voting, Bernie's doing really well
in if it is a younger skewing electorate because old

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people the Biden voters. Basically, everybody under fifty in the
Democrat electorate is going for Bernie, and the older you get,
the more likely you are to vote for Joe Biden.
So if octagenarians and nonagenarians decline to go out and
vote for Joe, that makes it more likely Bernie could
pull off a surprise, which makes it more likely that

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the Fellers controlling the Democrat party will figure that out
and change their mind about holding the primary tomorrow in Florida. Okay,
that's the boring politics. I'll entertain. I'll entertain calls if
you really want to talk about that Statler and Waldorf
Democrat debate with two colleges coughing and sneezing over each

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other from six feet apart and arguing about who supported
which Senate bill in nineteen ninety seven. If you really
want to talk about that thing last night, we can
do it Otherwise. There's a lot of other things going
on in the world. This is my favorite headline of
the last twenty four hours from the Times of London.

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ISIS issues coronavirus travel advice, terrorists should avoid Europe. It's
advising ISIS IS advising its members to steer clear of
Europe because and steer clear in fact of contact with
the Infidel in case they become infected. And speaking as

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an Infidel, I'd say that actual directive works for me too.
But it's getting serious when you know that isis telling
their members if you get the urge, if you I
tell you, if you get the urge, you should not
self detonate. You need to self quarrantin not self detonate,
self isolate. If you get the edge to blow people up,

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you must go and blow people up in Africa because
there's much less chance of being your all your body
puts in Europe. If you blow people up, they will
be infected with the coronavirus. And then Nala will be
furious because you will when you get to Paradise, you
will infect all the virgins that there goes to the
neighborhood and Paradise will be infected with the infidel disease.

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And they've told they've told people, They've told their members
to cover their mouths when yawning and sneezing. And that's
particularly important if you're a suicide bomber, because if you cover,
if you don't cover your mouth when you sneeze, you
risk setting off the Semtex belt a couple of minutes early,

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so that could be a real disaster. The last thing
you want, you know, is you're getting ready. They happened,
this actually happened to be in Copenhagen a few years
ago when I was with the fellas from Yilan's Post
who published the Mohammet cartoons, and there was a one
legged chechen who doesn't love a one legged chechen their

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comedy Gold and he was setting off to come and
blow us all up, and unfortunately he prematurely self detonated
in his hotel room. That's the danger that I'm is
much worse. If you're if you're if you if you're
sneezing and you're coughing. So that's that's the that's the update.
It's getting serious. They don't want Isis doesn't want to

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have all its infidels brought down by the Corona virus
instantly Iran. This thing is taken out big shot Ayatollers Mexico.
Mexico is threatening to close the US border because they
don't want infected Americans coming down to Mexico. So do

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you realize this coronavirus has actually is proving more effective
than anything else tried at stopping isis stopping Iran and
stopping illegal immigration from Mexico. That is quite remarkable. I
have two things to say before we get one eight
hundred two eight two two eight eight two. I have

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two and you can call me up and talk about
any aspect of this fast moving news cycle. And it's
very fast moving. There were twice the number of cases,
but twice the number of cases in the United States
of this thing that there were on Friday, for example.
So this thing is moving, is moving pretty fast. And

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by the way, all the number of cases is all
rubbish anyway because of the big failure to get the
test kits out. And so now we're being told that, oh,
don't worry, the incompetent bureaucracy is on top of these
things and it's going to get the test kits out.
This is going to be the last week test kits
matter because none of these none of the test numbers

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are accurate. They're not accurate because China lies, Iran lies,
Russia lies, America didn't get the test kits out in
time to test, and in Italy and Spain and elsewhere
they're too overwhelmed to tests, So testing isn't going to
make any difference. Forget about testing. What we're going to

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be engaged in now is essentially a triage situation moving forward,
which is horrible and I want to but I want
to make two points about this right at the beginning.
One is practical and one is philosophical. If you want
to know how to think about this thing. The statistic iwa.
You know, people talk about all this flattening the curve.

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Flattening the curve. You know, the cliches take off faster
than the virus and become annoying after just a couple
of day. I'm tired of hearing about people flattening the curve.
It sounds like some PLATEX twenty four hour girdle, the
sort of thing I might wear before I go on

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stage or TV. Flattening the curve, flattening the curve. I'm
bought by it already. But the curve to flatten, the
one that will tell you whether there's good news, flattening
the death curve. Italy yesterday posted the highest number of
deaths of any country ever in since this thing began.

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In a single day. Up. I think it's the three
hundred and fifty nine something like that. I've been I've
been watching that. They release the twenty four hour death
count daily in Italy at six pm Central European time,
which right now, because they haven't sprung into summer yet,
is one pm US Eastern time. So we'll bring you

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those because that's the one. Can they flatten the death
curve right now? They've been in this hideous city and
they can't flatten the death curves so right now, so
far Italy has seen something that is proportionately a death
toll equivalent to three nine elevens. Right, three nine elevens.

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I don't care what view you take of the politics
of it. Three nine elevens is a big parlor corpses.
That's the one I look. That's the statistic to see.
Can they start flattening that death curve, because if not,
it's just a question of how many days behind Italy
everyone else it's Switzerland and Spain were about four or

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five days, Germany and France about eight or nine days
behind Italy, the UK and the US, the Surgeon General
said today, if you don't believe me on this Trump
surgeon General said, where two weeks behind Italy? So is
the UK. They're they're the numbers. The other it's the

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practical thing watching that Italian death number as to whether
you can flatten that death curve. The other thing is
the other point I want to make is philosophical about
how to think about this thing, and we'll get into
that in just a moment. One eight hundred two eight
two two eight eight two. Mike made it into New
York City to operate and twiddle all the knobs that

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keep this thing on the air, coming in by a
deserted train into a deserted city, and Greg is also
there taking care of things. Mister Snerdley is monitoring things
from a fast moving day, jittery day on the stock markets.
We will bring you all the news between now and

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the time we close things out, and almost immediately after
we go off air, I believe the President's Coronavirus Task
Force will be holding their latest press conference. One eight
hundred two two eight eight two. Mark Stein in for Rush,
Mark Stein in for Rush, on America's number one radio show.

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I said, I wanted to make a kind of philosophical
point before we before we get deep into individual aspects
of what's going on around the world. You hear talk
about the politics thing, and yeah, there is politics. There
is politics in all this, and we saw it the
other day with you know, Nancy Pelosi trying to ram

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through this zombie apocalypse planned parenthood supplemental funding bill that
she's all hot for. Every The politics is what it is,
but there's something that at this stage transcends politics, because
unless you've got like a super in control political leadership,

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the politics has to impact the bureaucy, which, as a
practical matter, means it's like turning round the Titanic after
you've hit the iceberg and you're already sinking. It's hard
to turn in those conditions. And you can look at
the various places this thing has sprung up. You can

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look at what's happened in Chinese. Yeah, well, America's not
like China. America's not like Iran. America's not like Italy.
America's not like Spain. You know, China doesn't have a
first Amendment. It's a lead doesn't have a second amendment.
That's all true, that's all true. But all these countries,
whether they're totalitarian dictatorships, whether they're socialist basket cases, whether

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they're theocratic tyrannies, whether they're advanced Western democracies, when something
like this happens, they all depend on bureaucracies. And oddly,
oddly enough, the bureaucratic menality transcends whatever ideology it's operating
in the interests of. That is why if you read Kafka,

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if you eat almost anything by Kafka, if you eat
the Trial, if you eat the Castle, if you eat
any that is why Kafka is still read. Not because
we're living in the Kingdom of Bohemia in a hundred
years ago, but because, oddly enough, bureaucratic behavior in the
Kingdom of Bohemia one hundred years ago, as distilled by Kafka,

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is remarkably similar to going to the DMV in the
early twenty first century in the United States of America.
There is something about the bureaucratic mindset that transcends the
systems it's supposed to be operating in the interests of.
And you see this although the need to self protect
above all else. That's why the FBI, for example, the

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President treated about this over the weekend. The FBI has
just announced that it's mysteriously lost all the files on
General Flynn. You remember this guy, General Flynn, the guy
whose savings were exhausted, life was ruined, family was ruined
because he committed the crime of misremembering to the FBI,

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which is a very kafka esque crime. Actually he would
have recognized that. And yet mysteriously they've they announced over
the weekend because a coronavirus, as one of Tony blairs
advisers said on nine to eleven, is a very good
time to get out news we want to bury. So

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the FBI announced that it's mysteriously lost all its files.
No one. And here's the thing, none of those bureaucrats
who did were expected to believe that, and none of
the bureaucrats telling us they've lost General Flynn's files will
pay the price for it, just as all the complete

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useless toss pots who were around on nine eleven, nine
eleven have either retired on government pensions or are still
in their jobs today. Nobody was fired for a fiasco
nine eleven. Is another useful thing about that bureaucrats systems
have always geared up to fight the last war. So

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on nine eleven, when those guys seize the planes, everyone
thought it was nineteen seventy three and they were demanding
some money or some prisoner release and and going to
take the flight to Cuba or Tallibya or whatever. Bureaucrats, bureaucrats.
There's something about the bureaucratic mentality. And that's why, as

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I said, the politics of this isn't really worth talking about,
because you know, at a certain point, when people are dying,
politics becomes unimportant, but the overriding bureaucratic mindset does become important.
And there are far more commonalities between an Italian bureaucracy
and a Spanish bureaucracy, and even an Iranian bureaucracy and

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US bureaucracy. And people like to admit that that's a
very important point. And now we saw it with the
chaos at Ohare and Dallas Fort Worth over the weekends.
These are people who are coming in. This was the
last chance for Americans to get back from high risk countries.
So let's say you're an elderly granny who's flying in

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from Europe to get home before all the planes stop,
and you've taken care of yourself because of what's been
happening in Italy and Switzerland and France and Spain, not
to expose yourself and then and you're an elderly American
granny flying back and you land at Ohare and you're

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held in a packed corridor for four hours because Bozo
the bureaucrat who's on the gate can't get up to speed.
The no government, I don't care whether it's American or Iranian,
has the right to infect its citizens. Hey, great to
be with you. We have Ken Matthews with Todd Harman,

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and we have some new guest hosts we're trying out
coming in toward the end of the way. What's his name, Rush?
It's an unusual name. Are you sure about that? Yeah,
he's going to be He's gonna academy in later in
the week. But by the way, if you do not
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and painful and uncomfortable medical tests, and he was sitting
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I just want to know. By the way I did
say we'd entertain I'd like anyone who wants to talk
about the Biden Bernie debate to actually explain why it

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is that it's worth talking about before anything else. I
watched these two guys. First of all, it was really
a bizarre look for the Democrat Party. Free every time
Rush or I say anything that even remotely offends the
media matters types and the snowflake types and the triggered types,

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we get a thousand tweets saying, oh, well, your party
is just the party of old white men and you'll
all be dead soon. There were two The Democrat Party
had had two not terribly well preserved specimens of the
old white man species there for two hours, and it

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was a bloody long two hours. And as I said,
this has been a fast breaking news cycle. And they
were asked the Biden thing, I must actually get you
the transcript of that, because I'll gladly read out some
portions of what where we got the Biden transcript here.
This was just an incredible thing. He was just talking about,

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you know, his plan for the Rona virus thing, and
he was saying, he kept they kept coming back to
what you should be doing, and he was okay for
the first couple of minutes, and then he started actually
talking more generally and he goes, what we need to
do is we need to be in the situation room

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every day and we have to bring together everyone in
the situation room together to address what is really the
seriousness of the virus that we're addressing. And once we
do that, when I'm president, we will be in touch
with all the leading people who are in the situation

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room to come together and talk about the situation. Well,
thank thank you, thank you, mister Vice president for lenn
out all the specifics there. Bernie. Meanwhile, he just he
tries to he tries to fit the news into essentially
his stump speech. I always thought he was sort of

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nimbler than Biden, but he wasn't good last night. You know,
his thing is just to take his essentially Cuban worldview
and fit whatever's happening into it. It's not a good
look for the Democrat Party, and it does remind you,
you know, I love this. People say, well, the thing
about the thing about you know, the thing about this

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coronavirus isn't there's no need to panic because it only
kills people like over sixty seventy. Okay, okay. Have you
had a look at the Democrat Party lately? You know
who's that going to take out? If I were Nancy Pelosi,
Joe for Joe. Biden began the debate by actually coughing

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and touching his mouth, which you're not meant to do,
and that would clear the situation room in nothing flat
if he were in there. And then you get Bernie
sniffling and insisting he has no symptoms of the virus.
You know, Trump took the test. Trump took the test
and has come out negative. I'd be interested to know
see Bernie, to see Biden, see Nancy Pelosi take the test.

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Do you know what they say? All this thing go.
You know it only affects old people. Okay, well that's
been bad news in Iran because they're run by geriatric
aya tollas who are dropping like flies. What do you
think it would do to say the Senate Justice Committee?
Did you take a look at that during the Kavana hearings,

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Diane Feinstein, Chuck Grassley, Pat Laghy, What the average age
of the Senate Justice Committee is above the average death
rate for the coronavirus. There's gonna be there's gonna be
a big hole in congressional leadership if this thing were

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to take if this thing were to take off. Now
I was talking, I just want to finish up a
thought I was saying about the bureau because it's about
the bureaucracy and what's bad. Yesterday, for example, yesterday evening,
I believe, I think there was this kind of six
pm Eastern press conference and the Homeland Security guy was
there and he was explaining that, yes, what happened at Chicago, Dallas,

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Fort Worth, these other airports shouldn't have happened, but now
it wasn't going to be happening anymore. Okay, Okay. What's
interesting to me is when you sort. The only reason
we're talking about this is because people took pictures on
their cell phones while they were waiting, which actually, according
to according to the Department of Homeland Security, is illegal.

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Are you not allowed when some officious twerp from Customs
and Border Protection says you've got to put that You've
got to put that cell phone away. I had this
actually crossing the Canadian border. The person I was in
the car with actually got out the cell phone and
was ordered to put out the cell phone. And I said,

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you can't tell her to put out the cell phone.
That's a turn off the cell phone. That's not constitutional.
The courts have ruled on that. And she said, yes,
it is constitutional, and so he had a little bit
of a showdown over that. And so we're only seeing
so called picture cell phones that shouldn't be the only
reason we know this is because cell phones that shouldn't

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be used were being used, which is good, that's the
spirit of liberty. Screw these bureaucrats. If they're cramming you
all in like like like cattle, you should you should
post those photos. But what was interesting to me is
that how far does it get pass up the change
the chain, the bozo on the gate says, this is

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just what we're doing. We're doing this. None of them object. However,
got many guys they had at O'Hare, six twelve guys.
None of them see anything wrong in exposing high risk
people to low risk people who may be carrying the virus.
So they just keep them all together, all those people.
Presumably there's some kind of controller or whatever of CBP

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at O'Hare, and he was obviously cool with it, and
presumably there's some regional director or whatever Illinois or whatever
region that is of CBP or Homeland Security. Why couldn't
Why did it take basically twenty four hours for it
to change. That's the bureaucracy, and when you have a

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story that's on the March every twenty four hours, the
nimbleness of So it's all very well being reassured by
the head of Homeland Security that that's changed. Now, that's
not going to be it would any sentient person higher
than an earthworm, any creature more sentient than an earthworm,
but evidently more sentient than a bureaucrat, would have said, well,

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we've got tons of people coming in, why don't we
just say if you're sixty and over, you go that way.
If you're if you've got an underlying condition, you go
that way, and if you're under sixty with no underlying conditions,
you go this way. And then you would have had
three corridors full of three different groups of people. Why
didn't they do that? Because that's bureaucracy when basically, basically,

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when the fecal matter hits the fan, it's beyond it's
beyond the wits of politicians, and you to modify Donald Rumsfeld,
you go to war with the bureaucracy you have and
the bureaucracy you have. It wasn't impressive. It wasn't impressive
in China because they're basically doing the biddings of people

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who will kill them and jail them if they don't
do as they're told. It wasn't It wasn't impressive in
Iran because they're all theocratic nutters who who who think
that our ah once you licking holy relics that have
been licked by five thousand other people. It wasn't very
impressive in Italy because they reacted late and were overwhelmed

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and on the evidence you know of what happened at
O'Hare and Dallas Fort Worth in As a practical matter,
our bureaucrats weren't that impressive either. It's not impressive, incount.
I'm not making a pro Canadian point here, because the
Canadian government is basically lying to its citizens. It says
they've instituted special enhanced screening measures at Canadian airports, and

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everyone is saying, actually, I just landed two hours ago
and there were no enhanced screening measures. There's a touch
tone screen that says I acknowledge that I am being
asked to self isolate for the next fourteen days, and
you clicked and you press the acknowledge button. You know,
a good way to get the coronavirus is touched tone screens.

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By the way, that in itself is very helpful. All
bureaucrasies doesn't matter whether they're a capitalist bureaucrasies, socialist bureaucrauses,
totalitarian bureaucrausis theocratic bureaucrasies. In the end, they're bureaucrasies, and
it's one great global union. Mark Stein for rush More
Straight Ahead, Mark Stein in for Rush on America's number

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one radio show. Got a bit of a problem with
our our call screening system today, We're about like ninety
minutes away from total societal collapse, so things are fairly
fast moving. But do we have I'm going from memory here, Greg,
do we have Georgia on the line? Okay, let's go

(31:41):
to Georgia online three. That's the way we used to
do it in nineteen seventy eight. I don't know why
they've introduced any of this computer stuff. And if my
memory serves, George's from the Great State of Maryland. Is
that correct, Georgia, Yes, it is. Thank you for having
me today, my pleasure. What's so do you mind today, Georgia?

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George's on my mind? What's on George's mind? Where's Ray Charles?
When you needed just an old sweet song? Keeps? Whatever
it is on George's mind? What about to find out? Oh? Well, boy,
did I get a good chuckle on your commentary regarding

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isis how coronavirus is saving us infidels from isis. I'm
calling to inform you about how the coronavirus may have
saved preborn babies from bloodthirsty liberals hell bent on terrorizing
them all right right, Last week, Senator Lee, very pro

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choice liberal democrat, introduced to Bill S. B. Six sixty
four in the state of Maryland, and to the surprise
of all of us there that day she withdrew the
Rights of Privacy bill and in the letter, the withdrawal
letter states at the bottom there that the coronavirus prevented
the panel from attending the hearing that day. That's that's amazing.

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So when they say that the coronavirus does not kill babies,
it basically means that it puts abortion absolutists eager to
hammer through their their infanticide legislation from getting to the
legislature to hold the meeting to start killing babies. That's

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basically what's happened in Maryland's thank you, that's great. That
is actually great news Georgia. A lot of the you know,
a lot of these things when people and I've said,
I'm less because we're in a public health crisis. I'm
less interested in the politics of it than i would
in normal things. But if there is a political upside
to this, it's essentially that the liberal Democrat worldview not

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just on abortion, but on all kinds of aspects like
single use grocery bags, for example, from the profound to
the trivial, is the liberal worldview actually get is useless
and irrelevant and actually a big part of the problem.
And Georgia is what's in what's fascinating to me is

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that Nancy Pelosi couldn't resist putting planned parenthood in a
coronavirus bill. This is actually one of the reasons why
legislator legislation is dysfunctional in America, because every bill that's
about something becomes about something else. And I've done this
stick for years on this show. When I say, you

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can say what you like about George the Third and
the t Act, but the Tea Act was about tea.
George Third. The Parliament at Westminster, when it wanted to
screw over Americans on the Tea didn't also take tack
a planned parenthood supplemental funding provision on the back of it.
They kept it about Tea the minute. Legislation is not

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about what it says. It is. It's a bad thing.
And Georgia bless her has has brought her because because
it's it's actually monstrous and evil, the expansion of abortion
in this country, the way you now have openly infanticidal
politicians like that wretched Mammy Singer who's the governor of Virginia.
You know, I'd much rather you know, when he's talking

(35:28):
about when the old mammy singers singing him out, being
a baby back in his mammy's arms, right, the baby
in his mammy's arms. These guys in Virginia, they want
to kill this state senator in Maryland passed a bill
that they wanted to kill. And that's all. That's all.
The more of that stuff gets put on hold good

(35:48):
good because it's irrelevant. It's not just wicked, which it
is absolutely wicked, but it's irrelevant at a time of crisis,
and the fact that Nancy Pelos couldn't resist. Go on,
Nancy Pelosi, that's the high. What's the average age of
people who've died of it in America so far? I
think eighty, So it's about seven years younger than the

(36:11):
Democrat leadership in Congress. Carry on giving press conferences about
planned parenthood funding. Nancy Pelosi, you're dicing with death, just
doing that. Mark Stein in for us, we have lots
more straight ahead. Jim Bonnets tweets that a lot of
those immigration guys are still enjoying the opportunity to meet

(36:35):
large numbers of people. Yeah, not just meet them, but
fondle them too, though that actual homeland security thing are
being patted down by TSA. Is that really necessary in
that situation? People who pat down hundreds of people a
day are patting you down. The proper response to that
is the childtonst and you know, take your stinking pause

(36:56):
off me, you damn dirty TSA operative. Why hasn't that
been suspended? Yes, America's anchor man is away and this
is your undocumented anchor man, thrilled and honored to be here.
As always, I usually say around this point in the

(37:18):
show that if you're fleeing the country, do stop by
and say hello, because we've got a big sign on
the boarder saying on the highway saying last Rush guest
host before the border. But there isn't really any point
in fleeing the country anymore because Canada. The interesting thing
about this is the one great clarifying moment. The thing

(37:43):
that Donald Trump did early on was stopping incoming flights
from China at a time when it made a difference.
One of the interesting things he's banned tomorrow is Saint
Patrick's Day, the seventeenth, and it's going to be a
super quiet St Patrick's Day all the Irish bars in
Boston and everywhere New York all going to be closed,

(38:04):
and no one's going to be if you'r or Irish,
come into the parlor. If you're Irish, this is your
last chance to come into the parlor, because at midnight tonight,
from midnight tonight, Irish, English, Scottish, Welsh, the last four
exemptions from Trump's euroban on entering the United States. That

(38:28):
the Britannic loophole will be closed, and those four groups
of Anglo Celts will no longer be permitted to enter
the country from midnight to night. So if you're Irish
and you want to come into the American parlor, you're
in the last eleven hours of being able to do so.

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And then you're in the same category as all the Italians, Germans, Austrian,
Swedes and those other eurobums. You can't get in either.
The one great thing he did, the one great thing
he did was right at the beginning, when no one
was really paying attention to all this thing, was to

(39:10):
ban flights from China. The Canadians, as I said, if
you're thinking to flame the country to Canada, because they'd
be doing things so much better. First of all, Canada
has a joke government. It's got a joke government. That
lies Bill Blair, whose Trudeau's put in charge of this thing.
He's the guy who was a police chief in Toronto. Awful, ghastly, horrible,

(39:33):
anti free speech, anti liberty police chief. He should be
running some Latin American basket case cruising around in reflector
shades because he'd make a little he'd make a good
strutting Latin American cow dealer. And he's been saying, oh,
there's all these extra screening things. No, you're invited to
touch a screen, saying that you acknowledge you've been invited

(39:54):
to self quarantine and in touching that screen, you're increasing
your risk of getting the virus and your need to
self quarantine. Four flights, all flights from China are still
landing at Vancouver where they have I think, homma is
it four? Is it eight flights? That they got a
lot of flights today coming from China to Vancouver because

(40:16):
it's honcouver as they call it out there. All those
flights are still coming in, All those flights are still
coming into Toronto to Montreal, and they all do the same,
the same. They're all going on as if nothing has happened.
And this is a guy justin Trudeau. His wife's got it.

(40:38):
His wife's got the coronavirus, just like the Spanish prime
minister's wife has got the coronavirus. It's a mysterious thing.
When you look at actually the numbers worldwide, it appears
to affect men more than women, and yet oddly when
it comes to prime ministerial couples, it seems strangely to

(41:01):
affect the women and not the men. So officially we
have all these prime ministerial consorts like missus Trudeau who've
come down with the coronavirus, but none of the prime
prime ministers themselves. A bit of that's interesting too. Again,
it's a bureaucratic thing. Your governments are lying to you, right,

(41:23):
and that's not unusual. Doesn't matter whether it's China or Canada.
There's a lot of that about but what But the
point here is Trump took action January. It's still possible
to fly, for Chinese people to fly into Vancouver and
to simply drive south of the border, and all these things.
It gets to weak you get into weakest link territory.

(41:45):
With weakest link territory, with this stuff. Now, as I said,
I'm not so interested in the politics at this because
the politics is whatever it is. So you know, we
now know that it doesn't matter what it is, whether
it's the zombie apocalypse or nine eleven. But that Nancy
pelosis priority is to increase abortion abortion funding. Actually, that's

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one of the things that may come out of this,
is that there will be a little baby boom blip
in nine months time from all this quarantining, because there
isn't anything to do if you can't if you can't
leave the house. But but I was tweeted by R J.

(42:32):
Romano says, what about the Illinois governor ordering restaurants and
bars closed for two weeks? You know, as I said,
that's why I pay attention to the Italian situation. In
Italy and Spade and increasingly in France two, everything except
grocery shops and pharmacies are closed and nothing's open. Nothing's open.

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They experimented for a few days with keeping the bars
and caffe in Italy. They experimented with keeping the bars
and cafes open till six pm and making people, requiring
people to stand a meter apart from each other in
the bars and cafes, which is free foot and change.
And they had that actually in New York last night,

(43:21):
where they had fifty percent occupancy rules and the fire
department was sent to inspect bars and restaurants to ensure
that they were only at fifty percent occupancy. Can you
think of a bigger waste of emergency services time than
going to Bud's Bar and grill and checking that only

(43:44):
fifty percent occupancy is taking place. Well, he abandoned that
twenty four hours later and said that they'd all be closing. R. J.
Romano says, what do those unemployed workers do? Turn to
the streets. And you're right, You're absolutely right. It's an
economic tragedy. It's an economic tragedy. But we're now in

(44:06):
the stage where, for example, China announced today that there's
been a thirteen percent It's manufacturing has dropped thirteen percent.
And yes, China lies, so that figure might be an
underestimate or whatever, but it means that there's everything in

(44:28):
every American's house comes from China. Just turn up everything.
Just go into your kitchen now and look at the
bottom of every cup. Everything in every American's house comes
from China. Because that's the model that the bipartisan halfwits
who've been running this country for thirty years decided to

(44:48):
enable nothing Americans do. What is it forty percent of
Americans now do service jobs. Well, there's no service jobs
now because everything you can do has been shut down.
So there's no there's no restaurants, there's no bars, there's
no Disney World, there's no Broadway, there's no baseball, there's

(45:08):
no NHL. So all the front of house staff at
Hamilton on Broadway, at the Richard Rogers Theater, they're all off.
All the front of house staff at your hockey and
basketball stadiums, they're off because that's what we do now.
Because the people who do those service jobs used to

(45:30):
do jobs building things, making things. Now everything's made in China,
and China's got a third in percent drop in manufacturing.
And when it comes to things that matter, like the
ninety five percent of our pills that get made in China,
who do you think they're going to be taking care
of first? That's that's the again, one of the other

(45:52):
fascinating aspects of this that all the one world is
um the globalism stops the minute disease stalks the land
China's China's going to be using all those we could
get into American pharaceutical companies where they're they're the best
in the world. They're absolutely knows nothing like the research

(46:12):
departments of American pharaceutical companies. Yeah, that's true. But all
those top of the line American pharmaceutical companies make everything
in China. So the people sitting on the pill supplies
right now are the polite burero. When when when the
powder care goes up, people become very tribal, very tribal.

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You have the European Union. The theory of the European
Union is that you pool sovereignty, and the honest members,
the honest euro Files admit this. You seed sovereignty in
effect to a central body, and in return, the pooled
sovereignty of whatever it is twenty six nations is stronger

(46:57):
than your own individual sovereignties. So you enjoy the benefit
of the pool sovereignty. What's the first thing that happened
when Italy decided to quarantine itself Germany refuse point blank
for bad any German. Italy asked the European Union and

(47:18):
its fellow members of the European Union for help and
Germany for bad any of its doctors to go to
Italy and help people become very tribal. Their tribal instincts
kick in. Unfortunately, as with the Chinese monopoly on pills,
the survival instinct kicks in just a wee bit too

(47:40):
late to survive. So we should if you want to
know about long term lessons we can learn from this.
That's all well and good and medium term, but it's
actually a short term lesson. We should we we should
be learning to get pill production back to actually decouple

(48:02):
from China. China is going to screw us over and
the best thing we could have right now because any
virus I'm you know, we're encouraged by the vaccines and things,
but they're going to apply to next year's coronavirus season
if at all. Right now, we are going to be
running out of aspirin once China decides that it needs

(48:26):
the aspirin for itself. You know, when the world gets
a headache and you don't make your aspirin, you're going
to have You're going to be the guy waking up
with the world's most awful headache. And we made the aspirin,
but we thought somehow we could rely on the Chinese
politbureau to be the ones who get to say, take

(48:47):
too aspirin and call me in the morning. Right, that's
sir Chairman Ge who gets to say that. He's the
guy saying take two aspirin and call me in the morning.
How the hell was that a conservative policy? That was
the Chamber of Commerce, right, That was the Koch brothers, right,
that was the Paul Ryan Right. These these people who

(49:10):
somehow thought, you know, we're still the biggest military in
the world. We're gon we're gonna boots on the ground
in Chad in twenty four hours because we make all
the tanks and we make all the planes. Unfortunately, everyone
we need to climb into the tank and climb into
the plane can't get an aspirin because we gave all
that to China. So when we go to war over
Taiwan and the South China Sea, you can bet how

(49:33):
that's going to go. The folly and stupidity of the
world's most that is, I said this weeks ago before
any of this coronavirus came up. You know, there's one
thing to be governed by elites. When your elites are
the most stupid people on the planet. This is where

(49:53):
it goes. Mark Stein for Rush one eight hundred two
eight two eighty two. I don't care why you view
this thing. Is your pro coronavirus, you're anti coronavirus, you
think it's all just a lot of hooey, or you
think we're going to be facing the apocalypse in seventy
two hours time, whatever your view. You want to talk

(50:14):
about Bernie and Biden, the Statler and Waldorf Democrat debate
last night, the two old it's time to play the music,
it's time to light the light, it's time to get
things started on the Democrat debate to night. That's great.
You want to talk about that too, irrelevant old codgers
recycling mumbo jumbo. We'll talk about that too. One eight

(50:35):
hundred two eight two two eight eight two mark Stein
for US I said at the top of the show
that I've been tracking these daily numbers out of Italy
to see whether because when they start flattening the curve,
there's a good chance that we might start flattening the
curve because we're a lot more because basically because the

(50:57):
people ahead of them Iran and China just liars, and
I've just looked at the numbers they released at one
pm Eastern, just at the top of the hour, and
my Italian is a little twenty seven thousand, nine hundred
and eighty kits, So they've gone up another three three

(51:20):
thousand cases, and the death toll in Italy is two thousand,
one hundred and fifty eight, which is that's getting close
to the equivalent of four nine elevens, four nine elevens
just basically in a couple of in a couple of weeks.

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That's that's serious. That's serious. So where there's no flattening
of the cave in Italy that's discernible yet. And interestingly,
for all the people who say it just affects old people,
a forty year old paramedic died in Italy right The
medical staff is beginning to get sick and die from this. Interestingly,

(52:03):
the two states most affected in the United States, Washington
State in New York, they've both got young emergency room
doctors in critical condition. Because just to do this kind
of ventilator stuff with seriously ill people, you've got to
get up pretty close to them, and you get a

(52:23):
touch too close, you cross the line. It's too late.
You get it you're sick. That's happened to emergency room
doctor in New York and in Washington State. Let's go
to VIC in Atlanta. I don't know whether he works
for the Centers for Disease Control or whether he's just
just freelancing in other activities down They're great. Have you

(52:44):
with us, Vic? What's on your mind? Thank you, retiled.
I have all kinds of time to sit around and
watch what's going on. Okay, okay, stay in form. That
always helps. I have a question for you. That's it.
No recommendations, no solutions. But I've been watching this since

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the impeachment hearing ended. It's been that's all been on.
It's amazing how it went from a failed impeachment to
something that's going to destroy the economy and inflict all
kinds of pain on the country and just destroy Trump's
chances possibly. But my question is that when this started China,

(53:31):
had they jumped from when I did start noting it
from like five thousand infections and about less than a
week later, I think they had fifty thousand. It accumulated
to about eighty thousand, and then it started spreading to Italy,
United States, Germany, wherever. But since March or since February,

(53:58):
really at the end of February, they've maintained I think
through maximum cases were like eighty thousand. I'm looking on Google,
it's the only place I can find any information about it.
But they've maintained that level. According to that they have
no infections. And again, when I jumped from five thousand

(54:19):
to I went up to eighty thousand, that seemed like
an out of control pandemic and it's just leveled off now.
My question is, no one is mentioning this in the news,
and that seems like, you know, if you're looking for
any kind of good news, that's good news to report

(54:41):
about the pandemic if it's true and otherwise, art is
China lying to us? And if they're lying to us
about the amount of new infections, what have they lied
to lie it about in the past about the virus?
Maybe you know, and maybe it means nothing to anybody else,
but it just it's driving me nuts. It's that's an

(55:04):
excellent question, Vic, because China started this thing, and China
it's China's gift to the world. There's I think one
hundred and forty three countries with this thing, and one
hundred and forty two got it from somewhere else, and
the only country that didn't get it from anywhere else
is China. It's a it's an interesting point, and I

(55:24):
can tell you the answer to it. But we're up
against an obscene EIB profit perloser that is looming imminently.
And I will attend to your point, vic in Atlanta
in a couple of minutes. Yes, great to be with you, Rush,
you're saying in a couple of days off. We have

(55:46):
your pals and mine, the great Ken Matthews and Todd
Herman coming up in the course of the week. Rush, Rush,
Rush will be back to close things out before the
end of this week, and you know, God knows what
things will be like then. But they were in an
accelerated news cycle these days, so he's not whatever it

(56:10):
is we're talking about. He's going to be talking about
something else because this thing is moving fast. Thank you
for all your mega dittos and mega prayers. If you
want to send a message to Rush, he really does
read them, and he treasures them, and he has a
unique connection built up over a third of a century
with millions and millions of people. Not many people can

(56:33):
say that. Not many people can say that at all.
Most celebrity withers and dies within eighteen months, two years.
It's very rare for it just to keep going decade
after decade the way Rush does. And as someone said
the day after Rush announced his lung cancer, and I

(56:55):
was sitting here and someone tweeted, I think tweeted or
emailed me and said, Rush is the best friend I've
never met. And that's how millions and millions of people feel.
You can go to Russia limboor dot com and it's
the third button along at the top of the menu bar,
and you can send Rush a special message. And I
know a lot of people have said to me, well,

(57:15):
I don't just send him a message. I've done like
a greeting card or a photograph of I've got a
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upload anything like that. There's also a little facility for
you to upload a jiff or jpeg or any of
that kind of stuff and that will get to Rush.
If you got to Russian limbour dot com and just

(57:37):
it says the Russia limbosh and huge letters the mastad
and there's a little horizontal menu bar above that, and
you just chigg along to the third button and you
can send Rush a special greeting. There. I mentioned the
Surgeon General, Doctor Jerome Adam, Surgeon General of the United States,
says said, we're at a critical inflection point in our country.

(58:02):
And I just want to go back to that question
we were discussing from vic As to why China, where
this thing started, appears to have it under control and
is down to just, you know, dozens of new cases
every day. And this is a country with many times
the population of Italy. And I had someone by the way,

(58:26):
someone Ginger Frappuccino, I think, tweeted at me that she
didn't like my comparison, but what's going on in Italy
is four times comparatively, four times the rate of nine eleven.
She didn't like that, and she thought it was responsible

(58:47):
for me to keep saying it. And it's and she said,
because those two thousand, two thousand and seven hundred people
have died in Italy. Italy is a population about sixty
million America three hundred million. Shee multiplied by five and
you get the relative proportions. She doesn't think that's the

(59:07):
way to do it. She says two thousand and four
hundred people died in New York versus two thousand and
seven hundred died in Italy. I mean, this is sophistry,
and frankly, it's stupid, obnoxious and offensive. You know, most
of those people who've been overwhelmed come from northern Italy.
In fact, most of them come from Lombardy, which has

(59:29):
a popular I'm just going off give me if I'm
wrong here. I'm going off very approximate memories here, but
my memory is that Italy New York basically is just
shy of twenty million people New York State, and Lombardy
has about ten million. Right, So actually is a practical matter,

(59:52):
Ginger frappuccino. That's in if you want to start comparing
province to province, state, state, we can do it that
way and you still lose in whatever points you think
you're making here. But that's not how people think about it.
Americans get upset. This is a natural human thing. Americans

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get upset when Americans die, and don't actually pay too
much attention when somales die or tadgequs die or two
voluans die. That's as I said, people get tribal in crisis.
So what mattered on nine eleven was that America died.
That's why it wasn't just on eyewitness News Channel twenty
seven in New York. It was a national story. And likewise,

(01:00:38):
two thousand and one hundred people dying in Italy, even
in just northern Italy, even if predominantly in Lombardy, is
a huge Italian story because just like Americans care when
Americans die, Italians care when Italians die. Now, if you
don't care when Italians die, that's fine, that's fine. There's
a lot of Theo's two hundred countries in the world,

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and most people about the people that they see when
they look out the window. But the time to care
about when foreigners are dying is when something is coming
your way. When you're just as the Surgeon General in

(01:01:19):
the United States said, you're just a little further belong
the same trajectory, and so far all the trajectories and
you can look at this, there's graphs out there, all
the trajectories for Italy, Spain's following the same curve. Just
it's like everybody is doing the same cross country trail,

(01:01:40):
just a few hundred yards behind each other. And where
two weeks behind Italy. That's what the Surgeon General of
the United States said, And that in itself is a
snapshot because basically we have a two week incubation period,
so that whatever numbers you're working off. In the old days,

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you couldn't take a photograph on your telephone. You had
to take it with a Kodak instematic, and then you
had to take your role of film to a camera shop,
and two weeks later the camera shop said your prints
are ready for collecting, and you got a snapshot of
whatever was going on two weeks ago. That's actually what

(01:02:25):
these numbers are like. They're in themselves two weeks, two
weeks behind the curve. But I want to go back
to what Vic was saying as to why the Chinese
have apparently officially been able to get this thing under control. Now.
The first thing to be said is that everything the

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Chinese polyp Bureau tells the world is a lie. It
might be a lie that trends in the direction of
the truth, or it might be an outright inversion of
the truth, but it is not the truth. It is
whatever number, whatever number they are releasing, is whatever number
the Politbureau has agreed is useful to the politbureau. But

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assuming for the purposes of argument that what they're saying
trends in the direction of the truth, that they have
got this thing under control to the point now where
they're saying it was invented by the Americans and the
Americans planted it in China. That's what they're doing right now.
And at some point, you've got to bet this is
going to happen in the next week or two weeks,

(01:03:33):
if their numbers should go back up again, they'll be
blaming it on an Italian or a Spaniard or an
American flying back into Shanghai or Beijing and reinfecting the Chinese.
So any moment now they're going to be starting to
blame blame not just America for inventing it, but some
European for bringing it back to China because they lie.

(01:03:56):
But at the moment, on the on the oh breaking news,
my own dear country run by the twelve year old
self quarantine prime Minister by the old by the way,
I was speculating on whether he has in fact god it.
If he had, I believe he would be the first
twelve year old. But people say this just affects old

(01:04:18):
people like Bernie and Biden, but Justin would be the
first twelve year old world leader to come down with
the coronavirus. Canada has just announced it's closing its borders
to all non citizens and non residents. So the northern border,
there's the Maple. The Mapel Curtain has descended on the

(01:04:41):
forty ninth parallel, on the forty ninth parallel. Just to
go back to this Chinese thing that Vic answered so
officially on the statistics out there's more people that the
daily totals of who's getting it in Italy, never mind
the whole of Europe now higher than China at the

(01:05:01):
height of the epidemic. But so let's take it presume
for the sake of argument, that they're telling something that
trends in the direction of the truth. How did they
get it under control? Well, they got it under control
because they're a dictatorship that uses slave labor. Now, the
slave labor most of the time is making crap to

(01:05:23):
buy in Walmart. As you know, and I'm not this
isn't something I wrote in the early nineties about this.
I'll tell you a story about when I first came
to my beloved part of New Hampshire, and I thought
it was all small town. I thought i'd pick it fence.
I loved it. I thought it was so cute, so quaint,
and never more quaint than at Christmas. And one Christmas

(01:05:44):
I chanced to find myself driving down Route five in Vermont,
on the Vermonty side of the Connecticut River, and I
saw one of these little Christmas shops at a farm.
There was a nice farm that every November December opened
up a little Christmas store, and I thought this was great.
I go and buy some knicknacks from my Christmas tree
from this nice little Christmas store at a farm in nice,

(01:06:06):
sweet rural Vermont, and it's the store is full of nicknacks,
all knickknacks. And I turn over the little Santa Claus
to hang on the tree, and it's made in China.
Everything in that store, in the nice little Vermonty farmhouse
was made in China. And I said, you know, I
wrote about this incident then and said I wasn't comfortable

(01:06:28):
having crap made in China hanging all over my Christmas tree.
I didn't justin like it because I thought of China
as a communist dictatorship. And I couldn't see why I
was in the interests of the Western world to enable
the Chinese politbureau to come up with the only economically
viable form of communism. So you know when you buy

(01:06:49):
those knicknacks that, but they're being made essentially by slave
labor in China, slave labor. And so what happened is
that they redirected the slave labor to stop making crap
for Walmart and do something else. And they do, and
so they put up two new intensive care hospitals in
ten days because they had slave labor and their a dictatorship,

(01:07:14):
and that's why they flattened the bloody curve that we
keep hearing about, the stupid flattened curve thing. They flattened
the curve with slave labor. Now, in case you seven
noticed it on in little sweet Route five, small town, Vermont,
they don't have large numbers of slave labor, so they
can't put up an intensive care hospital because, apart from

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anything else, to get the permiting for putting up a
new hospital in Vermont would take what five years ten years,
So we don't have the ability to just make something
happen like that. The closest you can do is what
Spain is doing. For example, they're using hotels as emergency hospitals.

(01:07:58):
The closest you can do is is what Boris Johnson,
my dear chum in Westminster, is doing, where he's preparing
to requisition those hotels and also use army hospitals. I
was in an army hospital when I was a cadet
many years ago. I don't remember much about them, except

(01:08:23):
I found the nurses rather sadistic and inclined to make you,
make you take your clothes off, even if you just
had a slight cold. But that's that's all you can do.
You can't do the Chinese thing of ordering slave labor
to build you new hospitals in ten days. Free societies

(01:08:43):
can't do that. Now, something else, the Surgeon General said,
and he left it as an open question. He said
that he did pose a choice. He said, do we
want to go the direction of it Chile where where
the medical staff are dying and a lot of them

(01:09:05):
are demoralized, and that's to the point where a lot
of them wouldn't actually want to come into work. They're
simply overwhelmed by death because it's it's like a again.
You know, this is people who are used to seeing controlled,
rather antiseptic hospital death and now just seeing people dead

(01:09:26):
in corridors where you've got you've got a forty five
year old guy who's been wheeled in and seventy five
year old gods wheeled in, and you've got one ventilator,
so you have to give it to the forty five
year old guy and leave the seventy five year old
guy to die because the system's overwhelmed and it's demoralizing people.
They're getting sick, they're not shun up to us. As said,

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we already have two emergency room physicians in critical conditions
in the two worst effective states here, one in Washington
State and one in New York State. So the Surgeon
General says, we have a choice to make as a nation.
Do we want to go the direction of South Korea
and really be aggressive and lower our mortality rates, or
do we want to go the direction of Italy. In Italy,

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they've got a death rate that's just under eight percent
at the moment, overall death rate eight just under eight percent.
That's high, that's serious. In South Korea, the death rate,
I think is about a less than two percent. But
there's a reason for that. That's because after SARS, the

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world dodged a bullet with SARS and and that's actually
the world dodged a bullet with SARS, and the Far
Eastern nation, South Korea, Hong Kong, and Singapore reacted to
the dodged bullet and made preparations accordingly. The Europe and

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North America didn't. And we're about to live with the
consequences there. I'll talk more about that in a minute.
Mark Stegin for Rush. Lots more still to go. Mark
Steining for Rush. Let's go to Joe in Winston Salem,
North Carolina. Joe, you're alive on America's number one radio show,
What's on your Mind? Hi? Marks, good to talk to you.

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I'm glad you put me through him. My pleasure, Joe.
I'm retired. I don't get out a whole lot I have,
don't desire to. But I had to go to my
pharmacy today and it's in a standard shopping center with
the main store and small stores. So I pull it
in a park and I'm just observing. And you know

(01:11:36):
those exam gloves they put on with the draw blood.
Oh yeah, yeah, people are putting on exam gloves before
they walk into the store, and I'm looking at this
saying this is crazy. So I get out of my
car and I'm looking and I don't want exaggerate, Maybe
twenty pairs are strewn throughout the parking lot already coming

(01:11:59):
out of store and drop the exam gloves where they stand. Nine. Yeah,
much right, Like that's good. It helps, you know, stop
spreading this. No, no, I know. It's it's interesting social norms.
It's one of the most fascinating things, the point of
which social norms just disintegrate. And as you say, you've

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seen people with these surgical, clinical, antiseptic gloves, these exam gloves.
They come out, they come out of Walmart, they come
out of you know, fighting for the last roll of
toilet paper, and then they throw all the exam gloves
all over the parking lot. Joe, It's well, we'll talk
about that a lot, This this question, that breakdown of

(01:12:42):
social norms. It's actually quite unnerving the speed at which
it at which it can happen. Mark Stein for USh
Lots going on fast breaking newsday. We will get to
it as much as we can in the final hour
of the show. Lots more still to come, justin Trudeau
is closing Canada's southern border. He says, quote, if you're abroad,

(01:13:06):
it's time to come home. Justin Trudeau telling Canadians, if
you're abroad, it's time to come home. I may have
to pack my bags and and heat his call. I
think he's I think I think Justin's talking to me.
But I'm going to stick around for another hour on
the Rush Limbo show. Lots more stilled to gum. I

(01:13:27):
just I just want to clarify what I said. Just
before the break. At the top of the hour, Justin
Trudeau closed the Canadian border. The Canadian border has been closed,
is going to be closed from sea to Shining Sea.
Justin issued a statement saying, quote, let me be clear,

(01:13:48):
if you're abroad, it's time to come home. And I
had like a Brazilian tweets and emails from people who
think that's he's just asking Canadian broads to come home.
So he's asking Shania Twain and Kim Cartrell to just
jump on a flight and get back to Canada. But
he was it's a broad one word ab It doesn't

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mean he's asking Canadian broads, Canadian chicks, Canadian dames to
come home. He's asking because Justin doesn't roll like that
there is. Justin is a prime minister of no gender
and no known gender. In fact, as you know, if
you saw those pictures of him in India a couple

(01:14:30):
of years ago, he toured India dressed as a Bollywood bridesmaid.
He's not a gender. He's not a binary kind of guy.
Whether you're abroad or whether you're a guy, whether you
guys and dolls, Canadian guys and dolls. He's saying it's
time to come home. But if you are a Canadian broad,
Chania Kim Cartrell, do go back, because if it's going
to be a long quarantine having abroad, having a Canadian

(01:14:51):
broad with you does help ease the stress. I'm not
saying you have to have that. Andrew Gillam, the Florida
gubernatorial candidate and Democrat rising star, as you know, he
was disturbed at the end of last week self quarantining
with a room full of crystal melf meth and a

(01:15:12):
gay hooker. That can help you get through the quarantine too,
So whatever, you know, some people might prefer a Canadian
broad to help them through the self quarantine. Some may
prefer a Florida rent boy to help them through the quarantine.
Like Andrew Gillam, I I'm not sure whether he is
still a rising star in the Democrat Party since all

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that came up he was the mayor of Tallahassee Lassie.
We all love that song. Actually, I haven't heard it
in whatever it is, thirty forty seventy years my Tallahassee Lassie.
But Andrew Gillim appears to prefer to be holed up
with a Tallahassee laddie. Whatever. Whatever suits you getting through
getting through the self quarantine. It's a it's a big

(01:15:57):
breaking news week. A lot of these stories are on
the March fairly swiftly, but basically we're living under America
in lockdown. And you can argue about whether that should
have happened or what or not, but it has happened.
I mentioned this statistic about the thirteen percent drop in
Chinese manufacturing. The doo is off right now. It's I

(01:16:19):
think it's about twenty thousand, eight hundred the dow. It
was last month it was at thirty thousand, so it's
lost a third just since this thing started. So we're
not actually going to be able to whatever the reasons
for it, and no matter how you might feel about it,

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we are going to be going into recession officially recession territory,
and the politics is baked in. They're all going to
you saw that with the Democrat debate, that they're all
going to try and hang that around Trump. And incidentally,
what's happening in Europe, Europe is going going down. Europe
is being overwhelmed by this Europe. All European city streets

(01:17:07):
are empty. They've got police with loudspeakers telling you to
get indoors, go indoors. They've got drones flying overhead to
make sure the streets are empty. So of the twin
pillars of the Western world, you've got half of it
that's basically on total lockdown already and the other half

(01:17:27):
going into it on lockdown. And you've got a third,
the dow dropping by a third. We've got people who
say that this thing it's like a flu. So it's March,
so flu season. This is round about the time flu
season's coming to an end. On the other hand, flu
season in Australia and the Southern Hemisphere is June, July August.

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And yet here we are in March, and the coronavirus
seems to be able to get a hold in Australia,
which in itself is into the fact is on those
things no one really, no one really knows nothing. Then
you have this business of the of the as I

(01:18:09):
mentioned earlier, a seven to eight percent mortality rate in Italy.
That's when this gets what I can't what I can't
stand is all the wasted time, the wasted time, you know.
So I'm not interested in being told that it's racist

(01:18:31):
to call it the Chinese virus, because pointing fingers and
accusing someone of racism is no use to anybody. You know.
Justin who said it's now time to come home. Justin
Trudeau didn't recognize that the Justin Trudeau was one of
these bleating in incompoops who was saying, virus is no
no borders, like love knows no borders. Virus is no

(01:18:54):
no borders. The Florida the mayor of Florence in Italy, Frenzi,
the model of the Mayor of Forenzi, Florence in Italy.
He was saying, hugger, hugger, chinaman. I know you're not
meant to say chinaman, but we're talking about funky Chinaman
from funky Chinatown. So that doesn't count either, because in

(01:19:19):
serious times, you've got to get serious. So he's talking
about going out and hugging Chinese people. This is what
he was doing last month because the coronavirus, it's causing
people to shun Chinese restaurants. As AOC said two days before,
she then said, for gods, I don't leave the house.
All the political correctness is the first to disappear. That

(01:19:42):
mayor is not saying don't hug. You know, you've got
to go and hug Chinese people today. He knows that
political correct people hunker down. People become very tribal. So
it's a question of how you define your tribe. And
here's Justin Justin Trudeau. Oh, you know, the virus knows
no boarders. He has had planes landing from China, planes

(01:20:08):
that Trump stopped in January, landing at Vancouver today, Vancouver today.
He has had a joke system. I know someone who
landed at Toronto a couple of days ago, and I
was told coming back from you know, an infected area,
high risk area, They've got a little screen, a touchtone

(01:20:28):
screen and a bored woman. It's all bureaucrats. A board woman,
she's not. She could wipe down that touchtone screen just
even peremptorily between, but she's not. Anytime you touch a
touchtone screen, you know these things. These things are baked in.
Now the trajectory whereon is baked in, and what counts

(01:20:52):
is the nimbleness of the bureaucracy, which is why what
happened at O'Hare is disturbing. Is disturbing because it shows
no matter how many smartie pants is clever, guys like
Chad Wolf at Homeland Security, Ken kutchin Ellie at Homeland Security,
you've got your doctor, Faucie, You've you've you've got that

(01:21:13):
blonde lady or broad as Justin Trudeau would say, who's
up there at the press conferences. All these people can
say what they like, and then it's everyone thinks the
elite agencies are somehow different bureaucuouses, different kinds of bureaucrausies.
So where we know the level that we don't expect

(01:21:34):
anything when we go to the DMV, we don't expect
anything when we go to the Department of Paper shuffling,
but we think the CDC is different. The CDC is
in fact exactly like the DMV, but just with an
even bigger budget and even less scrutiny, and so it's
wasted the years I was talking him at this point
and I got kind of off track and forgot to

(01:21:55):
look at the track a Cox. I want to I
want to go back to it. But the reason why Singapore,
South Korea, Hong Kong are handling this better is because
they got screwed by the Chinese over SARS. China and
Hong Kong still have completely different public health systems. So
after SARS in whatever it was two thousand and three,

(01:22:19):
they totally revived They basically you can read this in
my book America Alone, the End of the World as
we know It, because I said it then that we
dodged a bullet with SARS, and if it's not going
to be if it's not SARS, it's going to be
something else. And Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea, they grasped

(01:22:39):
that and they completely overhauled their systems. Canada, which was
the main principal Western country to be clobbed by SARS,
didn't do anything, didn't change anything, just went back to sleepwalking.
But nor did the US got off lighter than that,
and so did Britain and Europe and so what and

(01:23:04):
and they didn't do anything. So the mortality the differential
in the mortality rate is reflected in that four example.
Singapore has two and forty three cases of this thing
and zero deaths. Just reading this tweat from Melissa Chen
saying life has pretty much returned to normal. People are
walking around mostly without masks. Shops and restaurants are open,

(01:23:27):
and so schools are open. That so, because they got
serious about this after Stars, they had a system in
place that could deal with it. The Surgeon General says
it's an open question whether he says, we can choose
to be Italy or we can choose to be South Korea.

(01:23:48):
It's a sort of odd kind of thing to actually
present it as a choice at this stage. I'll say
one thing too, We ought to be thinking about what
when all this is over and we've had the total
societal collapse and we come out of the rubble, what
are we going to do? Well? We should stop doing
rubbish things, stupid things. For example, there's a reason why

(01:24:12):
people invented single use disposable grocery bags. There's a reason
why you went to your local quickie crap and you've
got a bunch of groceries and you put it in
the bag, and you unload it in your kitchen and
you throw out the bag. And one of the reasons
is public hygiene. So if you're standing at the checkout

(01:24:34):
line in crappy chopper and you're behind like a nice
little NPR listening lady who's faithfully bringing back to the
grocery store every week the same PBS tote bag she
bought in the Charlie Rows pledge drive in two thousand

(01:24:56):
and three. That little old lady recycling, nice little NPR
lady recycling, still using the same PBS tote bag from
the two thousand and three pledge drive. She's bringing a
bunch of new germs back into the store every time
she goes because she wants to do something about sea

(01:25:18):
levels in the Maldives. In the year twenty one twenty
the Maldives sea levels will be just fine. Stop your
narcissistic virtue signaling, throw away that filthy infected twenty year
old PBS tote bag and start using the disposable bags again.
All this is, this is what a society too stupid

(01:25:40):
to survive doesh the Maldives sea levels. Nothing you do
with your crappy PBS tote bag is going to do
a thing for sea levels in the Maldives. And you
saw it last night in the Statler and walled after debate.
It's time that's don Amun's down a light on the

(01:26:02):
Democrat to rate. Tonight you saw the two old codgers
still talking about the existential threat, still worrying about sea level.
Everyone will be dying all around them, and then they'll
all take your twenty year old PDS tote bag to
price Chopper and infect an whole bunch of other people.
It's all rubbish that get real or drop dead. That's

(01:26:24):
the choice. That's the choice. Mark Stein for US lots more,
including your calls straight ahead, Mark Stein for Rush on
the Excellence in Broadcasting Network. Let's go to Lisa in
Highland Beach, Florida, where the Democrats are still insisting that

(01:26:46):
tomorrow's primary will go ahead. We shall see about that. Lisa,
It's great to have you with us on the show
What's on your Mind? Thanks for taking my call, Mark.
President Trump is a passionate and visionary leader and seeing
the impact now would be a great time to roll
out an infrastructural plant for the near future with the
municipal and private sectors for two reasons. One to further

(01:27:10):
strengthen the economy starting with blue collar workers, with the
end game having the multiplier impact to help all industry.
And two to offer alternative investments in municipals as well
as the investments incorporations involved in building infrastructure. Yeah, yeah,
I think that's I think that's not a bad idea.

(01:27:31):
I think you could. I think well, the other thing
I think that's true is that at a time like this,
the danger of a crisis is that you always deal
with the crisis, You stumble from one thing to another,
and then at the end of the crisis, you forget
all the long term lessons of the crisis. So the fact,

(01:27:52):
the fact of the matter is is that it's important
that when or if or whatever this thing ends, that
you have a lot of really solid stuff ready to go.
The fact is, if we're talking long term lessons about
this lie, so then it's the Democrats who ought to
take the hit, because it's basically been their approach to

(01:28:15):
the world that is found wanting in a situation like this.
The question though about something like infrastructure is whether anybody's
really at the White House what they're trying to do.
And this is the situation the president's in is he's
basically trying to impose his will on a massive bureaucracy that,

(01:28:37):
as I said in a couple of hours ago, is
basically like trying to turn the Titanic after it's hit
the iceberg and is sitting. You're trying to persuade people
to actually rethink the whole way of doing things. And
that's when a really key executive comes into place. What
would you like to see in any new infrastructure? And Lisa, Well,

(01:29:01):
I think if he, first of all, he'd have to
reach across the aisle because Democrats, first of all, would
drive them crazy that they would have to support this
because it does have an impact on blue collar workers
and even unions. But I would like to see us,
you know, have some infrastructure investment in places in the
country that could use it the most, meaning bridges and

(01:29:25):
buildings and things of that nature. It's strategic, it's long term,
and he's someone like maybe you and me something else
to invest in a municipal bonds, whatever have you, and
even in the corporate structure with regards to the caterpillar
and businesses that will benefit absolutely and then they hire

(01:29:45):
people too. I mean, there's a whole strategy here for
the long term and you know what mark it offers
hope and growing cash. No, that's that's an important thing too.
You have to when something bad happens. It's the old
ram immanual line eleven. Let a crisis go to waste.
And to a certain extent, George W. Bush did, for example,

(01:30:06):
when after nine eleven, when he wanted to do drilling
in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and all the Pat
Lahey types resisted it. He should have hung that around
their necks. He should have said, now, this isn't a
time for my good friend Pat to be playing politics
with this, because the fracking revolution could have happened a

(01:30:27):
generation earlier if if Bush had been able to shove
down the throats of Pat Lahey types their hostility to
any kind of innovation within the borders of America on
those kind of issues. And this is a really important point, Lisa.

(01:30:47):
The long the point of this. Now we've just seen
that we assumed the Wall Street guys had different interests
from the main street guys, so their numbers could go
up on all their little magic number charts, the Dow,
Industrials and all the rest of it, while main streets
across America shuttered and the world's manufacturing moved to China.

(01:31:09):
And we've now seen a third of it, white third
of the Dow's value wiped off in the last couple
of weeks. So the question is we need serious decoupling,
We need serious return of manufacturing. If you can't men,
sometimes if you're a small city state like Singapore, you
don't actually have a lot of room for big fields

(01:31:30):
and farming and for factories and all the rest of it,
because you're just the tiny little city state like Singapore
Hong Kong. But if you're the size of America from
sea to Shining Sea and then halfway across the Pacific
to Hawaii and onto American Samoa, you should be able.
That's a place that she'll be able to have some

(01:31:50):
manufacturing in it. Yes, America's anchor man is away. And
this is marks your foreign virus virus gaily plashing through
the bloodstream of the excellence in Broadcasting net where we
have Ken and Todd coming in this week, and then

(01:32:13):
some guy, what's he called this new guest host turn
out later, Rush, I don't name you sure about that.
He's going to be coming in after Ken and Todd too.
All coming up this week on another week on the
Excellence in Broadcasting Network, Fast Moving week with all kinds
of things happening. There was a Democrat debate last night.

(01:32:38):
My god, it was awful. It was just like what
was that film from the nineties, Walter Matthau and Jack Lemon,
Grumpy Old Men. It was like Grumpy Old Men, but
with no one in the Anne Margaret role. They should
have had Tulsi Gabbart on stage, just to have someone
in the Anne Margaret role, because when you're looking at

(01:32:59):
Bernie and it helps to have Anne Margaret around Anyway.
The thing, it's amazing how fast The last time I
was here, I was saying Bernie was a big woos,
big whimp. He had a couple of days to save
himself before Michigan or his campaign was going to be toast,
and to do that, he had had to hang the
corruption around Joe Biden's neck, and he had to hang

(01:33:23):
the fact that Biden is noncompassmentous half the time around
Biden's neck. Did he do either well, the closest he
kind of got was a little exchange that he had
with him about where Biden had accused him of nine
different having nine different super PACs, and Bernie said to him,

(01:33:47):
named them and and actually Joe Biden couldn't have named them,
but Bernie characteristically didn't push back on it. And the
fact is, you real lies. How as I've said, with
the bureaucrats, what you want to see is evidence of
nimbleness and quick thinking. And actually that's not a bureaucratic thing.

(01:34:10):
So that chaos that we saw at O'Hare over the
weekend and at Dallas Fort Worth, where freeborn citizens exercised
their freeborn right to take photographs that the Department of
Homeland Security presumes to ban of the chaos and uploaded
the chaos and forced the bureaucracy to announce that it

(01:34:33):
was correcting the chaos. That's the bureaucratic response. It helps
sometimes to be able to tap into the resources of
the private sector, of freeborn citizens, of people who aren't
encumbered by a bureaucratic mindset. But we also saw that
in the political class. We looked at it was a
terrible look, just a terrible look for the Democrat Party,

(01:34:56):
the party that tells us that old white men don't
matter anymore, that their America is on its way out,
that the new America will be gayer and more transgendered
and more Muslim, and it will be more Hispanic, and
it will be better because of that, because the old
white men are on the way out, and the Hispanics

(01:35:17):
and the Muslims and the gays and the transgenders will
frolic across the fruited plain in a new super gay,
super Hispanic, super Muslim, super transgender utopia once all the
old white men are out the way and the oldest
white men you've ever seen are all that's left on
the Democrat debate. They neither of them look good. Joe

(01:35:41):
Biden never evidently got his facelift on Obamacare because it
looks like garbage. And Bernie is just there doing his
thing like the scarecrow from the Wizard of Oz routine,
where he looks as if he's been so they're not
like you can mock Orange Man Bad with his big
blonde hair and all the but he's got a better

(01:36:04):
sense of how these things look than those two old codges.
And it's just a terrible look for the Democrat Party,
particularly when you've got a disease stalking the planet that
the entire Democrat leadership is the most vulnerable too. Can

(01:36:24):
you imagine if if this thing really took off, who
Who's going to be? Who's going to be? Who are Joe?
Do you think Joe Biden was coughing? Bernie was sneezing.
Have you listened to Nancy Belosi recently, Diane Feinstein? This
is a This is like the the Democrat Party is

(01:36:46):
like the old Politburo on the May Day parades in
uh in the Soviet Union and Moscow. They'd all stand
there on the balcony with one long unibrow stretching along
the foreheads of the entire Politburo, and people would be
and drop of and Chernenko would have died actually six

(01:37:07):
months earlier, but they were still being propped up for
the May Day parade. That's what the Democrat Party leadership
is going to be looking like if this thing, if
this thing takes off, That's that's that's basically what they've
got going on up. So I don't know, you know,
I just tried to game out the politics of this
Florida primary where they're determined to go ahead with it.

(01:37:30):
Louisiana and Georgia have postponed their primaries. Now nobody likes
people getting nervous about the election postponing thing, and the
Democrats side because if the Democrats postpone a primary, it's
sort of kind of you know, what's that hashtag? That's

(01:37:51):
that's trending martial law. They sort of had a bit
nervous that if you postpone a Democrat primary, it's sort
of kind of gives the press it in a bit
of an excuse for postponing, say the November election, which
is already happening elsewhere in the world. The it's not
UK wide. I think it's just England and Wales have

(01:38:13):
local elections in May, and Her Majesty's government has already
announced that they're going to be postponed by a year
till next May May twenty twenty one. Imagine if Trump
did that. So that's why the Democrats aren't really on
board with postponing primaries, because they're worried that that will snowball,

(01:38:33):
that that kind of gives the dictator Trump And actually
Rush made a great point on Friday, by the way,
about the dictator Trump is now there that senator who
put out a tweet that Rush read where he's the
senators complaining that towns are doing stuff, counties are doing stuff,

(01:38:56):
and states are doing stuff, but Trump isn't doing anything.
This is the guy they've been saying for three years.
I've been saying the president needs to understand that he's
not a king who's not an emperor. And now they're saying, hey,
come on, emperor, come on, king, what are you doing.
So there's a lot like a little bit of a
conflict going on there in their approach to this thing.

(01:39:20):
But I would be so the Democrats don't want to
actually start postponing all these primaries. But you've got a
situation in Florida, which is a North America's most incompetent jurisdiction,
can't run elections. You know, dimple chads, hanging chads, you
know the way it goes, long lines, mysterious boxes of
dimpled votes turning up around the back of Democrat headquarters

(01:39:44):
or ten days after the election, all the usual flim
flam that's on a good day. On a bad day,
there are they likely to be able to cope with this?
Are poll workers even going to show up. We already see,
for example New York where they're saying that the kids
shouldn't go to school, but we're going to keep the

(01:40:06):
schools open to hand out lunches and breakfasts and dinners
and all the other things that citizens apparently no longer
do in some of these school districts, and teachers are
refusing to show up for those. Teachers are not showing
up for those. So will poll workers show up tomorrow?

(01:40:27):
And more importantly I mentioned this at the top of
the show, will Democrat voters which ones will show up?
If you're seventy or eighty or ninety and you're in
a high risk group, will you take the trouble to
get in your car and go and stand in line
with all kinds of people coffin and sneezing all around

(01:40:47):
you for a couple of hours? And if it's the
old people who don't get into the cars and go
down to vote, who does that hurt? It hurts Joe Biden,
Biden's Biden's supporters get more enthusiastic to higher up the
age scale you go, So if you're like over eighty,

(01:41:08):
you're Foe or Joe Biden If you're over seventy, you're
four Joe Biden little less. So if you're over sixty
or four, Joe Biden little less. So over fifty, everyone
in the Democrats side is for Bernie. So if all
people don't show up, Joe Biden's gonna lose Florida. So
at that point, do all the clever guys this Tom
Perez at the DNC and you're Donna Brazil's and all

(01:41:30):
the rest of it, do they start saying, we've got
to call off Florida right now? Florida is scheduled to
go ahead, schedule to go ahead, as I think that's
in Florida, schedule to go ahead? Will it? I don't know.
I don't know a lot. As I said, it's a
fast moving time. Twenty four hours, A lot can change.
Mark Steinen for Rush. We're going to take your calls

(01:41:51):
straight ahead. Mark stein In for Rush on America's number
one radio show. Let's go to Cory. Pennsylvania, critical state
in the upcoming election. If there is still one upcoming.
I need to see the latest update on that. But
Pennsylvania very important to the Trump reelection strategy. And Bob

(01:42:18):
is there in Cory what's on your mind today, Bob, Hey, Mark,
I just wanted to say, first, thank you and all
of the other guests hosts for filling in for Russ.
We as the audience really appreciate you supporting him in
that way. Well well, let me let me well, let
me just say something of that, Bob. You know, nobody
really likes guest hosts is one of the most despised

(01:42:41):
occupations on the planet. And I don't mind doing it
like I love doing it once every two, three, four
months and it gets a little I would love it
if we didn't have to be here quite as often,
and I'm sure Ken and Todd feel the same way
if we didn't have to be here quite as often
as we've been in the last few weeks. But this

(01:43:02):
is a little EIB emergency all of its own, and
we are honored, we are privileged to be able to
help out the indispensable man on the American right at
this time, and we're all looking forward to Rush taking
this time and then coming back roaring out of the
gate later this week as he will be. But thank you,

(01:43:24):
thank you for that, Bob, Thank you. I just had
a couple of comments. Okay, thing is I'm a I'm
a gym owner. I have a small gym here in Corey.
And my question to you is, in all of this,
where do the numbers warrant this reaction from our governments.

(01:43:45):
I don't get that. Well, I would think, well, let
me ask you a question. How is how is the
attendance at the gym? Are you already hurting economically at
from what's been going on these last few days? Well, actually,
my membership is up overall, but as far as attendance goes,

(01:44:06):
I am up again today because people are off right,
so they're able to come into the club. I've had
one cancelation for personal training, and that was from a
couple who are eighty two and eighty three years old
that I trained, and I said to them I had

(01:44:29):
just disinfected. There was nobody in the club at the time,
and she goes, yeah, we're still kind of afraid. And
I said, I understand, and just we're going to play
it day by day. Yeah. And I can suddenly understand
that from the eighty two year olds perspective. On the
other hand, I can also understand it if you're twenty
two and you don't want to be sitting around in
the lazy boy recliner all week long, and there's no

(01:44:53):
shows to go and see. There's no concerts to go
and see, there's no Disneyland to visit, there's no nothing
to do, And so there is a benefit. Obviously, you're
to a certain extent if you're stuck at Hope this
week and you're open unlike Disneyland and Broadway and all
the other stuff, then you're you're one of the few

(01:45:14):
options for going out and actually doing something, and that's
young people will do that. But the reason for the numbers,
you ask, how why the numbers make us panic? For example,
when what do we March the sixteenth, so a week ago,
a week ago, the total number of cases and again

(01:45:35):
this isn't even an accurate number, but the official number
of cases was just over six hundred. Now it's over
four thousand a week later, so when it's increasing. So
the trick with all these things, it's like every contagion
movie you've ever seen, is that there's two cases, and
then there's four cases, and then there's eight cases, and

(01:45:57):
there's sixteen cases, and it's doubling to thirty two and
sixty four, one hundred, twenty eight and people start noticing
it and turn fifty six. Unless you can lower that trajectory,
you're you're in huge trouble. It's much easier, you know.
One way to look at this, Bob, is do you

(01:46:17):
remember just going back a couple of weeks ago when
this story was in the news and these all we've
had a case in King County, Washington, and this is
someone at an old folks home who had contact with
someone who'd recently been in China. Do you remember the
way they could trace it all. Then they could trace
it all, from Fred to Mabel to Gladys to Nigel.

(01:46:43):
They could still trace it then because the numbers were small,
And now the numbers aren't small and they can't trace it.
And then we're going to get to the next stage
where it's just triage, where it's like a World War
One field hospital on the Psalm in nineteen sixteen, and
you just making snap decisions about who lives or dies
like they are in Italy. So the numbers shouldn't make

(01:47:07):
you panic, Bob. But the numbers, as I said, are
basically a snapshot of what the reality was when these
people became infected a couple of weeks ago, and that's
why they're interested in not having people wandering around. Not
because the twenty eight year old is at risk, but
because the twenty eight year olds grandma is at risk.

(01:47:30):
So for example, if the schools are closed, so your
kids are home, so you ask grandma to look over
the kids, after the kids so you can go to work.
So you go to work, and then you come back
and thank grandma for looking over the after the kids,
and you infect Grandma. It's those it's that it's trying
to reduce the rate of transmission, Bob, which is all
that can be done in this circumstances. But I understand

(01:47:53):
the economic pain that will be taken if this goes on.
But getting at numbered down. So it is in Italy,
as the Surgeon General said, So if we're not Italy,
we can't be South Korea. It's too late for that.
But we can be we can get ourselves a little
bit further away from Italy and a little bit closer

(01:48:14):
to South Korea. Thanks for your Colebob. We'll close things
out in just a moment. By thanks to bike my
makes to Greg Bye, Thanks as always to the great
mister Sturdy. We have Ken Matthews. We have Todd Harmon
and we have a guy called Rush Limbour coming in
before the end of the week on America's number one

(01:48:36):
radio show. Have a great rest of the day,

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