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| 2020-05-28 |
| [Rush Limbaugh] RUSH: We talk about the blue states and the blue state governors and their maintaining the lockdowns in their states. One of the things that we have to be concerned about in terms of getting the economy ramped up -- because Trump has a new phrase, "Transition to Greatness." Trump are is promising economic growth next year, 2021. He promised Americans that they're gonna see some great numbers in the fourth quarter of this year. Trump is promoting a future economic recovery. It's a Transition to Greatness. "You're gonna see some great numbers in the fourth quarter, and you're gonna end up doing a great year next year," Trump was quoted by the AP. He said, "We built the greatest economy in the world. I'll do it a second time." Now, some of the people in the Drive-By Media are saying, "Trump's new Slogan Is a Confession of Failure -- 'Transition to Greatness' is a corporate-style euphemism that tries to spin a collapse as a success." This is happening at the Atlantic, which just got through laying off a hundred people -- which Trump, by the way, touted. So here's this bunch laying off a hundred people trying to tell us that Trump doesn't know what he's talking about, that his new slogan, Transition to Greatness, is actually a concession of failure -- that any reference to making America great again is an admission of failure. Trump's not responsible for this, any more than anybody else on that task force or any other position of authority who demanded the lockdowns. They had to lie to him about all these computer models to get him to go along with it. All it took was one number, folks, if you remember. They told him, "If we don't anything, 2.2 million people will die." That phony model from the U.K. said 2.2 million would die. That model was done without factoring any kinds of social distancing or mitigation, and once that modeler plugged in social distancing, that 2.2 million became 500,000. That was still out of whack. He said 500,000 people would die in the U.K. He revised that to 20,000. These models have been worthless. They have yet to be right about anything. Yet they remain quoted, and they remain consulted. Here's the thing about the blue state governors and the shutdowns, because there is one thing about this that I am worried about, and I'll admit it to you. Our country cannot fully recover without the California and New York state economies participating, and we know it and they know it. Gavin Newsom knows it, and so does Fredo Jr. know it. Andrew Cuomo knows it. The longer they... Why do you think California and New York are not even talking about opening? California and New York say, "We're shutting down for the rest of the summer." These birdbrains in California -- these public health officials and the city council, town council, board of supervisors, whatever -- say, "Yes. We're gonna maintain shelter-in-place through the summer, through the end of July, maybe into August." They know what they're doing. Gavin Newsom's doing the same thing, and the longer New York and California stay stagnant, the more it's going to impede the nationwide economic recovery and boost. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #26 Ohio, Florida, Georgia, Texas are going to harvest businesses from NY and CA. Just leave the employees (liberals) in CA and NY. |
| Posted by: Marilyn Tojo7566 2020-05-28 21:55 |
| #25 German restaurants are open for business. But then again, we only have about 10,000 active cases now. |
| Posted by: European Conservative 2020-05-28 21:16 |
| #24 Make sure you wear your mask Frank. |
| Posted by: bbrewer126 2020-05-28 21:02 |
| #23 I'm having lunch with a buddy in a restaurant/bar on Monday |
| Posted by: Frank G 2020-05-28 18:34 |
| #22 g(r)omgoru of course |
| Posted by: European Conservative 2020-05-28 18:26 |
| #21 gromguru still is the voice of reason in this matter. |
| Posted by: European Conservative 2020-05-28 18:26 |
| #20 Trump should announce that states that stay locked down will receive whatever federal help there may be in the order they open up. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2020-05-28 18:20 |
| #19 #3 The public won't play that game any longer. Hope you are right Frank. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2020-05-28 18:01 |
| #18 Have a nice life, grom. "We'll always have Stockholm." |
| Posted by: Lex 2020-05-28 09:14 |
| #17 Been there done that - and realized that cross-country comparisons are totally useless. Well, bye. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2020-05-28 09:12 |
| #16 #12 - how about you look at the world outside Californian Bay area? Been there done that - and realized that cross-country comparisons are totally useless. Again, the methods of attributing cause of death have varied so widely that the data are completely inconsistent. And incomplete. And shifting. And of course inaccurate and even corrupted in many cases by officials seeking to game the numbers one way or another. The reasons that California data is worth diving into, in isolation, are that 1) it's a large and at least consistent dataset i.e. the method of attributing death has not varied from place to place or time to time; 2) California has vast experience with the spread of virulent Chinese flu strains-- unlike countries in Europe or the Middle East, California is on the front lines and has vast amounts of data for doing yearly comparisons of Chinese-sourced strains 3) Again unlike Europe, California reports data broken out by ethnic sub-groups, which shows clearly what others noticed at the very beginning: fatalities are linked to certain ethnicities' mainly Africans', much higher susceptibility to this disease. 4) we have good data in California about the number of people who were and are still arriving at CA airports every day on direct flights from Wuhan and other Chinese cities, hence we know that the virus was spreading and had already infected tens of thousands of Californians by the end of January |
| Posted by: Lex 2020-05-28 09:05 |
| #15 #13 I've read your "People who get the CV were always gonna get the CV" as Inshallah, sorry. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2020-05-28 08:57 |
| #14 Link to the "Cironovirus Tracker" data set and notes, with breakouts for for counties and cities in the SF Bay Area. Note this incoherent BS: Is shelter in place working? YES!!The numbers indicate it has, particularly in the Bay Area, where aggressive restrictions were first put in place. BUT, ER, NO--Not really: However, after several weeks of flat or declining numbers, the Bay Area has seen a growth in new cases during the past week. From May 19 to May 23, the Bay Area reported 200 or more cases each day and averaged more than 210 cases per day last week. In the span of April 16 to May 17, the Bay Area averaged fewer than 160 cases per day and hit 200 only once. AND NOW, THE INCOMPETENCE... The spike coincides with the gradual reopening of California even though most of the Bay Area has maintained its shelter-in-place orders. No you ninnies, the "spike" occurred in the East Bay counties and is almost certainly due to the lag time needed for infections to move from the heavily-Chinese epicenter -- in SF, San Mateo and Santa Clara -- over to the East Bay, i.e. Oakland and the counties where most of the area's African-American population resides. Zero attempt to do any intelligent time series analysis at all. No comparison with time series data for prior year flu seasons. No effort to separate signal from noise, to isolate causes and effects. And based upon this third-world bullshit performance they have thrown over 5 million Californians out of work, cratered many thousands of small businesses, and are ruining the educations hence life producers of 5 million school kids who were already suffering the effects of their shitty third-world caliber educational system. |
| Posted by: Lex 2020-05-28 08:49 |
| #13 #11 - sharks are gonna bite some people every summer. Tossing people into the shark tank, however... |
| Posted by: Frank G 2020-05-28 08:45 |
| #12 Lex, just for a change of pace - how about you look at the world outside Californian Bay area? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2020-05-28 08:43 |
| #11 #8 People who get the CV were always gonna get the CV. & No - knowingly pushing infected old people into vulnerable populations was murder IMO, you can't have it both ways. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2020-05-28 08:41 |
| #10 Here's the "Cironovirus Tracker" for counties and cities in the SF Bay Area. Key points: 1) it's now been admitted, finally, that there were at least 10,000 people infected in this area as early as February 6 -- i.e. six weeks before the lockdown even started. And yet there were no more than a total of 30 deaths attributed to these infected cases. 2) if you look at the curves for infected cases and deaths for each county, they all have more or less the same shape over some 10-12 weeks: a slow build followed by a spike, a plateau and then a decline. This is almost exactly the pattern that is seen during flu season. Also, this pattern occurs regardless of when the initial spike happened in that particular county, be it prior to the March 19 "shelter in place" lockdown or many weeks after the lockdown. It is obvious that the authorities do not have the faintest idea as to how dangerous or fatal this strain actually is -- and what if any correlation exists between the fatality rate and any one of their grasping-at-straws measures. They're just making this up willy-nilly as they go. All the evidence and every day's data indicate what we suspected from the beginning: this year's bug is not significantly more fatal -- and did not/doesn't merit more extreme public health measures i.e. beyond sensible precautions including washing hands, staying away from others if you have symptoms and above all, protecting the elderly-- than the other Asian flu strains that every year kill thousands of Californians. |
| Posted by: Lex 2020-05-28 08:33 |
| #9 /\ Empty bunks cost money. Nursing home owners and consortiums make substantial financial contributions. 2+2 = ? |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2020-05-28 08:32 |
| #8 No - knowingly pushing infected old people into vulnerable populations was murder |
| Posted by: Frank G 2020-05-28 08:27 |
| #7 p.s. So, in your opinion, Cuomo did right? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2020-05-28 08:07 |
| #6 CV is not magic. It doesn't go through walls. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2020-05-28 08:04 |
| #5 Bullshit, G. People who get the CV were always gonna get the CV. All the damage is economical, as planned |
| Posted by: Frank G 2020-05-28 08:03 |
| #4 ^The public already is not playing the game - what's why California CV19 caseload is not going down, Frank. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2020-05-28 07:57 |
| #3 The public won't play that game any longer |
| Posted by: Frank G 2020-05-28 07:53 |
| #2 These birdbrains in California -- these public health officials and the city council, town council, board of supervisors, whatever -- say, "Yes. We're gonna maintain shelter-in-place through the summer..." The process is even worse than that: at least a city council would involve elected representatives. Instead the lifer/don't-lift decisions are being made at the county level -- quick Q: who's your county supervisor? Do you have any idea? And not even the supervisor or sheriff. The decision as to whether each county in California goes over the brink is given over to one obscure bureaucrat with zero expertise or skill in anything outside of medicine: the county health commissioner. That individual's decision trumps the governor's decision if it's more restrictive than his. Any power-hungry little bureaucrat in sic a position has a built-in incentive to be more rather than less restrictive. And there is nothing the public or its representatives can do about it: the process entails zero public input and no role for the people's representatives. And so we have different rules for different California counties - no haircuts allowed in some, haircuts in others; some surgeries allowed in some but next to none or few in other counties. Banana republic time. |
| Posted by: Lex 2020-05-28 07:41 |
| #1 GavinNewsom's doing the same thing, and the longer New York and California stay stagnant, the more it's going to impede the nationwide economic recovery and boost. Destroying the Trump economy is obviously the goal. They have no viable candidate, no plan or platform. The dems are simply focused on the destruction of the Orange Man and the regaining of power. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2020-05-28 03:34 |