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RUSH LIMBAUGH (HOST): We're shutting down our country because of the — the cold virus, which is what coronaviruses are. This is COVID-19, the 19th version of the coronavirus. We're shutting it — can you imagine our enemies watching this? You think the Chinese are not laughing themselves silly over how easy this has been? And it continues. This has been easy.
I wouldnt exactly saying the country is "shutting down", some schools are closed, no foreign goods coming in, thats really about it, everything else is open, restaurants, banks, car dealerships, gas stations, hair salons, etc. Seriously...drive down the main street in your town, probably looks just like it did 6 months ago, people still out and about, people still going to work every day, people still eating out, going to the bank, etc.
NOT THAT MUCH has really changed imo.
Although if they think its getting worse, they may force businesses to close down, now that would impact everyone and cities would look like ghost towns, but I doubt they will go to that extreme.
RUSH LIMBAUGH (HOST): We're shutting down our country because of the — the cold virus, which is what coronaviruses are. This is COVID-19, the 19th version of the coronavirus. We're shutting it — can you imagine our enemies watching this? You think the Chinese are not laughing themselves silly over how easy this has been? And it continues. This has been easy.
Yes, astonishingly easy when you own the press, high levels of government, and one party.
So what happens when Cold Vitus #20 pops up in a few years? I'd say it depends on the letter of the alphabet that follows the president's name when that occurs. (Hint: R=PANIC!! D=All is well.)
I like Rush, but he's a fool for this. While I do think much of the coronavirus is overblown, it is a huge threat to the elderly and those with compromised immune systems, of which Rush is and has. But, unlike many others in his shoes, he can afford to effectively quarantine himself.
In a country so imbued with leading edge technologies, so thoroughly immersed in all manner of information, it's a wonder that the likes of Rush Limbaugh would even have a podium to spread his particular brand of pretzel logic. But there he is in all of his splendorous ignorance, telling us what he thinks about a very complex issue. You'd expect that kind of thing if you were seated at the corner bar and the local drunk was pontificating on about his twisted views, but Limbaugh has garnered himself a faithful following of ignoramuses who regard his foolish utterances as the stuff of high intellectualism.
Rush is a failed radio DJ, his education basically stopped short by his own incompetence as a student, it has been said that he flunked most of his courses at college. This, from someone who really knew him well:
"According to his mother, "he flunked everything [...] he just didn't seem interested in anything except radio." Rush wanted to talk, he wanted to be heard, but an outsized ego got him fired from most of the radio station gigs he ever worked. His abrasive personality was deemed to be his Achilles heel, but he finally found an audience of like minded types when he began to take the rude crude path on air. Dispute the facts, demean the liberal populace, become loud and speak authoritatively, use the schoolyard bully tactics of shouting down those who disagree with you, all of these tactics served to endear him to all those like him, those who were failing to prosper in the American heartland.
And now, staring down the barrels of his own death, he still clings to this comic book caricature of the loud and bellicose expert, he has no shame when it comes to making a fool of himself. But his fans are walking in his footsteps, thus the legions of loud obnoxious yahoos, devoid of knowledge, filled with hatred, marching with Nazi symbols, spewing all manor of racial/ethnic epithets at those they hate and fear.
In some ways, I feel sorry for Rush, a wannabe radio celeb, a man who wanted so badly to win his fathers approval, and now his life has been cut short by disease, when he's gone the nation will be one short on the front of organized hate, but few of his followers will mourn, as they have plenty to take his place. He really never made it in the space of legitimate talk radio, he took the low road in desperation, a failed man on all counts going to his death wearing the Medal Of Freedom. Only in America.
RUSH LIMBAUGH (HOST): We're shutting down our country because of the — the cold virus, which is what coronaviruses are. This is COVID-19, the 19th version of the coronavirus. We're shutting it — can you imagine our enemies watching this? You think the Chinese are not laughing themselves silly over how easy this has been? And it continues. This has been easy.
Says someone who apparently can't take the time or make the effort to state his/her case in greater detail.
Corona virus is the latest of a series of epidemics/pandemics which will test civilization's capacity to deal with such issues. Preliminary indications are that, while serious, it is not a threat as great as the "Spanish" influenza of 1918-19. but continued scientific and technological progress argues for stronger monitoring.
Since the fist stirrings of the Enlightenment about three centuries ago, a conflict has existed between those who seek to maintain and aggrandize centralized authority in the name of a purported "greater common good": and those mistrustful of the abuse of that power; and this writer will regularly admit a strong prejudice in favor of the latter.
Nevertheless, there remain a number of apparent contradictions in the struggle between these opposites; a small number of instances in which short-sight can allow a greater threat to go unrecognized. Although I don't agree with the proponents, the continued controversy over climate change / "global warming" is an excellent example of this.
In this particular case, I believe the stakes are low, but have been over-hyped by those who tend toward greater concentration of authority. However, the propensity to sensationalize, in order to gain the attention and (superficial) loyalty of the more impressionable and easily-led means that they won't be held too far accountable for their misjudgment.
So be it; better safe than sorry when the stakes are high. But let's not allow the desire for easy scapegoats, and the advocacy for a politicized agenda get in the way of an empirical analysis.
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