Rush Limbaugh on coronavirus: "Who cares if it's 10 times more lethal than the flu?"

[edbermac]

RUSH LIMBAUGH (HOST): The very top headline on the Drudge page right now is this: “Top Doc: Virus 10 Times More Lethal Than the Flu.” Now, wait. That’s not the – they’re burying the lede. That headline is gonna scare people to death. It’s an outrageous headline. The headline comes

It’s not Drudge’s headline. The website is called The Week. “Coronavirus Is 10 Times More Lethal Than the Seasonal Flu, Trump’s Task Force Immunologist Says.” That’s not the point of the story. Do you know what’s really the point of the story? The fatality rate is just 1% from this disease! So who cares if it’s 10 times more lethal than the flu?

The fatality rate of the coronavirus is 1%. “Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told lawmakers during hearing on Wednesday that COVID-19 is probably about 10 times more lethal than the seasonal flu.

“At the same time, he clarified that 10 times figure actually brings the new fatality rate lower than official estimates, which hover around 3%. The flu has a mortality rate of about 0.1%, so Fauci places the new coronavirus lethality rate at somewhere around 1%.” That’s the story. It isn’t that it’s 10 times more lethal than the flu, and this is how this crap gets politicized!

Pardon my yelling, but this stuff is what ticks me off, and my instincts tell me this. I know this kind of trickery and monkeying around with stuff is going on in these things because I know the media, I know the left, I know the Democrat Party, and I know how they’re trying to scare everybody and now they’re using Fauci here. “This is Trump’s guy! Trump’s guy is saying it’s 10 times more lethal than the flu,” which means nothing.

Ten times more lethal? Lethal than what? What does lethal mean? Does lethal kill you? Does lethal infect you? Does lethal give you a temperature of 102 versus 100? What does it do to you? It’s a meaningless comparative. Ten times more lethal? The only thing worth knowing in this story is that Anthony Fauci says the fatality rate to coronavirus is much less than what they believed.

It is 1%. It is not between 3 and 6%, and that number 3% and 6% has been out there for a couple of weeks. So here comes a news story saying, “Guess what? The fatality rate’s only 1%,” and that’s not the headline. The headline is: “Coronavirus 10 Times More Lethal Than the Seasonal Flu, Trump’s Task Force Immunologist Says.”

Well, yeah, he may have said it, but it was a setup for the actual lede in the story, and you have to read to the last paragraph to get to the nut. “At the same time, Dr. Fauci did clarify that 10 times figure actually brings the coronavirus’ fatality rate lower than official estimates”

So what the hell is the point of a headline that says the coronavirus is 10 times more lethal than the flu, if what that means is the fatality rate is actually much less than we thought it was? It isn’t 3 to 6%. It’s 1% tops. So, no, I’m not apologizing for one damn way I’ve approached this today, and I’m not gonna apologize. Not that anybody’s demanding, anyway.

https://www.mediamatters.org/coronavirus-covid-19/rush-limbaugh-coronavirus-who-cares-if-its-10-times-more-lethal-flu

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[durablend]

1. Hasn't he died yet?

And if not, what's taking so long?

[Midnight Writer]

7. With Rush's already compromised lungs, I reckon his personal mortality rate would be about 100%.

[Squinch]

2. Why does anyone give this walking blowfish a platform?

[maxsolomon]

5. Because radio station owners have a political agenda.

And he serves those interests.

He'll propagandize until his last breath, just like Trump will tweet abuse until his.

[underpants]

12. He isn't nearly as influential as he once was

but he is slight a light into the window of their minds and souls....you need a bright light.

[Hassler]

3. I thought Druggie Limbaugh had stage 4 cancer? What's the delay, **shole?

[lame54]

8. If he's going he's taking some with him

[TheBlackAdder]

4. He doesn't. He's preparing to punch his ticket.

[mitch96]

6. ""Who cares if it's 10 times more lethal than the flu?""

From the guy who's gonna kick the bucket soon.........
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[tblue37]

9. Idiot doesn't know that lethal means it will kill you? Nor does he understand that 1%

of a huge number is a huge number.

[Dem2theMax]

10. When is he going to get his Darwin Award?

It's taking too damn long!

[underpants]

11. Math is hard but words are harderer

Ten times more lethal? Lethal than what? What does lethal mean? Does lethal kill you?

"Than what?" Uh the whole premise of this was comparing it to the flu

Lethal means it kills you.

Yes lethal kills you.

[redstatebluegirl]

13. If one of my crazy relatives who listens to him, dies from COVID-19

I will sue him for causing it because they will do whatever that douche bag says.

[Paladin]

14. Hurry up and die, Limbaugh. (nt)

[GulfCoast66]

15. He's like the spurned lover who takes his loved ones out with him.

He’s a dead man walking and his bitterness makes him to take as many with him as he can.

[Drahthaardogs]

16. YOU shouldnt. It would likely be a kinder death

Than what you are facing.