On Wednesday, conservative talkshow host Rush Limbaugh said the economic shutdown is unsustainable, stressing that the uncertainty over an eventual start-up date is only aggravating the problem.
The host also noted of the hostility toward anyone who dare raise economic devastation as part of the United States’ COVID-19 response equation, which he argued is being incorrectly framed as “lives versus money,” when it’s actually measuring “lives versus lives.”
“We simply cannot — with no end in sight — go on like this,” Limbaugh said Wednesday, one day before it was confirmed that a total of 10 million jobs were lost in just two weeks of nationwide coronavirus precautions. “We cannot be in the midst of this economy being shut down with no end in sight.”
The host said the so-called “mitigation” timeline offered to Americans from the Trump administration is unhelpful.
“It’s not gonna work,” Limbaugh said. “Now, they can tell us, ‘Well, we think in two weeks we’ll be able to relax things,’ and then those two weeks go by and they can’t. They’ll say, ‘Oh, give us another two weeks,’ because they think that we can live with waiting an additional two weeks every two weeks.”
“If they tell us six months, that won’t work,” the conservative continued. “But there’s an overriding problem with this, and it is the uncertainty combined with nobody talking about it.”
“Right now all of the talk is about medical. All the talk is about the horrible medical statistics, predictions, models, all the talk is apocalyptic when we’re discussing the virus. It’s all apocalyptic,” Limbaugh said. “It’s all end of the world. It’s all end of this. It’s all death. It’s all new numbers, 2.2 million, 240,000.”
“Meanwhile, everybody’s at home, the economy shut down, everybody realizes this can’t go on, but there is this degree of uncertainty as to when this is gonna end. It cannot go on like this,” he added. “At some point, folks, we as a country are gonna have to answer a question: How much of the economy do we let drift toward Great Depression status before we stop it?”
The 69-year-old highlighted a piece from The Federalist’s Ben Domenech critical of the federal one-size-fits-all response to COVID-19, titled, “We’re Following A One-Size-Fits-All Coronavirus Strategy Right Into A Great Depression.”
“Dead-on right,” the host said of Domenech’s argument on economic uncertainty. “The uncertainty. Nobody’s talking about when this is gonna end. Everybody’s talking about the end of everything else, except the end of the suspension of the economy.”
Limbaugh stressed that anyone who dares bring economic damage into the COVID-19 response equation is “gonna be hit.”
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