“Today is the one-hundred-and-fiftieth-day of ‘Fifteen Days to Flatten the Curve.’ One-hundred-and-fifty-days we’ve been flattening the curve: Are we there yet?

“I hate to sound like a kid, ‘Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet?’

“Only 3% of all ER visits now are for COVID symptoms. Only 1.9% percent of active cases are in the hospital. Only .014% percent of Americans are hospitalized with COVID. Only .7% of Americans are currently a positive case. The median death of age is 78. That’s—. That’s when they die? Seventy-eight? That’s the average life expectancy in the US.

“We have now conducted more than 41 million more tests than the next closest free country.

“How low do these numbers have to go before we all go back to work? Before— or is that not the intention? Hmm.”

— Glenn Beck, The Glenn Beck Program (heard on AM 1600 WAAM), August 13, 2020