He doesn't understand that the danger is that the healthcare system will be overwhelmed and collapsed if enough people are infected. It happened in China. It's happened in Iran. It's happening in Lombardy. It's being mentioned as possibly happening in Washington State. I read a news story that one county in Washington state is buying a hotel to house and isolate the sick. That's how worried they are.
The only way out is to institute HARSH quarantine measures such as what China and Singapore are doing. Severe limitations on travel and personal movement.
Trump declared the coronavirus a public health emergency while Red China was still trying to cover things up, and close to two weeks before the UN came up with their Newspeak designation “COVID-19”. So how is Rush “minimizing” anything?