Pat Robertson is pretty sure that Central American youth are responsible for the outbreak of Enterovirius D-68 in the U.S., even though the report which sparked his remarks made no mention of any connection to immigrants.
As we’ve noted before, there is no evidence linking immigrants to the respiratory disease and the CDC has said there’s “no connection.” But since Dr. Rush Limbaugh thinks it’s the case, then it must be true!
“I don’t know if anybody has done an analysis and it may be way off the wall as to the fact we’ve had this flood of children coming across the border from Central America, did they carry with them viruses that we were not familiar with in the United States and haven’t built up immunity to? It’s entirely possible,” he said, before explaining that he once came down with “a severe intestinal problem” after working with Romanian children.
“There were thousands and thousands coming across the Rio Grande and then they’re spread across the states all across America, I don’t know, it’s just one of those things, but I do know what happened to me trying to love-up on those children, they are so sweet, they get in your lap, and you want to kiss them, and they want to kiss you, and they want to hug you, and all that other stuff, and it was beautiful and we were giving them toys and they were so happy but they left me with a little bug,” he said.
“We had antibiotics for it so it knocked it out pretty fast but it’s very unpleasant and that’s where it came from, according to my doctor it was those little children in Central — I mean Eastern Europe.”
