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Scarborough: 'Not to Disturb Anybody,' but 'Very Real Possibility' 'Health Care System Collapses'
NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

Posted on 03/19/2020 6:26:52 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest

There's a difference between warning the public to take a threat seriously, and throwing in the cards and saying doom is near.

On today's Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough claimed that he "certainly" wasn't intending "to disturb anybody." But Scarborough then went on to predict the "very real possibility" that our "health care system collapses."

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KEYWORDS: coronavirus; fearmongering; healthcare; joescarborough; marksinlovewithmika; marksjealousofjoe
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
...Morning Joe has an average daily viewership of about 1 million.

Yes, that is hard to believe.

I expect that out of 1 million of his viewers, 999,999 will vote for Biden (or Sanders), regardless of what President Trump does.

21 posted on 03/19/2020 6:44:19 AM PDT by FtrPilot
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To: certrtwngnut
They sure can twist the words.

Twisted minds make for twisted words.

22 posted on 03/19/2020 6:47:19 AM PDT by windsorknot
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
One can hope, eh, Joe?

If it wasn't for people who are confined to hospital beds, nobody would watch MSNBC.

23 posted on 03/19/2020 6:51:38 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Good old Joe “Pardon me while I whip this out!” Obviously he got reemed for that tiny little bit of Trump support he made so he’s jumped on back on board the Hysteria Express track 9 and called for full steam ahead.


24 posted on 03/19/2020 6:52:29 AM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Not to get personal, Joe, but you’re an a$$hole.


25 posted on 03/19/2020 6:52:57 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Who are the three people who still watch Scarborough?


26 posted on 03/19/2020 6:54:56 AM PDT by Old Retired Army Guy
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Sounds like SOMEbody donned her dominatrix outfit and scolded Joe for being a bad boy and praising President Trump the other day.


27 posted on 03/19/2020 6:55:07 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

The little nerd would have never said that is Obama was still prez. He wouldn’t dare question Obama.


28 posted on 03/19/2020 6:55:33 AM PDT by CodeToad (Arm Up! They Have!)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
The health care systems of China, South Korea, Germany, France, etc. will survive, but ours will collapse?

China and South Korea are already out of the woods re the Wuhan virus.

29 posted on 03/19/2020 6:56:36 AM PDT by kabar
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To: RayChuang88

This is the most overblown bunch of nonsense ever. Vulnerable people should have been isolated and the rest of us should have tried to use a little common sense. The trillions of dollars already wasted have all been for nothing. This thing was never going to collapse our healthcare system, a rash of more slippery than normal banana peals could crash the Italian Socialized medical system..


30 posted on 03/19/2020 6:57:01 AM PDT by fireman15
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

You’re right, Josef... The whole thing is collapsing and we’re all gonna die. So why not avoid the rush... grab hold of a good, sharp knife and jab it into your favorite artery.


31 posted on 03/19/2020 6:57:32 AM PDT by LIConFem (I will no longer accept the things I cannot change. it's time to change the things I cannot accept)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

He is following Progressive Line. The other day reports were out that NYS would see 750000 in need of hospital care. Never mind that that number is 3x the total number of infections in the entire world for the last three months.


32 posted on 03/19/2020 6:57:35 AM PDT by xkaydet65
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To: windsorknot
Nice catch. And to think Faux News fired Trish Reagan for saying that Libturds are using the coronavirus as another impeachment effort.

Give Trish her job back,Faux News! With a raise.

Better yet, President Trump, hire Trish Reagan.

33 posted on 03/19/2020 6:59:45 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Ratings dipping again, Joe?


34 posted on 03/19/2020 7:12:50 AM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Why would it collapse? We aren’t into socialized medicine already are we? What is Mika’s opinion? That’s the one that counts, since she is so scholarly.


35 posted on 03/19/2020 7:14:25 AM PDT by Old Yeller (Auto-correct has become my worst enema.)
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To: Beowulf9

Does anybody know how many people are in the hospital because of the virus????


36 posted on 03/19/2020 7:15:31 AM PDT by Hojczyk
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

So, Joey, when this whole manufactured hysteria blows over in three or four weeks so the NEXT manufactured crisis can be launched, are you going to choke on your own words and apologize???


37 posted on 03/19/2020 7:16:05 AM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: madison10
The precautions being taken are to avoid collapse.

Why then, is everyone on this thread disagreeing with Scarborough even as most of us agree with his premise?

If the possibility does not exist that the health care system will break down and with that breakdown not only will healthcare professionals be affected but whole swaths of population will die too.

It is one thing to deny the necessity to "flatten the curve" but, unless one considers the whole business either a hoax or an unjustifiable panic, the idea is to save the healthcare system and untold lives-as you point out.

Scarborough is unquestionably a despicable human being but he's not speaking outside of logic here. The reaction on this thread is an example of an all too frequent tendency to substitute ad hominem for reason. Scarborough can be correct even though he is a despicable human being. Because Scarborough is us despicable human being does not necessarily mean he is incorrect.

If we persistently come to every position based on whether we like the person who utters an observation, we are at the mercy of our own prejudices.


38 posted on 03/19/2020 7:16:23 AM PDT by nathanbedford (attack, repeat, attack! Bull Halsey)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Never start a sentence with “I don’t mean to disturb you” but in this a&&holes case, I don’t believe a word you say anyway so go right ahead. Disturb away.


39 posted on 03/19/2020 7:21:35 AM PDT by albie
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Not sidewalks of San Fransisco, Sherlock!


40 posted on 03/19/2020 7:31:09 AM PDT by null and void (By the pricking of my lungs, Something wicked this way comes ...)
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