Posted on 03/25/2020 11:20:35 AM PDT by Meatspace
Fox News’ Brit Hume defended comments from Texas lieutenant governor Dan Patrick Tuesday night, saying it is “entirely reasonable” that elderly Americans could be fine with dying amid the coronavirus outbreak to save the U.S. economy.
“The utter collapse of the country’s economy — which many think will happen if this goes on much longer — is an intolerable result,” the 76-year-old told primetime host Tucker Carlson. “[Patrick] is saying, for his own part, that he would be willing to take a risk of getting the disease if that’s what it took to allow the economy to move forward. He said that because he is late in life, that he would be perhaps more willing than he might have been at a younger age, which seems to me to be an entirely reasonable viewpoint.”
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Him first.
Well... that escalated quickly.
Not THIS elderly, thank you.
Makes sense. I’m 62, I’d take that chance.
Brit Hume...how reasonable is it that Americans watch you just to see if you drop dead on air?
How Old is Brit ?
F****** IDIOT!
Doesn’t seem to be the only option...
What a maroon !
Doesn’t seem to be the only option...
The elderly and mentally ill, then the Jews and the Gypsies.
Everything old is new again.
That is not what he said, or how he said it.
I saw this interview. I agree that the nation as a whole, needs to move on and get back to work. There’s far too much at stake.
I want my parents alive, I don’t care about the GDP.
NO F*ing Way!
I’m willing to die for my country, but not for a Chi-Com-made, deliberately distributed virus, used by the Dems, and the media to take away our rights, and destroy the economy, and our President Donald Trump.
everyone is going to get this eventually. It’s not really a matter of if, but rather when. The only thing the government can do by locking us down is SLOW the process down so that everyone who gets ill doesn’t do so at the same time and over stress the system.
I saw Brit Hume and he did NOT say this at all FAKE NEWS!!!
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