A shocked Joe Scarborough responded to staggering new coronavirus death projections on Friday’s “Morning Joe,” uttering “Good Lord” as his cohost Willie Geist read off estimates from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington that said the U.S. could reach 300,000 deaths by December. The current death toll has topped 160,000 deaths.
“This University of Washington Institute has been one the White House has used time and again. Its estimates have actually been conservative more often then not” Scarborough explained.
Scarborough attributed the projections “fools and political cranks and cult members” who didn’t take the fast spread of the virus seriously enough at the beginning of the pandemic and lambasted “the whole Trump cult thing” for making mask-wearing a political issue.
“You notice, we’re not having the University of Washington institute telling people, ‘Hey, listen, if you stay in your home for the next six months,...
“This University of Washington Institute has been one the White House has used time and again. Its estimates have actually been conservative more often then not” Scarborough explained.
Scarborough attributed the projections “fools and political cranks and cult members” who didn’t take the fast spread of the virus seriously enough at the beginning of the pandemic and lambasted “the whole Trump cult thing” for making mask-wearing a political issue.
“You notice, we’re not having the University of Washington institute telling people, ‘Hey, listen, if you stay in your home for the next six months,...
- 8/7/2020
- by Lindsey Ellefson
- The Wrap
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