Earlier this week, with Joe Scarborough away from Morning Joe, we noted Mika Brzezinski imitating one of his repetitious rants. She accused people dubious about masks/vaccines of belonging to a "death cult." Brzezinski deployed the "death cult" phrase no fewer than eight times during her spiel.
Joe, back this morning, bought into Mika's "death cult" trope. Scarborough was responding to a report from NBC's Kerry Sanders, who said that a Collier County [Naples area] mom who was sending her children to school without masks was doing so because "we believe our faith will protect us."
That set Scarborough off. Scarborough scratched his head at the idea that parents were relying on "Jesus" to protect their children. He also questioned whether Jesus wanted 600,000 people to die from Covid.
SCARBOROUGH: I just, makes me scratch my head when I hear reports of parents saying we're going to ignore doctors, we're going to ignore science, and Jesus is going to take care of our children. So we can act reckless medically. Jesus is going to take -- do they think that Jesus decided to kill over 600,000 people with the Covid virus?
It's, it's, it's -- I would say it's beyond anything I've seen, except sadly, it's consistent with much of what I've seen over much of the past five years. Other than now, in what Mika calls a death cult, we have parents who are willingly sending their kids into schools, less safe than medicine suggests they could be or that their doctors, their own family doctors, would suggest they could be if they took some simple precautions.
"In what Mika calls a death cult, we have parents who are willingly sending their kids into schools, less safe than medicine suggests they could be."
It is ugly for Scarborough to call people with deeply-held religious beliefs members of a "death cult." Would Scarborough have done so if the person sending her kids to school without masks was a devout Muslim? For that matter, Sanders didn't say that the mom in question was a Christian: Scarborough simply assumed it when "faith" came up.
Joe Scarborough calling parents who rely on Jesus to protect their children from Covid members of a "death cult" was sponsored in part by Allstate and Sleep Number.
Here's the transcript.
MSNBC
Morning Joe
8/11/21
6:01 am EDTKERRY SANDERS: I was in Naples yesterday, that's Collier County. First day of school there, kids all excited showing up to school. And I talked to some parents and some kids about wearing masks. Interestingly, one parent with their children not wearing masks said, we are not wearing masks because we believe our faith will protect us.
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JOE SCARBOROUGH: Willie, I just -- I just, makes me scratch my head when I hear reports of parents saying we're going to ignore doctors, we're going to ignore science, and Jesus is going to take care of our children. So we can act reckless medically. Jesus is going to take -- do they think that Jesus decided to kill over 600,000 people with the Covid virus?
It's, it's, it's -- I would say it's beyond anything I've seen, except sadly, it's consistent with much of what I've seen over much of the past five years. Other than now, in what Mika calls a death cult, we have parents who are willingly sending their kids into schools, less safe than medicine suggests they could be or that their doctors, their own family doctors, would suggest they could be if they took some simple precautions.
