Morning Joe freaked out today over the opposition to vaccine passport, calling people who oppose them ‘anti-science’ lunatics:
.@JoeNBC freaks out on “moron,” “idiot,” “lunatic" Americans who oppose vaccine passports: “Our government, our sports teams, our concert promoters damned well better put together something where you can show your vaccine receipt." pic.twitter.com/QA6Ue5XJVm
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) March 30, 2021
Here’s the transcript of his comments:
SCARBOROUGH: “I’m now — I’m now hearing lunatics — and I’ll call them lunatics —— that are now of course still pushing back on the masks. But now we’re saying if we somehow have something that identifies as having a vaccine, we’re like part of Satan or the mark of the Devil — or Nazi Germany. The idiocy is just beyond us. They’re acting recklessly and irresponsibly. They’re being stupid and following conspiracy theories. They’re following a failed game show host and/or a reality TV host and they don’t understand, I guess, because maybe they’re such morons they don’t understand this, if I wanted to go to a baseball game with my son, who has a history of upper respiratory issues, I don’t want a bunch of idiots sitting anywhere near us in Fenway or in a Little League baseball park that haven’t taken the vaccine.
Now, if they don’t want to take the vaccine and they want to die, that’s their right as Americans. They don’t have to take the vaccine and they can die or they can get really sick! They can live in ignorance and stupidity! They have that right, even though they’re hurting other people, but please, please, please, don’t tell me that we can’t do something so smart people, who actually follow science, who actually want to take care of their children, who actually want to save their neighbors’ lives, who actually want to make sure everybody around them is safe, they can’t tell us what to do, and our government, our sports teams, our organizations, our concert promoters damned well better put together something where you can show your vaccine receipt or you can have something on a ticket stub that shows it.
This anti-science idiocy, you know what, let them do that under a rock or in their caves. But you know what, the time to try to reason with these people has long passed.”
It’s really hard to believe that Joe Scarborough ever used to be a Republican. He’s now nothing but a triggered, preachy liberal who loves to shout at people who don’t agree with him.
How does he not get this is about liberty? If Joe wants to take his kid with a history of upper respiratory issues to a baseball game, then maybe he should pay extra for some reserved seats or something. Why should everyday Americans who don’t want to be vaccinated have to accommodate his kid? Why should they be denied access to a game?
Vaccine passports are nothing more than another road to tyranny, forcing some to live as second class citizens just because they don’t want to put a vaccine that was developed extremely fast into their bodies.