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Joe Scarborough Slams ‘Hyper-Individualism Fetish’ Among the Unvaccinated: ‘Would Not Have Won’ World War II

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Joe Scarborough Slams ‘Hyper-Individualism Fetish’ Among the Unvaccinated: ‘Would Not Have Won’ World War II

“We have taken what has been great about this country which is individual freedom, individual rights, and it has become so skewed in that direction that nobody ever is thinking about what’s best for their country, their community, their neighborhood, their neighborhoods, their families…Thank God we didn’t have this sort of hyper-individualism after Pearl Harbor was bombed in 1941. We would not have won the war.”

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Joe Scarborough Slams ‘Hyper-Individualism Fetish’ Among the Unvaccinated: ‘Would Not Have Won’ World War II

by Ken Meyer

Joe Scarborough condemned the “hyper-individualism” of anti-vaxx citizens by arguing that they are so wrapped up in themselves that they cannot contribute to the country’s general welfare.

Scarborough’s comments came on Tuesday as Morning Joe addressed reports that Pfizer-BioNTech will soon meet with the FDA to discuss authorizing their vaccine for use among young children. Mika Brzezinski remarked that “this could be a game-changer if a good amount of kids got vaccinated,” though she and Scarborough acknowledged the pushback that is likely to come from the anti-vaxx community.

“There is this hyper-individualism fetish that has grown over the past 15 or 20 years,” Scarborough said. “We have taken what has been great about this country which is individual freedom, individual rights, and it has become so skewed in that direction that nobody ever is thinking about what’s best for their country, their community, their neighborhood, their neighborhoods, their families…Thank God we didn’t have this sort of hyper-individualism after Pearl Harbor was bombed in 1941. We would not have won the war.”

Scarborough continued this line of thinking by pointing to past periods in America where people were asked to put the country’s common good ahead of themselves. This comes as the public debate over vaccine mandates rages on .

“We can’t even do that as a country now with a safe vaccine that’s one of the modern wonders of our time,” he lamented.

Eugene Robinson agreed by adding that it’s “tragic that people simply haven’t pulled together the way we have in the past.” Scarborough kept the WWII metaphor going though as he turned to Katty Kay and said “by the time Covid is over, twice as many Americans will have likely died from Covid than died in our fight against Hitler.”

Kay responded to that by pointing out that vaccine mandates have existed before, and that Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is urging people to get the shot .

Watch above, via MSNBC.

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Professor Principal

1 seeder JohnRussell 3 years ago

You do have to wonder.

Professor Participates

2 Snuffy 3 years ago

I am pro vaccine and I do wish everybody who is able to would get vaccinated. But you have to question the hyperbole. Latest data from the CDC shows that two thirds of the entire population has been vaccinated. We could not have won WWII with 2/3rds of the country behind it?

Professor Quiet

2.1 Ozzwald replied to Snuffy @2 3 years ago

We could not have won WWII with 2/3rds of the country behind it?

As this last COVID wave is showing, 1/3 of the population is dragging the other 2/3 down with it.

It's not that you can't win with 2/3, it's that you cannot win with 1/3 working against you.

Professor Guide

3 Split Personality 3 years ago

I believe the current numbers are 66.7% with at least one shot.

Less than 58% with both shots.

With a target of 80% with 2 shots before moving on to booster shots

which already outpaced other vaccinations 2.7 million to 2 million 2nd shots and 2 million first shots

09/30 through Oct 06.

the resistance is baffling

Professor Quiet

4 Ronin2 3 years ago

We wouldn't have won WWII with this president or congress; so what is their insipid point?

Biden being the human fuck up machine, thought that a vaccine mandate would work; after spending the first several months stating correctly he didn't have the authority to issue any such mandate. Seems he learned from his master Obama on how to violate the Constitution without any moral qualms. Biden has done more to divide this country in 9 months than any president before him.

What is taking OSHA so damn long to come up with rules and penalties for Biden's vaccine mandate? Is it because they know the second they do all of those states suing the administration will be pushed to the forefront; and the courts will all rule against them? Biden already violated a Supreme Court ruling by extending the rent moratorium. Guess he can play stupid on his vaccine mandate as well.

Clearly, President Joe Biden is not chastened by the Supreme Court smackdown he got just a couple of weeks ago, when the justices invalidated the eviction moratorium that even administration officials acknowledge was patently lawless right before Biden reissued it.
Quite the opposite.

The administration is similarly well aware that the national vaccine mandate that the president is poised to issue is unlawful. White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain made the obvious explicit by retweeting a progressive commentator’s observation that the ploy of imposing the vaccine requirement as a workplace-safety rule under OSHA (the Occupational Safety and Health Administration) is the “ultimate work-around.”

Translation: The president knows that an executive order mandating COVID vaccination would be shot down instantly, so he’s trying to camouflage it in a maze of Labor Department regulation.

Even on that score, the gambit cannot be justified. OSHA is trying to evade the Administrative Procedure Act’s requirement of a regulatory commentary period by slamming the vaccine dictate through as an “Emergency Testing Standard.”

It has been nearly 40 years since OSHA tried that trick . . . mainly because the courts struck it down, on an asbestos regulation, in 1983.
In a sensible world, where the originalist interpretation of the Constitution governed, Biden’s move would be patently unconstitutional. Congress has no overarching public-health authority.

Their analogy suits Biden and the Democratic controlled congress far better than it does anti-vaxxers.

Professor Quiet

5 Jack_TX 3 years ago

Joe Scarborough condemned the “hyper-individualism” of anti-vaxx citizens by arguing that they are so wrapped up in themselves that they cannot contribute to the country’s general welfare.

Are we now pretending talk show hosts are "contributing to the country's general welfare"?