Sherlock Holmes notoriously used a 7% solution of cocaine, ostensibly to stimulate his mind. Morning Joe used a somewhat smaller dose, a 4% solution, to trash President Trump today regarding the coronavirus.
No fewer than seven times in the opening segment, Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski mentioned that whereas the US has about 4% of the world’s population, it has 29% of the world’s coronavirus cases and deaths.
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What the show failed to mention is that the US ranks only sixth in deaths per 100,0000 population, a rate much lower than that of five European countries. And when it comes to deaths-per-observed-cases, the US ranks only seventh.
Nor, of course, did Scarborough cite the sorry record of New York State under Governor Andrew Cuomo. New York has 5.9% of the population of the United States, yet accounts for 31% of the deaths from coronavirus.
But then again, Scarborough has not exactly been a scholar with the New York City death numbers.