"It destroys my argument that we are reacting responsibly as a country," Kilmeade said on Fox News' 'Outnumbered' on Tuesday when talking about the footage out of Missouri over the Memorial Day weekend.
The 'Fox & Friends' co-host has been one of the network's sharpest critics of lockdown orders across the US, but the Ozarks video took him by surprise and he admits that irresponsible social gathering "ruins it for everyone."
Comment: It just goes to show how many people are desperate for social contact after months of house arrest, and they're behaving rather appropriately having seen the proof in their everyday lives that this virus is less harmful than the seasonal flu.
"I'm saying to myself, 'How do I go out and trumpet the responsibility of the American people to stand up for our economy when I see that?'" Kilmeade asked.
Despite the setback, Kilmeade still supports rolling back lockdown measures to help save small businesses and to give citizens more choice in how they conduct their daily lives.
"The consumers will decide whether to go to the gym or the restaurant," he said. "That is all our decisions. Right now you're not letting us make those decisions. That's an example of a poor decision, but I think mostly the American people got the message. Lesson learned, for the most part, except for those examples."
While Fox News is home to some of the most consistent critics of state governments responding to Covid-19 with quarantine measures, the tone took a decidedly different turn in the wake of the Ozarks video.
"I'm very disturbed about this," Fox News contributor Marc Siegel said in reaction. He recommended the party-goers self-quarantine for two weeks or "we're going to end up having a big problem," something Kilmeade "guarantees" is not going to happen based on the footage.
Those arguing against reopening the country for fear of another outbreak of Covid-19 have expressed just as much anger over the Missouri video, but used it as a sign that continued lockdown measures are needed.
According to the Missouri Department of Health, the state has over 12,000 cases of Covid-19 and over 600 deaths. The state however has begun allowing businesses to reopen in the past few days as they have seen numbers slow, something critics say will be threatened as more people flock to businesses.
St. Louis Mayor Lyda Krewson said the behavior displayed in the Ozarks video "threatens the progress we've all made together to flatten the curve" in the state.
Missouri Governor Mike Parson has meanwhile admitted people in the video made "poor choices," but he insists he has witnessed most in his state abiding by social distancing guidelines.
Reader Comments
RC
If, as likely, they don't, it would prove the point (which is why the BFM won't do a follow up.)
If, they do die, then the sorry SJW's should be happy!
Win Win!
R.C.
Sarcasm. Facetiousness.
RC
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'Ultimate Karen' calls cops on 'dangerous' black man who asked her to leash dog, gets put on leave after massive backlash
A New York woman dubbed the "Ultimate Karen" has been placed on leave and forced to "voluntarily surrender" her pet after being captured calling the cops on a "threatening" black man who merely...RC wants to buy a big boat and BB is our Kapitain!! Si is our BarTender, A our Cook Baybars our FireKeeper, Patrick our LumberJacket (me the LumberJackette), GardenHands our GreenHouseKeeper lollll i could go on-n-on... (-2 or 3 ) thinking about the whole lot Graeme our NightTime StoryTeller, Joe Stenographer
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We could probably find one infected with C1984 with a mega-discount! Laugh all the way to the islands!
RC
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RC... you ve scared me with that too already!!
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finally!! kinda wonder what that was all about !! mom is from up there close to Hamburg..... hamburger on a BBQ (?)
Kapitän Kapitän
It's definitely worse than flu, but at the same time it's not worth the fear and hype. Why can't supposedly smart people come to that reasonable conclusion? Agenda.
Here's a test you can perform yourselves. Ask all your friends, family, acquaintances, etc., if they have ever known anyone to die of flu, or have known anyone who has known anyone. The answer I have always received is "no." I follow up later because people will start asking around themselves and get the same answer. Networking. Now ask the same about COVID. The answer will be yes, and multiples. I know two, a sister of a friend and the mother of a friend. The mother was already on the way out, not sure about the sister. Regardless, it's true. This kills more people than normal seasonal flu.
However, it's still not a big deal at 0.2-percentish IFR.
The real issue is that flu is a true nothingburger. It is hyped as a death threat to get the sheeple to line up for flu shots. Now, along comes a threat that is in line with what the public has been told about flu, and TPTB are caught red-handed. They lied about flu mortality to sell vaccines, and not they can't walk that back, and instead they have to over-hype COVID.
Heart attack? Died of coronavirus. Terminal cancer? Died of coronavirus. Hit by a truck? Died of coronavirus.
I bet we could all say we knew someone who 'died of cornavirus'.
Hell! Why not backdate it?
Duh.
I don't know how it happened, but most people don't seem to realize that people die EVERY DAY. So my family in Los Angeles, tells me yesterday "but 56 people DIED today" (at this juncture, it does no good to ask, "oh, and how many die on average every day there?" As in how is 56 related to norm) (obviously nobody dies from anything except 1984 now, so ... is it really worse to die from 1984 than it is from the stage 4 cancer eating you alive while your bank account shrinks in the nursing home your family hasn't rescued you from? Like okay, believe the numbers. ALL DISEASE HAS BEEN WIPED OUT except for 1984, and nobody dies from cancer, heart attacks, strokes, or auto accidents, if so, we should be asking how many lives have been saved by COVID preventing all those other deaths from happening?
RC
So Wikipedia will read....
Adam & Eve - died of coronavirus.
Anthony & Cleopatra - died of coronavirus.
Laurel & Hardy - died of coronavirus.
Flanagan & Allen - died of coronavirus.
etc.
LGBTQXYZ adjusted version....
Adam & Steve - died of coronavirus.
LOL.
It's a generational thing.
I was a Punk Rocker™.
I hate Pink Floyd!!!!!
No offence intended, like.
NOI, L!
Why would anyone want to listen to five million dreary, life-sucking, hand-wringing, pretentious, over-burdening 'concept albums' about Syd Barrett, when you can just listen to Syd Barrett?...[Link]
Don't start reeling me in for a repeat of the Zep/Floyd hegemon argument I had with Jack Kruse.
Jack Kruse has Led Zeppelin blaring out at 100d when he's performing brain surgery.
Jack Kruse is f*cking crazy.
BUT, in 79, we went to a surfer party at house of Pro Surfer Pete Townend, who (after?) did the stunts in Big Wed.
Was my first experience with a 'Punk Rock' party; and, the first time I saw surfers who smoked.
P.s., I got Zep IV when it came out, same with Who's Next.
Not my fautl the rest of the world thereafter hopped on the tail of that long train; we were riding up in the club car.
RC
LOL.
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