MSNBC Host Blasts Protesters Comparing Coronavirus to Flu: ‘Just Plain Dumb’

MSNBC host Katy Tur did not mince words on Monday when reacting to anti-stay-at-home protesters claiming the deadly novel coronavirus is no more contagious than the flu. Such comments are “dumb,” the daytime news anchor repeatedly pointed out.Reporting from an anti-quarantine protest in Arizona, NBC News reporter Vaughn Hillyard told Tur that the demonstrators he spoke with—most of whom did not wear masks or gloves—expressed frustration with the governor and many within t