Fox News host Tucker Carlson has spoken out against the lockdowns across America aimed at slowing the spread of Covid-19.
In a powerful monologue Wednesday night, Carlson questioned the “science” behind the decision to shut down the economy, which has resulted in devastating economic hardship as over 26.3 million Americans have filed for unemployment benefits as of last week.
“What country is this?” Carlson asked. “It’s a country in a lockdown. We’re told we have no choice but to do this — to stop our lives completely.”
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“Mass quarantines, they tell us again and again, are the only way to save lives,” Carlson said.
“But that’s a lie. They don’t know it’s true, despite what they’ve claimed. There’s no scientific record to consult. It’s never been done. We’re currently living through the largest and most expensive experiment ever conducted in human history. We’ve spent trillions of dollars, and crushed millions of people, purely on the guess that a nationwide lockdown would save us from the coronavirus. Has it worked? Was the guess correct?”
Carlson noted that the eight US states which haven’t issued strict lockdown orders are “below the national average of coronavirus cases, and deaths, per capita,” quoting Professor Wilfred Reilly of Kentucky State University, who discovered that “a state’s lockdown strategy had virtually no effect on how severe its outbreak of the Wuhan coronavirus was.”
“Are you surprised by this?” Carlson asked viewers.
“Maybe you shouldn’t be. You can see the same trend at work in other countries. Sweden, most famously, has never locked down. Restaurants there have never closed. That country is still suffering from coronavirus, suffering more in fact than we are in the U.S. But the country’s epidemic appears to have peaked. And without locking down, Sweden has, and this is the key, has fared far better than other European countries that did lock down. That includes Britain, Italy, Spain and Belgium.”
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“Up to 320,000 adults in Los Angeles apparently had already had it,” said Calrson, citing the world of USC researchers who found that as of early April, upwards of 5.6% of the entire county had possibly contracted the coronavirus.
“At the time, the official number of infected people was about 8,000 people. City officials had no clue. They weren’t even close. The virus had spread throughout a huge population right in the middle of the most restrictive quarantine in American history. What does that tell you? It tells you the lockdown didn’t work.”
According to Carlson, officials in lockdown states are “by and large ignoring any evidence that indicts their policies, or that might threaten their new and much-loved power.”
“They don’t want to know what the facts are,” he said. “Indeed, some are now promising even longer lockdowns, maybe through the end of the summer, and even tougher punishments for those who flout them.”
“This is insanity,” Carlson concluded. “It is definitely not science. This is not science. It has nothing to do with the public’s health, much less the broader public interest. This is instead what happens when mediocre people suddenly find themselves with God-like power: deciding who can go outside, when people can get married, which medical procedures you’re allowed to have. That’s a feeling of omnipotence, and they like that feeling. It fills an empty place inside. They don’t want to give it up. They want it to last forever, even as the country dies. But it can’t last forever. Because it’s not their country. It’s ours.”
Carlson then interviewed Dr. John Ioannidis, a professor of medicine at Stanford University who authored a report which found that roughly 1.5% of 3,300 volunteers tested for COVID-19 antibodies were positive, and extrapolated (after adjusting for differences between the sample and the population of the county as a whole) that an between 2.5% and 4% of Santa Clara County residents have antibodies – suggesting that 48,000 – 81,000 people had already been infected in the county by early April.
Commenting on the effectiveness of the lockdowns, Ioannidis suggested that we need to wait until the virus waves are “mature,” because “we can have some surprises.”
“The science is telling us that this is a common infection. Most people probably don’t recognize that they’re infected, they’re asymptomatic. At the same time it can be a devastating infection, it can kill lots of people” said Ioannidis.
Sean Adl-Tabatabai
Both Andrew Cuomo and Bill De Blasio Failed New York. Over 260000 Corona Virus Covid-19 Infections and Over 20500 Dead, A Huge Epic Failure of Incompodent Communiest Politicians.. You had the likes of New York Senitor Chuck Schumer call President Trump a Racists, Complained about Shutting Down All Air Traffic from China, All Visitors on January 29th. You had Dr Blasio Telling People to ride the Subway, Go see a play, Then go eat in China Town,Both Cuomo and De Blasio dismissed it in February. A Huge Fail for Blue State Democrats Especially Andrew Cuomo is having Nursing Homes residents go to Hospital with Covid-19 Infections, Then getting Discharged back to the Same Nursing Home or Rehabilitation Center for which they came Infecting Many more in the Nursing Homes.About 35% of the Deaths in New York are because if this.. This Falls 100% On the Sholders if the Govinor since the Nursing Homes, Rehabilitation Centers and Nursing Treages are State Regulated, State Licenced and State Controlled. It almost seems like Andrew Cuomo was Pushing for Over Testing Samples and Ingnoring the Nursing Home Fatalities Issues to pad the Numbers of Infected or Dead for Monetary Gain… I have a hard time believing that Both Bill De Blasio and Andrew Cuomo didn’t knew people where Sick in there Neighborhoods Weeks Earlier then they Admit and that De Blasio was 3 weeks late in closing the Schools. Now Andrew Cuomo wants 30 Billion for more Testing, Contact Tracing and Tracking. To hire 300000 Contact Trakers.. He is out of his mind.. If anyone has symptoms there should be home or ER Testing. The rest of the Money should be used to Clean the Subways & Schools. They say that about 3 Million New Yorkers been Infected and have Immunity already. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/9b74db2e2bfa0a05d77c197fac9057fa76ad6e318b0d38eb8da33093f20d9d97.jpg
The effects of this will now be felt for decades regardless of who’s in the WH.
Truckers stupid blind and ignorant or a lying pos Its not an experiment. It’s an act of war And his operation is the role of double agent.
Keeping people away from each other during an infectious disease pandemic would only be an experiment if it had never been done before. But it was done during the Spanish Flu pandemic and was successful in slowing the spread in every area it was done. We are doing this because we know it works, Tucker! Educate yourself, man, or you are part of the problem.