Lockdowns Didn’t Flatten The Curve, Tucker Carlson Muses, COVID-19 Just Isn’t That Deadly

discobot · April 28, 2020, 2:42pm

The novel coronavirus just isn’t so deadly! That’s the conclusion Fox News host Tucker Carlson came to in a monologue Tuesday night.

This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1306296

micande · April 28, 2020, 2:44pm

Why don’t you go volunteer in a COVID ward, Tucker?

not_so_fluffy · April 28, 2020, 2:45pm

I wish Tucker would drink some bleach… for science.

schmed · April 28, 2020, 2:46pm

I’m feeling suicidal. Think I’ll watch some Fox TV from the roof and see what happens.

dadawerke · April 28, 2020, 2:46pm

And you know the Viet Nam war wasn’t as deadly as they say.

corncaucus2008 · April 28, 2020, 2:46pm

“These are serious people who’ve done this for a living for decades,” Carlson said

How in the fuck would he recognize either of those things?

dr_coyote · April 28, 2020, 2:46pm

Somebody cough on this motherfucker.

castor_troy · April 28, 2020, 2:47pm

Someone should ask Fox News why they haven’t packed back in to their nice building to all work nice and close together, since Covid-19 is a nothingberder.

I’m sure Cuomo would be happy to exempt them from the lockdown.

ralph_vonholst · April 28, 2020, 2:48pm

Carlson didn’t provide much in the way of evidence.

Let’s rephrase this. Did he produce any evidence at all?

southerndem · April 28, 2020, 2:49pm

Well 2 down hopefully more to come

zandru · April 28, 2020, 2:49pm

Heh. 56,000 deaths in a couple of months, and that “isn’t that deadly.” Sure, Tucker.

Besides that, this ignorant premature postmortem reminds me of The Year 2000 frenzy about computers that had been coded to assume “1900” for all digits. The world was supposed to end; survivalists stocked up, and fled to the hills. But almost nothing happened, leading people to conclude that it was never any big deal. They didn’t know, and the media didn’t talk about, the thousands of geeks toiling behind the scenes to make sure all the systems had been prepared: retired, or patched, or code re-written.

seamus42 · April 28, 2020, 2:49pm

Maybe I’m just crazy, but…

flags

thebigragu · April 28, 2020, 2:50pm

They’ll never give up - ever! That’ll be Trump’s campaign stump speech.
BTW a beautiful graphic. Chains around the US. “Give me liberty of give me death.”

zandru · April 28, 2020, 2:50pm

You betcha! Vietnam caused about the same number of US combat deaths over a decade or so as this little flu thing has in a couple of months! No big deal.

skeptical · April 28, 2020, 2:51pm

So why isn’t the White House open to visitors? Why is Tucker Carlson not volunteering at nursing homes?

jpc · April 28, 2020, 2:51pm

This requires a strong and unequivocal response from medical and science professionals either in the administration or outside of it. The narrative cannot be allowed to change by individuals like Tucker Carlson. He is a paid shill. The time for niceties is over. Use the opportunity to educate the population, or at least those who will listen and think. As for the others, well, tell them to go play with each other outside. Nature will take care of them.

filmknight · April 28, 2020, 2:51pm

Ah yes, the prejudicial reasoning of ‘false expectation’.

First - we tell everyone not to worry, hardly anyone will catch it.

Second - we finally come out with very high numbers to show we’re serious

Third - we ammend the numbers to show it’s not going to be ‘all that bad’

Finally - “We were right to begin with - hardly anyone caught it”

No you fuckers. Not this time. No gaslighting allowed

ralph_vonholst · April 28, 2020, 2:51pm

The Stoushing Irish

Hannity retained Charles Harder—a celebrity attorney famous from Hulk Hogan’s lawsuit that destroyed Gawker—to push for an apology and retraction from The New York Times over a series of columns critical of the pro-Trump host.

“We have reported fairly and accurately on Mr. Hannity,” a Times spokesperson told the Daily Beast on Monday evening. “There is no basis for a retraction or an apology.”

In a lengthy and bellicose demand letter sent to the Times’ general counsel and three columnists on Monday evening, Harder demanded that the paper pull down a series of stories for what the lawyer described as “mischaracterizing” Hannity’s coverage of the coronavirus pandemic.

Discovery will prove amusing.

michaelryerson · April 28, 2020, 2:51pm

It always amazes me the lengths to which these bastards will go to become and stay rich.

thebigragu · April 28, 2020, 2:52pm

It’s just like sports talk radio. Quotable things that make the listener sound knowledgeable.