Fox News hosts amp up the pressure on Trump to give up on coronavirus lockdowns

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

and reopen the economy

A slew of Fox News opinion hosts and anchors are pushing back on public health experts, including the White House coronavirus task force, and urging President Donald Trump to abandon its social distancing policies and reopen the economy.

Primetime host Tucker Carlson argued on his Thursday night program that "one of the main lessons of this crisis is that the public health establishment failed us badly" by recommending stay-home orders and other social distancing policies that are hurting the economy.

"What would've happened, for example, if we'd adopted a more conventional response to this epidemic?" Carlson said. "What if we'd asked the elderly and immunocompromised and anyone else facing statistically higher rates of risk to stay inside, cloistered away? And then at the same time allow the rest of the population to use informed common sense and continue to work?"

He went on, "What if we'd done that a month ago? Would the death rate today be much higher than it is now? Maybe, maybe not. We don't know. But it's clearly a conversation we should've had before we locked the entire country down and put 10 million people out of work. But we didn't have that conversation. Instead, we outsourced the decision to public health officials."

https://news.yahoo.com/everywhere-already-fox-news-hosts-214715914.html

The economy can always recover. People can't once they're dead.

[Newest Reality]

1. That's typical...

That's typical F*cker Carlson for you. He exists to confuse reality for as many people as is possible and assure us that chaos is order and order is chaos, etc. That guy is an awfully big fly in the ointment.

Oh, people reproduce, so they can easily be replaced and they only have the status of human resources now, in case nobody noticed. A corporation, these days, is forever. Long live corporations. Hail profit. Give all for the bottom line.

[Turbineguy]

2. The more people they kill

the fewer will be available to join the firing squad.

[thucythucy]

3. Having been wrong about the nature and impact of this pandemic

from the start and every step of the way, we're supposed to believe Carlson and the other "pundits" on Fox are suddenly capable of lucid thought?

Sorry, but no.

[DBoon]

4. reminds me of this twilight zone episode

[Windy City Charlie]

5. The reason why

The reason why is because ad revenue is way down as companies are having to cut costs. Tucker is probably fearing he could be one of those people out of work.

[dhill926]

12. yup....

[SWBTATTReg]

6. tucker c. is one of the twits that should be charged w/ endangering the public. He is, after ...

all, endangering all those who are listening to him. But in all fairness, all of those who are listening to tc are responsible for whatever happens to them, period. Just as bad as some of these preachers who are claiming that they can pray away the CV.

Okay, be that way. Just don't go racing to the hospitals and doctors at the last minute, when you get sick because of your idiotic behavior got you and others in your family or friends sick.

There won't be any room anyways by the time the tc and religious idiots get sick, disregarding health establishment guidelines (and the CDC's guidelines), taking the few remaining beds away from truly deserving people who didn't put their lives deliberately in harms' way.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

7. The love of money is a powerful drug. nt

[Takket]

8. "Would the death rate today be much higher than it is now?"

Yes.

"But we didn't have that conversation. Instead, we outsourced the decision to public health officials."

Correct. People with no qualifications should not be "having the conversation" any more than I want a baker to weigh in on how my car's engine works, or an automotive engineer giving advice on how to make a souffle.

[crickets]

15. "outsourced"

Getting data and recommendations from public health officials regarding a public health emergency that is killing thousands worldwide every day is not outsourcing. It's asking them to do their jobs.

It's no surprise to anyone that Tucker Carlson isn't bothering to do the job of a responsible journalist. He is a gormless twit, needlessly endangering lives by his mere existence. That he even considers himself "part of the conversation" would be laughable if it weren't so dangerous.

[Takket]

9. and what do these people think would happen when all the employees get sick?

[Arkansas Granny]

10. Doesn't the economy depend on consumers? I'm talking about live consumers.

[GeorgeGist]

11. From a man who's never contributed anything of value ...

to the economy.

[SoonerPride]

13. even if they did

not very many people will venture out until there is a vaccine

some people will go back to "life as normal" and the death rate will soar, but the economy won't be what it was and so they will have a recession and increased death.

the worst of both worlds.

or typical republican problem solving prowess.

[riversedge]

14. Trump idiots Fox should all sued. Hit them in the wallet where it hurts.