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Tucker Carlson: We understand there's a shortage of medical masks. Stop
lying to us and tell the truth
In any crisis, trust is critical -- and not just for moral reasons, for
practical reasons. The government can't coordinate a national response if
the public doesn't believe what it says, if it doesn't believe the
government is looking out for its best interest.
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That's why honesty is essential at times like this. When the government lies
, people know. They can tell, and then they stop listening.
From the beginning of the Chinese coronavirus epidemic, mask shortages have
been a major problem. Some people hoarded hundreds or thousands of them.
Manufacturers couldn't keep up.
In some cases, apparently, they were sent overseas. The foreign countries
who we outsourced our factories to prudently decided to keep the masks for
themselves. Nationalism is real in a crisis. And of course, here in the
United States, our own government didn't have nearly enough mass stockpiled
to cope with what has happened.
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Now from the start, honesty would have been the right policy in the face of
this. They could have just said to the public, "We messed up, but health
care professionals, the sick and the elderly need the masks most, so they
get priority."
And people would have understood that because it makes sense. But the
government didn't do that. Instead, they told us lies -- dumb lies that
anyone who thought about it for a second could see right through.
Look, we understand there's a shortage of masks. We understand only certain
people should get them because it's a triage moment. We get it.
They told the public you shouldn't buy masks because masks don't work. On
February 29th, the U.S. surgeon general tweeted this: "Seriously, people
stop buying masks. They are not effective in preventing the general public
from catching coronavirus. But if healthcare providers can't get them to
care for sick patients, he puts them and our communities at risk."
The CDC amplified this untruth. Even now, the CDC's official coronavirus
guidelines only recommend wearing masks for those who are sick or their
caregivers.
The press joined in, too. A CNN piece from March 2nd says this: "Americans
don't need masks. The CDC. says that healthy people in the U.S. should not
wear them because they won't protect them from the novel coronavirus. In
fact face masks might actually increase your risk for infection if they aren
't worn properly, but medical workers who treat patients with the novel
coronavirus do need them."
Time magazine joined in to whine, "Health experts are telling healthy people
not to wear face masks for coronavirus. So why are so many doing it?"
Why do you think Time magazine? You morons.
The article suggested believing in masks is some kind of superstition, like
not walking under ladders or being afraid of black cats. It's insulting. It'
s ridiculous. They're telling you masks don't work unless you work at a
hospital? How does that work? Does mask effectiveness change based on what
job you do?
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They're only useful if you're already sick. What? Coronavirus can spread
from asymptomatic carriers. That doesn't make any sense whatsoever.
Oh, wait. You're just too dumb to wear the mask. Okay. Because it is really
hard to put on.
Of course, masks work. Everyone knows that. Dozens of research papers have
proved it. In South Korea, Japan, Hong Kong, the rest of Asia -- where
coronavirus has been kept under control -- masks were key.
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So look, we understand there's a shortage of masks. We understand only
certain people should get them because it's a triage moment. We get it.
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But stop lying to us. It makes us cynical. It divides the country. Tell the
truth. We can handle it.
Adapted from Tucker Carlson's monologue from "Tucker Carlson Tonight" on
March 30, 2020. |
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