Fox News’ Tucker Carlson dismissively mocked President Joe Biden warning about a “pandemic of the unvaccinated” in the U.S.
Carlson showed video of President Joe Biden saying millions of people still not getting vaccinated is hurting the entire country.
“The refusal to get vaccinated has cost all of us,” the president said.
Carlson had this to say about part of Biden’s remarks:
Unvaccinated people may theoretically be in danger of getting sick from covid, everybody’s got to make that determination personally based on your age and your health. But the unvaccinated post precisely zero danger to anyone who has been vaccinated. None. Let’s repeat that, because it’s the central point here and it’s almost never made. If you are vaccinated against covid-19, you face no conceivable danger whatsoever from people who have not been vaccinated. Unvaccinated people cannot hurt you. So calm down.
In a Twitter thread earlier this month, Dr. Ashish Jha, dean of Brown University’s School of Public Health, said that the vaccines are really protective, but vaccinated people should be concerned about many people still being unvaccinated for a number of reasons — including hospitals filled with unvaccinated patients and how “high infection rates put vulnerable people who can’t get immunity at risk.”
As for the former, Carlson told viewers it’s a lie that ICUs are overrun. But, he added, if it’s true, “why is the Biden administration forcing health care workers to quit with vaccine mandates?”
“At this point, and it could change, emergency rooms are not overrun with covid patients. More than 20 percent of in-patient beds in this country are open and available as of tonight,” Carlson said.
He claimed that the problem is “a severe staffing shortage” and that is being exacerbated by mandates.
Calling this a pandemic of the unvaccinated, Carlson continued, means that the president is “blaming regular Americans for a virus that American bureaucrats funded and the Chinese military created.”
“It’s your fault, middle America. Of course it is. It’s always middle America’s fault.”
*story by MEDIAite