Does Tucker Carlson Think People Who Reached Average Life Expectancy Are Expendable?
Yet again, Tucker Carlson has decided to open his mouth. Were still in a time loop where people at Fox News keep trying to stop individuals from getting the COVID-19 vaccine even though it is proven to work/will help protect us from the Delta variants and other variations of the virus going forward. Carlson decided to take up his proverbial soapbox once again to say that we shut down civilization for a year for nothing because the median age of those who died due to Coronavirus was older than life expectancy. Life expectancy is just the median age of citizens at a given point. You can clearly surpass it or die younger than it. Its just a gauge of where we are now versus the life expectancy of decades past. Yeah, they did, he said in the most annoying voice I have ever been subjected to, and heres where hes wrong: It wasnt overhyped. Those individuals would not have died if people just f**king FOLLOWED THE RULES. Im sorry, I spent most of 2020 and this year flipping out and worrying about the health of my family. My parents are older (my mother healthy at 70 and my father going through chemo), and my older brother has diabetes. So I was very worried about them getting COVID and wanted them vaccinated as soon as possible. People like Tucker Carlson dont care if my family lived or died from a disease that would not have spread in the U.S. as it did if people just did what they were supposed to and by wearing a mask and staying away from others when possible. 4 million people worldwide died of COVID-19, 606k of them from the United States alone. This segment was brought on because Joe Biden said that it was time to make the priority for the vaccine those communities who havent had the ability to get theirs yet, whether that be due to distance or circumstance, maybe going door to door and offering the vaccinenot forcing people to get it but giving them the option. Frankly, force people at this point because Im tired of being the one who has to suffer because people like Tucker Carlson can do whatever the hell they want. I mean no disrespect to the people whove died from this virus, Carlson said before talking to Brit Hume, but yes, you do. Making your point requires disrespect, whatever you may say to the contrary. Youre acting like their deaths are just collateral damage and we should be able to live our lives without listening to science or doing our part. Just because the median age is older than life expectancy, Tucker Carlson thinks that the rest of us shouldnt be bothered if just older people are dying. Thats what his little spiel meant, so his claims that he meant no disrespect are false, even if he thinks its the truth. You are disrespecting those who died because their life doesnt fit your narrative that COVID was overhyped. Their death was just an unavoidable part of life to you, even though Americans could have done something to prevent some of those deaths. His excuse was that these are government numbers. Well, those numbers are also people. What I think is absolutely HILARIOUS is that Brit Hume points out that the pandemic was badly handled. That was on Donald Trump. Instead, they just yell about things they know nothing about and never bring up the fact that you can look at a country like New Zealand who completely shut down and had very little deaths because they took it seriouslywhich is the key to all of this that both Carlson and Hume are ignoring: other countries took it seriously. The Trump administration and all the Americans who believed him did not. So our death toll continued to rise unnecessarily because people wouldnt wear masks or do what they were supposed to because Trump mocked it. Tucker Carlson talks about a 15-year-old getting a shot as if its weird to be vaccinated to go to school. Um  I dont know about Tucker, but in order to go to public school, I had to have all my vaccinations. Its a normal thing. This is just another one added to the list. The idea that you would force people to take medicine that they dont want or need, Tucker says, and  theres a few things wrong about that. No one is FORCING you and maybe thats the problem, and also you do need it. Otherwise, youre very vulnerable for COVID-19. At the end of the segment, Tucker mutters something about not letting kids get an education if theyre not vaccinated and, AGAIN, thats not a new thing. We all had to do it in the 90s, at least where I lived, and I survived. Now that Ive screamed about this segment, let me compile my final thoughts. Mainly, its just that Tucker Carlson has no idea what hes talking about and tries to sound intelligent when in reality, hes spreading harmful rhetoric to his audience. And whats sad is that his audience is the kind of people who believe this crap. The vaccine is dangerous when Tucker Carlson never really said that. He made it seem like the vaccine was unnecessary, which is false and dangerous in its own way, but he also gaslit those listening to him into thinking that only the elderly are vulnerable. Again, incorrect. There are plenty of underlying conditions that make COVID-19 dangerous for other people. There are plenty of people who were seemingly healthy and got COVID and struggled to make it through. A good example of how dangerous this disease is Nick Cordero. The healthy Broadway performer died a few weeks after the disease and had a VERY rough struggle with COVID. He was not in Tuckers past the age of life expectancy category, but Im sure Tucker Carlson would say it was sad but oh well. I hate having to talk about this man. I hate having to report on Fox News. But letting them spew this kind of thing unchecked is dangerous. Theyre going to get people killed and they clearly dont care because if they did, they would not keep letting Tucker Carlson say whatever he wanted. Become a subscriber and support the site! [email protected]