If you want to help people
weather the coronavirus
crisis, save their jobs
Fox News,
by
Tucker Carlson
Original Article
Posted By: Pluperfect,
3/18/2020 4:04:10 AM
There's so much disinformation going around about the coronavirus. You're probably getting it at this moment on your text. We certainly are. We haven't faced a medical crisis like this in living memory. We know that coronavirus constitutes a major threat to the country -- of course, it does. What we really don't have a clear picture of right now is what's coming next.
So we spent the weekend talking to some of the smartest people we know in medicine, in business and in politics. Everyone had strong opinions, needless to say, but what was striking was that there was no clear consensus on how the country should respond to this.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Timber Queen 3/18/2020 5:19:39 AM (No. 349596)
I suggest Tucker hang out over at the Treehouse. Sundance has been posting videos of the round table discussions President Trump is having with all sectors of the US economy. Yesterday was hotels and hospitality. He also met with travel and transportation as well. Our president is masterful. He asks relevant questions and moves through the agenda quickly, yet with each participant having the opportunity to express their deepest concerns with his full attention. He is not letting this crisis go to waste. He is using it to recalibrate the American economy from socialism back to capitalism. The paradigm has shifted and the nation will be running on Trump Time before we know it.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
DCGIRL 3/18/2020 6:39:39 AM (No. 349648)
I stopped watching Tucker and the rest of the FOX idiots. They have "coronavirus pandemic" on the bottom of the screen yesterday and that was the last straw.
31 people like this.
Reply 3 - Posted by:
Daisymay 3/18/2020 7:02:56 AM (No. 349663)
I've kind of had it with watching FOX. I can't take the same thing on the TV screen ALL DAY LONG. Over an over they repeat earlier interviews. It's depressing. I have found refuge in HGTV and their remodeling of old homes into beautiful places to live. I also watch things on the DVR that I should have watched a long time ago. I am actually going through cookbooks because we are not going to restaurants. I read a lot on my Kindle. I just keep busy without FOX on all the time. Music is much better for me. Keeps my Spirits up!
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Alecto2 3/18/2020 7:29:13 AM (No. 349678)
This is a self inflicted crisis and a socialist/anti American/media/CDC wet dream. We are destroying ourselves over what is the flu. The damage done by the extreme reaction will far outweigh the results of just letting this virus run its course.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
privateer 3/18/2020 7:33:36 AM (No. 349682)
This explains it all: FTA: 'Millions and millions of people would lose their jobs, some of them for good. We'd enter a severe recession with mass unemployment, and it could get worse from there.' Only then could the commiecrats say: are you better off now than you were a year ago? And in swoops that senile Goony Bird of Death, the Gropesaurus. Or worst yet, the Pigwoman. They would gladly destroy the country just for the chance to rule the ruins.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Hugh Akston 3/18/2020 8:15:04 AM (No. 349710)
Per #1 comment. As crazy as this all is and what exactly is the 'truth', I can't even imagine Barry the Fraud and his cast of Czars, with a continuation by the Clinton Corruptocrats, handling this or even knowing where to begin.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
worried 3/18/2020 8:25:04 AM (No. 349718)
"We haven't faced a medical crisis like this in living memory." Did you already forget the H1N1 flu of 2009-2010? Over 12,000 deaths, against what? Less than 100?
What a stupid statement, unless he has completely lost his memory.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
coyote 3/18/2020 8:27:49 AM (No. 349721)
The disruption of commerce worries me more than the virus.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
LadyHen 3/18/2020 9:33:41 AM (No. 349798)
As to the "unprecedented nature" of this medical emergency, I have a slightly different perspective.
Bear with me. I was in the ICU in November 2017 with sepsis which started as a UTI I got when having our baby daughter 2 weeks prior. I needed the ICU for the first two days as the raging infection had to be gotten under control and my blood pressure had to be stablized. I almost died twice but once they got the right drugs and treatment in place I very quickly recovered.
By the third day, my docs said I was the wellest person in the ICU and needed to be moved to a regular room BUT this entire advanced state of the art hospital with over 600 beds (in a city with a half dozen great hospitals with thousands of beds) was FULL because of the flu. Every hospital within a 5 mile radius was full.
The flu that year ('17-18) filled up hospitals all over the country and this if the same flu we have vaccines for, medicine for, we medically know the flu well and yet millions are hospitalized and thousands die. Patients were stacked up in the ER waiting for transport to other hospitals out of the county with open beds and some hospitals were setting up extra emergency wards just to handle the massive overflow. I just stayed in the ICU bed literally until I walked out the door on my own two feet as a regular bed NEVER came available and thank the Good Lord I had great insurance to pay the extra cost!
The reason I write this is not to discount the present situation but to give perspective. No, this level of sickness is not unknown and people in healthcare know that. The flu in bad years, even with all our medicines and knowledge, is still a known killer of the young, old, and infirmed and still causes havoc.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
HotRod 3/18/2020 9:42:23 AM (No. 349810)
I admit: I'm tired of the media's hype over the virus. It's not like no one knows about the virus. Big, banners shouting ''CORONA VIRUS PANDEMIC'' across the TV screen serve no purpose, other than to fan the flames of fear. Maybe the network thinks it helps ratings,. It just makes me switch to the old movie channel.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
oldmagnolia 3/18/2020 9:50:03 AM (No. 349823)
Great post #9. I can't stomach Fox any longer. Tucker has gone to the deep end. The parade of bimbos in cocktail dresses ready for bar hopping when they get off the air are today experts epidemiologists and financial market advisors. The brain dead parade of DTS with Juan and Wallace leading the pack are nauseating. It has gotten a lot worse since the Wisconsin weasel Rat Ryan joined the board of directors. Shut them down. Get your news from the internet where you can verify if it is true or not.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Chuzzles 3/18/2020 9:58:19 AM (No. 349834)
Again I say, where was all this concern about the regular normal flu that has actually been a worse problem for this country? That flu is actually killing more people than the COVID virus is or will kill. The media and medical professions need to get a grip and stop with the inciting of panic.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
harleynyc 3/18/2020 10:33:22 AM (No. 349889)
I just heard a rumor from my sources in NYC/Wash D.C. that both N.Y. and N.J. will be locked down as of tomorrow 5 PM.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
mc squared 3/18/2020 11:37:52 AM (No. 349938)
Commerce shut down, crime on the rise (schools are closed), minimal supplies : we are Venezuela. The cure is worse......
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
planetgeo 3/18/2020 11:56:26 AM (No. 349966)
Actually I'm very surprised that nobody else has yet proposed the perfect antidote, the one that will immediately halt both the quarantine and the purposeful pandemonium...namely, require that until and unless such a quarantine/shutdown is lifted that all government and media salaries/expense reimbursements will be suspended. And that if such quarantine lasts more than 2 weeks, such suspended payments will not be reimbursed. However, to be fair, if some temporary stimulus is offered to out of work Americans (like the proposed $1,000 one-time cash payment), then yes, this would include government workers and media.
Problem solved. In fact, I propose that this be immediately ratified as an Amendment to the United States Constitution.
You're welcome.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
NotaBene 3/18/2020 12:27:37 PM (No. 349994)
The one thing not being done is what the Japanese and Chinese have done for years: wear surgical masks (yes, the light-blue kind our doctors say are ineffective). Viruses are tiny but travel in aerosol droplets when we cough. As a bonus, if you cough and are wearing one you will not spread droplets. This simple mask also helps with social distancing, for no one will want to hug you. I started wearing these masks in airplanes a year ago and have not been sick since.
This response is an overreaction to protect hospital overcrowding. 100 deaths so far is not worth the stock market at 19,000. This lockdown is not sustainable. The worst result will be Democrats in power on Doctor’s orders.
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