CHARLIE KIRK (HOST): Do not force me to wear a mask, it's that simple. I'm not gonna do it, I'm not. The only time I comply is on the airlines because I actually need to fly the airlines to be able to do my job and travel the country so I can deliver truth to you and make an income and grow Turning Point USA. So that's the fight I do not fight. But every single time I go into one of these grocery stores, "Where's your mask?"
I say, well first of all, the science around masks is very questionable, very questionable. In fact some people, some doctors think that masks actually make you sicker and have you less likely to be able to get oxygen and more likely to infect yourself, and less likely to be able to fight the virus, and actually more likely to be able to die sooner. A lot of people believe that. I've met many doctors that hold that view.
Secondly, we have a huge civil liberty issue here. Why do you have the authority to tell me what I can and cannot do with my body? I thought it was 'my body, my choice.' I thought that was the entire thought process as to why we are wrongly able to terminate a million children in the womb every single year. And so, I just don't like being told what to do generally by the federal government. I'm not a type of person who plays well when the government comes in and starts to say you must put this on your face.
Now I think there’s some restrictions that I support. I'm actually in the minority, I support seatbelt laws, because I think seatbelts actually save lives, and I actually think it's not that big of an infringement on your liberty. I kind of disagree with a lot of people on this. I mean, some super strict libertarians say ''Oh no, no seatbelts ever--" OK, if you fly through the window of a car because you didn't want to wear a seatbelt and all of a sudden I have to pay for your healthcare, that's ridiculous. A mask might not even work, a mask is questionable at best.
So the science around masks is -- needs to be debated more and the fact that these Republican governors are all "Oh you must wear a mask, you must wear a mask" I think it's nonsense. I don't think it's popular. I have never met anyone that says "I just love wearing my mask. I love it."
Yeah I mean, OK, I am not a fan, I think it's dehumanizing when I see a four-year old wearing a mask, I can't think but help we have let them down, and we have robbed them of their childhood. I think there is something innocent, and something special with a childhood about children being able to communicate with facial expressions and we have robbed them from it.
