Fox host suggests that healthy people should be “getting out there” despite COVID-19 risk
Pete Hegseth: “There's a lot of misinformation. ... Herd immunity is our friend. Healthy people getting out there, they're going to have to have some courage”
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From the May 7, 2020, edition of Fox News' Outnumbered
PETE HEGSETH (FOX & FRIENDS WEEKEND CO-HOST): I don't love the warrior talk, but I do think you're going to need that kind of ethos and that spirit to put freedom before fear. Listen, there's a lot of anxiety, there's a lot of misinformation. The "experts" have been telling us hundreds of thousands of people are going to die. Now that we're learning more, herd immunity is our friend. Healthy people getting out there, they're going to have to have some courage. And we've seen courage, we're going to talk about it later, in Texas, where people are defying ridiculous orders. That takes courage, that's not easy. So I think that spirit, the American spirit frankly, is in full supply and ready to go, if some of our experts and some of our leaders would just get out of their way, they're drunk on power. It's time to open up. That's my sense.