Tucker Carlson: “There is still no science or data at all, after two months, that these lockdowns have done very much to halt the spread of this virus”
Published
Citation From the May 26, 2020, edition of Fox News' Tucker Carlson Tonight:
TUCKER CARLSON (HOST): There you have it, Jeb Bush's dimwitted spokeswoman now rebranded as an eminent epidemiologist, and she wants you to know that she expects you to believe that Democrats put these lockdown orders in place based on, quote, "science and data." Okay, we will take the challenge.
What science and data are you talking about exactly? And we'll wait as you rifle through your papers and abstracts, Dr. Wallace. That could take a while because in fact there is still no science or data at all, after two months, that these lockdowns have done very much to halt the spread of this virus.
Sorry, we wish it were otherwise. You hate to think of all those people suffering for no reason, but it's true. States that lockdown early and aggressively are no better off today, on average, than states that never locked down at all. That's a fact. Those are the data that you're talking about.