| LurkerJ said: How is it that Tucker is among the few that are asking the burning questions and challanging stats that are already proven flawed is beyond me. Terrible terrible journalism and hardly any journalist out there is asking the questions we want answers for. |
Tucker mentions a few of the hundreds of possible reasons why modelling was and is flawed and the one overwhelming reason why we should still adhere to strict measures for now is that there are too many unknowns about the disease to act like it's already receding. We know based on the testing that SARS-CoV-2 spreads very easily, so much so that the disease won't just go away - the pandemic will go on until herd immunity (60++%) is reached through infection/recovery or vaccination, which can mean 18 months or more, yet those won't be spend in lockdowns as Denmark or Austria show - that is a false insinuation by Tucker.
Mass scale anti-body tests, that are in developement and quite close to roll out, will give us a much better picture of the diseases spread, as there might be tons of ppl that already recovered without ever noticing they were infected - the higher this number the better. Yet in the countries that have a high amount of PCR tests per capita the rate of positive tests seems a bit too low (under 10%) to hope for herd immunity to be already well on it's way.
apropos terrible journalism, I absolutely despise how Tucker uses this segment to weave in shots in the abortion discussion (8:42) and also connects totalitarianism to the climate change debate (10:08) - subtle but effective propaganda effort
the irony is that he heavily criticises the shut down of debate about how to handle this pandemic, while championing a president that himself demands the media to be his mouthpiece instead of asking tough questions
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