Tucker Carlson Claims White People Face COVID-19 Treatment Discrimination
Tucker Carlson dedicated the opening segment of his Monday evening show to a spectacular misrepresentation of government guidelines concerning COVID-19 therapeutics, attempting to convince his audience that white people are facing discrimination.
The eight-minute segment contained a number of whoppers, among them that “nobody seemed to care” about white people who had to wait for vaccines in early 2021 because the shots were prioritized for the elderly and essential workers. Carlson spouted the lie that “whites would go last in the COVID vaccine queue regardless of need.” But vaccines were less the focus of his rant, perhaps because most people know they have been widely available across the nation since spring. Instead, the Fox host homed in on therapeutics ― drugs that can help a person recover more quickly from COVID-19 illness.
It’s a timely topic. Americans are being hospitalized with COVID-19 at record rates now. However, Carlson failed to note that people who get very sick and are hospitalized with severe coronavirus symptoms largely have one thing in common: They are not vaccinated.
Vaccines still give us the best protection against the virus, and they are plentiful.
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... I had all the Pfizer shots as soon as they were available. For the first, it was an appointment call... after that, easy at local CVS for #2 and the booster. I'm White and had no trouble. Nobody asked about race... Tuckums is probably playing into a racist fear that dark-skinned people are taking rights away from White people. He is deplorable.
