This just in: Coronavirus is over!
Kidding! It’s NOT over. Not in a long shot.
While cases are slightly down from where they were earlier in the summer, last week the U.S. still reported almost 50,000 new ones, with 12 states seeing their average daily numbers rise at least 10% from the previous week, according to CNN.
Related: Fox News is officially being sued for peddling coronavirus misinformation
How about we take this to the next level?
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But you’d never know that if you were watching Fox News this morning when reporter Pete Hegseth swung by a busy diner in New Jersey to question patrons about their reactions to the Democratic National Convention and other issues.
Hegseth, who was not wearing a mask or social-distancing during his report asked one woman for her thoughts about coronavirus and she boldly proclaimed that the “virus is over.”
Fox & Friends platformed a woman who insisted, falsely, that "the virus is over. We need to step away from the fear." (Hegseth didn't push back at all.) pic.twitter.com/Oc3NkzE53r
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 20, 2020
After introducing the woman as “a nurse who has been on the front lines,” Hegseth asked, “What’s your take right now?”
“That the virus is over,” the woman confidently responded. “We need to step away from the fear, and we need to educate ourselves on how to get healthy.”
Tell that to the thousands of Americans currently sitting on ventilators, lady.
Hegseth interviewed another diner, salon owner Barbara Jones, who said that, as an esthetician, she personally believes we need to “open things up and let people make their own decisions.”
“Well, Joe Biden says to wear a mask for three more months,” Hegseth snarked. “You’ve got alternatives, I guess.”
This is stunningly irresponsible pic.twitter.com/1Yb0vcudMq
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 20, 2020
Back in the studio, Brian Kilmeade responded to the report by saying, “Instead of giving people a chance to have indoor dining, they keep everybody outside, and they just slowly starve the restaurants of the ability to make a living. It’s unbelievable.”
What’s truly “unbelievable” is that COVID-19 continues to kill an average of roughly 1,000 Americans, many of whom are elderly, every day and Fox News is telling its viewers, many of whom are also elderly, that the virus is “over.”
Related: Fox News fires more of its most popular conspiracy theorists amid coronavirus misinformation lawsuit
Prax07
Anyone that’s dumb enough to follow Anything that FN tells them AND gets sick from it should all smarten up and file lawsuits against them, the reporters, and the parent company.
Unlikely
Don’t get your science from politicians.
Don’t get your news from entertainers, and
Don’t get your presidents from game shows.
Max
you are wise!
dhmonarch89
you would think Fox would be doing everything it could to stem this tide/save people…since their demographics is mostly people over 60, the most vulnerable to the virus.
Chrisk
If the shithead came up to me I’d tell him to get the eff away from me dumbass.
WSnyder
A False Narrative only believable to the Right. Keep it up Fox and soon the only viewers you’ll have left are the Right Wing kooks who watch from their bunkers, everyone above ground will be the Snowflake, mask wearing Left.
Hdtex
If it were only killing reich-wing COVIDIOTS I would say full steam ahead.
Mister P
A news network should be helping people get better informed. Fox just wants them to be less informed and more stupid so they will believe the garbage they are feeding them
Bubbleandsqueal
Hegseth is a self-professed “Christian” married 3 times in 15 years, with 7 kids (one with a mistress).
trolldiva
Look at the bright side, people. Anything that helps kill off fux-watching, Shiitler-voting, hate-wing MAGA-tards is a wonderful thing.
Tombear
Hey,hey hey. I am immune from the virus! Jeebus keeps me safe! Hallelujah and praise the Lord.
Invader7
Yeah FAUX news..Keep KILLING your viewers..That’s a great business plan…