Daily Caller co-founder Tucker Carlson spoke Thursday about the “pro-death” measures he believed were pushed during the COVID-19 pandemic by public health officials with former New York Times reporter Alex Berenson on The Tucker Carlson Encounter, his Twitter show.
Berenson, who spoke out against the mainstream narrative on COVID-19, appeared on Carlson’s show to discuss his previous reporting and questions that are still remaining. Berenson explained to the host that while officials had been wrong during COVID, he didn’t think that “in their view” they had malice.
However, Carlson pushed back against the former NYT reporter, claiming he believed the government had “actively prevented people” from advancing their health naturally, and instead promoted an unhealthy lifestyle.
“One of things that I think wasn’t widely understood was the people promoting that weren’t saying we’re not all going to get COVID, because at the time they didn’t realize how quickly they could rush a vaccine to market. Of course, we all got COVID anyways because the vaccine didn’t work, but the idea was that we’re gonna to get COVID over time so that, you know, when people — the hospitals won’t be overrun,” Berenson said.
“And so that was sort of the number one concern back in March 2020, was hospital overrun. So to do that you had to convince everyone to stay home, in their view – you had to lock down everyone. So that meant you had to lie about who was at risk. That was the original sin, right? The original sin of COVID was — the original sin of the vaccines was pretending that they had been properly tested,” Berenson added.