Tucker Calls Out Zhou's Lies

Every day we’re bombarded with Covid lies. It’s impossible to keep up with it all, although the evidence is that people in general are taking it in and discounting it. However, Tucker Carlson’s monologue last night happened to dovetail very nicely with a local news story, both of which reveal just how egregious the lying is.

Let’s start with a severely edited excerpt from Tucker’s 

This is proof Biden and his lackeys in the media are lying about COVID

Democrats aren't following the science when it comes to vaccine booster shots

I’m actually going to skip over most of Tucker’s main point about the “boosters” to get to the Big Lie that most of us have been hearing on the news ad nauseam—that hospitals and ICU’s are overrun by the “pandemic of the unvaccinated.” Tucker tackles that Big Lie with gusto:

Now to Biden’s claim that the unvaccinated are somehow destroying our hospital system. Oh, the irony, one of many. This is the same president who's allowing hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens to enter our country every single month and promising them all free health care. So the next time you show up at the emergency room and can’t get in, the next time you’re injury or illness is ignored because there aren’t enough people to serve you in the hospital, you can rest assured it’s not unvaccinated Americans who are clogging the system. It’s not. It’s the rest of the world. In just eight months, Joe Biden has done more than any president in history to wreck the American healthcare system.

BIDEN: But this is a pandemic of the unvaccinated. … The unvaccinated overcrowded our hospitals, overrunning emergency rooms and intensive care units, leaving no room for someone with a heart attack or a cancer operation needed to get the lifesaving care because the places where they would get that care are crowded. They are not available.

Such an outrageous lie. It’s unbelievable. More than a million people coming in this year who he promised free health care. And he’s blaming it on people who didn’t get the shot. Many of whom have natural immunity and are less likely to get sick than a vaccinated person from COVID? What a lie.

But let’s assume it’s true. Let’s assume emergency rooms and ICUs are overrun with the unvaccinated. Then why is the Biden administration forcing health care workers to quit with vaccine mandates? That’s happened across the country. Whole wards in hospitals have been shut down because of Joe Biden’s mandates. Might be nice to have more doctors and nurses around in an emergency.

By the way, at this point, and it could change, emergency rooms are not overrun with COVID patients. More than 20% of inpatient beds in this country are open and available, according to HHS data from earlier this month. Intensive care units, which are supposed to be occupied as close to capacity as possible, aren't full anywhere in the country. What we do have, and it’s getting worse, is a severe staffing shortage at hospitals. And the mandates are making it much, much worse.

Ask anyone in healthcare in the state of California. Or in any state. At one major hospital in Dallas -- the Parkland Health and Hospital System -- there's no one to bathe or turn patients anymore. They don’t have enough staff. At the University of Arkansas' medical center in Little Rock, officials have been offering $25,000 signing bonuses to new nurses -- and they're still short-staffed.

Now, from my own state, here’s what the situation on the ground looks like—and it doesn’t look remotely like what Zhou tried to fob off on a public that’s less and less gullible. Once again, heavily edited. Just bear in mind this is from a state run by the same Pritzker family that gave us Obama. The main gripe of the article is that the authorities refuse to even provide any roadmap for when the anti-science mandates will end, any markers along the way. In actual fact, they keep changing the guidelines to maintain the illusion of a crisis that doesn’t exist:

When will Chicago or Illinois lift its mask mandate?

CHICAGO — Just 29 people are hospitalized with COVID-related illness in Chicago, a city with a population of 2.7 million people.

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Much of Illinois is also seeing signs the summer surge in cases is behind us. New hospital admissions for COVID-related illness have been declining for nearly three weeks and now fewer than 2,000 people are hospitalized with the virus.

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The Illinois Department of Public Health monitors several key metrics in determining mitigation levels. Those metrics include vaccination rates, case counts, hospitalization trends and intensive care bed availability. Statewide, 18 percent of in-use ICU beds are occupied by COVID patients. IDPH reports that 8 percent of people in the hospital are being treated for COVID-related illness.

In Southern Illinois, ICU space has been a significant issue with IDPH reporting none of nearly 90 ICU beds available in a region that covers more than 20 counties in recent days.

Several counties in that region report vaccination numbers at half the rate of Chicago and the rest of the state. Most regions in the Chicago-area have at least 15 percent of their ICU beds available.

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Spokespeople for both the Chicago Department of Public Health and the IDPH did not respond to requests for clarification on what would trigger a lifting of the mask mandate.

It matches perfectly with what Tucker was saying.

Anecdotally, this being Saturday, when I took my walk I went past two parks. There were multiple youth soccer games going on at each park. At each park there were large crowds of kids, siblings, parents, grandparents—for all I know, cousins, aunts and uncles, too. There were hundreds of people at each park, no masks, no distancing, people hobnobbing, talking, laughing, behaving like normal people having a good time.

Later my wife took a walk and saw the same thing, but with different crowds at later games—once again, hundreds of people. My guess is that people are far more concerned about the empty shelves for certain basic items that we’re starting to see again, than they are with the fake pandemic the Dems are trying to keep alive. They will also be concerned with the excess deaths that we’re now seeing as a result of the lockdowns, as well as craziness in the schools. There are more and more lawsuits against the mandates.

There will be a price to pay for these lies.