“What would’ve happened, for example, if we’d adopted a more conventional response to this epidemic?” Carlson asked rhetorically. “What if we’d asked the elderly and immunocompromised and anyone else facing statistically higher rates of risk to stay inside, cloistered away? And then at the same time allow the rest of the population to use informed common sense and continue to work? What if we’d done that a month ago? Would the death rate today be much higher than it is now? Maybe, maybe not. We don’t know. But it’s clearly a conversation we should’ve had before we locked the entire country down and put 10 million people out of work.”
Instead, Carlson contended, “we outsourced the decision to public health officials,” a decision with a “strange irony” given the fact that those same heath officials have “been thoroughly discredited.”
“At the same time though, we are being asked to trust these same people without hesitation and for the most part we are doing that,” he said. “In other words, the experts failed, yet the experts now have more power than ever before. It’s bewildering.”
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