'Tucker Carlson Tonight' host Tucker Carlson delivers his monologue discussing the scientific findings of the coronavirus.
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Good evening
welcome to Tucker Carlson
tonight, on February sixth of this
year,
a group of researchers from
the South China University
of Technology uploaded a paper
on the origins
of the coronavirus. Their paper
found that, contrary to popular
accounts, the virus likely did
not originate from an exotic
animal in a so called wet market.
Instead, the researchers
concluded quote the killer.
Coronavirus probably originated
from a laboratory in hot now
to restate the researchers who
concluded this were chinese
scientists who work
for a chinese university,
and for that reason,
understandably, they were
concerned about the health
implications for their own
country of what they found.
Their paper ended. This way quote
safety levels may need to be
reinforced in high risk
of biohazards laboratories.
Regulations may need to be taken
to relocate these laboratories,
away from city, centers and other
densely populated places,
and quote, as it happens, February
Sixth, which is the day that paper
went online, was also the date
of the first coronavirus death
in this country.
So the american media had every
reason to pay attention to what
the chinese scientists had found,
but they didn't for nearly two
months. The chinese paper was all
but ignored by news outlets
in this country on March thirty.
First, this show broadcast its
contents by then more than three thousand seven hundred
Americans had died from
the coronavirus. Tens
of thousands were then
hospitalized.
So we imagine there would be
a serious national effort
to find out where this virus
came from to find out how
the pandemic started. But we were
wrong about that. There
wasn't. There was silence
the people in charge
of our public health
infrastructure, simply ignored,
credible evidence that
contradicted the chinese
government's version of events.
That was five and one slash. Two months ago,
during those five and one slash two months,
our society has been completely
up ended by the coronavirus.
Nearly two hundred thousand Americans have
died from it. Now, more than ever,
we believe it is worth knowing
where this disease came from.
That ought to be the first
question so in search
of an answer. Last night on this
show
we spoke to a chinese virologist
called Dr Leman Yang Yang was
one of the first scientists
on earth to study the Wuhan
outbreak back in December
of last year. That was before
the rest of the world knew it
existed.
What she found during her
research put her on a collision
course with the chinese
government in April. She fled her
country in fear for her life. Now
she lives the United States
in hiding here's some of what
she told us last night
on the show from my first report,
I kept pressing that saw
the scientific evidence
to our audience that this virus
called a nineteen sarcoma two virus.
Actually it is not from nature. I
work with the top corner
virologists in the world,
so to gather my experience, I
can't tell you these aids
created in that map these aids
from that template owned
by China media three and that also
it is spread to the world
to make such damage to make such
damage. Do you believe
the chinese government released
this intentionally on purpose?
Did they do this? Yes, of course,
AIDS intentionally covid nineteen is
not from nature. She said it was
created in a lab in Wuhan
China.
The chinese government
intentionally unleashed it
on the world. Those are her
claims. Are they true? We have no
way of verifying them. We do know
that Dr Lehman Yang is not
a quack she's, authored peer
reviewed papers on Cronut virus
transmission in both Nature
magazine and the lancet. Those
are two of the most respected
publications in all of science.
Her paper on the origin of Covid
nineteen,
which she has published online,
is not frivolous in it. She
points to specific evidence
for the claims that she makes
she identifies so called cut
sites which are frequently used
in genomic engineering. That
would allow scientists to swap
in sequences from other viruses,
to create what she described
last night as a Frankenstein
bioweapon. She writes that she
has firsthand knowledge that
the chinese military has
a template virus with cut sites
designed for that very purpose.
Once again, we can't verify this,
but it's clear that Dr Leman
Yang is a serious person. She is
making a very serious claim.
So, within a few hours
of our interview last night,
a video of the segment reached
one point: three million
people on Facebook and why
wouldn't it the coronavirus
pandemic has touch the life
of every American,
and justifiably people want
to know where it came from.
But Facebook still doesn't want
you to know that so Facebook
suppressed the video, presumably
on behalf of the chinese
government. Facebook executives
made it harder for users
to watch our segment. Those who
found the video had to navigate
a warning that the interview
quote repeats information about
covid. Nineteen, that independent fact
checkers say is false. Instagram,
which Facebook also owns did
the same thing twitter suspended
Dr Yang's account entirely. It
does not explain why. Nor do
the tech companies explain how
they would know more about
disease transmission than
an m dot D. Hd virologists, like Dr
Leman Yang instead, Facebook
and Instagram, linked to three
so called fact, checks that
supposedly proved Yang was lying.
But if you clicked
on the provided links,
you'd noticed something odd.
The fact checks were all
published months ago, many months
in January February and March,
and they had nothing whatsoever
to do with what Dr Lee meant
Yang said on our show. They were
written before.
In fact, anyone knew who she was
one of the fact checks attacks
a completely unrelated claim
the virus was patented and that
a vaccine was prepared and ready
to go. What does it have to do
with the interview that we did
last night? No one will tell us
that the truth is, and you know
it if you've watched carefully.
Experts have been wrong
frequently throughout this
pandemic.
At one point, they told us not
to wear masks. Now they tell us
we must and so on. They have
changed their prescriptions many
times most things are not bad
people, most of them are trying
their best, but they're human
beings and therefore
they're fallible. They make
mistakes. The solution to this
age old problem and we used
to understand this intuitively-
is more informed voices
in the conversation, that's how
you make wise decisions,
that's how you get to the truth,
diversity of view. Facebook
doesn't believe this. They
believe in censorship. Censorship
does not make us wiser. It does
not make us better informed
if it did
we'd be speaking russian right
now. The Soviet Union would run
the world it would have worked,
but instead the Soviet
Union's extinct. It collapsed
under the weight of its own
absurdities, absurdities abetted
by censorship
and that's the most basic lesson
of dictatorships. All of them
anything built on lies falls
apart over time. Unfortunately,
dictators never see it that way,
dictators care about power,
anything that stands in the way
of their power must be crushed.
Watch Facebook, leader mark
Zuckerberg back in April, explain
that any challenges to the party
line on coronavirus will be
censored immediately. If someone
spreading something that puts
people in imminent risk
of physical harm. Do we take that
down? We don't
allow that on Facebook there are
also other misinformation
and may not lead to physical,
imminent risk of physical harm,
but still isn't the type
of stuff we want to be spreading.
Through our system,
misinformation can't be allowed
to spread through our system,
Zuckerberg declared. So what
exactly you may be wondering
constitutes information.
What's the definition of that
will in practice, misinformation
according to Facebook is
anything that's just our health
authorities and democratic
politicians are incompetent, also
anything that embarrasses big
tech allies in the communist
government of China. Information
like that is misinformation,
and it must be censored not
for your benefit.
It doesn't help you at all,
but for theirs to solidify
their power.
So in July, Facebook and Twitter
took down a video on the news
site bright part of several
practicing physicians. Frontline
doctors, pointing out that
Hydroxychloroquine could help
coronavirus patients listen
carefully to what the doctors
say in this video. This is
a treatment, regimen, that's very
simple, and it should be
in the hands of the american
people. The difficult aspect
of this is that at the moment,
because of politics, it's being
blocked from doctors prescribing
it
and it's being blocked from
pharmacists, releasing it
they've been empowered
to overrule the doctor's opinion,
I'm in favor of it being over
the counter. Nobody could give it
to the people. That's true.
Our authorities
aren't pro choice when it comes
to Hydroxychloroquine,
and it's true that many
practicing physicians have used
it, but Facebook declared that
video could not be allowed. You
were not allowed to see it
because those claims constituted
dangerous misinformation, which
irony of ironies was itself
dangerous misinformation in July
the same month that video was
posted. Researchers at the Henry
Ford Health system in Southeast
Michigan found that early
administration
Hydroxychloroquine made
hospitalised patients
substantially less likely to die.
These aren't. Politicians are not
tech, executives,
they're, physicians
and that's what they found
in their clinical practice,
but none of that mattered
to the 25 year old, humanities,
major staffing, Facebook fact
checking division. They decided
absolutely could not see that
video because it questioned
the status quo, but in a way
in doing that in censoring that
information Facebook was its
most honest, the video was
dangerous. It was dangerous
to the same elites who view
democracy as a threat
to their monopoly
on information.
Give it to the people
the physician says in the video.
Nothing could be more dangerous
to Silicon Valley than
democratizing access
to. The truth is something they
believe they have a monopoly
on alphabet which owns
the search engine. Google,
a monopoly- if there ever was one
in the video sharing site
Youtube same thing is even more
protective of its complete
stranglehold on information
which it has in April they took
down a video from Dr Dan
Erickson. He said he was being
pressured to indicate that
patients were dying
of coronavirus when in fact they
died because of other causes.
Many physicians have said that
he also cast doubt on the need
for universal social, distancing.
Here's
what he said specifically watch.
We are pressured to test for flu,
but e dot, r doctors. Now my friends
and I talk to say you know
it's interesting when I'm when
I'm writing up my death report,
I'm being pressured to add
covered. Why is that? Why are we
being pressured to add Cobain
to maybe increase the numbers
and make it look a little bit
worse than it is? I think so. This
is a physician practicing
medicine count the number
of lectures you've received from
democratic politicians and tech
executives. We need to let
physicians decide between
a woman and her doctor. Oh no, not
in this case you can't see that
and by the way,
if they're willing
to take that off the internet.
If they want to censor that
prevent you from seeing it, what
are they going to do with
election results a month
and a half from now?
Think about that? For a minute
Youtube said, the video you just
saw must be censored because it
quote explicitly disputed
the efficacy of local health
authority recommended guidance
notice. They didn't even bother
trying to claim that Dr
Erickson was saying something
false. No, they just said he
contradicted guidance from
unnamed bureaucrats
in the government. Talk about
state media. This is what state
media looks like demanding. You
must believe some unelected
bureaucrat from the state taking
his word over practicing
physicians. More recently, Youtube
censored, a video from Dr Scott
ATLAS he's a member of the White
House, a task force joining us
in a moment. Dr analysts argue
that maybe we don't need
universal social distancing
measures. Some groups
of Americans ATLAS said are not
in great danger from
the coronavirus, especially young
people, and that's obviously true.
No serious scientist disputes
the accuracy of that statement,
but then Dr Atlas did what you
absolutely cannot do ever
in this brave new world
they've created, he pointed out
that statistical models, such
as the models of technocrats
used to justify their existence,
have been catastrophically wrong.
Watch him say it:
the policymakers in general, they
put in a lockdown,
they didn't care at all. They did
not calculate all the costs
of the harms of the lockdown,
the consequences
of the lockdown.
They did a stop codon with nineteen
at all costs and they used
hypothetical projection models
that were so egregiously wrong
far far off, yet they keep citing
those models, and so many now
even now- and so the extension
of the lockdown is the problem.
So this is why that should scare
you that wasn't allowed
by our tech overlords and yet no
one disputes that what Dr Atlas
said in the clip you just saw is
true. Look it up and verify
assuming you're still allowed
to and because it is true, we
will continue to say it
and things like it period. Fox
news believes in free speech
and we plan to exercise ours.
We're allowed to do that
because, unlike the majority
of news organizations in America,
we are not beholden to Facebook
and Youtube for our revenue
and as long as that's true
we're going to report
and we're going to, let you
decide.
Transcript generated on 2020-09-17.