Anti-vaxx identity politics
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Tucker has asserted in front of a megachurch audience that he has not received a single shot of the COVID-19 vaccine:
After months of amplifying vaccine skepticism while refusing to disclose his own immunization status, Fox News host Tucker Carlson told attendees at a recent megachurch event that he’s not had a single COVID-19 shot.
“I skipped the first three; I’m not getting that one either,” Carlson said of additional booster shots while speaking at San Diego’s Awaken Church earlier this month, according to audio obtained by the Daily Beast and first reported by Voice of San Diego.
He claimed he was not against vaccines but took issue with the ones protecting against COVID-19.
“I’ve had like a million of them,” he said of vaccines. But as for COVID-19 shots, he said: “I look at these people, like, this just does not make sense at all. And I have no idea what’s up here, but whatever you’re telling me, it’s just not true.”
Carlson, a prominent anti-vaccine voice at Fox News and self-professed liar, has repeatedly dodged calls to disclose his vaccination status, saying such inquiries are as invasive as asking if someone has HIV or questioning what sexual positions they use.
He told viewers last year that the government is implementing mask and vaccine rules because it wants to control people.
Do I believe him, at least insofar as the first two shots are concerned? Absolutely not. Either way, though, it’s striking that he can’t actually articulate a reason why his audience shouldn’t take the COVID-19 vaccine and only the COVID-19 vaccine. Apparently even before a presumptively reactionary audience “because fewer people getting hospitalized and dying would be marginally better for the Biden administration” would be saying the quiet part a little too loud.