Washington Examiner senior columnist Tim Carney argued that politicians need to stop imposing overly intrusive COVID-19 restrictions on their constituents.
In a Tuesday appearance on Fox Business, Carney said most people will likely eventually catch COVID-19 and that policies that fire workers who do not get the vaccine, force 4-year-olds to wear a mask, and require excessive quarantining should be eliminated.
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“It’s like the flu: It’s going to spread. Now, the argument for getting vaccinated is that it lowers your chance of getting hospitalized or dying, but it’s not going to stop the spread. So we need to just stop doing all of the interventions that mess with our lives,” he said. “All those things needed to end six months ago — they definitely need to end today.”
Host Lisa “Kennedy” Montgomery showed a Monmouth University poll showing 89% of Republicans, 71% of independents, and 47% of Democrats favored “moving on” with their lives and acknowledging that COVID-19 was here to stay. Carney said the poll indicates politicians who continue to impose intrusive COVID-19 interventions could go the way of Democrat Terry McAuliffe, the former Virginia governor who lost out on another term to Republican Glenn Youngkin last November.Carney argued that the decision about whether one should get vaccinated against COVID-19 is a “private health matter.”
In addition, Carney, who said he is vaccinated, argued that Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau should listen to the demands of the truckers protesting the COVID-19 vaccine-or-test mandate.
“When you have horrible policies that ruin people’s lives, people will get angry, and some of those angry people will say horrible things. Rather than coming down on the bad things said by these angry truckers, fix the policy [and] get rid of the mandate,” he said.
Carney was also asked about reports that the New York Times was investigating Hunter Biden’s business dealings. Carney praised the news outlet and argued that the story matters considering his father is the president.
“It absolutely reflects on Joe Biden because what Joe Biden has said repeatedly is Hunter did nothing wrong,” he said. “So when Hunter was out there selling the Biden name to get business from whether it was Ukrainians, Chinese, or Hungarians, Joe Biden was fine with that. So we have to find out what he was doing that Joe Biden was fine with.”
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Another topic Carney was asked about was the resignation of former NFL quarterback Tom Brady. Carney said he was not a fan of the New England Patriots but said Brady’s tenure there helped strengthen the team he rooted for, the New York Giants.
“I’m a New Yorker, a Mets fan, and seeing Boston people suffer is something I remember from the earliest days of my childhood. Unfortunately, they got a whole string of championships — the Red Sox, the Celtics won too,” he said. “You really have to honor Brady for being that great competitor that made the Giants and Eli as great as they were.”
