Co-host of Fox News’s The Five Greg Gutfeld slammed the media’s coverage of the coronavirus and its focus on the number of actual cases as opposed to deaths.
“So the one thing we learned about COVID is that the only entity that made it worse is the media, and what Trump is trying to do is speak directly to the American people,” Gutfeld said. “And, right now, he is more important than the experts, who have been proven wrong on so many things, from masks to social distancing to the shutdown.”
“We are adults,” he added. “We can balance risk with benefit and risk with progress. We don’t need to be lectured every day about how many people are dying when you aren’t telling us the death rates, right? When you just sit there and tell us how many more cases there are, but you don’t talk about whether the death rates are declining. We know what they’re up to. We know what their narrative is, and it’s all baloney.”
Gutfeld also criticized prominent media outlets and figures who have downplayed treatments, such as hydroxychloroquine, and appeared to be taking “pleasure in flawed studies that said it didn’t work” while also criticizing Trump for touting the falling death rate.
Only four states have experienced coronavirus deaths at a rate of over 1,000 deaths per million population, and Gutfeld pointed out that all four of those states are run by Democrats. He suggested that’s why the focus has been centered around an increase in cases in states such as Florida, Texas, and Georgia, which are run by Republicans.
“Let us not forget that it’s New York and New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts that have the worst death rates,” Gutfeld said. “These are Democratic-led states. Right now, New Jersey, New York, and Connecticut, they are one-third of the death rate, 6% of the population.”
