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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,104 posts)
Thu May 7, 2020, 07:59 PM May 2020

Fux Noise Host Calls on 'Healthy People' to 'Have Some Courage' and Get Infected With Coronavirus

Fox News host Pete Hegseth, an informal Trump adviser who was once considered to run the Veterans Affairs administration, on Thursday called upon healthy Americans to “have some courage” and leave their homes to get infected by the coronavirus in order to help attain “herd immunity.”

Broadcasting from what appeared to be his home, Hegseth—serving as the female-centric Fox News panel show Outnumbered’s lone male host—weighed in on President Donald Trump using the term “warriors” to describe the American people as he pushes for the country’s economy to reopen amid the coronavirus pandemic and the possibility of a surge in deaths.

Saying he didn’t necessarily “love the warrior talk” because he thinks of that word describing “guys and gals that risk their life voluntarily to go to the most dangerous places in the world,” Hegseth went on to applaud that “kind of ethos and that spirit to put freedom before fear.”

After warning that there was a “lot of misinformation” out there from “experts” about coronavirus, Hegseth—who proudly declared last year that he hadn’t washed his hands in 10 years—then said the public needs to get out and mingle.

https://news.yahoo.com/fox-news-host-calls-healthy-172009905.html

You first dumbass. Lead by example.

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Fux Noise Host Calls on 'Healthy People' to 'Have Some Courage' and Get Infected With Coronavirus (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin May 2020 OP
Guess this fool has not heard yet iemitsu May 2020 #1
Trumpism is a death cult, VMA131Marine May 2020 #2
I am with you. Newest Reality May 2020 #3
Him first. nt Blue_true May 2020 #4
Handing out small pox infested blankets will get the disease behind us Cicada May 2020 #5
Trump was considering him to run the VA at one point underpants May 2020 #6
It's not courage to get the disease if you kill other people by doing that. gulliver May 2020 #7
Go volunteer at the hospitals treating the victims, Pete. keithbvadu2 May 2020 #8
You first. sinkingfeeling May 2020 #9
Them first. Afromania May 2020 #10
Hegseth is one of the stupidest people on Fux COLGATE4 May 2020 #11

iemitsu

(3,888 posts)
1. Guess this fool has not heard yet
Thu May 7, 2020, 08:02 PM
May 2020

that Chinese scientists have discovered the virus in semen.
Good advise to the young. Go get sick.

VMA131Marine

(4,124 posts)
2. Trumpism is a death cult,
Thu May 7, 2020, 08:02 PM
May 2020

which is how many cults end up. To become a member, you have to prove you are worthy and, apparently, getting COVID19 is the price of initiation.

Newest Reality

(12,712 posts)
3. I am with you.
Thu May 7, 2020, 08:04 PM
May 2020

How many propagandists have done this so far? It seems like they are practicing stochastic terrorism, which is what I would call information that puts people both in harms way and may also be lethal.

Let's all join in: You get out there and let's see you report from remote locations and mingle with crowds. No need to be a hypocrite and it's easy. I would like to see a "a day in the life" segments where you go around being brave, show courage and set an example. Are you chicken? Naw, not you. Start creating that herd immunity and get back to me on how it goes, Bucko! I will be looking forward to it.

Cicada

(4,533 posts)
5. Handing out small pox infested blankets will get the disease behind us
Thu May 7, 2020, 08:10 PM
May 2020

The survivors will be immune. The problem is that a lot of those infected die. Kind of a flaw in the strategy.

gulliver

(13,142 posts)
7. It's not courage to get the disease if you kill other people by doing that.
Thu May 7, 2020, 08:37 PM
May 2020

People who think they are being courageous by getting the disease just don't get it. They'll catch the disease, and, even if they live, they'll still give it to one or two other people who may die.

keithbvadu2

(36,369 posts)
8. Go volunteer at the hospitals treating the victims, Pete.
Thu May 7, 2020, 08:47 PM
May 2020

Convince your fellow Fox 'journalists' to do the same.

COLGATE4

(14,732 posts)
11. Hegseth is one of the stupidest people on Fux
Thu May 7, 2020, 11:53 PM
May 2020

And that's quite a hurdle. He makes a box of rocks look bright by comparison.

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