Tucker Slams Nashville Govt for Hiding Data Proving Coronavirus is 'Not Dangerous to the Overwhelming Majority' Affected by Mandates (Video)

Tucker: Good evening and welcome to “Tucker Carlson Tonight.” It’s hard to believe that the coronavirus has been in this country for about nine months now, since January. Since the day the doctors discovered the first case within our borders, our leaders have assured us that the only care about our safety, that’s what this is all about, our safety. They told us that every decision they make as they fight this pandemic they make in our interest. Every restriction they impose they tell us they based on science alone. Most Americans want to believe that because most Americans want to trust their government.

But few still do. There’s too much evidence that the Covid regime is political and our leaders are lying about it. Tonight there was conclusive proof of that. A remarkable story. A reporter with the Fox 7 team TV station in Nashville, a man called Dennis Ferrier, caught that city’s top officials hiding key health statistics and for no justifiable reason. Ferrier uncovered a series of emails between the mayor’s office, Nashville mayor John Cooper, who is a democrat, and the city’s health department. In those emails, city officials discussed the fact that only a very low number of coronavirus cases have been traced to bars and restaurants. As of June 30th of this year, for example, nursing homes and construction sites in Nashville, each produced more than 1,000 cases of the coronavirus. Bars and restaurants: just 22 cases total. Numbers like this could be great news of the city of Nashville. Bars and restaurants have been suffering there for months under crushing Covid restrictions. Thousands of workers have been laid off, many businesses have gone under, many more are on the brink.

Over the summer, the mayor, Mayor Cooper, used the economic damage from his shutdown to justify a massive 34% property tax increase on residents of Nashville. So quarantines have hurt that city quite a bit. Residents would have been thrilled to learn that bars and restaurants were safe once again. But the mayor refused to tell them that. He hid that information.

After reviewing the new health numbers from bars and restaurants, a woman from the health department called Leslie Waller emailed this to Mayor Cooper’s office: “This isn’t going to be publicly released, right? just info for the mayor’s office.” A senior advisor responded this way: “Correct, not for public consumption.”

Not for public consumption? Why would that be? These aren’t the nuclear codes, this isn’t national security information, it’s public health data where it should be public. A month later, a reporter in Nashville heard rumors that bars and restaurants that were safer than the city was admitting there were so he emailed the health department to find out exactly what was going on, what are the numbers. Emails now show the behind the scenes, this simple request transparency panicked city officials. They schemed among themselves to hide with a knew. “We have certainly refused to give counts per bar, wrote one.” why would they refuse to give those numbers? Here’s the answer, and this is a direct quote: “Because those numbers are low per site.” Oh. The numbers are low, so we hide them. Hide all good news, that’s the policy. Otherwise the fear might subside and our power along with it.”