At the top of his prime time show Tuesday night, Tucker Carlson [destacado apresentador da Fox News] hyped a video featuring two California doctors who downplayed the threat of the coronavirus. The doctors, Dan Erickson and Artin Massihi, are the co-owners of an urgent care clinic in Bakersfield. They went viral in the last few days for delivering a presentation last week in which they suggested the mortality rate of Covid-19 is similar to the flu.

The arguments the doctors put forward have been widely criticized. The American College of Emergency Physicians and the American Academy of Emergency Medicine said in a joint statement that they “emphatically condemn the recent opinions released” by Erickson and Massihi. And YouTube removed the video for violating its community guidelines, which have been strengthened to prevent coronavirus misinformation from spreading rampantly on the platform [CNN]

Menos prevenção = mais necessidade de tratamentos e urgências = mais lucro. A política americana é muito simples: primeiro o lucro.

Entretanto, republicanos e democratas, por diferentes razões dão porrada no YouTube. Os primeiros acusando a empresa de censura, como se disso se tratasse. Os segundos devido à lentidão do YouTube a remover vídeos que suportam teorias da conspiração.