Tucker Carlson is now saying Fauci created the virus. That explains why I was seeing tweets saying Fauci should sue him for libel.

As the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention urged vaccinated people to resume wearing masks under certain circumstances amid low vaccination rates and rising cases from the delta variant, Fox News host Tucker Carlson placed blame on Anthony S. Fauci for the changing mask guidelines.

Yes let’s blame someone for the fact that viruses change and knowledge changes. Let’s pretend that all knowledge is instantly available to all people and that no virus ever changes; that will make everything better overnight.

“Here’s the man who helped to create covid in the first place,” Carlson said.

The host doubled down on the baseless claim minutes later on “Tucker Carlson Tonight” when he cited a handful of “breakthrough” cases of vaccinated people still getting infected by the virus. Studies have shown the two-dose coronavirus vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna are about 95 percent effective at preventing infection, while Johnson & Johnson’s one-shot vaccine is 72 percent effective.

“They have been telling us for six months that this vaccine is perfect, but clearly, in some cases, it doesn’t always work,” Carlson said. “And that’s not our theory, by the way. Take it from the guy who created covid.”

No they haven’t. They’ve been telling us the opposite of that.

Carlson, who has described himself as “pretty pro-vaccine,” has regularly challenged the efficacy of vaccination against the coronavirus to his millions of viewers on his prime-time show. “Maybe it doesn’t work, and they’re simply not telling you that,” he said in April. The claim caused Fauci to rebut what he deemed a “crazy conspiracy theory.”

Why does Tucker Carlson do this? For money and fame and glory. He energetically makes the pandemic worse for his own personal gratification. There ought to be a Nuremberg-type trial just for him, starting now.

When asked by CNN’s Jim Acosta this month about how Carlson’s hostility toward the vaccine would have looked when the country was fighting polio or the measles, Fauci wondered what damage the pushback could have caused.

“If we had the pushback for vaccines the way we’re seeing on certain media, I don’t think it would’ve been possible at all to not only eradicate smallpox. We’d probably still have smallpox, and we’d probably still have polio in this country if we had the kind of false information that’s being spread now,” he said. “If we had that back decades ago, I’d be certain we’d still have polio in this country.”

But it would have been worth it because we would have been free people instead of sheep doing what we were told. Better to die on your feet than live on your knees, right?! Defiance is better than not getting polio!

Despite the new CDC guidance, Carlson claimed without evidence that the new guidelines came from lawmakers trying to hold on to the “unprecedented levels of power” they have amassed in the past year.

“They’re going to keep ordering you around, regardless of the science,” Carlson said on his show. “And, of course, Tony Fauci is going to do his best to defend it all.”

Yeah! They’re so bossy! We just can’t stand that – we’re the people who threw the tea in the harbor. Don’t tread on us! Give us liberty and give us Covid! Don’t ever do what people tell you to do, not during a pandemic or a firestorm or a record-smashing heatwave or a drought or an invasion or any other emergency. Don’t do what you’re told! Do what occurs to you in the moment, however little you know about what’s happening a mile away! The ego is always right and the collective is the enemy. By the way while you’re out there could you grab me some vodka and tortilla chips at 7-11?