Tucker Carlson says catching Covid ‘emasculated’ Boris Johnson – a day before PM welcomes latest child
‘Getting Covid-19 emasculated him, it changed him, it feminised him, it weakened him as a man’
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Your support makes all the difference.Fox News host Tucker Carlson on Wednesday tore into Boris Johnson who he claimed was “weakened, emasculated and feminised” as a man after contracting Covid-19 infection.
Carlson was interviewing British politician Nigel Farage when the question of the British prime minister’s governance cropped up.
Without citing any scientific evidence, the Fox News host suggested that Mr Johnson has been permanently weakened after catching Covid-19.
After weeks of underestimating the virulency of the coronavirus, Mr Johnson contracted Covid and was admitted to intensive care in April 2020.
“So somebody who knows him told me, and I’d be interested in getting your take on this, that getting Covid-19 emasculated him, it changed him, it feminized him, it weakened him as a man,” Carlson said after Mr Farage questioned Mr Johnson’s leadership in the wake of a series of scandals and missteps.
Mr Farage had said that he’s seen “more U-turns in policy from the Johnson government than I have seen in any government in my lifetime.”
After Carlson said that the infection “feminised and weakened” Mr Johnson, Mr Farage said, “well I think he was very seriously ill.”
“One of the things we have learned from Covid is people who are 50, 60, 70, 80 pounds overweight tend to have fared very badly,” he told Carlson.
To which the news host said: “But the virus itself, this is true, does tend to take away the life force in some people I notice. I mean it does feminise people. No one ever says that but it’s true.”
The pair were speaking a day before Mr Johnson and his wife Carrie announced the birth of their second child together, a daughter. It is believed that Mr Johnson has a total of eight children from different relationships although he has never publicly confirmed the exact number.
This is not the first time Carlson has made an unscientific claim about Covid-19 and vaccination.
In September this year, while nations rushed to vaccinate large swathes of the population and fight vaccine hesitancy, Carlson had said that the new vaccination mandate was an effort by the Biden administration to eliminate “men with high testosterone.”
“The point of mandatory vaccination is to identify the sincere Christians in the ranks, the free thinkers, the men with high testosterone levels, and anyone else who doesn’t love Joe Biden and make them leave immediately. It’s a takeover of the US military!” he had claimed.
The US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has said that the Covid-19 vaccines are safe and important to protect against the severity of the infection.
“Millions of people in the United States have received Covid-19 vaccines under the most intense safety monitoring in US history. CDC recommends you get a Covid-19 vaccine as soon as you can,” the CDC said.
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