Suddenly, Prager escalated the death toll that he considered worth a strident lockdown. If that didn’t happen, Prager said, “then this has to end very soon.”īy April 16, roughly 33,000 people had died from the coronavirus. Two weeks later, Prager declared that coronavirus is “not a killer,” while conceding that it “kills some.” Prager said he would only accept a lockdown under “staggering” levels, which he defined as “many thousands,” perhaps “30,000” dead. Prager also claimed that he faces a “minuscule” cancer risk from smoking cigars, before puffing on one. “30 people?” Prager said “I mean, how many people have died this year in the United States from snake bites? I don’t know, I should have looked it up before talking to you. On March 12, for example, Prager clung to the idea that the coronavirus is less lethal than the flu-or even snakebites. In his weekly fireside chat, Prager has continually pushed the goalposts for what he would consider a serious coronavirus death toll worth a lockdown. Instead, we get the contaminated restaurant forks. The name of his YouTube channel, “PragerU,” essentially posits that watching videos from Prager and his associates is the equivalent of a university education. He holds himself out as a sort of ponderous philosopher-king of the right-a cut above your usual Sean Hannity and Mark Levin types. Countless pro-Trump pundits have bounced back and forth on the virus, taking it seriously when Donald Trump is boasting his administration’s response, then belittling its mortality rate when he isn’t. “These things-I’m not troubled by these things.”Īs the coronavirus creeps across the country, Prager has had many terrible takes in his weekly fireside chats with his YouTube audience. “Am I going to get pancreatic cancer from a fork that fell?” he said. This seemed crazy to me-just get a new fork! But Prager continued with his argument that eating with a fork fresh off a restaurant floor is actually good, and used it as an example of how his audience shouldn’t worry too much about things like the pandemic.
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