Chris Hayes challenges Tucker Carlson on COVID-19 safety: 'Go chop up some pork'

MSNBC’s Chris Hayes ripped Fox News host Tucker Carlson Tuesday night for continually calling for an end to nationwide lockdowns and for people to get back to work. Carlson has claimed that social distancing measures have had no effect on the spread of COVID-19, and that the disease is much less deadly than previously thought. So as more and more workers at meat processing plants get sick, and with President Trump issuing an executive order forcing them to remain open amid the pandemic, Hayes issued a challenge to Carlson.

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CHRIS HAYES: Tucker Carlson, who has been broadcasting in safe isolation, is telling you it's safe to go out.

KYLIE MAR: MSNBC's Chris Hayes ripped Fox News host Tucker Carlson Tuesday night for continually calling for an end to coronavirus lockdowns and for people to get back to work. Carlson has repeatedly claimed that social distancing measures have had no effect on the spread of COVID-19.

So as more and more workers at meat processing plants get sick and with President Trump issuing an executive order forcing them to remain open, he's issued a challenge to Carlson.

CHRIS HAYES: If Tucker Carlson truly thinks people need to get back out there, he can help. Because right now, they need people in assisted living facilities that have been decimated by this. And they need people in meat and pork processing plants too. They've lost a ton of people to this disease.

So get in there if you think it's that bad. Go chop up some pork.

KYLIE MAR: But as Hayes pointed out, most Americans disagree with Carlson's thinking on the matter.

CHRIS HAYES: The cable news pundit wants you to get back out there because it's just not that deadly. But for all the faux populist ire being mounted by the conservative politics legacy case from La Jolla, polling shows most Americans continue to believe that shelter-in-place is the right policy.

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