Watch: Tucker Carlson, Journalist Zaid Jilani Think Focusing On One Group’s Suffering From Coronavirus Over Others Is Wrong

Fox News host Tucker Carlson told viewers Monday that media personalities like CNN’s Don Lemon are equating the coronavirus with racism, leaving us “paranoid and divided.” The Daily Caller co-founder’s guest, journalist Zaid Jilani, seemed to agree.

“I don’t think there’s anything wrong about being worried about inequality … the problem is they’re taking one variable and using it to define the entire problem,” Jilani said.

Jilani noted that “the death rate for the coronavirus is twice as high for men than it is for women but we’re not describing it as a male virus. We know that nursing homes account for over half the deaths in many states in America but we’re not describing it as the nursing home pandemic because this pandemic is hitting everybody.”

He said it was important not to focus on one group suffering more than others from the COVID-19 virus and that “seven out of 10 Americans [who] have died are outside the African-American community.”