Media Matters reports:
Right-wing commentator Dinesh D’Souza appeared Monday night on Fox News’ The Ingraham Angle — on the same day that he had tweeted a conspiracy theory claiming that coronavirus-related death totals were being inflated by medical practitioners, to deceive the public.
During the April 20 show, D’Souza contrasted the approach of economic lockdowns with the program adopted in Sweden. “They have never had an economic lockdown, but they do have social distancing,” he said. “So it’s possible to have one strategy without the other.”
Fox News personalities and other right-wing commentators have celebrated Sweden’s relatively hands-off approach, even as evidence continues to mount that it’s not working — the country now has nearly 10 times the number of coronavirus-related deaths than the other Nordic countries.
The #Coronavirus death toll in the US is not 40,000. That’s the padded number, like measuring my height by standing on my toes. The real death toll is significantly lower. The medical establishment is trying to vindicate its false projections with an exercise in self-deception
— Dinesh D’Souza (@DineshDSouza) April 20, 2020
We don’t approve of bogus accounting in other areas: sports games, the stock market, etc. We don’t count tennis balls that are “almost in” as “in.” So why should we tolerate dishonest #Coronavirus counts on the part of the CDC and the medical establishment? We should not!
— Dinesh D’Souza (@DineshDSouza) April 20, 2020
I’ll be on the @IngrahamAngle tonight at 10 pm Eastern to discuss, among other matters, the elevated nonsense that if it saves one life, then it’s worth taking actions that forfeit our most basic liberties
— Dinesh D’Souza (@DineshDSouza) April 20, 2020