Ron DeSantis tells Tucker Carlson some Florida COVID restrictions were ‘ineffective,’ denounces 'Faucism'

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis sat down with Tucker Carlson in a new episode of Fox Nation’s "Tucker Carlson Today" to discuss what he wishes he had known during the peak of the coronavirus pandemic one year ago.

"If I had more data, I would have had the ability to say, ‘Wait a minute. Why would we need to close a gym for two weeks?" he asked. "These are younger people going to work out. If you’re healthy, you’re going to end up dealing with the virus better." "And so I think that it took me a few weeks, March and into April, to get enough data to say, ‘Okay, we’re not doing Faucism, we’re going to make sure our states open," he said. "We’re going to get the kids back in school and we’ll just focus our protection on elderly people, who are the ones at risk…Some of the restrictions we did, I think, were ineffective."