Monday, FNC host Tucker Carlson questioned so-called health experts and public official’s insistence on mask mandates, even after dubious science and double standards for individuals based on political circumstances, including Black Lives Matter protests that took place in 2020.

Carlson urged his viewers to question and speak about the efficacy of masks and against mask mandates when possible.

Transcript as follows:

In May of last year, if you can remember back that far, the Mayor of Los Angeles, a man called Eric Garcetti issued this order to the people he oversees, and we’re quoting, “Bring your mask with you whenever you leave home. That will help us get more freedoms,” end quote.

Eric Garcetti isn’t much of an orator, to put it mildly, but that was a memorable quote, mostly because of the questions it left unanswered. For example: is it really possible to spread the coronavirus outside? That’s the first most obvious question. And then more fundamentally, since when is the mayor of a city in charge of doling out America’s freedoms? Aren’t those freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution, the one that created this country? That’s what they’ve been telling us?

So it would have been nice to hear those questions answered. Unfortunately, at the time, a lot of the country was so terrified of the new pandemic that nobody thought to ask those questions. People just obeyed.

That was a big change, and other politicians watched as it happened.

They saw a smarmy non-entity like Eric Garcetti, a guy you wouldn’t trust to clean your pool suddenly assume unprecedented godlike new powers simply by asserting them, “Cover your face.” Okay, boss. Not a bad trick.

So naturally, other politicians wanted some of that power. That’s why they are in the business, for power. So they did the very same thing that Eric Garcetti did, and once again, no one pushed back against them.

In San Francisco, the authorities demanded that citizens wear masks while running outside. In the City of Boston, the mayor extended that requirement to all outdoor physical activity, quote, “You need to be wearing a face-covering when you’re out exercising.”

Well, in a functioning democracy like we had just a few years ago, demands like that would be impossible to make. A politician might prefer that you wear a mask outdoors, but he couldn’t make you do it. At best, he’d have to ask you nicely, he’d have to show you the science and then try to convince you to follow his advice, one adult to another. The onus would be on him to make his case, the onus would not be on you to obey the command.

But over the course of the corona pandemic, the opposite happened, it was inverted, and it happened because large groups of people failed to resist it happening, so it kept happening. And as it did, it became more unreasonable and more disconnected from science day by day.

As of tonight, for example, more than 15 months after we first told you about the spread of this weird new virus in China, the State of Michigan now requires children as young as two to wear facemask while in quote, “public spaces” and places like camps or daycare centers. That’s not a suggestion, it is an order. They all are.

Watch what happened to a pregnant mother on Spirit Airlines when authorities discovered that her two-year old wasn’t wearing a mask.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE (voice-over): And on this Spirit Airlines flight from Orlando to Atlantic City, Monday —

PASSENGER: What did I do?

FLIGHT ATTENDANT: I told you, not compliant, you will have to get off.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE (voice-over): A family of four told to get off the plane. A pregnant mother seen in this video clip wearing a mask with a two- year old child eating yogurt on her left, a seven-year-old child with special needs next door. A flight attendant appears to tell the family, the two-year-old wasn’t wearing the mask.

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CARLSON: It’s the law. Right? We’ve heard. But why is it the law? Is there a scientific justification for the law? No, there’s not.

Children are not at meaningful risk from COVID. They never have been. Adults who’ve been vaccinated or naturally infected and that’s a huge percentage of the American population are not at risk either.

If you’ve got high levels of antibodies in your system, you are almost certainly safe. Those who don’t have antibodies can get the shot. Every American who wants the vaccine can get the vaccine, and that means that at this point, there is no scientific justification for any mask mandate anywhere. It’s that simple.

And the idea that people were being told, being forced to wear masks outside should shock us. There was never any meaningful risk of mass transmission outdoors. We’ve known that for at least a year.

Last spring, researchers in China traced 318 separate coronavirus outbreaks to find out where they originated and how. They found that of those 318 outbreaks, only a single one could even plausibly be connected to a person who was outside, all the rest were indoors.

Last November, a review of all existing peer-reviewed research on this subject appeared in “The Journal of Infectious Diseases” and that review found that the odds of contracting the coronavirus outside were about 19 times lower than the risk of contracting it inside. In April, researchers in Japan came to the same conclusion.

And then finally, last week, “The New York Times” admitted all this. According to the newspaper scientists have discovered, quote: “Few, if any documented cases of brief outdoor interactions leading to COVID transmission.”

So people running in the park are safe, they always were safe. And in fact, the evidence that they are safe is so overwhelming that even America’s leading purveyor of lockdown porn has been forced to concede it.

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GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS, ABC NEWS HOST: Let’s talk about masks. I mean, you’re seeing more and more talk about it. I know the C.D.C. is looking at perhaps revising their guidance about wearing masks outdoors at this time. Well, what’s your best guidance on that at this point?

DR. ANTHONY FAUCI, DIRECTOR, NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES: I don’t want to get ahead of them, George, but I think it is pretty commonsense now that outdoor risk is really, really quite low particularly, I mean, if you are a vaccinated person, wearing a mask outdoors, I mean, obviously the risk is miniscule.

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CARLSON: “It’s pretty commonsense now that outdoor risk is really, really quite low,” says Dr. Fauci.