Tucker Carlson is warning that the doom-and-gloom corporate media is ratcheting up the hysteria and “existential terror” over the latest COVID-19 variant or mutation that could lead to lockdown 2.0. “It’s a whole new pandemic,” he declared.

On the nightly show aired on the Fox News Channel that has become appointment viewing for a significant portion of the U.S. electorate with populist leanings, the host of “Tucker Carlson Tonight” implied that fear-mongering elites want to use this infection to justify a brand-new set of restrictions, vaccines, and lockdowns. And Democrat politics might be at least partially the reason for the panic-button-pushing.

“By now, you’ve probably heard of the terrifying new coronavirus variant that has left the continent of Africa a smoldering husk of human misery. Experts are calling it the omicron variant, omicron being a Greek term that apparently means history-ending apocalypse,” he explained in a semi-satirical manner.