Fox News personalities spent the first week of March sneering at the idea that COVID-19 was dangerous. They’ve since changed their tune once to acknowledge the dangers, only to start pivoting back to Donald Trump’s “markets over human life” message. But Fox’s 89-year-old chairman, Rupert Murdoch, appears to value his own life more than Republicans value the life of the average grandparent.

On March 8, Fox News commentary on coronavirus included gems like, “I feel like the more I learn about this, the less there is to worry about.” Also on March 8, Murdoch and his family canceled his 89th birthday party, which was to be held March 11.