Citation From the April 20, 2020, edition of Fox News’ The Ingraham Angle

LAURA INGRAHAM (HOST): Dinesh, as Dr. Fauci admits he doesn't have to make decisions with the economy in mind — that's not his focus — is that an issue?

DINESH D'SOUZA (AUTHOR): Well, I think that there have been two separate ideas that have been conflated from the beginning of this crisis. The first one is the idea of social distancing, and the other is the idea of a comprehensive economic lockdown.

Now, those have been pursued in tandem, but they're not the same. If you look to other countries — consider Sweden for example. They have never had an economic lockdown, but they do have social distancing. So it's possible to have one strategy without the other.

And yet what's happening now is there's a kind of rhetorical bludgeoning, in which protesters who are saying, “Listen, let's take a second look. Yeah, we're all for social distancing, but there may be ways to open up the economy and still have social distancing.”

And those people are treated as if they are somehow reckless, as if they are not considering the possibility of death, as if they're trying to infect their friends. Nothing could be further from the truth. A legitimate debate is being demonized, and I think that's very unfortunate.