Mike Pompeo slams idea of European lockdowns in US: it would be an enormous mistake
Former secretary of state tells 'The Ingraham Angle' that lockdowns do an 'enormous amount of damage' to America
Former U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo spoke out Wednesday night against the U.S. returning to coronavirus lockdowns, as some nations in Europe are doing. He explained his reasoning to Fox News’ Laura Ingraham during an appearance on "The Ingraham Angle."
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MIKE POMPEO: There’s scant evidence that these kind of lockdowns do a whole lot of good and we know they’re doing an enormous amount of damage to the economy and to the mental health of the people that live there.
It upsets me when I see Democrat governors and even Democrats in Washington, D.C., who want to head down that path, who want to go back to lockdowns, back to the kind of things that we tried – right, it was 15 days to stop the spread?
The right answer was to give people good information, sound information, truthful information. Let them make their own decisions for themselves.
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