NYT’s Friedman Mocks Canadian Truckers: ‘Their Protest Is Stupid and Selfish’

EXCERPT:

FRIEDMAN: "Becky, right now we have a pandemic of the foolish and the selfish. You know, what are the governments asking of these drivers who cross borders back and forth every day is get quarantined — get vaccinated, fully vaccinated, or be quarantined. Do it for yourself, do it for your neighbors, most of all do it for the doctors and nurses who have been completely exhausted after two years of this, so you won’t be putting additional pressure on them. And so I find all of this, all being done in the name of freedom — freedom from who? From Mother Nature? It’s just — it’s just nonsense. And we’re so late into this. It’s so hurtful to their neighbors, to the doctors and nurses, and ultimately to their economies."
QUICK: "But, Tom, they do have the right to protest."
FRIEDMAN: "Sure, you have the right to protest, but you should have at least a logic to your protest. They have a right to protest and I have a right to tell them their protest is stupid and selfish."