Tucker Carlson is a far right wing advocat of everything you can spin against the political opponent. The purpose is to daily fuel hatred and anger against the political opponent, not to solve problems or lead to progress.
The only useful thing in the story is that the US has a pilot shortage.
The rest is B.S. Has nothing to do with a vaccine mandate, but T.C.'s existence is to put such spins on every story.
The US has a pilot shortage because:
- less military pilots
- thousands of early retirements in wake of the covid travel bump, heavily supported by the companies at the time, which now seem to regret
- waaaaaaaaay to many small aircraft in the market: as far as I know, ~50% of all US majors movements a day are flown by regional jets. This has a long time history of being cheaper when the regionals had awful work conditions. Now this has changed. So the airlines need to correct their own strategic planning of the last 15 years and use bigger planes with a bit less dense network.
No need to scandalise, just remind aviation management to do their job: organise your business so that it works.