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“Joe Exotic tests positive for coronavirus in prison. It’s been confirmed.”

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Says a “5G LAW PASSED while everyone was distracted” with the coronavirus pandemic and lists 20 symptoms associated with 5G exposure.

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Says for otherwise healthy people “experiencing mild to moderate respiratory symptoms with or without a COVID-19 diagnosis … only high temperatures kill a virus, so let your fever run high,” but not over 103 or 104 degrees.

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Pictures and reports of “empty hospitals” prove COVID-19 spread is “fake crisis for real government planned agendas.”

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“There was no effort” to get American experts into China after it announced the coronavirus, and “we had one person in-country (and Trump) pulled him out of the country.”

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Says Nancy Pelosi’s “daughter is on the board of the Kennedy Center so that’s why it was so important to send them all that money.”

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“In Chicago, Covid-19 actually LOWERED the death rate.”

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“This lady here applied sanitizer to her hands/forearms & went to the kitchen to cook. The moment she turned on the gas stove, her hands caught fire due to the alcohol contained in the sanitizer.”

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“We were slow with the testing, but very quick with the travel ban. And that's been much more critical in saving lives.”

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Says the U.S. is developing an “antivirus” that includes a chip to track your movement.

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Says for the coronavirus, “the death rate in Texas, per capita of 29 million people, we're one of the lowest in the country."

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Says the governors of Michigan, New York and Nevada “have issued orders banning the prescription of hydroxychloroquine to patients with COVID-19.”

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Says Italy arrested a doctor “for intentionally killing over 3,000 coronavirus patients.”

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“On February 7, the WHO warned about the limited stock of PPE. That same day, the Trump administration announced it was sending 18 tons of masks, gowns and respirators to China.”

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“Queen Elizabeth tests positive for COVID-19.”

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Says COVID-19 remains in the air for eight hours and that everyone is now required to wear masks “everywhere.”

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“if your child gets this virus their going to hospital alone in a van with people they don’t know...to be with people they don’t know… you will be at home without them in their time of need.”

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“They’re furloughing nurses in hospitals in western New York state.”

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Says President Donald Trump will announce that a scientist "finally found vaccine to cure corona virus."

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Says Ron Johnson said Americans should go back to work, because "death is an unavoidable part of life."

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Says North Carolina "hospital beds are typically 85% full across the state.”

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Says Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said, “We have lost control, we have killed the epidemic physically and mentally. Can’t understand what more we can do, all solutions are exhausted on ground. Our only hope remains up in the Sky, God rescue your people.”

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“We’ve got to give the American public a rough estimate of how long we think this is going to take, based mostly on the South Korean model, which seems to be the trajectory that we are on, thankfully, and not the Italian model.”

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“My mask will keep someone else safe and their mask will keep me safe.”

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Shows a waitress saying, "I lost my job. But I'll sleep better knowing” that the coronavirus relief bill included funding for the Kennedy Center, refugee resettlement, PBS, and congressional salaries: “Thanks, Democrats”

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Says students have to repeat the same grade next year.

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Says a study projects Wisconsin’s coronavirus cases will peak on April 26, 2020

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“We inherited a broken test” for COVID-19.

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Says certain states are banning the sale of alcohol.

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Says the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act gives members of Congress a pay increase.

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“I didn’t say that” some of the medical equipment that governors are requesting, they don't actually need.

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“COVID literally stands for Chinese Originated Viral Infectious Disease.”

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Says imposters in hazmat suits are going door to door in Stockton, Calif., saying they are checking residents for fever or COVID-19, but they “will enter your home and physically attempt robbery.”

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Says Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak "has banned the use of an anti-malaria drug that might help cure coronavirus.”

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Speaking of his restriction on travel from China, “I had (Joe) Biden calling me xenophobic. … He called me a racist, because of the fact that he felt it was a racist thing to stop people from China coming in.”

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Says to leave objects in the sun to avoid contracting the coronavirus.

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Says that under order from Gov. Tony Evers, he and his eight children can’t legally have dinner together anymore.

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Says the CDC now says that the coronavirus can survive on surfaces for up to 17 days.

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Says truck drivers are being turned away from fast-food restaurants during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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“China is to blame because the culture where people eat bats and snakes and dogs and things like that, these viruses are transmitted from the animal to the people and that's why China has been the source of a lot of these viruses like SARS, like MERS, the Swine Flu and now the coronavirus.”

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“Donald Trump would receive $17 million for three hotels closed for four days under Republican bill! How in the hell is this right?!”

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“All schools in Canada are closed for the rest of the school year, each family will receive $950 every two weeks for the next 15 weeks, banks were notif(ied) to suspend mortgage payments for at least 6 months, and student loans deferred.”

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“Australia Closing Borders in a few hours for 6-months”

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An audio message lists five ways people can prevent the novel coronavirus.

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“Bill Gates told us about the coronavirus in 2015.”

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Says a military Humvee labeled “COVID-19 quarantine team” was on Interstate 696 in Michigan.

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"If you are in Las Vegas and you get a knock on your door from NV Power, 2020 Census or CVD-19 testers, do not open your door. They are robbing people at gunpoint."

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“Boil some orange peels wit cayenne pepper in it stand over the pot breathe in the steam so all that mucus can release from yo nasal… MUCUS is the problem its where THE VIRUS LIVES!!!”

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Says N.Y. Gov. Andrew Cuomo “rejected buying recommended 16,000 ventilators in 2015 for the pandemic, for a pandemic, established death panels and lotteries instead. So, he had a chance to buy, in 2015, 16,000 ventilators at a very low price, and he turned it down.”

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Says Gov. Tony Evers is “pushing firearm confiscation orders”

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Says Nancy Pelosi’s coronavirus bill includes “tax credits for solar and wind energy … retirement plans for community newspaper employees … $300 million for PBS … climate change studies” and more.

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“Fish tank additive may treat coronavirus.”

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"Slices of lemon in a cup of hot water can save your life. The hot lemon can kill the proliferation of" the novel coronavirus.

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Says Russia unleashed more than 500 lions on its streets to ensure that people are staying indoors during this pandemic outbreak.

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Says it was “unquestionably” not within his “legal authority” to postpone Illinois’ primary election by changing the date or shifting to vote-by-mail.

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“Putin has stated: Russian citizens (have) 2 options: Stay home for 15 days or in jail for 5 years.”

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"U.S. deaths since 1/22 (2020): COVID-19: 27, flu, 4,700; abortion: 118,000."

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Quotes Joe Biden as saying “people who have never died before are now dying from coronavirus.”

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Says "special military helicopters will spray pesticide against the Corona virus in the skies all over the country."

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Says businesses will give you free baby formula during the coronavirus outbreak.

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"Huge! Results From Breaking Chloroquine Study Show 100% Cure Rate For Patients Infected With The Coronavirus."

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“So Oscar Health, the company tapped by Trump to profit from covid tests, is a Kushner company. Imagine that, profits over national safety.”

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“Go to 2020census.gov and fill out this census form so you can get your stimulus check.”

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Says longstanding Food and Drug Administration regulations “created barriers to the private industry creating a test quickly” for the coronavirus.

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“Wisconsin is the only state where all Republicans voted against protecting its citizens.”

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“No city in the state can quarantine itself without state approval.”

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For coronavirus cases “in the U.S. 38% of those hospitalized are under 35.”

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The federal government is “preparing to mobilize the national guard,” “dispatch them across the US with military” and “announce a nationwide 1 week quarantine for all citizens.”

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“Sunlight actually can kill the (novel coronavirus.)”

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2019 coronavirus can live for "up to 3 hours in the air, up to 4 hours on copper, up to 24 hours on cardboard up to 3 days on plastic and stainless steel.”

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“People are going door to door in Colorado Springs stating they are COVID testing so they can rob people!!!!”

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Says "there is no" COVID-19 virus.

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Says that “over a 45-minute period that we had the press conference” on the coronavirus on March 13, 2020, the stock market set "an all-time record."

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Says coronavirus is just “the damn flu.”

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The coronavirus "snuck up on us,” adding that it is “a very unforeseen thing.”

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Says President Donald Trump said, “People are dying who have never died before.”

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"George Soros owns the WuXi PHARMA LAB located in Wuhan, China where COVID-19 was developed and conveniently Broke Out."

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Says the New York Times exposed the “real reason behind coronavirus hype: Crash the market to harm Trump’s re-election chances.”

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Says Donald Trump tweeted, “I ordered the Treasury secretary to send checks to Americans! First however, we will go through your social media history from the last 4 years and search for any post with #NotMyPresident in it. I wouldn’t think of offending you with a check if I’m not your president! #MAGA”

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“I've always known this is a real, this is a pandemic. I've felt it was a pandemic long before it was called a pandemic.”

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“President Trump, COVID-19 coronavirus: U.S. cases 1,329; U.S. deaths, 38; panic level: mass hysteria. President Obama, H1N1 virus: U.S. cases, 60.8 million; U.S. deaths, 12,469; panic level: totally chill. Do you all see how the media can manipulate your life.”

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“Italy has decided not to treat their elderly for this virus.”

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“All US citizens are entitled to $700 USD per week to stay at home to avoid the spread of COVID-19 novel coronavirus, starting from March 17.”

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Says Anthony Fauci’s statement that the coronavirus death rate is 10 times that of the seasonal flu is “a claim without any scientific basis."

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"COVID-19 started because we eat animals."

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“Now, as it stands, our health care system has adequate ventilators, ICU beds, medical professionals.”

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“MSNBC actually said on air ‘I hope enough people die from coronavirus that it harms Trump’s re-election.’”

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Says "most" NC legislators are in the "high risk age group" for coronavirus

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The WHO coronavirus test “was a bad test.”

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In South Florida “all children and adults must remain in their homes” due to coronavirus.

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President Donald Trump “will evoke (sic) what is called the Stafford act” and “order a two week mandatory quarantine for the nation.”

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Says Donald Trump “cut funding to the CDC,” “fired the Pandemic Response Team,” “refused WHO tests” and “wasted two weeks calling this outbreak a ‘Democrat hoax.’”

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Donald Trump is “announcing tomorrow that the US is going into quarantine for the next 14 days.”

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Says Spectrum will provide free internet to students during coronavirus school closures.

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Silver Solution used on strains of coronavirus "totally eliminate it. Kills it. Deactivates it.”

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The World Health Organization offered the testing kits that they have available and to give it to us now. We refused them. We did not want to buy them.”

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“Coronavirus — 22. Clintons — 39.”

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Says COVID-19 came to the United States in 2019.

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“The CDC can detain anyone with a fever — indefinitely. … Vaccination (is) a way people could get out of detention.”

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“‘The Simpsons' predicted Tom Hanks getting coronavirus in 2007.”

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