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The “delta” in “delta variant” means “deep sleep.”

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Says Joe Biden has driven the current coronavirus surge because he “imported more virus from around the world by having a wide open southern border.”

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“More people have died of an opioid overdose in North Carolina in recent years than have died of COVID.”

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Says spending by Democrats is driving major jumps in car rentals, gas prices and hotel prices this summer

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"If your employer is mandating any pokes, do not quit. Make them fire you. That way you get unemployment benefits."

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Two federal government buses “stopped in front of a Mexican restaurant in the very small town of Green Cove Springs Florida… The passengers were illegal immigrants, straight from the southern border.”

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“Wearing masks has not been demonstrated to make a significant impact in preventing the spread of COVID.”

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It’s safer to be unvaccinated than vaccinated against COVID-19.

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Ivermectin caused a substantial decrease in the excess mortality rate in Mexico.

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“Fauci just told us they found a (coronavirus) variant that ‘evades the test.’”

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Says Gov. Tony Evers has declared Wisconsin “permanently closed” for business.

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“The best way to avoid COVID altogether is to exercise, eat healthy and let your immune system beat it naturally.”

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“Thanks to (Israel's) sacrifice, we now know that natural immunity is far superior with 1% experiencing re-infection while 40% of new cases were previously vx'd."

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Photos show Lloyd Austin without a face shield after he landed in the Philippines.

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“You can't actually use ARPA (American Rescue Plan Act) funds” to pay down state unemployment insurance fund deficits.

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CDC "will revoke the emergency use authorization" of the PCR COVID tests because those tests don't differentiate between COVID and flu viruses. "Translation: They've been adding flu cases to Covid cases when using that test.”

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“60% of patients admitted to the hospital in the UK have been fully vaccinated”

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The opening ceremony of the 2012 London Olympics predicted the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Says Emmanuel Macron said, “I no longer have any intention of sacrificing my life, my time, my freedom and the adolescence of my daughters, as well as their right to study properly, for those who refuse to be vaccinated.”

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“Alert: Law enforcement and the Red Cross have advised that there are people going door to door indicating that they are authorized to do testing for Coronavirus.”

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Ethylene oxide used in COVID-19 testing swabs “literally changes the structure of the building blocks of your own body.”

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Says Joe Biden “is restricting travel for Americans into Mexico, but is keeping the border wide open for illegal aliens to walk right into our country.”

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“CDC quietly deletes 6,000 COVID vaccine deaths from its CDC website total in one day.”

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“Don’t believe the hype that Florida” COVID-19 “numbers are up. It’s a blatant lie.”

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Video montage shows Kamala Harris and others faking vaccination.

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“It makes no sense to require vaccinations for the previously infected.”

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Says an NBC producer at the Olympics was caught on a hot mic saying “60% of people in this stadium will be dead within 10 days.”

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"People are being diagnosed with delta variant" even though "there is no delta variant test."

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Says Joe Biden and Kamala Harris distrusted COVID-19 vaccines.

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The coronavirus can’t be so dangerous because there are no biohazard bins for COVID-19 masks and gloves.

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“Ten thousand people have recently died. 9,950 of them, thereabouts, are people who hadn’t been vaccinated."

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“You’re not going to get COVID if you have these vaccinations.”

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“45,000 confirmed dead from the COVID-19 shots within three days… and they’ve covered it up.”

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“Americans not vaccinated before 2022 will be put in camps”

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“Every Republican in Congress voted to defund the police when they voted against the American Rescue Plan.”

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“If the shot actually saved lives, they’d be priced so high that you literally could not afford them, you know like insulin.”

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Questions about whether she’s been vaccinated are “a violation of my HIPAA rights.”

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“Canada prohibits all vaxxed pilots from flying.”

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Photo shows people protesting against “vaccine tyranny” in France.

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“You must give EVERY PENNY” of the advance child tax credit payments back when you file your 2021 taxes.

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“Unvaccinated, you can get COVID and have over 99% chance of survival. Get vaccinated and you can still get COVID and will still have over 99% chance of survival.”

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Five JetBlue pilots died from the COVID-19 vaccine.

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“Some of you are being injected with saline because it would look too suspicious if everybody died at the same time.”

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Headlines show CNN published contradictory reports about hydroxychloroquine in 2020.

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Haiti, Tanzania and Madagascar refused the COVID-19 vaccines and now all three of their presidents have died unexpectedly.

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“Lauren Boebert received a PPP loan for her restaurant.”

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A study found an “82% miscarriage rate” among women between 30 days and 20 weeks pregnant who got an mRNA COVID-19 vaccine.

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If COVID-19 was real, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge wouldn’t have been “allowed to join 50,000 other football fans inside a stadium."

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The Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine is "99% graphene oxide," which is "toxic to the human body and causes a number of problems.

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Four pharmaceutical companies have questionable track records that suggest their COVID-19 vaccines aren’t safe.

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The delta variant of the coronavirus “is approximately 19 times less deadly.”

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“Fauci says there will be 'two Americas': One for vaccinated, one for unvaccinated.”

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Says the Make-A-Wish Foundation will grant wishes only to fully vaccinated children.

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A “peer reviewed, scientific study showed that the COVID-19 vaccine causes two deaths for every three lives it saves.”

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A video shows an animal chip scanner detecting a microchip where a woman was vaccinated.

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A photo shows Mike Tyson wearing a T-shirt with an anti-vaccine message.

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“CDC officials admit more hospitalizations of young people from vaccine than from the actual COVID virus.”

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Funeral directors say “no one is dying from COVID” and "the only ones dying are from the vaccine."

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Says the U.S. government caused the coronavirus pandemic because it sent mRNA coronavirus vaccine candidates to university researchers weeks before the COVID-19 outbreak.

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mRNA technology in COVID-19 vaccines was never tested in humans.

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Says Dr. Anthony Fauci in an email "advises a family member to use (hydroxychloroquine) and antibiotic therapy, the same evening in which in a press conference he attacked (President Donald Trump) on the usefulness of (hydroxychloroquine) to fight the virus.”

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“The WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION recently reversed its stance on children getting the Covid vaccine.”

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“The unvaccinated have escaped every single strain or 'variant’” of SARS-CoV-2.

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AstraZeneca means “weapon that kills.”

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“Cuomo opens New York 72 hours before his daughter's wedding.”

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Says the Novavax COVID-19 vaccine “dumps millions” of dangerous “spike proteins right into your body.”

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The COVID-19 vaccines’ “spike protein is very dangerous, it's cytotoxic.”

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Says Anthony Fauci will make millions off new book.

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Emails show that Fauci knew "hydroxychloroquine worked [and] emailed friends about it being effective."

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Says a 2010 Rockefeller Foundation report shows the COVID-19 pandemic and the international response were “meticulously planned at least 10 years ago.”

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"Study: hydroxychloroquine can boost COVID-19 survival chances by nearly 200%."

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Says professional soccer player Christian Eriksen received the Pfizer vaccine days before he collapsed during a game.

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"These 2 Ankeny moms standing next to the Governor are known Qanon and anti-vaxx conspiracy theorists."

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"Report: Vaccine related deaths may rival recorded COVID-19 deaths."

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The COVID-19 vaccines make people "magnetized. They can put a key on their forehead, it sticks. They can put spoons and forks all over them, and they can stick."

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Says Marjorie Taylor Greene said, “People are dying who have never died before.”

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"920 women lose their unborn babies after getting vaccinated."

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"Airlines are meeting today to discuss the risks of carrying vaxed passengers due to the risk of clots and the liabilities involved.”

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Viral immunologist says COVID-19 vaccines’ “spike protein” means people are being inoculated “with a toxin.”

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“Fauci’s emails leaked.”

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"The CDC lowered the PCR threshold while no longer recording asymptomatic cases...but only for the vaccinated."

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Emails show "Fauci's fellow scientist could tell early on that the (coronavirus) looked manufactured."

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An email from Dr. Anthony Fauci shows "everyone was lied to" about wearing masks to prevent the spread of COVID-19.

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“U.S. military arrests Dr. Deborah Birx.”

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“So the unvaxxed have to wear mask (sic) to protect the vaxxinated.”

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"You will be 'vaccinated' regardless of whether you receive the shot or not.”

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COVID-19 vaccines are creating the coronavirus variants.

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"The Lancet peer-reviewed study confirms vaccine efficacy, not as 95% stated by the vaccine companies, but as: AstraZeneca 1.3%; Moderna 1.2%; J&J 1.2%; Pfizer 0.84%."

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Says Luc Montagnier said, “There is no hope and no possible treatment for those who have been vaccinated already. We must be prepared to incinerate the bodies.”

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“Now, 50% of all of America, more than any other country, is fully vaccinated.”

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You can’t donate plasma after getting a COVID-19 vaccine.

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People with the COVID-19 vaccine are being "tracked in real time via 5G cellular, and all that data can be hacked into to track you."

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The CDC in mid-May quietly changed its international travel recommendations to require fully vaccinated people to test negative for COVID-19 before flying to the United States.

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“943 innocent kids … are now injured or dead” because of the COVID-19 vaccine.

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Getting the COVID-19 vaccine jeopardizes life insurance policies.

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The CDC lifting mask guidelines “out of the blue with no solid explanation proves they lied to you the whole time about everything.”

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Says Anthony Fauci’s wife has “a secret plan to put psych drugs in drinking water” to get people vaccinated.

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“Since removing the mask mandate two months ago, Texas has not reported a single COVID death. Not one."

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A video shows “Dems caught not wearing masks” at the White House.

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An Ohio doctor died from a COVID-19 vaccine.

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