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“When I came into office, the prior administration had contracted for not nearly enough vaccine to cover adults in America.”

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Says the NC elections board “did not change state law."

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"Some people are going to die from the vaccine directly. But a large number of people are going to start getting horribly sick and get all kinds of autoimmune diseases."

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"While he was president, President Trump never encouraged Americans to get vaccinated."

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Republicans are “trying to create a fake unemployment insurance crisis.”

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The $1.9 trillion relief package is “about a bridge for Chuck Schumer, a tunnel for Nancy Pelosi.”

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“All of the science and data say it’s perfectly safe to have teachers and students in the classroom.”

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“More than 91% of the spending in this $1.9 trillion package is not used for pandemic relief.”

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Says the Atlanta mayor is “shutting the city down for” the NBA All-Star Game weekend.

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“There’s about 9% of (the American Rescue Plan) actually going to COVID, meaning 91% of it is not even COVID-related.”

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The COVID-19 rescue bill includes money for a list of projects that are not COVID-related.

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“New York, for all of their complaining, Gov. Cuomo's complaining, has only had a 1.5% decrease in revenue” due to the coronavirus pandemic.

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“If you take the vaccine, you'll be enrolled in a pharmacovigilance tracking system. It means that you've enrolled yourself in a medical trial.”

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The COVID-19 vaccine could lead to prion diseases, Alzheimer’s, ALS and other neurodegenerative diseases.

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Due to differing lockdown orders, New York has more COVID-19 cases, deaths, hospitalizations and job losses than Florida, and New York also lags on vaccinations.

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In the American Rescue Plan, “just about 1% of the money is for vaccines.”

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“For the month of February, Illinois has been the vaccination leader among the 10 most populous states in the country.”

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The result of lockdowns “has been the destruction of millions of lives across America as well as increased deaths from suicide, substance abuse and despair without any corresponding benefit in Covid mortality.”

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“COVID-19 infections down 61% from Trump’s last day. COVID-19 vaccinations up 85% from Trump’s last day. Competence Matters.”

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“There's over a trillion dollars of money unspent from previous (coronavirus) relief bills ... still sitting in a bank account.”

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“The vast majority of the American people” support Biden’s $1.9 trillion rescue plan, “including a majority of Republicans.”

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The science says “open the schools, stop wearing masks outside, and everyone at low risk should start living normal lives."

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“There is a consensus among economists left, right, and center… that we can’t spend too much” on COVID-19 relief.

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“Gov Roy Cooper does not consider Type 1 diabetes an under lying health issue!”

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Says death reports in federal database show the fatal risk of COVID-19 vaccines.

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“You may not have stayed in a hotel in the past year, but illegals arriving since Biden’s inauguration, they get to stay free of charge.”

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Says Joe Biden “is trying to shut FL’s border.”

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November election data shows a “stunning anomaly in the rejection rate of absentee ballots.”

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“Pritzker’s Hierarchy of Vaccine Priorities” puts prisoners, politicians and college students ahead of “individuals with high-risk health factors, and everyone else.”

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“We know mask mandates work. There’s enough evidence out there between counties that have done it and counties that haven’t."

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South Dakota "did have tragedies and we did have losses. But we also got through (the pandemic) better than virtually every other state."

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Doctors and nurses who administer the coronavirus vaccine can be "tried as war criminals."

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"The committee that advises @GovEvers and his department tasked with leading during this pandemic is recommending allowing prisoners to receive the vaccine before 65 year old grandma?”

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Photo shows Tampa Mayor Jane Castor maskless at Super Bowl.

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The COVID-19 vaccine “went out for distribution” in Nebraska “days before the FDA even said they were going to approve it.”

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“But we’re below the national average in number of deaths in nursing homes.”

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“More than 200,000 DACA recipients are essential infrastructure workers” including “41,700 DACA recipients in the healthcare industry”

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“Pfizer and Moderna could share their design with dozens of other pharma companies who stand ready to produce their vaccines and end the pandemic.”

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“New evidence ties COVID-19 creation to research funded by Fauci"

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“Now (Biden) is saying that people who came here illegally can jump ahead of other Americans who have been waiting to get the vaccine.”

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“Doctor proves masks don’t work” by vaping through them.

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"BUSTED: CDC Inflated COVID Numbers, Accused of Violating Federal Law"

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Says North Carolina bill to require in-person learning is “stripping out some of the health protocols that are in place.”

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Seniors around the world who died from COVID vaccine are being improperly listed as “natural causes.”

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States are seeing increases in revenue, with an average decline of just 0.12% compared with 2019. Over half of states report positive growth, including California, New York, and Illinois.

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“A Miracle! Only 23 Americans Tested Positive for Flu Last Week Compared to 14,657 Cases Reported Last Year at Same Time.”

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"The (Erie Co., N.Y.) health commissioner makes more than the governor, the vice president of the United States, and has a salary that is comparable to Dr. Anthony Fauci.”

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Gov. Tony Evers “has the authority and revenue necessary” to upgrade the Wisconsin unemployment system without the Legislature.

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"A lot of these migrants that are coming, we have no way to screen their backgrounds for either health or for security."

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“The Biden administration lost 20 million COVID vaccines.”

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“WHO now saying you do not need to wear a mask.”

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Masks have negative impacts on 68% of children.

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Assembly Republicans “have come to the table” and were part of “give and take” compromise on a coronavirus bill.

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Says Joe Biden “has issued more executive fiats than anyone in such a short period of time, ever, more than Obama, more than Trump, more than anyone.”

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"The process to distribute the vaccine, particularly outside of nursing homes and hospitals out into the community as a whole, did not really exist when we came into the White House."

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Says the number of spoiled coronavirus vaccines in North Carolina is “very small ... in the tens.”

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“We have scientific data, from all different levels, but particularly from the high school sports levels, from numerous different states that shows that it is safe to play what New York is considering high-risk sports.”

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In Michigan, “we were able to really flatten” the racial disparity in COVID-19’s impact “and make significant progress.”

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“There will be several thousand dollars in payments going to families with six-figure incomes who’ve had no income interruption whatsoever.”

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Virginia ranks “in the bottom third of states” in administering the COVID-19 vaccine.

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“Wisconsin is second to last in the Midwest in our vaccination rate and the governor says he’s ‘satisfied.’”

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The COVID-19 vaccine is dangerous because 23 people died in Norway "within hours” of receiving it.

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Says that “the way to reach ‘herd immunity’ is for >70% of the population to get vaccinated.”

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“Coronavirus vaccinations seem to be causing 50 times the adverse events of flu vaccinations after just the first of two shots.”

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Says Rep. Pramila Jayapal was not wearing a mask in Congress during the U.S. Capitol mob.

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Says COVID-19 vaccines have “experimental technology never before used on humans” and that some “contain nanochips which can electronically track recipients."

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A registered nurse in Nashville, Tenn., developed Bell’s Palsy after receiving the COVID-19 vaccine.

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“In my state, as in many other states, we have governors who are closing down businesses again.”

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North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper "has not left the Governor's Mansion since the start of the #COVID19 crisis."

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Cornell University professor Robert Oswald said “COVID-19 was imaginary and fictitious.”

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Says a recent study found no asymptomatic or presymptomatic spread of COVID.

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Says “Dr. Fauci lied about masks in March.”

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Says COVID-19 relief bill “provides more funding to foreign governments and to American arts centers, than to the American people.”

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“CDC COVID-19 survival rates” are 99.997% for people ages 0 to 19, 99.98% for people ages 20 to 49, 99.5% for people ages 50 to 69, and 94.6% for people over 70.

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Says that the oil and gas industry comprises 35% of the Texas economy.

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“Nurse passes out on live TV after taking vaccine.”

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“This is a phony pandemic.”

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"New data shows in-person learning isn't driving spikes in cases."

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Says the new coronavirus vaccines contain toxic ingredients and are more dangerous than getting COVID-19.

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“21% of people are having serious adverse events from (the Moderna) vaccine.”

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Says that guidance urging vaccinated people to avoid travel and continue wearing masks is "profoundly anti-science."

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“This whole COVID thing? It’s a SIMULATION.”

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“One of the first nurses to receive the vaccine in AL is now dead.”

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An Austrian politician “exposed the defectiveness of the government’s Covid-19 tests by demonstrating how even a glass of Coca Cola will test positive for Covid-19.”

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The American Medical Association rescinded a previous statement and now says "hydroxychloroquine is okay" for COVID-19.

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An optional microchip for COVID-19 vaccines “would give officials information on who has and has not been vaccinated” and “tracks the location of the patient.”

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“Pope Francis says covid vaccine will now be required to enter heaven.”

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The CDC delivers groceries and cleaning products “twice while you’re in quarantine.”

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Says Jon Ossoff "wants total, blanket amnesty and he wants a total lockdown."

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The COVID-19 pandemic has caused four of the eight “deadliest days in American history.”

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“FDA announces 2 deaths of Pfizer vaccine trial participants from ‘serious adverse events.’”

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The number of people who have died in the U.S. in 2020 is on par with years prior to COVID-19.

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"If all goes 'well' it'll become federal law to get the (COVID-19) vaccine."

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“Biden confirms agenda to microchip the masses”

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"You know what the biggest lie is, is that restaurants are spreaders of COVID. There's no science for that."

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“40 years of research, and no vaccine for HIV. At least 100 years of research and no vaccine for cancer. Ongoing research and no vaccine for the common cold. Now in less than a year, there's a vaccine for COVID-19?”

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“Head of Pfizer research: Covid vaccine is female sterilization.”

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Images that show a 90-year-old UK woman receiving the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine appeared online in a CNN news story in October.

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"The FDA knows that rushed-to-market COVID-19 vaccines may cause a wide range of life-threatening side effects, including death."

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"People have lost faith in the ability of the vaccine to work. Already, the numbers are really staggeringly low."

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