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“The first randomized controlled trial of more than 6,000 individuals to assess the effectiveness of surgical face masks against SARS-CoV-2 infection found masks did not statistically significantly reduce the incidence of infection."

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“CDC admits old ‘science’ was wrong” on COVID-19 quarantine guidance.

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“Republican elected officials, a network of propaganda publications in the state and some radio shock jocks” were spreading “a lie” about his daughter breaking COVID-19 restrictions.

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China recovered from COVID-19 “without a vaccine.”

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Says COVID-19 has killed more North Carolinians in a year than the flu has in 10 years.

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“Masks will kill quite a few people, it’s well known that they reduce blood oxygen levels and those with respiratory and cardiac disorders will die.”

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The coronavirus pandemic is “effectively over” in the United Kingdom and “there is absolutely no need for vaccines.”

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“The states that are locked down are increasing at twice the rate we are” in Florida

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“Americans are paying the highest price in the world for Remdesivir because the Trump administration is allowing Gilead Sciences to jack up the prices on this #COVID19 treatment.”

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Says the Denver Broncos signed Colin Kaepernick.

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Says that shutdowns are “ineffective” and that we now know that COVID-19 is not commonly spread “by someone going to work.”

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“We passed one of the first (COVID-19) bills in the entire country, empowering Gov. Evers to act.”

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“Pennsylvania just banned alcohol sales.”

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North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper’s “daughter is having a big wedding today. 500 people. Then going to lock you down on Monday.”

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“666,000 teachers have been laid off already since March."

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Says “Biden wants a nationwide lockdown to combat a virus that has a 99%+ survival rate.”

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Says Kelly Loeffler is "for getting rid of health care in the middle of a pandemic."

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“AARP endorsed Biden” and “says if you are past 75 you should just die and go away.”

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"If you can’t get a test through Test Iowa, there are multiple other sites: your doctor, your clinics, your pharmacies, the stroke detection clinic centers."

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Vaccines “will remove parts of your DNA and replace it with GENETIC CODING (TECHNOLOGY)” that will “cause people to HAVE to cooperate with the New World Order.”

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A member of Joe Biden’s COVID-19 task force recommends “withholding food stamps and rent assistance from those who refuse coronavirus vaccines.”

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“Ticketmaster is planning mandatory COVID vaccine identification for concert attendance.”

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Pennsylvania officials are “attempting to silence voters” by sending them letters that say they’ve been exposed to COVID-19 and “must remain quarantined and not vote in person on Election Day.”

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Photo shows Joe Biden “doesn’t wear a mask on a plane.”

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“Our doctors get more money if somebody dies from COVID. … So what they do is they say, ‘I'm sorry, but, you know, everybody dies of COVID.’"

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“COVID ends next Wednesday.”

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When Sen. Kelly Loeffler heard about the COVID-19 risk, she “focused on her own portfolio” and "profited from the pandemic."

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The number of coronavirus deaths is “almost nothing.”

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Says Dan Forest has “missed almost half of the Board of Education meetings during the pandemic."

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“More suicide deaths than coronavirus death past two months.”

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U.S. is “really not doing (COVID-19) reporting right” because deaths are being improperly counted and hospitals have an “incentive” to pad stats.

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"World renowned experts" declare that we should “live normally, practice simple hygiene,” stay home when sick and use protective measures only with “the most vulnerable populations.”

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Says Troy Nehls “called wearing masks 'un-American' and called those who do 'communists.'"

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The coronavirus "was constructed in the Wuhan Institute of Virology.”

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"Generally the deaths are still pretty flat because we've flattened the curve.”

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“We're starting to reach almost herd immunity in this nation, so we'll be on the downside of this virus very soon."

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Michigan has been “like a prison” during the coronavirus.

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“When I closed (travel from China) he said I should not have closed. ...He said this is a terrible thing, you are a xenophobe, I think he called me racist. Now he says I should have closed it earlier.”

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"We are rounding the turn (on coronavirus). We are rounding the corner."

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Pennsylvania “never opened.”

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Says Dr. Anthony Fauci wrote a paper blaming 1918-19 flu deaths on masks.

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“We saved 2 million people” from dying of COVID-19.

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Says since he and President Trump took office, their policies "led to an unemployment rate of 3.1% in Wisconsin and 61,000 Wisconsin jobs, including 15,000 manufacturing jobs."

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Says Anthony Fauci was indicted “for crimes including treason, conspiring with the enemy and fraud.”

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"We're No. 46 out of 50 states... we're 46th in terms of percentage of deaths in nursing homes."

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CNN reported, “Due to COVID-19, President Donald Trump passes away at 74.”

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According to a recent CDC report, "almost everyone — 85% — who got the coronavirus in July was wearing a mask, and they were infected anyway. So clearly (wearing a mask) doesn’t work the way they tell us it works.”

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Georgia has “almost 100,000 more (COVID-19) cases, almost twice as many deaths and almost 600 more nursing home deaths than North Carolina.”

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“The World Health Organization just admitted that I was right. Lockdowns are killing countries all over the world. The cure cannot be worse than the problem itself.”

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In May, Wisconsin had its own test of mask effectiveness, when "we went from masks, to no masks, and there (was) no significant difference in cases."

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Says Democratic senators were missing “masks” as they huddled close together at the Judiciary Committee hearing for Amy Coney Barrett.

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No one under 20 has died of COVID-19, and "it has not actually been determined yet" that anyone under 20 can spread it to an older person

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“CDC just cancelled Halloween for kids.”

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A CDC report found that “people who wear masks, are actually ‘collecting’ the virus in their masks.”

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Says “Lucy McBath voted to release criminals from prison. Murderers, rapists.”

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Says Kamala Harris said, “The American people aren’t equipped to make these decisions for themselves.”

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“All the billionaires in America, their net worth combined … has increased by $800 billion” during the pandemic.

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Says Dr. Anthony Fauci said of Trump’s pandemic response, “I can’t imagine that … anybody could be doing more.”

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Twitter removed this tweet from Donald Trump: “My blood IS the vaccine!!!!!”

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Says Sen. Gary Peters “downplayed the pandemic” and “failed to act.”

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"Dems want to shut your churches down, permanently. Hope you see what is happening."

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“South Dakota, Idaho, Florida, Tennessee & Georgia are now mask FREE!”

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“Chris Christie is in ICU and reported to be put on a ventilator.”

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“Wisconsin Republicans have not passed a single bill in 6 months.”

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Says Donald Trump said, “The doctors said they’ve never seen a body kill the coronavirus like my body. They tested my DNA and it wasn’t DNA. It was USA.”

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“Many people every year, sometimes over 100,000, and despite the vaccine, die from the flu … we are learning to live with Covid, in most populations far less lethal."

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“All Missouri’s high-risk areas have mask mandates in place.”

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“The government has released their initial plans to force a vaccine on everyone.”

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“Bikers show up to The Walter Reed Hospital to pray for President Trump.”

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“President Trump is in great danger. Evidence is mounting that he’s being deliberately killed at Walter Reed Military Hospital.”

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Says Donald Trump is not at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, “he is on AF1.”

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Says Donald Trump boarded Marine One "with a portable oxygen concentrator in his pocket with the nasal cannula going up his back, hidden in his hair and tucked under his mask."

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“No prominent Democrats have had the virus but the list of Republicans goes on and on.”

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Two “Doomsday Planes” took flight because of President Donald Trump’s COVID-19 diagnosis.

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Says Donald Trump’s reelection campaign emailed supporters to “donate to help him recover from” COVID-19.

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An episode of “The Simpsons” showed Donald Trump in a coffin.

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Says President Donald Trump started a trade war that “led to a surge in farm bankruptcies.”

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“If you just count all the deaths in the red states, we are number two in the world in deaths, just behind Brazil.”

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“For example, when the COVID-19 pandemic hit, my Administration implemented a program to provide any individual without health-insurance coverage access to necessary COVID‑19‑related testing and treatment.”

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“Bad math (is) driving Wisconsin’s exploding positive test rate.”

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A letter from Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves says that at “the beginning of October 2020 the statewide mask requirements will be abolished.”

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"We have a worse economy than any other country in the world that's going through COVID-19 by a factor of three."

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“(Republicans) have the power to overturn the (state of emergency) order by joint resolution and they refuse to do it.”

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“Only one” Black-owned restaurant in Michigan received a loan through the Paycheck Protection Program

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“Guess who is the marketing CEO of Zoom? Pelosi’s daughter/Newsome’s cousin.”

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“Putting a national lockdown, stay-at-home orders, is like house arrest. Other than slavery, which was a different kind of restraint, this is the greatest intrusion on civil liberties in American history."

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"If the president had done his job, had done his job from the beginning, all the people would still be alive. All the people. I'm not making this up. Just look at the data."

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Says that to help people in need during the coronavirus pandemic, Mike Garcia said: "Everyone should have to figure out how to fend for themselves."

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“Bill Gates says you don't have a choice to be vaccinated or not.”

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“CDC Director Robert Redfield says healthy people should NOT wear masks.”

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“Over three months after receiving CARES Act relief funds from the state, the county has still not made those dollars available to help struggling Mid-Missourians.”

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“Nobody is found dead of corona in their homes.. They all die at the hospital.”

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“The number of ICU beds is larger in Boone County by a factor of three” compared to Orange County for the University of North Carolina.

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“Wisconsin is one of the nine states with the highest rate of infection per capita.”

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"All evidence points to the fact that our kids are 17 times more likely to have ill effects from the seasonal flu than they are from the coronavirus.”

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“Kroger Corporate says employees can not wear flag masks but they can wear BLM masks!”

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Says Joe Biden and Gretchen Whitmer were maskless at the Detroit Athletic Club “while OUR children are being mandated to wear a mask while playing outdoor sports.”

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“Canada has just criminalized all CV19 measures requiring masks, distancing, quarantining & vaccines.”

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“CDC announces that students may be kept from parents overnight as Ohio sets up COVID-19 FEMA camps.”

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“Military COVID infected: 118,984. Military COVID deaths: 6,114.”

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