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stated on April 22, 2020 in a Facebook post:

If you paid rent in March or April, “they got to give” you your money back.

By Tom Kertscher • May 20, 2020
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stated on May 11, 2020 in a Facebook post:

“Autopsies prove that COVID-19 is” a blood clot, not pneumonia, “and ought to be fought with antibiotics” and the whole world has been wrong in treating the “so-called” pandemic.

By Tom Kertscher • May 19, 2020
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stated on May 14, 2020 in a Facebook post:

If masks prevent coronavirus, governors would have given them to prison inmates instead of releasing them.

By Tom Kertscher • May 19, 2020
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stated on April 30, 2020 in a Facebook post:

“Bill Gates admits his COVID-19 vaccine might kill nearly 1 million people.”

By Tom Kertscher • May 19, 2020
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stated on April 27, 2020 in a Facebook post:

Hospitals get paid $750 for patients who die from the flu, $17,500 for COVID-19.

By Tom Kertscher • May 18, 2020
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stated on May 14, 2020 in a Facebook post:

“Cannabis may stop coronavirus from infecting people, study finds.”

By Tom Kertscher • May 18, 2020
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stated on May 12, 2020 in a Facebook post:

$100B contact tracing bill “is about controlling/tracking population, not about coronavirus.”

By Tom Kertscher • May 15, 2020
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stated on May 9, 2020 in a Facebook post:

“It’s not that there’s a virus shield between Canada (4,500 deaths) and the U.S. (80,000 deaths). What exists is a difference in leadership.”

By Tom Kertscher • May 15, 2020
Rand Paul
stated on May 6, 2020 in an interview:

$3 trillion for federal coronavirus stimulus packages is "being borrowed basically from China."

By Tom Kertscher • May 14, 2020
South West News Service
stated on April 24, 2020 in a news story:

Black cats in Vietnam are being killed and consumed as a COVID-19 cure.

By Tom Kertscher • May 8, 2020