Pandemic: what they said and what the record shows
What right-wing public figures said about the pandemic, set against what happened and the record. 20 entries: 11 predictions, 9 claims.
- “We have the highest death rate from COVID of any nation on Earth.”
- “The number of cases and deaths of the China Virus is far exaggerated in the United States because of @CDCgov's ridiculous method of determination compared to…”
- “Oh, sure. Yes. … So yeah, 20 million vaccinations this month.”
- “But just the other day, they came out with a statement that 85% of the people that wear masks catch it.”
- “Through this study, over 100,000 Americans have already enrolled to receive this treatment, and it has proven to reduce mortality by 35 percent.”
- “We have the lowest Mortality Rate in the World.”
- “Likewise, testing—there were no tests for a new virus, but now we have tested over 40 million people. But by so doing, we show cases, 99 percent of which are…”
- “We know how to deal with this stuff now. It's come a long way since last winter and there is no second wave coming.”
- “In recent days, the media has taken to sounding the alarm bells over a “second wave” of coronavirus infections. Such panic is overblown.”
- “We've tested much more than anybody else, times two—or every country combined. We've tested more than every country combined.”
- “And I've told you that we inherited a very broken test—a broken system and a broken test, and within a short period of time, we were setting records.”
- “But if you look at what original projections were — 2.2 million — we're probably heading to 60,000, 70,000.”
- “If you look at the trends today, I think by Memorial Day Weekend we will largely have this coronavirus epidemic behind us.”
- “the minimum number was 100,000 lives, and I think we'll be substantially under that number.”
- “Anybody that wants a test can get a test. That's what the bottom line is.”
- “It's going to disappear. One day — it's like a miracle — it will disappear.”
- “…when you have 15 people, and the 15 within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero…”
- “We will not see diseases like the coronavirus come here.”
- “We have contained this. We have contained this. I won't say airtight, but pretty close to airtight.”
- “Now, the virus that we're talking about having to do—you know, a lot of people think that goes away in April with the heat—as the heat comes in. Typically…”