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Jay Furman: “16 guys, when I wrote my thing, had succumbed to the virus…”

Featuring: Jay Furman, Republican | Former Candidate, U.S. House Texas, District 28

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Episode 220 | Commander Jay Furman, Congressional Candidate TX-28

Published | Video Starts at 37:27

We don't know what we have here. We do know we have the most healthy population anywhere, and we have the evidence of the numbers to date. 16 guys, when I wrote my thing, had succumbed to the virus and they all had comorbidities. I said, you know, this is crazy. We're just doing this mass experiment in total. We need to be able to drive the tanks and fly the airplanes at the end of this, I said, hey, we need to have a control group. (37:27–37:34)

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Asserts that 16 military personnel had died from COVID-19, all with comorbidities.

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