Joe Biden: “Unemployment rate rose to 15% [during the pandemic].”

“Many people were dying. All he said was, it's not that serious. Just inject a little bleach into your arm, you'll be all right. The economy collapsed. There were no jobs. Unemployment rate rose to 15% [during the pandemic]. It was terrible. And so what we had to do is try to put things back together again. That's exactly what we began to do. We created 15,000 new jobs.” (10:00–10:04)

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