Ron DeSantis: “In fact, you had states that closed churches. These happen…”

“I can tell you how I dealt with it. During COVID it was mentioned the world lost its mind. You had people like Tony Fauci telling people not to go to church. In fact, you had states that closed churches. These happen to be some of the same states that allowed strip clubs to remain open. And so try to explain that one to me in an innocent way. So you were seeing this taking over the country. Now, I didn't do that, but we had some local jurisdictions that were overreacting.” (13:39–13:50)

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