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Ron Johnson: “The solution to the pandemic was massive shutdowns, even…”

Featuring: Ron Johnson, Republican | U.S. Senate, Wisconsin

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Published | Video Starts at 21:12

But you know, throw on top of big pharma then legacy media and big tech giants. So they have decided, and you can figure out exactly why they decided this, that The solution to the pandemic was massive shutdowns, even though we knew that wouldn't work with respiratory virus. I mean we've known that. I mean that was not part of the pandemic plan. Our pandemic plan really said shutdowns aren't going to work. And yet that's what we hopped onto. (21:12–21:23)

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Asserts that shutdowns were known to be ineffective for respiratory viruses.

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