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Ron Johnson
@ronjohnson· Republican · WI· Jun 18, 2024

The reason the American public legitimately do not trust scientists and Federal health agencies are because of people like you.

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Ron Johnson
@ronjohnson· Republican · WI· Jun 18, 2024

Again, that's the rationale they used. The thing they really scared the public on was the 1918 Flu Pandemic.

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Ron Johnson
@ronjohnson· Republican · WI· Jun 18, 2024

My guess is the smoking gun exists somewhere under these heavy redactions.

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Ron Johnson
@ronjohnson· Republican · WI· Jun 18, 2024

What possible reason is there to be producing what nature probably could not produce? Why are we doing this?

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Ron Johnson
@ronjohnson· Republican · WI· Jun 18, 2024

I think we witnessed that during COVID. They drove it in a very bad direction.

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Ron Johnson
@ronjohnson· Republican · WI· Jun 18, 2024

The reason the American public legitimately do not trust scientists and Federal health agencies are because of people like you.

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Ron Johnson
@ronjohnson· Republican · WI· Jun 18, 2024

We could use a public debate regarding all things vaccine, the profit, motive of it, and everything else.

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Ron Johnson
@ronjohnson· Republican · WI· Jun 18, 2024

We may not have a smoking gun, but the circumstantial evidence is strong that this was a man-made virus.

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Ron Johnson
@ronjohnson· Republican · WI· Jun 18, 2024

I think one of the things we have to provide oversight is the sabotage of early treatment using widely available cheap and safe generic drugs.

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Ron Johnson
@ronjohnson· Republican · WI· Jun 18, 2024

In Eisenhower's very prescient farewell speech, he not only warned us about the military industrial complex, he warned us about government funding of research.

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Ron Johnson
@ronjohnson· Republican · WI· Jun 18, 2024

We need to do a lot of oversight, not just on the origin, which is an important aspect of this, but on everything.

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Ron Johnson
@ronjohnson· Republican · WI· Jun 18, 2024

He said you do that, then scientists are going to be more interested in their grant, in obtaining a grant than pursuing truthful science.

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Ron Johnson
@ronjohnson· Republican · WI· Jun 18, 2024

We may not have a smoking gun, but the circumstantial evidence is strong that this was a man-made virus.

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Ron Johnson
@ronjohnson· Republican · WI· Jun 18, 2024

Again, that's the rationale they used. The thing they really scared the public on was the 1918 Flu Pandemic.

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Ron Johnson
@ronjohnson· Republican · WI· Jun 18, 2024

I think we witnessed that during COVID. They drove it in a very bad direction.

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Ron Johnson
@ronjohnson· Republican · WI· Jun 18, 2024

My guess is the smoking gun exists somewhere under these heavy redactions.

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Barack Obama
@barackobama· Democratic · IL· Jun 18, 2024

It is because of Giants like Willie that someone like me could even think about running for president.

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Bill Hagerty
@billhagerty· Republican · TN· Jun 18, 2024

I asked him repeatedly, and repeatedly he declined to make that guarantee.

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