Joseph Biden actually said...

"As a nation, we can’t accept such a cruel fate. While we’re fighting this pandemic for so long, we have to resist becoming numb to the sorrow."

"We often hear of people described as ordinary Americans. There’s no such thing. There’s nothing ordinary about them. The people we lost were extraordinary."

"Today, we mark a truly grim, heartbreaking milestone. As we acknowledge the scale of this mass death in America, we remember each person and the life they lived. They’re people we knew. They’re people..."

"It’s not Democrats and Republicans who are dying from the virus. It’s our fellow Americans. It’s our neighbors and our friends -- our mothers, our fathers, our sons, our daughters, husbands, wives."