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On the recordOctober 19, 2020
``Idiots.'' ``Idiots.'' That is what the President called Dr. Anthony Fauci and the public health experts in the Federal Government. The President said: People are tired of COVID. I have the biggest rallies I've ever had. And we have COVID. People are saying: ``Whatever. Just leave us alone.'' They're tired of it. Then he added: People are tired of hearing Fauci and these idiots, all these idiots who got it wrong. Those are the words of the President of the United States, Donald Trump, in the midst of the worst pandemic America has seen in over a century--220,000 dead and counting. What lies ahead with this COVID epidemic, which the President is so tired of hearing about? What have the so-called ``idiots'' told us about the future of COVID-19? Here is what they have told us: More than 70,450 new coronavirus cases were reported in the United States on Friday, the highest figure since July 24, according to the New York Times database. More than 900 new deaths were recorded, and over the past week, there have been an average of 56,615 cases per day--an increase of 30 percent from the average 2 weeks earlier. Is this a political commentary, these facts? No. These are the numbers and statistics of reality--a reality which President Trump refuses to acknowledge. How are we doing when it comes to the COVID-19 pandemic compared to the world? Well, we have five times the infection rate of the nation of Germany. What is going on here?…
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Oct 19, 2020

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