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On the recordMarch 15, 2022
we finished up some three or four townhalls this weekend, bringing us, I think, over nine. And I will tell you this, Americans know they are being lied to. They know the decisions coming out of the White House and the CDC are politically driven. Let me tell you this for sure: Kansans are mad, and they are upset, and they know this lie is continuing, and their anger continues to grow. And at the end of every townhall, I can tell you, two or three people will grab me and say: Please, please keep fighting for our freedoms. This is what else they tell me. They tell me they don't trust the CDC anymore, that the CDC has lost their reputation; and I am telling you, it will be difficult for them to ever get it back. Now, they are being told that we have to wear masks on airplanes for another month or so--another horrible decision coming from the White House, more ill advice from the CDC. And all the time we know that these masks--with these masks comes a psychosocial downfall, that it creates problems. But the CDC continues to lust for control--to control our lives and exert their control over us, over me, over our children and our grandchildren. My concern is this: The CDC continues to make decisions as if they are in a vacuum without consideration of the big picture. Let's just take a moment and talk about where we are today. Ninety- five percent of Americans have some level of immunity--95 percent.…
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Roger Marshall
Republican · Kansas

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