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Didn't Hear It, Won't Hear It.

by Anonymous • Jul 10, 2020 at 5:10 pm

The views expressed in these submissions are from anonymous, unverified sources and do not necessarily represent those of the Portland Mercury.

March 2, 2020 White House Situation Room, President Donald Trump:
“Fellow Citizens, the Covid-19 flu is worse than I originally expected. I am therefore ordering the following: I call on American manufacturing to produce 1 billion face masks within a month, along with 10 million hospital quality ventilators. I’m asking all Americans to follow CDC guidelines for physical distancing, and wearing a mask, which I will also begin doing at the conclusion of this address. I am recommending non-essential businesses to close. State government will make those decisions. This will likely result in some job layoffs which I believe will be temporary. I call on Congress to produce monetary relief for all those affected.
I will keep you updated in the coming days, and we will get through this together. Goodnight.”
November 2,2020 CNN Center Anderson Cooper. “Despite being Impeached, a soft recession that resulted in a high of 6 percent unemployment, and a flu epidemic which claimed the lives of nearly 2500 mostly elderly Americans, CNN projects President Donald Trump will be re- elected with 290 electoral votes.”

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