MIRAMAR BEACH, Fla. — The COVID-19 pandemic was "done on purpose," according to U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Auburn).
Tuberville spoke to the Alabama Grocers Association on Monday about the financial difficulties the country faces and what solutions Congress and the Trump administration were enacting.
"It's going to be more of trying to deregulate and finding more ways of DOGE of cutting back. We're leaking oil bad. Washington D.C., we've been spending $2 trillion more a year than we bring in. We can't afford that," Tuberville said.
"Covid absolutely destroyed our country, and we allowed it to happen through federal regulations and shutting down schools, nobody going to work, our health care went to hell in a handbasket. It was devastating, and where did it start? It started in North Carolina. They shipped it to Wuhan, China. They released it there, and look what happened? At the end of the day, you're going to find out, and of course, everybody said this was a conspiracy theory: it was done on purpose. Made us all sick. It wasn't as bad physically for those of us that didn't have bad health problems. If you had a bad health problem, you really struggled with it. Heaven help us, these people get a handle on that and do it again because it really rocked our boat when it came to our economy."
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