"They're probably more likely to pick up an infecton outside of the workplace, where they spend two-thirds of their time."
-- Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts on meat plant workers

669
-- number of workers in a single Nebraska plant who turned out to have coronavirus

"Fascist...Give people back their goddamn freedom...Free America Now."
-- Elon Musk on coronavirus lockdown

"The greatest mistake in the history of humanity."
-- radio host Dennis Prager, on coronavirus lockdown

"The virus just isn't nearly as deadly as we thought it was."
-- Fox News' Tucker Carlson

"We're on the other side of the medical aspect of this. And I think that we've achieved all the different milestones that are needed. So the federal government rose to the challenge, and this is a great success story. And I think that's really what needs to be told."
-- Jared Kushner

"Anyone who knows more than he does makes him feel less than he is."
-- Barbara A. Res, former Trump Organization executive, on Trump

"I built the greatest economy in the history of the world."
-- Trump

"He was totally misquoted in the media on a statement about the fall season and the virus. Totally misquoted. I spoke to him. He said it was ridiculous."
-- Trump on CDC Director Robert Redfield

"The headline was ridiculous... I was accurately quoted."
-- Redfield

"It won't be coming back in the form that it was, it will be coming back in smaller doses, that we contain...We will not go through what we went through in the last two months...It's also possible it won't come back at all."
-- Trump, on the fall

"We will have coronavirus in the fall."
-- Dr. Fauci

"That's totally ridiculous. Then we should trace everybody for cancer, and heart disease, and obesity. A lot of things kill you more than Covid-19."
-- Rudy Giuliani on contract tracing the highly contagious coronavirus

"Supposing we hit the body with a tremendous, whether it's ultraviolet or just very powerful light...Supposing you brought the light inside the body, which you can do, either through the skin or in some other way...Then I see the disinfectant where it knocks it out in one minute. Is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside, or almost a cleaning?"
-- Trump at Coronavirus Task Force Briefing

"So let's say we had 350 million people in the United States. Let's say you gave every one of those people...a test 10 times. The fake news media would say, 'Where's the 11th test? He didn't do his job.'...Because you have a lot of bad reporting out there. It's very sad."
-- Trump