CORONAVIRUS: “Ideally we won’t go to a [coronavirus] lockdown. I will not go, this administration will not be going to a lockdown. Hopefully the— whatever happens in the future, who knows which administration it will be, I guess time will tell. But I can tell you this administration will not go to a lockdown. It won’t be a necessity. Lockdowns cost lives and they cost a lot of problems. The cure cannot be, you gotta remember, cannot be worse than the problem itself.”
-Donald Trump, “President Trump Delivers an Update on Operation Warp Speed,” whitehouse.gov, Nov. 13, 2020