"When you are a king, the forces of the universe will protect your mourners against COVID-19, so the rules about numbers of people at funerals don't apply to your funeral. You can have several thousand people there as long as they have masks and sanitise."
"Also, the virologists and immunologists can have an opinion on how disease spreads, but politicians hsve the final say on that. So obviously we need more politicians and fewer scientists, and then we'll all be healthier."
"Also, while we're here, I just want to remind you that John Pombe Magufuli died of a heart problem in Dar es Salaam, not of COVID-19 in Nairobi; and he was fine and working hard the weeks before when nobody heard from him."
"As the stats clearly show, there's no COVID-19 in Tanzania, so Finance Minister Philip Mpango couldn't possibly have this disease. At the hospital press conference, he simply had a bit of a cough from a mild allergic reaction to imported chocolate which he got as a gift."

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