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On a Feb. 10, 2019 edition of Fox & Friends Sunday, Pete Hegseth explained that his 2019 New Year's resolution was say things on air that I say off air. Following through on that promise, he told his co-hosts that he had not washed his hands in 10 years because germs are not a real thing. I can't see them, therefore they are not real. A Jan. 23, 2021 thread on Reddit brought the quote back to the surface two years later. https://streamable.com/df3k5d As reported by The Guardian, Hegseth largely walked back his comments, deriding the media for taking his words seriously: Germs are a real thing, even when you can't see them. This is one reason health organizations recommend washing your hands to prevent the spread of COVID-19 — a timely example of a real germ that would not be visible to Hegseth. Because he did say those words, the quote is correctly attributed to Hegseth.
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