Rand Paul on monkeypox: "The government looks like they're going to screw this up the same way they did COVID"

Just The News ^ | Aug 15 | By Nicholas Ballasy

[RandFan]

Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul predicted that a GOP majority in Congress would "get to the bottom" of the origins of COVID-19, something that still hasn't been fully investigated.

"I think most of the mainstream media has kept off of the airwaves a discussion of gain-of-function research or the origins of the virus, but we will get to the bottom of this," Paul said on a conference call with reporters. "It's going to take control of committees ...

"I've talked to Jim Jordan and others about investigating this. I think there's a great deal of interest in investigating the origins of the virus. I'm very interested in it, but it depends on elections. Elections have consequences. We'll have to see what happens in November."

Republicans and moderate Democrats have called on Democratic congressional leaders to establish a commission to investigate the origins of COVID-19.

Paul was asked for his opinion of the Biden administration's handling of monkeypox and whether he thinks it could reach the level of a pandemic.

"I think the reason it won't spread to the level of COVID is it's not spread through air, it's spread through sexual contact primarily, and among the gay community," he said. "I do think that they've already made some of the same mistakes that they made with COVID.

"During COVID, the test to diagnose COVID, was monopolized by the CDC, and it initially didn't work. Historically, testing for infectious diseases has been done by hundreds and hundreds, if not thousands, of different labs, including most of the universities in our country."

It's a "really bad idea" to have the CDC and the FDA monopolize the testing process for a virus such as COVID-19, he added.

[MIchaelTArchangel]

Um, Rand, do you suppose maybe, just maybe, that screwing is the problem with Monkeypox?

[Ken H]

Don’t be a dolt =>

Rand Paul: “I think the reason it won’t spread to the level of COVID is it’s not spread through air, it’s spread through sexual contact primarily, and among the gay community,”

[Honest Nigerian]

Don’t monkey with the DonkeyPox.
And put that DonkeyDuck back in the closet until climate change is no longer mentioned by NPR and the MSM.

[digger48]

Gays need to be spanking their own monkey for a change

[broken_clock]

[algore]

I did not read article, but the screw up was really bad.

This could have been stopped the first week.

I tried to get this to happen but was blocked

[Cobra64]

Or a least choking the chicken.

[Maris Crane]

IF IT WEREN’T FOR RAND PAUL, WOULD WE EVER...EVER HEAR FROM OUR WORTHLESS, WHIMPASS, COWARDLY REPUBLICAN POLITICIANS AT ALL.

My God, they are PATHETIC!!!!!

[Republican Wildcat]

Um, Rand, do you suppose maybe, just maybe, that screwing is the problem with Monkeypox?

Um...did you read the article? :-)

[albie]

they’re going to “get to the bottom of this”. Ewwwww

[griswold3]

Saw a news report on the Charlotte Pride event. the Mecklenburg County Public Health Clinical team had a semi truck and van trailer rolling in the parade with vaccines.