Words without action. Paul needs to do something
Posted on 04/12/2021 11:59:53 AM PDT by RandFan
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) escalated his feud with the federal government's leading infectious diseases expert on Monday, calling Anthony Fauci a "petty tyrant" for suggesting Americans vaccinated against the coronavirus should not eat or drink indoors.
"Fauci continues to ignore 100 years of vaccine science," Paul wrote in a tweet Monday morning. "His only real theme is 'do what I say' even when it makes no sense."
Americans who have recovered from or been vaccinated against the coronavirus should "go about your life," Paul said. "Eat, drink, work, open the schools. Enough with the petty tyrants!"
Fauci, during an appearance on MSNBC on Sunday evening, said it was "still not OK" for people who have been vaccinated to eat or drink at indoor businesses.
"For the simple reason that the level of infection, the dynamic of infection in the community are still really disturbingly high," Fauci said. "Like just yesterday there were close to 80,000 new infections and we've been hanging around 60, 75,000. "
If you are vaccinated, Fauci said, "please remember that you still have to be careful and not get involved in crowded situations, particularly indoors where people are not wearing masks."
An estimated 40 percent of U.S. adults have received at least one coronavirus vaccine dose, officials on the White House coronavirus task force said Monday.
Most states in the country have kept some form of capacity limits on bars and restaurants in place as the vaccine is distributed and administered, though some have loosened restrictions and only a handful have lifted public safety measures completely.
Fauci and Paul have clashed on several occasions during the pandemic over issues such as the effectiveness of masks and accuracy of federal and statewide coronavirus data.
"You're telling everyone to wear a mask," Paul pressed Fauci during a congressional hearing in March. "If we're not spreading the infection, isn't it just theater? You have the vaccine and you're wearing two masks, isn't that theater?"
"I agree with you, that you very likely would have protection from wild type for at least six months if you're infected," Fauci said, referring to Paul's assertions about patients who have recovered from the coronavirus and people who are vaccinated, but added variants of the virus popping up across the globe are "a good reason for a mask."
Seven months earlier, during a similar Senate hearing in September, Fauci shot down Paul's claims that the United States could get through the pandemic without lockdowns and through herd immunity.
"If you believe 22 percent is herd immunity, I believe you're alone in that," Fauci told Paul.
Fauci is maniacally full of himself.
Rand Paul is correct.
COVID testing is like saying the bird droppings on a car are indisputable evidence that the car must be FILLED with hundreds of birds.
It’s time we stopped thinking of COVID as a virus. It’s an industry now.
Fascist Fauci for a man who holds himself out as THE authority on this virus showed us all what a fool he is when faced with the question of why Fla and Texas despite being wide open for many weeks have shown far less new cases and deaths than the lock down States have.
His utterly brilliant answer was...”I really don’t know”
For this we pay him $410,000 annually.
Every Republican needs to get on the same page as Rand. Why don’t they work together? FauxChi needs to be destroyed. It was FauxChi that funded the Wuhan gain of function work that created the ChiCom Plague. FauxChi, along with Biden, are bought and paid by the CCP. They need to rot in prison for the rest of their lives.
I take issue with Rand Paul using the word “petty.” Fauci is a major tyrant.
Fastball Fauci is a greedy dumbass.
About time Fauci was branded as a Tyrant
He sure is..he refuses to give up his power..you can see it written all over his face, Fauci loves every second of this pandemic, he has never had this kind of power and he doesnt want to give it up
noodge
noun: One who pesters and annoys with persistent complaining.
ETYMOLOGY: From Yiddish nudyen (to pester, bore), from Polish nudzic.
It’s time we stopped thinking of COVID as a virus. It’s an industry now.
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You just nailed it!
Plus whatever his wife makes.
The federal government is full of peoples wives, brothers, sisters, cousins, and uncles.
You have a bunch of family political dynasties in Congress too.
But no worries, everyone signed a nepotism form, so it’s all OK.
Even the National Institute of Health says Fauci is full of crap regarding the Fauci Flu:
https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/lasting-immunity-found-after-recovery-covid-19
I’m in a multi day online meeting for work. It’s tedious every presenter is talking Covid. (Including me but I basically called it a speed bump)
One just had a slide with a hypodermic needle all about how the magic vaccine is going to make the boo boo go away.
He was a senior VP and did say clearly he cannot make it mandatory
I remember when kidnapping gnomes was a thing....
Exactly.
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