What a bunch of dishonest grandstanding. What makes it worse is that Rand Paul actually does have some medical training, meaning that he is completely capable of understanding the science. Yet he chooses to debase the entire scientific community because some charlatans who have been in the business of selling snake oil for years convinced him that antiscientific rhetoric is a fundamental conservative principle.
No, rejecting science is NOT a conservative principle.
Those who have targeted conservatives with their antivax/medical misinformation have an agenda. It is not to advance conservatism or help conservatives. It doesn't take much to figure it out, either. Republicans are more likely to die from Covid than Democrats, and the reason for this is that too many Republicans believed the antivaxxers who only want to cause us harm.
This study showed that Republican death rates from Covid became 7.7% higher than Democrat death rates after the vaccines were introduced: Excess Death Rates for Republican and Democratic Registered Voters in Florida and Ohio During the COVID-19 Pandemic.
And this analysis found a 5.4% higher death rate among Republicans after vaccines were introduced: Excess Death Rates for Republicans and Democrats During the COVID-19 Pandemic.
When a lot of leftists start spreading the word only among conservatives that vaccines are bad and Covid is harmless, when all of the public health officials are saying otherwise, why aren't more conservatives suspicious of their motives?
Respectfully, do you know if the deaths “from COVID” weren’t just “with COVID”?
The reason I ask is that my wife worked for a clinic/hospital that was listing almost every death as “from COVID” regardless of comorbidities, probably to get the federal subsidy that was being provided for COVID deaths. So, many of the statistics regarding deaths “from COVID” are seriously corrupted.
I agree that skepticism is our friend. Be wary of disinformation in all forms.
That was the deep state plan. Get Republicans infected. Get them admitted to the hospital. Put them on a Ventilator. Give them remdesivir. Don’t let their love one’s see them; and procced to murder them. Fauci conspiring with Dem governors.
You are shameless.
This piece is referencing Rand Paul’s famous grilling of Fauci regarding “gain of function” research at WIV, and isn’t questioning Fauci’s stature as a scientist.
Paul isn’t saying he’s stupid, or a bad scientist, just that he’s a liar.
Which is undoubtedly is. Fauci’s lies, in this case, took two forms:
1. He tried to evade Paul’s cross-examination by attempting to re-define “gain of function” and
2. Tried to evade responsibility for funding anything that Paul was calling “gain of function” because he had used a cutout.
He might be brilliant in his field, but he’s a lousy lawyer. And he got caught.
Paul’s right about this.
He/we are not rejecting science, but the antithesis of science.
THAT is fauci et al.