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The Spectator’s Chadwick Moore writes, “On the streets of any city, the forever-masked are broadcasting their allegiance to authoritarianism, letting you know they’re most comfortable somewhere on a hierarchy of coercion, whether among the hopelessly obedient, or tyrants themselves.
That’s not necessarily a bad thing. You now have a visual cue letting you know exactly who you’re dealing with and who to avoid. By now, if a masked person approaches you with a grievance, you pretty much know there’s nothing worth engaging with and you have permission to treat them accordingly.
.@Chadwick_Moore: "Masks dehumanize. They sever and isolate us from one another. They are little more than theater at this point, a charade indoctrinating the masses to be ever untrusting, vigilant and inward. Now we are at a point where masks segregate." https://t.co/ClWZfiNbir — Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) January 12, 2022
.@Chadwick_Moore: "Masks dehumanize. They sever and isolate us from one another. They are little more than theater at this point, a charade indoctrinating the masses to be ever untrusting, vigilant and inward. Now we are at a point where masks segregate." https://t.co/ClWZfiNbir
But not all of our neighbors have free will when it comes to masks. There’s something eerie going on now, where liberal leadership still requires low-wage workers and people in service to continue to mask up. If you can sit for a meal at a restaurant and fully enjoy yourself while those serving you, and no one else, are still forced to shroud half their faces, there’s something wrong with you. The help have no faces, which, you get the impression, is exactly how the people who make the rules prefer it.
Masks dehumanize. They sever and isolate us from one another.”
Read the entire column.
The Washington Examiner’s Christopher Tremoglie writes, “(T)he anger at Fauci is not attributable to Paul. It exists because Paul exposed contradictory Fauci statements about funding by the NIH and gain-of-function research at China’s Wuhan lab.
People are angry with Anthony Fauci, and he has no one to blame but himself https://t.co/JVedVc08Wt — Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) January 11, 2022
People are angry with Anthony Fauci, and he has no one to blame but himself https://t.co/JVedVc08Wt
Fauci was the darling of the media in the early days of the pandemic. Yet, as time passed, the truth about his past caught up with him. Moreover, his present didn’t do him any favors either. His habitual contradictions on COVID-19 precautions were never helpful. He was also quick to criticize certain people but not others for failing to follow safety recommendations.
Fauci has drawn the ire of the public because of himself. Lest we forget, his infamous ‘I am science’ moment, wherein he publicly stated that those who questioned his recommendations were discrediting science — even if they questioned them based on scientific grounds.”
Fox News reports, “Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., and Dr. Anthony Fauci got into a heated exchange marked with personal attacks during a Tuesday hearing dealing with the response to COVID-19 variants.
Paul, a fierce critic of the National Institute of Allergy and Infections Diseases director, accused Fauci of playing a role in smearing doctors from Harvard, Oxford and Stanford who had positions different from his own.
.@RandPaul to Fauci: "[T]he idea that a government official like yourself would claim unilaterally to represent science and that any criticism of you would be considered a criticism of science itself is quite dangerous...It is cheap politics & it is reprehensible." pic.twitter.com/b6JCaaHQTR — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) January 11, 2022
.@RandPaul to Fauci: "[T]he idea that a government official like yourself would claim unilaterally to represent science and that any criticism of you would be considered a criticism of science itself is quite dangerous...It is cheap politics & it is reprehensible." pic.twitter.com/b6JCaaHQTR
‘In an email exchange with Dr. [Francis] Collins, you conspire, and I quote here directly from the email, to ‘create a quick and devastating published takedown’ of three prominent epidemiologists from Harvard, Oxford and Stanford,’ Paul said.
Paul went on to cite the email exchange, in which Collins was discussing the Great Barrington Declaration which opposed large-scale lockdowns as a response to the pandemic in favor of ‘focused protection’ and herd immunity.
Dr. Fauci and I finally agreed on something in our Senate hearing today pic.twitter.com/6MMX570yBn — Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) January 11, 2022
Dr. Fauci and I finally agreed on something in our Senate hearing today pic.twitter.com/6MMX570yBn
In response, Fauci sent Collins articles from Wired and The Nation that had already slammed this position. While Fauci himself had not penned those pieces, Paul accused him of going along with Collins' effort to smear the doctors behind the Great Barrington Declaration.
‘Instead of engaging them on the merits, you and Dr. Collins sought to smear them as fringe and take them down, and not in journals in lay press. This is not only antithetical to the scientific method, it's the epitome of cheap politics, and it's reprehensible, Dr. Fauci."
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ABC News reports, “Health authorities around the U.S. are increasingly taking the extraordinary step of allowing nurses and other workers infected with the coronavirus to stay on the job if they have mild symptoms or none at all.
The move is a reaction to the severe hospital staffing shortages and crushing caseloads that the omicron variant is causing.
So you can still work in a hospital if you have active COVID but doctors and nurses who don’t have COVID and are unvaccinated are fired. Am I the only one who perceives the absurdity of this scenario?https://t.co/8vHumvcYoo — Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) January 11, 2022
So you can still work in a hospital if you have active COVID but doctors and nurses who don’t have COVID and are unvaccinated are fired. Am I the only one who perceives the absurdity of this scenario?https://t.co/8vHumvcYoo
California health authorities announced over the weekend that hospital staff members who test positive but are symptom-free can continue working. Some hospitals in Rhode Island and Arizona have likewise told employees they can stay on the job if they have no symptoms or just mild ones.
The highly contagious omicron variant has sent new cases of COVID-19 exploding to over 700,000 a day in the U.S. on average, obliterating the record set a year ago. The number of Americans in the hospital with the virus is running at about 110,000, just short of the peak of 124,000 last January.
Many hospitals are not only swamped with cases but severely shorthanded because of so many employees out with COVID-19.
At the same time, omicron appears to be causing milder illness than the delta variant.”
My latest at The American Conservative, “Sanction this. Sanction that. The Department of the Treasury is currently administering dozens of sanction programs designed to change the behavior of certain countries.
And yet, no one seems to ask the important question: Do sanctions promote peace and understanding or escalate tensions between nations? What behavior has China modified since the U.S. began sanctions? Has Russia changed her behavior? Has Russia given back Crimea?
NEW from @RandPaul: "The U.S. embargo of Cuba has now endured for more than 60 years without any evidence of a change in regime or even a change in the regime’s policy." https://t.co/lg39CcAUTZ — The American Conservative (@amconmag) January 10, 2022
NEW from @RandPaul: "The U.S. embargo of Cuba has now endured for more than 60 years without any evidence of a change in regime or even a change in the regime’s policy." https://t.co/lg39CcAUTZ
Sanctions, though lacking in proof of effectiveness, are very popular with both parties. Embargoes, sanctions’ big brother, also garner bipartisan enthusiasm. The U.S. embargo of Cuba has now endured for more than 60 years without any evidence of a change in regime or even a change in the regime’s policy…
Over the past decade Congress and presidents have heaped sanctions on Russia and China. When I’ve asked State Department officials to reveal what behavioral changes have come about as a result of sanctions, I’ve gotten only blank stares. Now the sanctionistas want to sanction an already completed pipeline. But what behavior are they asking Russia to change? What specifically is Russia being asked? What Russian action is necessary for the sanctions to end?”
The Wall Street Journal reports, “Federal courts considering the Biden administration’s vaccination mandates—including the Supreme Court at Friday’s oral argument—have focused on administrative-law issues. The decrees raise constitutional issues as well. But there’s a simpler reason the justices should stay these mandates: the rise of the Omicron variant.
It would be irrational, legally indefensible and contrary to the public interest for government to mandate vaccines absent any evidence that the vaccines are effective in stopping the spread of the pathogen they target. Yet that’s exactly what’s happening here.
Can government mandate you take a vaccine that is not effective against the current strain? https://t.co/lhQCBzrgtv — Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) January 10, 2022
Can government mandate you take a vaccine that is not effective against the current strain? https://t.co/lhQCBzrgtv
Both mandates—from the Health and Human Services Department for healthcare workers and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration for large employers in many other industries—were issued Nov. 5. At that time, the Delta variant represented almost all U.S. Covid-19 cases, and both agencies appropriately considered Delta at length and in detail, finding that the vaccines remained effective against it.
Those findings are now obsolete. As of Jan. 1, Omicron represented more than 95% of U.S. Covid cases, according to estimates from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.”
On Friday, Sen. Rand Paul asked if top White House doctor Anthony Fauci was “advising” Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor after she she made some untrue statements during Supreme Court arguments as the high court weighed the legality of President Joe Biden’s vaccine mandates.
Sotomayor said on Friday, “We have over 100,000 children, which we’ve never had before, in serious condition, many on ventilators."
Sotomayor: “over 100,000 children…in serious condition, many on ventilators" Is Fauci advising Justice Sotomayor? Will YouTube censor her?https://t.co/TQM49LQRbw https://t.co/TQM49LQRbw — Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) January 7, 2022
Sotomayor: “over 100,000 children…in serious condition, many on ventilators" Is Fauci advising Justice Sotomayor? Will YouTube censor her?https://t.co/TQM49LQRbw https://t.co/TQM49LQRbw
According to the Washington Post, Sotomayor's "100,000" number is demonstrably false.
'More than 4,000 children were hospitalized with covid-19 across the nation Wednesday, Washington Post figures show, marking a new high that towers above previous peaks set during the summer when the delta variant was driving up infections,' the Post reported."
From my op-ed at Fox News, “The classical liberal economist Friedrich Hayek foresaw this debate when he wrote: ‘Most scientists realize that we cannot plan the advance of knowledge, that in the voyage into the unknown—which is what research is—we are in great measure dependent on the vagaries of individual genius and of circumstance, and that scientific advance, like a new idea that will spring up in a single mind, will be the result of a combination of conceptions, habits, and circumstances brought to one person by society, the result as much of lucky accidents as of systematic effort.’
In other words, the benefits of scientific progress are only realized if science is free from excessive restraint.
Let’s hope Americans will, once again, rally to the cause of freedom and reject medical tyranny and allow each individual to live their life as their own conscience dictates. https://t.co/XjQplceepA — Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) January 8, 2022
Let’s hope Americans will, once again, rally to the cause of freedom and reject medical tyranny and allow each individual to live their life as their own conscience dictates. https://t.co/XjQplceepA
The same arguments against central planning for an economy also hold for science. If, or rather when, the central planner errs the entire economy is threatened. Likewise, when a central medical planner errs, all patients are threatened.
Anthony Fauci’s fundamental decision to ignore natural immunity has led to a cascade of bad decisions, the effects of which have seeped into all of our lives. Ignoring the immunity that comes naturally with infection caused Fauci to underestimate the combined immunity in our country from vaccination and previous infection, leading him to advocate forced vaccination on everyone including those at very low risk, such as children and previously infected individuals.”
Christopher Tremoglie writes at the Washington Examiner, “Republican Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul announced he would quit YouTube on Monday. YouTube has previously removed videos from the senator because the platform said they contained misinformation.
@RandPaul leads the way in challenging Big Tech's censorship on Republicans. By announcing he is quitting YouTube, he is telling the country that enough is enough. Paul should be commended for quitting YouTube and saying so publicly.https://t.co/3Ix4DBAfNf — Christopher Tremoglie (@cwtremo) January 6, 2022
@RandPaul leads the way in challenging Big Tech's censorship on Republicans. By announcing he is quitting YouTube, he is telling the country that enough is enough. Paul should be commended for quitting YouTube and saying so publicly.https://t.co/3Ix4DBAfNf
However, in reality, it was only deemed such because the administrators at YouTube disagreed with what Paul was saying. Because of this censorship, Paul has decided to leave the platform "unless it is to criticize the platform or announce that viewers can see his content on Rumble.com." This is an admirable step by Paul, and other politicians should follow suit…
This is a vital step in combating Big Tech's assault on the news. YouTube's removal of Paul's videos in the past is an example of this encroachment. The company previously removed some of his videos criticizing the efficacy of wearing masks to prevent the spread of COVID-19. YouTube categorized the video as misinformation despite Paul showing scientific data supporting his claim.”
As I told Fox News this morning, "Well it’s tragic, and the thing is the science doesn’t support closing schools down…
It had been the policy for most of modern medicine that if kids were sick they were sent home. If a bunch of kids were sick then we might close the school for a couple of days. But we’re not doing that. We’re doing mass testing of people that are not sick. We’re sending people home that have no symptoms, and we’re testing whole classes and sending more people home…
We need to get rid of the hysteria but the people that are promoting the hysteria work for the government. I mean this is Dr. Fauci's fault largely because he's still hysterically talking about mandates and shutting people down and not letting people fly and blaming the unvaccinated."