I am at the Big Board on H St—which was just shut down by DC Health for refusing to enforce Covid mandates—where @RandPaul has come to show his support. pic.twitter.com/W1GmQvMTNb

— Robby Soave (@robbysoave) February 2, 2022

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CNS News reports, “Rep. Kat Cammack (R-Fla.) called out the hypocrisy of Reps. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) and Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) for criticizing Republicans.

Democrats criticize Republicans for our pro-freedom policies, especially in Florida, and then turn around and vacation in our state. It’s a classic case of “rules for thee, not for me” and my colleague from California is a perfect example. pic.twitter.com/wZe9vLbsqc

— Congresswoman Kat Cammack (@RepKatCammack) January 6, 2022

Swalwell accused Republicans of prolonging the pandemic and forcing people to cancel their vacations and forcing students to go back to virtual learning, yet, he was spotted going maskless in Florida.

‘As we end 2021, mired in a deadly pandemic, you should know who has prolonged it. THESE GUYS. Republican liars. Your vacation canceled. Your kids back to virtual learning. And back to masks everywhere. For blame look no farther than #TheseGuys,’ Swalwell tweeted.

The hypocrisy of the left, they simply have no moral high ground when they do one thing and say another, and the American people see right through it… @RepKatCammack @Kat_Cammack https://t.co/ev76CPZ7D6

— CNSNews (@cnsnews) January 6, 2022

‘It really has become a situation where the Democratic Party, the liberal left, they have become the party of do as I say, not as I do,’ Cammack told Fox Business’ ‘Mornings with Maria Bartiromo.’

‘And you would think that this would be something that of all people, Eric Swalwell could wrap his head around, because you know this whole leading by example thing seems to be a foreign concept for the vast majority of Democrats today, but as we know, Representative Swalwell seems to like foreign things like Chinese spies, and unfortunately we find another Democrat in the Sunshine State, a state in which he has criticized,’ she said.

‘He’s criticized the leadership of Governor Ron DeSantis and again we find him telling everyone that their vacations are going to be canceled because of the leadership of Republicans. Yet here he is vacationing in a Republican-led state. The hypocrisy of the left simply knows no bounds,’ the congresswoman said.”

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FEE’s Kerry McDonald writes, “It’s 2022 but you’d be forgiven for thinking it’s still 2020—especially if you have children enrolled in K-12 district schooling. Some parents are grappling this week with a return to, or threat of, remote learning first introduced nearly two years ago.

they’re closing schools again.

wake up, parents. pic.twitter.com/wxZ61oyJHY

— Corey A. DeAngelis (@DeAngelisCorey) January 2, 2022

Fear of the fast-spreading Omicron variant of the coronavirus is leading school officials across the country to once again shutter schools. In Cleveland, for example, this first week of school for the new year is entirely remote for public school students. Several districts throughout Ohio are following suit, while others are re-imposing 2020 virus-related restrictions or extending the holiday break into this week.”

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Newsmax reports, “A ‘disconcerting’ political divide is hurting the ability to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Anthony Fauci said during a bipartisan online ‘fireside chat’ Monday with former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn.

Or maybe an unelected bureaucrat responsible for funding gain-of-function research and lying to the public is doing harm to our response to COVID. https://t.co/ozW8svdMDt

— Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) November 16, 2021

Fauci, who has served as the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases since 1984 and is the chief medical adviser to President Joe Biden, told Frist that ‘because I am representing science’ telling people to get vaccinated and to wear masks, ‘I get attacked’ with death threats that require him to be protected by federal agents.

Fauci has also been criticized by Republicans in the House and Senate. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., is one of Fauci’s harshest critics and has openly sparred with him during committee testimony, accusing Fauci of being responsible for the pandemic and funding gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology that Paul and others say resulted in a lab leak.”

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Yahoo News reports, “Former White House Coronavirus Response team member Dr. Scott Atlas blasted Dr. Anthony Fauci, Dr. Deborah Birx and former CDC Director Robert Redfield in a new book saying that he was ‘disgusted’ by their dismissal of scientific data he presented to them during the Trump administration.

In the book, ‘A Plague Upon Our House’ which Fox News Digital obtained an advance copy of, Atlas says he presented data and studies showing that schools should be reopened and that children are not significant spreaders of the coronavirus but was virtually ignored by Fauci and others on the team.

First hand account of how Dr. Fauci ignored the science to impose the lockdown and do harm to our children.

Dr. Scott Atlas unloads on Fauci, Birx, Redfield in forthcoming memoir: ‘I was disgusted’ https://t.co/EecP7cBy0Q

— Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) November 13, 2021

‘As I finished, there was silence,’ Atlas wrote. ‘No one offered any contrary data. No one spoke of scientific studies. No one even mentioned the discredited Korea study. Zero comments from Dr. Birx. Nothing from Dr. Fauci. And as always, not a single mention by Birx or Fauci about the serious harms of school closures. In my mind, this was bizarre. Why was I the only one in the room with detailed knowledge of the literature? Why was I the only one considering the data on such an important topic with a critical eye? Were the others simply accepting bottom lines and conclusions, without any analytical evaluation? Weren’t they supposed to be expert medical scientists, too?”

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Fox News reports, ”Real Time host Bill Maher railed against ongoing COVID restrictions, declaring the pandemic ‘over.’

Maher kicked off the show’s panel discussion Friday night by expressing relief that Dr. Anthony Fauci has given the green light on Halloween since it’s been Maher’s ‘position since the beginning of this.’

“It’s an amulet, you know? A charm people wear around the neck that wards away evil spirits. It means nothing,” Maher said. “I mean, can’t we get people to understand the facts more?” -Bill Maher on maskshttps://t.co/bV5y7YJRTi

— Matt, Pre-School Diploma ? (@statomattic) October 30, 2021

‘Just resume living,’ Maher told his audience. ‘I know some people seem to not want to give up on the wonderful pandemic, but you know what? It’s over. There’s always going to be a variant. You shouldn’t have to wear masks. I should be to … I haven’t had a meeting with my staff since March of 2020. Why?’

‘Also, vaccine, mask, pick one! You’ve got to pick. You can’t make me mask if I’ve had the vaccine,’ Maher added.”

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HHS Deputy admits Fauci’s NIH funded gain-of-function research in Wuhan but says it was “an unexpected result.” If the experiment combines unknown viruses and tests their ability to infect and damage humanized cells, of course the result is ‘unknown’ before the experiment.

— Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) October 21, 2021

Yahoo News reports, “A top NIH official admitted in a Wednesday letter that U.S. taxpayers funded gain-of-function research on bat coronaviruses in Wuhan and revealed that EcoHealth Alliance, the U.S. non-profit that funneled NIH money to the Wuhan Institute of Virology, was not transparent about the work it was doing.

“I told you so” doesn’t even begin to cover it here: https://t.co/9JFn85I24i

— Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) October 21, 2021

In the letter to Representative James Comer (R., Ky.), Lawrence A. Tabak of the NIH cites a ‘limited experiment’ that was conducted to test if ‘spike proteins from naturally occurring bat coronaviruses circulating in China were capable of binding to the human ACE2 receptor in a mouse model.’ The laboratory mice infected with the modified bat virus ‘became sicker’ than those infected with the unmodified bat virus.

The revelation vindicates Republican senator Rand Paul, who got into heated exchanges with National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease director Anthony Fauci during his May and July testimonials before Congress over the gain-of-function question. At the second hearing, Paul accused Fauci of misleading Congress by denying that the U.S. had funded gain-of-function projects at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.”

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Mises.org’s Ryan McMaken writes, “Last week, the media again tried to ratchet up the public’s fear over covid-19 by labeling it more deadly than the 1918 flu epidemic. ‘COVID-19 Is Now the Deadliest Disease in U.S. History,’ reads one headline from an NBC TV affiliate. Considering the realities of cancer and heart disease, that headline is absurdly false. Perhaps the author meant ‘communicable disease.’ A TIME headline was at least arguably factual, declaring, ‘COVID-19 Is Now the Deadliest Pandemic in American History.’

“Age-Adjusted Mortality Is at 2004 Levels. Yet They Tell Us Covid Is Worse Than the 1918 Flu” – @ryanmcmaken @mises https://t.co/H1OOh4LpJ9 pic.twitter.com/nr4kWTeXd4

— Jonathan Hamel (@jhamel) October 9, 2021

But even the TIME headline is only arguably true if stripped of all context. If we actually look at disease mortality proportionally to the population, the 1918 epidemic was far worse than covid. Considering that the US population in 1918 was one-third its current size, we find that deaths per million from the flu epidemic totaled about sixty-five hundred per million. Covid, by comparison currently comes in—in the official numbers—around twenty-two hundred per million.

But this is all part of a larger pattern—one well embraced by the media—of presenting information with as little context as possible.”

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“Someone over 85 is over 10,000 times more at risk of dying than a child under 10.” For covid, age is actually an even more important variable than vaccination status. https://t.co/SX5qD8F7w4

— Robby Soave (@robbysoave) October 4, 2021

New York Magazine: “To put it more bluntly: in assessing an individual’s risk of dying from COVID, age appears still as important — and maybe even more important — than vaccination status. And while encouraging further vaccination remains by far the best tool we have in fighting the pandemic to an endgame détente, we should also be clear along the way about the continuing risks to the vaccinated elderly and what might be done to protect them.”

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Authoritarians are finally admitting that lockdowns do not diminish Covid outbreaks- they only produce increased joblessness, alcohol and drug abuse, depression and suicide, especially among kids deprived of school and structure. https://t.co/k3PIerhsHm

— Kelley Paul (@KelleyAshbyPaul) October 4, 2021

The New York Times reports, “For a year and a half, New Zealand has pursued a strategy of ‘Covid zero,’ closing its borders and quickly enforcing lockdowns to keep the coronavirus in check, a policy it maintained even as other Asia-Pacific countries transitioned to coexisting with the viral threat.

On Monday, New Zealand gave up the ghost.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern acknowledged an end to the elimination strategy seven weeks into a lockdown that has failed to halt an outbreak of the Delta variant, announcing that restrictions would be gradually lifted in Auckland, the country’s largest city.”

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