On Friday, United States Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) opined the government should stop telling healthy citizens to be tested for COVID-19.
Paul told Fox News broadcaster Laura Ingraham during an episode of her show “The Ingraham Angle” it would be a good first step towards ending the pandemic.
The senator, who is also a physician, was talking about the benefit of natural immunity gained by people who survive a bout of COVID-19 and how powerful the response is against future variants.
Ingraham cut his reply short as she informed Paul that Dr. Anthony Fauci recently offered a doomsday prediction.
“The worst-case scenario is we’re on our way there and we get hit with another variant that actually eludes the immune protection,” Dr. Fauci said, adding, “I hope that’s not the case.”
The junior senator from Kentucky oozed disdain as he said, “The man never fails to have the most pessimistic outlook possible and an outlook that requires more government intervention and an outlook, by the way, that elevates him to diva status so he can keep telling us what to do.”
“The bottom line is this pandemic will end when we stop telling people to get tested who are not sick,” he added. “And, it is also going to end when people economically resist.”
Paul expressed that the end of the pandemic will come when owners of small businesses like bars and restaurants protest against shutdowns that hurt their business.
“When the restaurant owners finally push back, when they march in the streets and when we all tell people to take a flying leap, you’re not going to come in my restaurant and force any mandate, that’s when this will end,” Rand said during the interview. “But, it’s going to take resistance — economic resistance — by restaurant and hotel owners in these blue cities where Democrats are forcing these mandates.”
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The Fox host next asked the senator his thoughts on a California proposal to allow children 12 years old and up to receive vaccinations without parental consent.
“I believe it’s medical malpractice to force vaccines on children, particularly adolescent males,” Paul responded. “We now have the scientific evidence that shows the risk of myocarditis for young males is greater for the vaccine than it is for the disease.”
He added the risk of myocarditis increases with every dose, saying more than 90 percent of recorded cases occurred after patients received their second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.
“What do you think happens when you give them a third dose?” he asked.
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