After all, Rand Paul is a pugnacious, self-entitled individual who only cares about money and Donald Trump. He could care less about the millions of American’s who have caught Covid-19 and those who died. He may try to present himself as if it bothers him, but I can assure you he does not. If he was really concerned, why push to fully reopen the economy against dire warnings by the world’s best scientists? He has been plotting his next attack against Dr. Anthony Fauci since his last senate hearing, and he unleashed himself like a pitbull in derision. Paul refuses to let go his contempt for Dr. Anthony Fauci to the point it is starting to appear obsessive and tad personal.
Paul’s motives are quite simple; to discredit Dr. Fauci by placating Trump, Wall Street and his Republican donors by downplaying the coronavirus. It was a very shameful display between someone who wants to portray himself as being knowledgeable about Covid-19 (but is not), and someone who is a world renowned expert in infectious diseases. By the time Dr. Anthony Fauci finished responding to Paul, it was like watching a drag race between a tricycle (Paul) and a car (Fauci).
Rand Paul is as genuine as a 3 sided coin, and it is how he came across during Facui’s testimony in last week’s congressional hearing. On Twitter, he patted himself on his back for his performance, but he will likely be about the only one to do so. The major sticking point in his crawl is that Dr. Fauci tells it like it is, and Rand Paul cannot stand it. He wants Dr. Fauci to lie and modify the facts to suit his goals to downplay the coronavirus - just like the boss he cowers to.
Reminiscent of a whining child, Paul recoiled when Fauci acknowledged the impressive job Andrew Cuomo have done in lowering the coronavirus numbers in New York. He mimicked and mocked Fauci praising Cuomo like how a immature sixth grader would. Looks like Trump and Paul have far more in common than I ever thought. Rand Paul wants to dispute and challenge the facts to cater to his own desires, and he was shameless in his performance during the hearings. Facts are facts, and the majority of his points of contention are unfounded and unwarranted.
But Paul let out a real whopper and I don’t mean flatulence. I am embarrassed over the fact he was that audacious and arrogant enough to go toe to toe with Dr. Fauci, the top expert in infectious disease in the United States. Rand Paul brought up with a ludicrous assertion that New York numbers were low because of herd immunity. Funny he did not echo “The Boss” and said “herd mentality.” Anyway, I would imagine most Americans would recognize the 22% antibody rate in New York would not even begin to approach herd immunity.
Fauci had to “school” Rand Paul and let him know that no serious scientist or epidemiologist would even consider herd immunity until numbers approach 60%. He responded to Rand Paul’s profound ignorance and stupidity, with no choice other than to say "I challenge that. This happens with Senator Rand all the time. You are not listening to what the director of the CDC said. ... If you believe 22% is herd immunity, I believe you are alone in that.” Only he, Fox News, and Donald Trump would say something so asinine. Even while Paul had the floor and was acting like some court jester, Dr. Fauci responded professionally.
Rand Paul has it in for Dr. Anthony Fauci because he does not like hearing the scientific facts about the deadly coronavirus. He, like Trump wants to make their own facts up about Covid-19 at the expense of the American people. Trump is about the election; Paul is about money, pleasing his constituents, and reopening the economy. Trump is also about the economy and money, but winning the election at all cost is the only thing at the moment matters to our Dictator in Chief. Trump is just too busy sabotaging our rights to vote. Even after being served by Fauci, Rand Paul continued in his clown act.
Paul brought up the death rate in New York, which Fauci stated the city had been hit exceptionally hard in the beginning, and quickly became the epicenter for the coronavirus. Andrew Cuomo was facing circumstances beyond his control and most certainly without guidance or help from the federal government. The sad reality is people are going to die, and will continue die – but the Trump Administration could had prevented most of these deaths. But as Trump admitted on the Bob Woodward’s tapes – he deliberately downplayed the coronavirus.
When the coronavirus reached America, the Trump administration was doing their best to suppress knowledge of it and keep it out of the news. By the time rump issued travel bands from Europe, the coronavirus had taken substantial root in the New York City metro area. Ironically, Paul’s drive to open everything back up, schools, businesses, etc., in lieu of the data, would only result in more deaths, which is “supposedly” at the essence of his complaint.
Rand Paul quips and snarls about New York coronavirus numbers are disingenuous at best, with politics as his sole motivation. Rand Paul does not care about the scientific facts, nor does he care that over 203,485 Americans have died, and we now have over 7, 020,967 cases. So I fail to understand why he criticized the number of deaths in New York, when he is pushing hard the economy to fully open back up against the advice of epidemiologist and scientist who have stated this will result in far more and unnecessary deaths. Rand Paul does not want to acknowledge the facts because they grate against his own political agenda.
Paul does not care about Covid deaths – if did, he would not be about further putting people in situations that surely will invite far greater death totals as of now. That is a grossly negligent position for someone who once was a doctor to hold – just disgraceful and repugnant. Trump and the Republican Senate want all the states to just open everything up and pretend the coronavirus is not out there. They are only concerned about big business, which was clearly reflected in Mitch McConnell’s first stimulus package.
Paul is backed by Wall Street and political elitists - he knows full well they do not care about lives - only money. This is all Rand Paul cares as well. He wants everything to open up now despite by doing so, it will be sending others in to the slaughter. He’s okay with that – just as long Wall Street and his rich friends will be pacified. They just don’t get it. You can open things back up, but it does not mean people will come in or patronize a business. If you want the economy to open back up; get the coronavirus under control – it is the only way. Somehow the Republican Senate believes they can outwit the coronavirus and bring it under their dominion – just like Donald Trump.
I can prove to you how really concerned the hypocritical Rand Paul is about the coronavirus. Let’s take a closer look at Paul who behaves like an adult version of a spoiled brat. When Paul found out he might be infected with the coronavirus, he carried on as he normally did. He made no effort to quarantine whatsoever; he continued working at the Senate while exposing his staff and other senators to Covid-19. He even used the “Congressional” swimming pool as he waited for the test results. The next day he found out he was indeed positive. He did not care who he exposed to the coronavirus, and it is no small wonder he echoes Trump’s lies. Rand Paul could not give a rip about coronavirus deaths; he could had very easily infected or kill someone by refusing to quarantine.
During a previous hearing he had the hubris to tell Dr. Fauci to be more optimistic. Paul wants to paint an overly optimistic view which unfortunately there is not one. When Rand Paul said such a cavalier statement, the American death toll at that time was already140, 000. To date, America has had over 200,000 coronavirus deaths, and over 7,000, 000 million cases. You were saying Paul…
There definitely would have been more positive outlook if the United States had a national shutdown like other countries did across the globe. The reason why it did not happen was because Rand Paul and others placed more value on finances and the economy, than the health of Americans. The main reason why our situation is so dire is Donald Trump downplayed and hid the coronavirus from the American people as much as he could, for long as he could. The Republican Senate aid and abetted him.
Rand Paul also once said the following to Fauci,"I think we ought to have a little bit of humility in our belief that we know what's best for the economy, and as much as I respect you, Dr. Fauci, I don't think you're the end-all. I don't think you're the one person that gets to make the decision. We can listen to your advice, but there are people on the other side saying there's not going to be a surge and then we can safely open the economy. And the facts will bear this out."
First, I about fell out of my chair when Paul said we ought to “have a little bit of humility.” Rand Paul is one of the most arrogant, smug politicians I have ever seen. Second, he does not respect Fauci given his belligerent attitude and his constant rude, condescending comments towards him. Third, Dr. Fauci never said he was the “end all” to matters of governance over the coronavirus, or any life or death decisions. That duty has been repeatedly usurped by our autocratic leader Donald Trump, who could care less whether you or I live - or die.
Fourth, people who are pressing to open the economy could care less whether you live or die as well – they are just interested in the money. The numbers in the United States are horrific, and currently there is a significant resurgence in may states. Fifth, at this time we were supposed to be entering into the second wave – America never even made it out of the first wave. Sixth, the facts have born this out, and the coronavirus is far deadly and more contagious than we ever thought.
Rand Paul, the Republican Senate, and Donald Trump all share responsibility for those deaths; although I do believe Trump bears the brunt of it. All of them downplayed the virus from the very beginning, and they worked with Trump to mitigate the significance of the virus to the American people. All of them failed to equip the states with what they need, as no state government could handle a pandemic like this on their own. Until the coronavirus is addressed on a national level like most other nations, the coronavirus numbers will continuously go up and down (but not at an acceptable level.)
If Rand Paul really wants to know at least one culprit to blame, he should go look in the mirror if he is not too busy preening. He void of conscience and should return to ophthalmology before even more people lose their lives by listening to him. He is in it for himself as it Trump. His constant insistence on fully reopening the economy in the face of overwhelming catastrophic numbers undeniably conveys what is paramount to him and the Republican Senate - money. Paul as his Republican colleagues has chosen Trump over the American people.
