Sen. Paul challenges Fauci

[DEAD7]

Rand Paul’s Coronavirus Fix: ‘We Just Need More Optimism’

During a tense exchange on Capitol Hill, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) on Tuesday blasted the nation’s top public health experts for their lack of optimism during the unprecedented, highly lethal, and surging coronavirus pandemic.

“We need to not be so presumptuous that we know everything,” the Kentucky Republican said during an impassioned plea to the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions about the need for schools to reopen. He went on to call America’s public health community “fatally” arrogant.

“Perhaps our planners might think twice before they weigh in on every subject,” Paul added. “Perhaps our government experts might hold their tongue before expressing their opinion.”
Paul specifically berated Dr. Anthony Fauci—the public face of the White House’s coronavirus response and the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases—for his recent statements on spectator sports, herd immunity, and other subjects. Though Fauci had couched his words in caveats, he said that “it would be very hard to see how football is able to be played this fall” and that, even with a working vaccine, herd immunity might be difficult to accomplish if Americans aren’t willing to take it.

But Paul said such statements have caused “undue fear” in pockets of the country and cautioned the public not to trust the words of top infectious disease professionals in the country, saying: “We shouldn’t presume that a group of experts somehow knows what’s best for everyone.”

“We just need more optimism,” Paul added.

In response, Fauci told the committee that his words often get twisted in the media and that, “I feel very strongly we need to do whatever we can to get the children back to school.”

But minutes later, he also said that the country could begin seeing 100,000 new cases a day “if things don’t turn around,” telling the committee: “It could get very bad.”

 

[DEAD7]

I agree with his underlining point about central planning... but a lot of what he said was nonsense.

 

[TheNig]

I agree with his underlining point about central planning... but a lot of what he said was nonsense.

The problem is politicians want scientist to have hope for something that they don't have an answer for. That ain't how science works.

 

[Poetical Poltergeist]

Fauci like:

 

[the cac mamba]

rand doesnt have the balls to tell fauci he's just going to ignore the science as a politician. he's a fukkin p*ssy

 

[jwinfield]

But Paul said such statements have caused “undue fear” in pockets of the country and cautioned the public not to trust the words of top infectious disease professionals in the country, saying: “We shouldn’t presume that a group of experts somehow knows what’s best for everyone.”

I mean, if we're dealing with a global pandemic and you give me a group of experts on infectious diseases, why should I not presume they know what's best?

The idea that during this time we should just be positive and hope for the best is the reasons the shyt hit us so hard in the first place. You just can't ignore experts going, "We not taking this shyt seriously enough"

 

[jj23]

I mean, if we're dealing with a global pandemic and you give me a group of experts on infectious diseases, why should I not presume they know what's best?

The idea that during this time we should just be positive and hope for the best is the reasons the shyt hit us so hard in the first place. You just can't ignore experts going, "We not taking this shyt seriously enough"

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[Pressure]

I mean, if we're dealing with a global pandemic and you give me a group of experts on infectious diseases, why should I not presume they know what's best?

The idea that during this time we should just be positive and hope for the best is the reasons the shyt hit us so hard in the first place. You just can't ignore experts going, "We not taking this shyt seriously enough"

The scariest is part is that's what the conservatives are actually doing.

 

[jwinfield]

The scariest is part is that's what the conservatives are actually doing.

The sticking your head in the sand is the same bullshyt that had Trump talking about the shyt can't survive in warm heat, yet it's July and Florida, Texas, and Arizona are getting fukked up right now.

 

[TheAlbionist]

“We shouldn’t presume that a group of experts somehow knows what’s best for everyone.”

That's literally what experts are. People who know their field better than the average libertarian man-spaniel.

 

[Piff Perkins]

What a delusional take. We're in the middle (or beginning) of a global pandemic, More than 100,000 people are dead. Cases are spiking in half the states of the United States. The idea that we need more "optimism" right now, instead of CAUTION and sober assessments, is laughable.

Wear a mask. Limit the places you go to. If people would just do this, we could be talking about other things. But they won't, so we can't. Nobody is asking you to die in the mud on a beach in Normandy. Past generations have been asked to do WAY harder shyt than this. No excuse.

 

[ADevilYouKhow]

Negged and reported

 

[Spatial Paradox]

“We need to not be so presumptuous that we know everything,” the Kentucky Republican said during an impassioned plea to the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions about the need for schools to reopen. He went on to call America’s public health community “fatally” arrogant.

I had to re-read this several times just to make sure I was correctly reading that Rand Paul really fixed his mouth to say this. To say this and then later say we just need more optimism is just blatant projection

 

[ExodusNirvana]

Rand Paul is a fukktard....we've known this for YEARS...we have said this FOR YEARS

I really wish his neighbor would have fukked him up even more

 

[Wild self]

Rand Paul is a fukktard....we've known this for YEARS...we have said this FOR YEARS

I really wish his neighbor would have fukked him up even more

Wish his neighbor given him brain damage to the point where he has to resign.

But Rand Paul has to be careful, or else his medical license could be taken away if he sticks to Trump's conservative propaganda.