The following essay is an excerpt from Sen. Rand Paul’s new book, Deception: The Great Covid Cover-Up, due out from Regnery on October 10.
By the spring of 2020, when I returned from my COVID sabbatical, all previous knowledge of immunity seemed to have been discarded. This contagion of “know-nothingism” could not be missed. On my return to the Capitol after recovering from COVID, I was met by a gaggle of young journalists, the ones who occupy a spot between the Capitol subway and the escalator to the Capitol. They barreled up to me with multiple masks on their twenty-something-year-old faces and demanded to know why I wasn’t wearing a mask.
I calmly explained to them that the benefit of having survived COVID-19 was that I now had immunity. They challenged me, saying that I didn’t know how long my immunity would last. I responded in kind, replying that they didn’t know my immunity wouldn’t last.
The week before I returned from quarantine, I had donated my blood to researchers at the University of Louisville for analysis. They found that I had a robust antibody response to three different sites on the COVID-19 surface.
I tried to reassure the poor flat-earthers that “of all the people you’ll meet today, I’m probably the safest person in Washington. You won’t catch COVID-19 from me!” Their eyes visible above their “BLM” and “Trust Science” masks only narrowed in angry and impotent disbelief. Our media repeatedly and stupidly conflated the use of masking in clinical and surgical settings involving body fluid spatter and bacterial infection with effectiveness against viruses 10 times smaller than the smallest bacteria in public settings.
And Anthony Fauci played along. (Except, of course, in his private email, where he advised a personal friend not to bother masking since, of course, “The typical mask you buy in the drug store is not really effective in keeping out virus, which is small enough to pass through material.”) Of course, while he was writing this privately, he was sanctimoniously lecturing me in a Senate hearing wearing a ridiculous Washington Nationals cloth mask. When I rightly called him out for his public health theater, he angrily and huffily denied that it was theater. I am still shocked at the childishly ignorant and emotional responses he gave, and by the media’s fawning response to it.
As Anthony Lazzarino, M.D., commented in the British Medical Journal, “The DANMASK-19 study proved that surgical facemasks have limited air filtering capacity with respect to SARS-CoV-2.”
I offered them a large, randomized-controlled mask study of influenza from Vietnam that showed the cloth mask–wearing group had more infections than the control group wearing no masks. As Dr. A. A. Chughtai and his coauthors concluded, “Rates of infection were consistently higher among those in the cloth mask group than in the medical mask and control groups.”
I would point out that the pores of a surgical mask were six hundred times larger than the virus. But, to these young nonscientists, I was portrayed as the person who did not “believe the science.” Never mind that science is about objective provability, not belief.
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Via https://www.newsweek.com/covid-masking-hysteria-was-never-about-following-science-opinion-1832201
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Good for US Senator Rand Paul! As one of the very few medical doctors in Congress, he certainly is in a position to be interested in “the science” and to research “the science” regarding wearing masks. If he submitted himself to lab tests to determine his body’response to the virus, then he certainly did “follow the science” without blind trust.
Dr. Fauci, who is also a medical doctor, seems to have been compromised by his own pandering to the pharmaceutical industry, as RFK, Jr. notes in ths book, “The Real Antony Fauci”.
It’s hard to admit error, but those who have the courage to do so deserve my respect.
I have been a journalist and a medical doctor, so have been exposed to lots of toxic thinking in both arenas, but give credit where it is due.
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Fauci is extremely compromised. Rand Paul says he should be in jail.
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I pity Dr. Fauci, who is 80 years old. I remember an incdident when the school board in Telluride, CO got maneuvered into approving a re-design project that a local outfit (with corporate backers) pressured them into doing. The board was stacked, with locals all standing to benefit from the retrofit.
A lone holdout was demonized until she capitulated. This happened on the front end of a major re-development project outside town to benefit the recently repurchased ski area.
Now Telluride has lost its charm, for me, ×ith the multiple changes that have come with the Mountain Village. The old, established businesses have sold or closed, and in-town real estate has sky-rocketed. Parking requires a permit.
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Many think Fauci should be hanging from a lamppost.
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What good would jail do? The damage has been done, and Fauci probably got caught in his own web early on, as so many do. Pfizer, et al., used Fauci and others to wend their way through the bureaucratic system, as you know they can and do do. As you know, RFK, Jr., is dealing with some powerful enemies, including Pfizer, Monsanto/Bayer and members of his own family.
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Sounds like you agree with papasha408, Katherine.
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