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Rand Paul was vindicated this week regarding COVID. Will Democrats and Big Tech ever apologize?
Wash Examiner ^ | March 1 | by Christopher Tremoglie,

Posted on 03/02/2023 1:58:15 PM PST by RandFan

At the peak of the pandemic, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) was censored by Big Tech. He was insulted, ridiculed, mocked, and scorned for many of his claims regarding COVID-19. Whether it was the efficacy of masks or the virus's origins, the Left's Big Tech henchmen did everything possible to suppress Paul's voice because they disagreed with his assertions.

They were wrong, as we now know, and they owe Paul an apology.

The U.S. Energy Department and the FBI now agree that a lab leak is probably to blame for the spread of the COVID-19 virus, according to reports. The disclosure was made in "low confidence" earlier this week after the department received new intelligence on the matter, the Wall Street Journal reported.

The Energy Department oversees 17 national labs and research centers and was investigating the pandemic's origins. Meanwhile, the Energy Department's admission was just the latest in a recent string of evidence vindicating Paul. A new study released this month revealed that immunity from a natural COVID infection was "at least as high, if not higher" than receiving the vaccine. Paul said this last year but was dismissed by many on the Left as spreading misinformation.

"The science is against you on this. The science is clear," Paul said at the time, citing an Israeli study that supported his claim. "Naturally acquired immunity is as good as a vaccine."

Paul was heavily criticized by those on the Left for saying the same thing the Energy Department just now concluded. He was censored by Big Tech and vilified by Democratic politicians who claimed Paul's now-vindicated assertions were detrimental to the country. But it was Big Tech and the Democrats who were harming the country, not the Kentucky Republican.

"Trust the science" evolved into "trust the tyrants," and the Left sought total compliance to its authoritarianism during the pandemic. Anyone objecting, such as Paul, was vilified as an ignorant conspiracy theorist and, in some cases, accomplice to murder. What happened to Paul should serve as a warning of left-wing, Democratic totalitarianism and why they can never be trusted to regulate speech or information. Liberals, Democrats, the Left, and Big Tech all owe Rand Paul an apology. Will they ever do so?


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1 posted on 03/02/2023 1:58:15 PM PST by RandFan
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To: RandFan

They can all apologize from jail.


2 posted on 03/02/2023 2:12:56 PM PST by freedomjusticeruleoflaw (Strange that a man with his wealth would have to resort to prostitution.)
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To: RandFan

Yeah - pretty much everything the progressives and not a few useful fools on the right has been debunked.

Masks don’t work.
Natural immunity works.
The shots are completely ineffective in preventing disease and transmission.
The fact that they are unsafe is slowly but surely starting to be reported.
Not even mentioning the early treatments that were besmirched.

Determined ignorance is exceptionally hard to awaken.


3 posted on 03/02/2023 2:15:32 PM PST by week 71
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To: RandFan

No and they will pull similar shenanigans as again.


4 posted on 03/02/2023 2:16:09 PM PST by Boardwalk
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To: RandFan

“Will Democrats and Big Tech ever apologize?”

Sure they will. About ten minutes after they apologize for telling us that the Hunter Biden’s laptop was a Russian hoax.


5 posted on 03/02/2023 2:18:25 PM PST by irishjuggler
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To: week 71

The shots saved countless lives at the height of the pandemic and that is irrefutably accurate. Spreading the same falsehood over and over again does not make it anymore true than the first time it is said. The overwhelming majority of people dying and seriously ill in the hospital were the unvaccinated. This would change as populations vaccinated increased but the ratios remained off the charts showing vaccination prevented serious illness and hospitalization. That is reality. This can verified through many sources but probably also through people you know and certainly by having lived through it. To say otherwise is to simply lie or to have willful and determined ignorance and be invested in a narrative regardless of the facts. However, those currently claiming to continue being repeatedly vaccinated for a version of the virus no longer circulating are doing the same. Plenty of people on both sides of the issue who seem oblivious to reality.


6 posted on 03/02/2023 2:22:43 PM PST by Republican Wildcat
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To: RandFan
"The science is against you on this. The science is clear," Paul said at the time, citing an Israeli study that supported his claim. "Naturally acquired immunity is as good as a vaccine."

Why anyone would have doubted this is beyond me. You get exposed to the virus or virus elements, your immune system creates antibodies...in both cases. Although, of course, "naturally acquired" required you to get the viral infection first. But pointless to get the vaccination after you already had the virus itself...including people saying to get it even immediately after a viral infection.

7 posted on 03/02/2023 2:26:21 PM PST by Republican Wildcat
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To: RandFan

To the Left Wing Fascists: “Be sure your sin will find you out”. Looks like the truth is now out, Rand is correct, the LW who lied and assassinated Pauls character will never ask for forgiveness. Unrepentant sinners never ask for forgiveness.


8 posted on 03/02/2023 2:28:00 PM PST by realcleanguy (quickly things are falling apart, now that the )
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To: Republican Wildcat

Sorry. No sale.
This is not supported by the facts, only by the propaganda disseminated by media shills. The shots were ineffective and dangerous. They contributed to production of variants. There is a reason why one of the first principles of infectious disease is never vaccinate during a pandemic.


9 posted on 03/02/2023 2:28:48 PM PST by JayGalt (For evil men to accomplish their purpose it is only necessary that good men should do nothing.”)
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To: RandFan

trust the tyrants

thats a keeper


10 posted on 03/02/2023 2:37:51 PM PST by joshua c (to disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives, cut the cable tv)
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To: Republican Wildcat

‘The shots saved countless lives at the height of the pandemic and that is irrefutably accurate. Spreading the same falsehood over and over again does not make it anymore true than the first time it is said. The overwhelming majority of people dying and seriously ill in the hospital were the unvaccinated. ‘

If writing that helps you - then okay. The average age of someone who fell because of covid is around 80 years old with 4 comorbidities. The developers of the shots and the FDA tried to hide data about testing the shots for 75 years.

In my experience, truth does not try to censor opposition and does not coerce.


11 posted on 03/02/2023 2:38:52 PM PST by week 71
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To: RandFan

Asking for an apology for criminal activity regarding the scamdemic and the clot shots is plain stupid. Wrongful deaths in the thousands is mass murder. I’d say a needle, rope or firing squad would be in order. Trials and executions should be on live TV.


12 posted on 03/02/2023 2:46:02 PM PST by redfreedom (You can vote your way into socialism, but you may have to shoot your way out.)
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Will Democrats and Big Tech ever apologize?

Have they even noticed that they were wrong?

13 posted on 03/02/2023 2:59:14 PM PST by TChad (Progressives are in favor of removing healthy sex organs from children. Conservatives oppose this.)
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To: RandFan

I don’t want their phony apologies. I want justice. More than that I want retribution.


14 posted on 03/02/2023 3:00:16 PM PST by ChildOfThe60s ( If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there..)
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To: RandFan

being a leftist fascist corporate media outlet means never having to say you’re sorry ...


15 posted on 03/02/2023 3:08:26 PM PST by catnipman (In a post-covid world, ALL "science" is now political science: stolen elections have consequences)
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To: RandFan
Apologies - not a chance
16 posted on 03/02/2023 4:27:32 PM PST by iontheball
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To: Republican Wildcat

Plenty of people on both sides of the issue who seem oblivious to reality.

yeah i know a few lol


17 posted on 03/02/2023 5:16:37 PM PST by rolling_stone
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