Rand Paul Takes Another Shot At Fauci, Suggests Biden Should 'Burn' His Mask To Promote Vaccines

Republican Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul took another shot Wednesday at Dr. Anthony Fauci's insistence that vaccinated people should continue to wear masks before suggesting that President Joe Biden "burn" his in order to promote coronavirus vaccines.

"You might get run over by a car, you might get hit by a meteor," Paul told Fox News anchor Martha MacCallum during a Wednesday afternoon "The Story" appearance. "The science is about proving that things are happening. If Dr. Fauci can prove that people who are vaccinated are spreading the disease, I will listen to him. If he can prove that people like me who have already had it are spreading the disease, I'll listen to him. But there is no evidence of that."

“If you want more people to get vaccinated, Joe Biden should go on national TV, take his mask off, and burn it," he continued. "Light a torch to it and burn his mask and say, 'I’ve had the vaccine, I am now safe from this plague. If you'll get the vaccine, you can be safe too.'"

Calling the current establishment position "fear-mongering," Paul insisted the "burden of proof should be on the government to prove we are spreading it."

The libertarian-leaning Kentucky senator, who has famously crossed swords with Fauci before on the absurdity of post-vaccine masking, went on to discuss the thousands who have gotten infected after being vaccinated, a number that sounds scary unless you put it in context with the tens of millions who have been vaccinated against the virus.

In data released Thursday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that at least 5,800 people had fallen ill or tested positive for the coronavirus two weeks or more after they completed both doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna vaccine.

These so-called breakthrough infections occurred among people of all ages. Just over 40% were in people age 60 or older, and 65% occurred in women. Twenty-nine percent of infected people reported no symptoms, but 7% were hospitalized and just over 1%, 74 people, died, according to the CDC.

Public health officials have said breakthrough infections were expected, since manufacturers have warned loudly and often that the vaccines are not 100% protective. The Pfizer and Moderna versions have consistently been shown to be above 90% effective, most recently for at least six months. Studies have also shown they are nearly 100% effective at ensuring that the small fraction of vaccinated patients who do contract the virus will not get severe cases or require hospitalization.

Given those odds, highlighting those fairly minuscule risks in order to maintain costly and ineffective measures like forced masking and lockdowns at the expense of public confidence in vaccines and a return to normal life seems absurd to many, and yet Fauci and our other medical overlords seem to have an almost cult-like devotion to it.

Biden, of course, a man who wears fourteen masks even while outside dozens of feet away from a single soul, isn't about to give up his safety blanket anytime soon either, reminding Americans yet again to continue to "mask up."

(This is the first statement from the abstract)

"Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is the single most important cause of serious lower respiratory tract disease in infants and young children worldwide and a high priority for vaccine development. Despite over 50 years of research, however, no vaccine is yet available. One block to vaccine development is an incomplete understanding of the aberrant memory response to the formalin-inactivated RSV vaccine (FI-RSV) given to children in the 1960s. This vaccine caused enhanced respiratory disease (ERD) with later natural RSV infection. Concern that any non-live virus vaccine may also cause ERD has blocked development of subunit vaccines for young children. A number of animal FI-RSV studies suggest various immune mechanisms behind ERD. However, other than limited data from the original FI-RSV trial, there is no information on the human ERD-associated responses.",

(This is the last satement from the summary discussion)

"In summary, our in vitro model of human immune responses to RSV is consistent with animal model data that show the ERD-risk of FI-RSV through priming innate responses to direct T cells towards type-2. A combination of biomarkers in dendritic cells such as increased OX40L/Jagged-1 expression and decreased IL-12/IFN-α production and naïve T cells pulsed with stimulated dendritic cells such elevated Gata3 and ROR-γt expression provide robust measures of immune responses likely associated with ERD risk. This in vitro human model presents a tool to evaluate a vaccine’s risk of predisposing to ERD that should help move the field closer to developing a subunit, non-live virus vaccine for young children."

My non-medical interpretation

This article confirms the risk of ERD, and provides a tool to measure and evaluate the ERD risk.

My personal experience

My sister lives in a senior assisted living facility. She received both the first and second Covid-19 MRNA "vaccinations". One week after the second shot she was sent to the emergency room with severe breathing problems, and diagnosed with pneumonia (a quite severe ERD). She spent more than a month in the hospital and a rehab center, fortunately nearly recovered as of now, but with lingering breathing problems.

Any connection to the Covid-19 "vaccine"? Who knows???

saw a video clip of Jim Jordan questioning Fauci about why Texas was doing better without masks than the blue states up north that require masks. His response was that Texans follow the rules better than people up north. LOL>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

The whole mask requirement is a scam.

They just do not work, and can be harmful if worn for many hours at a time.

The science is clear about it:

Masks DO NOT WORK. They are harmful . They are a matter only of social control. Whats more , the science SAYS SO

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“With respect to cloth facemask, a RCT using four weeks follow up compared the effect of cloth facemask to medical masks and to no masks on the incidence of clinical respiratory illness, influenza-like illness and laboratory-confirmed respiratory virus infections among 1607 participants from 14 hospitals [19].

The results showed that there were no difference between wearing cloth masks, medical masks and no masks for incidence of clinical respiratory illness and laboratory-confirmed respiratory virus infections.

However, a large harmful effect with more than 13 times higher risk [Relative Risk = 13.25 95% CI (1.74 to 100.97) was observed for influenza-like illness among those who were wearing cloth masks [19]. The study concluded that cloth masks have significant health and safety issues including moisture retention, reuse, poor filtration and increased risk for infection, providing recommendation against the use of cloth masks [19].”

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7680614/

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