Posted on 05/25/2021 9:51:55 PM PDT by RandFan
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) on Tuesday hit back at late-night talk show host Stephen Colbert for criticizing the lawmaker's reasoning for deciding not to get the COVID-19 vaccine, telling him to "read the science and try to ignore your bias."
Paul, who tested positive for COVID-19 in March 2020, said in a Sunday interview that he would not be getting vaccinated, arguing that he already has natural immunity from previously being infected.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has recommended that anyone who has previously been infected with COVID-19 get the vaccine, saying that experts “do not yet know how long you are protected from getting sick again after recovering from COVID-19.”
Colbert in his Monday episode of CBS’s “The Late Show” questioned Paul’s rationale, noting the uncertainty over how long natural immunity lasts and arguing that the senator’s decision “is going to affect other people.”
The talk show host then pushed back on Paul’s argument that the CDC “would first have to prove that the vaccine is better than being infected” before recommending that previously infected individuals get the vaccine.
“No, they don’t,” Colbert responded. “They don’t have to prove that seat belts are better than accidents or that wearing a parachute is better than hitting the earth at terminal velocity or that having hot spikes driven into your ears is better than listening to Rand Paul.”
“It’s self-evident,” he added.
Paul on Tuesday took to Twitter to respond to Colbert’s commentary, sharing a link to an Israeli nationwide study that the senator argued shows “natural infection confers similar immunity to the vaccine.”
The study, which has not yet undergone peer review, noted that, based on individual-level data on Israel’s population, the efficacy of the COVID-19 vaccine was similar to the “overall estimated level of protection” from previous COVID-19 infection. Paul, who tagged Colbert’s account in his Twitter thread, added, “Once you rise above the vitriol you will discover that the question of immunity for those infected naturally is a HUGE question in countries short of vaccines.”
“Should you ‘waste’ the vaccine on someone previously infected or put it to better use on an elderly person who has not been infected?” Paul questioned.
“@StephenAtHome, you’re better than this,” he continued. “Read the science and try to ignore your bias.”
All Americans ages 12 and up are now eligible to receive the COVID-19 vaccine, and 74 percent of U.S. adults ages 65 and older have been fully vaccinated, according to CDC data.
Overall, approximately 58 percent of the U.S. population ages 12 and older has gotten at least one dose of the vaccines authorized for emergency use, with nearly 47 percent fully vaccinated.
And Rand is an MD
One of the things that REALLY gets my back up is when one of the "Learned Class" cops the "I'm smart and I know that you're trying to cheat me, tradespeasant" attitude.
I won't work for them any more after that.
I usually have them by ten or fifteen IQ points, and I have to listen to that Mitt...
Morlocks Rule.
Re “he earns more in a year than we or Rand do in our lives”.
So do some lucky internet hackers, bank robbers, and child pornographers. Which group does Colbert seem most likely to be involved with?
By the way, if you suffer an eye injury, who would you want to help treat it, Rand of Colbert?
Now, if I laughed my ass off at some late night comedian (so far I don’t watch the lunatic hours shows), I would call Colbert to reattach it since he is a specialist on assholes and butts.
Plenty of obedient needle kneelers pushing vaxes here. The folks who had it, then got the vax had the worst side effects around me. I am supposed to believe the vax means you can still get it, just not as bad.
This flu season will tell the truth.
The correct term would be that he gets paid more in a year. Earns? I think not, especially for a leftist puke like Colbert.
Colbert is as funny as a toothache.
Nobody, they don't even break 2 million viewers, not even 10% of Johnny Carson's ratings.
I know different times, and more stations, but if Carson were doing his show today, he'd still be number one.
Hell, Gutfeld is beating two out of three and is only a tad behind, I think Gutfeld drew 1.6M and colbert drew 1.8M, but Gutfeld beat him in the demo.
Colbert = Hate Monger.
Seems to me that all of late night TV is devoted to the same fashionable tend ... ginning up hatred.
This is what I have been telling people:
“If you can’t ask yourself “Maybe I am wrong”, you are very possibly being led by the wrong people.”
This goes for both sides of the political fence.
Colbert isn’t that bright, he only “plays” one on TV.
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