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.
If he gets any smarter he can qualify as a moron.
Colbert is a nasty scumbag.
Colbert is not likeable.
Communication major turned comedian, or an actual physician who went to a tough medical school.
That’s a close call. I just don’t know.
Morons don’t want Colbert in their club
It appears all the progressives replaced their “RESIST” bumper stickers with “OBEY” bumper stickers.
All for a child sniffing chomo and round heeled whore vp
That leftist twit still on the air?
Who watches these late night shows?
“They don’t have to prove that seat belts are better than accidents...”
The NTSB literally had to prove this before mandating they be put in cars.
I hate the wordplay that the CDC uses here. They don't even bother to address the question but instead they deflect to a different question and hide behind bureaucracy and compliance, and many people read that answer as science. Are you protected from the virus after recovering from the virus? Do the "experts" know how long you are protected from getting sick again after taking the vaccine? A dollar says that the CDC's position will be to keep recommending the vaccine forever, and maybe after some percentage of the population either gets the vaccine or becomes intransigent to getting it, then they'll make a subdued admission that for people who had the disease and recovered, a vaccine isn't strictly necessary.
Democrats tune in for this psychopath’s evening shows, along with anyone else with garbage for a brain.
Enough said.
True but he hasn’t done bad for himself!
He earns more in a year than we (or Rand) do in our lives...
WHO is Colbert.
He still has to hire US if his toilet plugs up.
People on the Left with lots of money to hire ME have no worth in my eyes.
True again.
There is something to be said for having a skill or trade that will always be in demand...
As information of breakthrough cases of Covid keep slipping past the gatekeepers, the public will realize medication protocols are more efficacious than repeated injections with dangerous experimental 'products' which have never been used on the public before.
As an old plumber I always used to tell the helpless, hapless, weak, mechanically deficient, ability deprived rich folk that I would only CHARGE THEM GOLD BOOK PRICES for a Home Depot 2.00 fix because I am such a nice guy.
2.00 dollars at home depot (parts not including contractor discount), I would charge them 68.00 dollars + 100.00 (service call) + minimum 2 hour at 55.00 dollars per hour.
So 278.00 dollars for about a 15 minute job, it was my knowledge and experience they were paying for.
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