{"id":14094,"date":"2020-05-12T17:58:48","date_gmt":"2020-05-12T21:58:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=14094"},"modified":"2020-05-12T21:11:25","modified_gmt":"2020-05-13T01:11:25","slug":"sen-rand-paul-lambastes-fauci-in-heated-exhaustion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=14094","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Rand Paul lambastes Fauci in heated exchange"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>&#8216;You&#8217;re Not The End All&#8217;: Rand Paul Slams Fauci In Heated Exchange Over Lockdowns<\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->ZeroHedge.com<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) gave quite the earful to a home-bound Dr. Anthony Fauci on Tuesday over the COVID-19 lockdown that has crippled the US economy.<\/p>\n<p>Paul, a medical doctor, noted during the Senate hearing before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pension Committee, that the mortality rate among children &#8216;approaches zero&#8217;, and that for those aged 18-45 &#8220;the mortality in New York was 10 out of 100,000.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/rand%20fauci.png?itok=NGioxUre\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/rand%20fauci.png?itok=NGioxUre\" data-link-option=\"0\"><picture><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/rand%20fauci.png?itok=D3R_5vBL 1x\" type=\"image\/png\" media=\"all and (min-width: 1280px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/rand%20fauci.png?itok=D3R_5vBL 1x\" type=\"image\/png\" media=\"all and (min-width: 480px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/rand%20fauci.png?itok=D3R_5vBL 1x, https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/rand%20fauci.png?itok=D3R_5vBL 2x\" type=\"image\/png\" media=\"all and (min-width: 1024px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/rand%20fauci.png?itok=D3R_5vBL 1x\" type=\"image\/png\" media=\"all and (min-width: 768px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/rand%20fauci.png?itok=NGioxUre 1x\" type=\"image\/png\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/rand%20fauci.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"247\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"0166d08c-0238-4eab-bfcd-66d18c72e848\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/picture><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The history of this when we look back will be wrong prediction after wrong prediction after wrong prediction&#8230; As much as I respect you, Dr. Fauci,\u00a0<strong>I don&#8217;t think you&#8217;re the end all, I don&#8217;t think you&#8217;re the one person that gets to make a decision<\/strong>,&#8221; said Paul &#8211; who added that we need to &#8220;observe with an open eye what happened in Sweden, where the kids kept going to school.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>The mortality per capita in Sweden is actually less than France, less than Italy, less than Spain, less than Belgium, less than the Netherlands, about the same as Switzerland<\/strong>. But basically I don&#8217;t think there&#8217;s anybody arguing that what happened in Sweden is an unacceptable result. I think people are intrigued by it, and we should be.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t think any of us are certain when we do all these modelings &#8211;\u00a0<strong>there have been more people wrong with modeling than right<\/strong>. We&#8217;re opening up a lot of economies around the US, and I hope that people who are predicting doom and gloom and saying &#8216;oh, we can&#8217;t do this, there&#8217;s going to be a surge&#8217; &#8211; will admit when there isn&#8217;t a surge.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Watch:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Sen. Rand Paul:<\/p>\n<p>&quot;The history of this when we look back will be wrong prediction after wrong prediction after wrong prediction&#8230; As much as I respect you, Dr. Fauci, I don&#39;t think you&#39;re the end all, I don&#39;t think you&#39;re the one person that gets to make a decision.&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SP9T638y2B\">pic.twitter.com\/SP9T638y2B<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DailyCaller\/status\/1260234258788032514?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 12, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Fauci responded, (25 seconds in below), saying &#8220;Sen. Paul, I have never made myself out to be the end-all &amp; only voice of this. I&#8217;m a scientist, a physician, and a public health official.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He then offered a\u00a0<strong>&#8216;but, the children!&#8217;\u00a0<\/strong>argument &#8211; latching onto Paul&#8217;s comment that we don&#8217;t know everything about the virus, and that &#8220;<strong>we really better be very careful, particularly when it comes to children.<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Because the more and more we learn &#8211; we&#8217;re seeing things about what this virus can do that we didn&#8217;t see from the studies in China. Or in Europe. For example, right now children presenting with COVID-19 who actually have a very strange inflammatory symdrome, very similar to Kawasaki syndrome. I think we better be careful that we are not cavalier in thinking that children are not immune to the deleterious effects.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&quot;I never made myself to be out the end all. <\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m a scientist, a physician, and a public health official. <\/p>\n<p>I give advice according to the best scientific evidence. &quot;<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Fauci responds to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RandPaul?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@RandPaul<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gxOWB9BTQ4\">pic.twitter.com\/gxOWB9BTQ4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dcexaminer\/status\/1260243772815753216?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 12, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/markets\/youre-not-end-all-rand-paul-slams-fauci-heated-exchange-over-lockdowns\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/markets\/youre-not-end-all-rand-paul-slams-fauci-heated-exchange-over-lockdowns<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;You&#8217;re Not The End All&#8217;: Rand Paul Slams Fauci In Heated Exchange Over Lockdowns<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14094\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}