{"id":37254,"date":"2020-11-18T16:06:24","date_gmt":"2020-11-18T20:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=37254"},"modified":"2020-11-18T16:06:24","modified_gmt":"2020-11-18T20:06:24","slug":"sen-rand-paul-slams-president-select-bidens-lockdown-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=37254","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Rand Paul Slams President-Select Biden&#8217;s Lockdown Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Rand Paul Vows To Resist Biden&#8217;s &#8220;Forever&#8221; Lockdowns<\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->ZeroHedge.com<\/p>\n<p><strong>Senator Rand Paul has promised to do everything within his power to resist and prevent lockdowns under a Biden administration, warning that if he does secure the Presidency Joe Biden will be happy for Americans to where masks permanently.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/GettyImages-1268595759.jpg?itok=W0O48GNq\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/GettyImages-1268595759.jpg?itok=W0O48GNq\" 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\/GettyImages-1268595759.jpg?itok=LIMaLMhk 1x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" 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\/GettyImages-1268595759.jpg?itok=LIMaLMhk 1x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" 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\/GettyImages-1268595759.jpg?itok=LIMaLMhk 1x, https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/GettyImages-1268595759.jpg?itok=LIMaLMhk 2x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" 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\/GettyImages-1268595759.jpg?itok=LIMaLMhk 1x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" 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\/GettyImages-1268595759.jpg?itok=W0O48GNq 1x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/GettyImages-1268595759.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"4b035cd5-8ff1-4ddd-92d4-9a9eb3ad8ec6\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/picture><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>\u201cI\u2019m going to do everything I can to try to prevent Biden from locking us up and locking us down and forcing us to wear masks forever. We can\u2019t go on like this forever,\u201d\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>Paul urged during an interview with WABC\u2019s\u00a0<em>The CATS Roundtable<\/em>\u00a0with John Catsimatidis.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/929297299%3Fsecret_token%3Ds-vQAAKQZKwn0&amp;color=%23e01c1d&amp;hide_related=true&amp;show_comments=false&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/john-catsimatidis\">John Catsimatidis<\/a>\u00a0\u00b7\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/john-catsimatidis\/senator-rand-paul-11-15-20\/s-vQAAKQZKwn0\">Senator Rand Paul 11-15-20<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday, Biden\u2019s talking more about a lockdown,\u201d Paul noted, adding\u00a0<strong>\u201cThis is absolutely why he\u2019s going to be a terrible president if we get him.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s going to ruin the country. Lockdowns don\u2019t work. And in fact, all of the evidence on mandatory masks show that they don\u2019t work either,\u201d the Senator emphasised.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>\u201cThere\u2019s about 10 different countries or venues, maybe 20, that instituted mandatory masks, and every one of them to a T, the infection rate or the COVID rate went up after the mask mandate,\u201d<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0Paul asserted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow, this is just showing that \u2026 all these mitigation strategies \u2014 washing our hands, staying six feet apart \u2014 they really don\u2019t work, frankly,\u201d Paul added.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>\u201cAnd the virus, as the Wall Street Journal put it, is insidious. It does what it\u2019s going to do. The only thing that\u2019s going to stop it is either enough immunity among individuals in the community or a vaccine,\u201d<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0the Senator further stated.<\/p>\n<p>As has been repeatedly noted, there is\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelancet.com\/journals\/eclinm\/article\/PIIS2589-5370(20)30208-X\/fulltext#fig0002\">no scientific evidence<\/a>\u00a0that lockdowns bring down the number of cases or deaths from the virus. Indeed, the World Health Organisation has urged countries not to rely on such measures.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately this has also provided the likes of Biden \u201cspecial coronavirus transition advisory team\u201d member Dr. Michael Osterholm with an excuse to argue that\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/summit.news\/2020\/11\/12\/here-we-go-biden-scientific-advisor-wants-strict-as-possible-lockdowns\/\">even stricter lockdowns must be enforced<\/a>\u00a0with an iron fist.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Biden has repeatedly signalled that he will gladly do just that:<\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item\">\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/index.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1297522329220780037&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zerohedge.com%2Fpolitical%2Frand-paul-vows-resist-bidens-forever-lockdowns&amp;siteScreenName=zerohedge&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=ed20a2b%3A1601588405575&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1297522329220780037\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"extras-section\">\n<footer class=\"teaser-details\">___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/rand-paul-vows-resist-bidens-forever-lockdowns\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/rand-paul-vows-resist-bidens-forever-lockdowns<\/a><\/p>\n<\/footer>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rand Paul Vows To Resist Biden&#8217;s &#8220;Forever&#8221; 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-37254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37254","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=37254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}