{"id":44309,"date":"2020-12-29T11:23:23","date_gmt":"2020-12-29T15:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=44309"},"modified":"2020-12-29T11:23:23","modified_gmt":"2020-12-29T15:23:23","slug":"elites-tricking-americans-into-taking-vaccine-u-s-senator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=44309","title":{"rendered":"Elites \u2018Tricking\u2019 Americans Into Taking Vaccine &#8212; U.S. Senator"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Rubio: Elites \u2018Tricking\u2019 Americans Into Taking Vaccine<\/h1>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>Accuses Dr. Fauci of \u2018distorting\u2019 truth about vaccine herd immunity levels<\/h3>\n<p>Steve Watson<br \/>\nSUMMIT NEWS<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_44310\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-44310\" class=\"size-full wp-image-44310\" src=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/GettyImages-1229595837.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/GettyImages-1229595837.jpg 800w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/GettyImages-1229595837-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/GettyImages-1229595837-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-44310\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">WASHINGTON, DC &#8211; NOVEMBER 12: Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) walks through the Senate subway following a vote in the Senate at the U.S. Capitol on November 12, 2020 in Washington, DC. As President Trump continues to refuse to concede the Presidential Election to President-elect Joe Biden more Congressmen and women call for Biden to begin to receive classified national intelligence briefings from the Tump administration. (Photo by Samuel Corum\/Getty Images)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Senator Marco Rubio slammed US health officials Sunday for assuming that the majority of Americans \u201cdon\u2019t know what\u2019s good for them\u201d, and \u2018tricking\u2019 people into doing what \u2018elites\u2019 want them to do when it comes to COVID.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Rubio singled out Dr Anthony Fauci, noting that the epidemiologist\u00a0has consistently misled the public.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDr. Fauci lied about masks in March. Dr. Fauci has been distorting the level of vaccination needed for herd immunity,\u201d Rubio tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>The Senator added that \u201cIt isn\u2019t just him. Many in elite bubbles believe the American public doesn\u2019t know \u2018what\u2019s good for them\u2019\u00a0so they need to be tricked into \u2018doing the right thing.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-2\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/index.html?dnt=true&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-2&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1343221417287016448&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fsummit.news%2F2020%2F12%2F29%2Frubio-elites-tricking-americans-into-taking-vaccine%2F&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=ed20a2b%3A1601588405575&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1343221417287016448\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Fauci, like many other government health officials, did\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/fauci-doesnt-regret-advising-against-masks-early-in-pandemic-2020-7\">a complete 180 flip on masks<\/a>\u00a0earlier in the year, after originally advising the public that the face coverings are not effective against the virus.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-8966883\/Masks-DONT-stop-spread-Covid-experts-criticise-troubling-lack-evidence.html\">The evidence still has not emerged<\/a>\u00a0to support the notion that face coverings in any way mitigate the spread of the disease, yet Fauci and others have\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/summit.news\/2020\/12\/11\/fauci-unless-americans-take-the-vaccine-the-masks-need-to-stay-on\/\">continuously urged the public to wear them<\/a>, leading many countries to mandate the masks.<\/p>\n<p>Senator Rubio\u2019s remarks on Fauci misleading the public on vaccines came after the epidemiologist admitted to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/12\/24\/health\/herd-immunity-covid-coronavirus.html?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosam&amp;stream=top\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">New York Times<\/a>\u00a0that he and other public health officials engaged in \u201cquietly shifting\u201d the numbers of Americans they believe must take the shot in order to achieve \u201cherd immunity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen polls said only about half of all Americans would take a vaccine, I was saying herd immunity would take 70 to 75%,\u201d\u00a0Fauci said, adding \u201cThen, when newer surveys said 60%\u00a0or more would take it, I thought, \u2018I can nudge this up a bit,\u2019 so I\u00a0went to 80, 85.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have to have some humility here\u2026We really don\u2019t know what the real number is. I think the real range is somewhere between 70 to 90%. But, I\u2019m not going to say 90%,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Fauci\u2019s comments prompted a backlash:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-3\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/index.html?dnt=true&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-3&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1342178126818893833&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fsummit.news%2F2020%2F12%2F29%2Frubio-elites-tricking-americans-into-taking-vaccine%2F&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=ed20a2b%3A1601588405575&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1342178126818893833\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Appearing on CNN, Fauci explained away the remarks by saying \u201cI want to encourage the people of the United States and globally to get vaccinated.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Despite criticising Fauci on his vaccine comments, Senator Rubio himself took the vaccine last week:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-4\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/index.html?dnt=true&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-4&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1340313659034267649&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fsummit.news%2F2020%2F12%2F29%2Frubio-elites-tricking-americans-into-taking-vaccine%2F&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=ed20a2b%3A1601588405575&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1340313659034267649\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Fauci declared last week that he believes holiday celebrations between family members should have been canceled, warning that it\u2019s \u201cjust one of the things you\u2019re going to have to accept\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Fauci also complained that the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/the-fresh-air-rebellion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">independent spirit in the United States<\/a>\u00a0of people not wanting to comply with public health measures has certainly hurt us a bit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are people in various parts of the country who still believe that [COVID-19] is a hoax, that it\u2019s fake \u2014 even when in their own state the hospitals have been overrun with patients in the hospital beds and in the intensive care unit,\u201d Fauci said, adding \u201cThat\u2019s very unusual to see a situation like that, but that is what is going on in this country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/summit.news\/2020\/12\/29\/rubio-elites-tricking-americans-into-taking-vaccine\/\">https:\/\/summit.news\/2020\/12\/29\/rubio-elites-tricking-americans-into-taking-vaccine\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rubio: Elites \u2018Tricking\u2019 Americans Into Taking Vaccine<\/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-44309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44309","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=44309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}