Sen. Rand Paul advocated that Dr. Anthony Fauci not be hosted on any television programs due to his “fear-mongering” and advice that “isn’t even matched by the science of his own institute.”
“Dr. Fauci should be voluntarily removed from TV because what he says is such a disservice and such fear-mongering and almost all of what he says isn’t even matched by the science of his own institute,” Paul, who is also a doctor, said on Fox Business Tuesday.
Paul’s comments came after a question regarding Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer recommending against indoor dining or holding youth outdoor sports as the state’s coronavirus cases tick up.
“It doesn’t obey the science. There is no scientific evidence that the lockdowns in Michigan have done anything, or in California. In fact, the daily incidents of the disease in the last two months has been about almost one and a half times greater in California than it has been in Florida. The death rate is lower in Florida. So there is no real correlation between economic lockdowns, mask mandates, or any of this,” he said.
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“It is television malpractice for these TV doctors to come on and say the mask is so much more important than the vaccine. It’s so much more of an immediate benefit. No, it is not. Most of the people who are getting the disease have been wearing masks. The vaccine work. Almost nobody that’s been vaccinated has been hospitalized or died, almost no one,” Paul added.
The Kentucky Republican has repeatedly sparred with Fauci during the pandemic, including during Senate hearings.
Last month, the two had a heated exchange during a Senate hearing over coronavirus restrictions, with Paul accusing Fauci of performing theater by wearing two masks.
“If we’re not spreading the infection, isn’t it just theater?” he asked Fauci during a Senate hearing. “If you’ve had the vaccine and you’re wearing two masks, isn’t that theater?”
“No, it’s not — here we go again with the theater,” Fauci responded.
“Let me just state for the record that masks are not theater. Masks are protective,” he added, which is supported by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidance.
Paul also slammed Fauci as a “left-wing advocate for elitism” for his handling of guiding the nation during the pandemic.
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Fauci is “busy wearing three masks, strutting around, and getting books written about him and everybody calling him the world’s best doctor, when, in reality, all he is is a TV pundit and really a left-wing advocate for elitism,” Paul told Lisa Boothe last month on the podcast The Truth with Lisa Boothe.
“If Dr. Fauci wanted to save lives, he could be saying on his four trips to CNN each day, is that you can have your life saved if you get the monoclonal antibodies before you get too sick,” the Kentucky senator said of proteins that mimic the immune system’s ability to fight off viruses. “But if you wait too long, they won’t give them to you, and you’ll go to the ventilator.”
