Rand Paul Takes Dr. Fauci To Task After The Health Bureaucrat Attempts to Whitewash His Role In Lockdowns

Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) and Dr. Anthony Fauci, former long-time Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) from 1984 to 2022, have not had the most friendly relationship. Senator Paul has often confronted Dr. Fauci on his role in funding the Wuhan Institute, where COVID-19 may have leaked from, and his record of conduct during the course of the pandemic. Dr. Fauci has recently pivoted in public media to minimize his role in the lockdowns over COVID and that he was not responsible for public health policy.

Dr. Fauci remarked in an interview with the New York Times, “Show me a school that I shut down and show me a factory that I shut down. Never. I never did.” The former director of the NIAID oddly added that “I gave a public health recommendation that echoed the CDC’s recommendation, and people made a decision based on that. But I never criticized the people who had to make the decisions one way or the other.”

Senator Paul, however, would have none of this attempt at self-absolution by Dr. Fauci. He blasted Dr. Fauci by saying that “If Dr. Fauci says you need to wear masks, and it’s against the best practices not to wear a mask and I own a hotel, I’m fearful if I don’t follow Dr. Fauci’s recommendations, which are not really a mandate but they become a mandate. I’m going to be sued for not observing best practices, so his edicts did have the force of a mandate. Democratic governors largely throughout the U.S. followed them, schools followed them.”

Rand Paul, an eye physician himself, stated that “You can look at the transcript when I challenged him on opening schools I gave him the information. We put up six different charts of European countries and had gone back to school without an increase or exacerbation of infection and it just went right by him. He’s been on both sides of the school issue two dozen times. Several articles summarized he’s been on both sides of the issue almost [in] the same day some days…so people who have a self-interest in not working should not be the ones guiding us in what kind of policy we should have for having the schools open.”

Dr. Paul added that “Bad science, bad for students, once again, the teachers’ unions are concerned with themselves and not necessarily with the students.”

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Dr. Paul said that “Everything they told us was wrong. It was a lie.”

Senator Paul noted that the hysteria over COVID came from the top with Fauci giving bad information based on bad science. Said the Kentucky Republican that “He [Fauci] was giving the information, wear a mask, one mask, two mask, cloth masks, he was giving the information that natural immunity didn’t make any sense…Dr. Fauci discounted natural immunity none for those policies happened and then we went overboard and closed the schools with no evidence of children were getting sick or dying.”

He further accused Dr. Fauci of colluding with the teacher’s unions in that his guidelines over COVID were used by activists like Randi Weingarten and other “self-interested” union leaders to “get paid for not working” through school lockdowns which caused great harm among students.

Dr. Paul pondered about the cost of the school shutdowns and changes during COVID, saying, “Without question, our kids have been damaged, and some of them will be a long time in the recovery. But also without question, there was collusion between Fauci and government public health experts and the internet, there was collusion with the teachers unions. We cannot stop the teachers’ union from giving the advice they don’t think the teachers should work, but we can stop the government from colluding with them in secret, to the detriment of our students.”

To add a bit of trolling, Dr. Paul also tweeted Dr. Fauci’s article on Twitter with his own comment saying that “Dr. Fauci today in the @nytimes: “Something clearly went wrong, and I don’t know exactly what it was.” Who wants to tell him??”

Dr. Fauci today in the @nytimes : “Something clearly went wrong, and I don’t know exactly what it was.”

Who wants to tell him?? 👀https://t.co/JO4rGze8fv

— Rand Paul (@RandPaul) April 25, 2023