Paul Doubles Down On Dig At Fauci: 'We Have To Take With A Grain Of Salt These Experts'

[turbinetree]

By Cristina Cabrera
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May 13, 2020 10:44 a.m.

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) on Tuesday night stood by the biting comments he made to top White House COVID-19 task force official Dr. Anthony Fauci earlier in the day about the doctor’s opinion that it would be premature to reopen the country right now.


“I don’t question Dr. Fauci’s motives,” the GOP senator told Fox News host Martha MacCallum, also describing the doctor as “a good person” who “wants what’s best for the country.”

“But he’s an extremely cautious person, and I don’t think any of these experts are omniscient,” Paul added. “I think that they have a basis of knowledge, but when you prognosticate about the future or when you advocate for things dramatic and drastic, like closing all the schools, you should look at all the information.”

Paul argued that “we really need to have competition among the experts,” pointing to British epidemiologist Neil Ferguson’s projection that 2.2 million people would die from COVID-19 within as an example of a health professional offering faulty information.

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/paul-doubles-down-on-dig-at-fauci-we-have-to-take-with-a-grain-of-salt-these-experts

Competition among the experts..................what the fuck does that mean in his libertarian BS mindset.............this isn't some fucking competition...............the fucking virus doesn't give a shit about a competition.................and this "guy" is a senator...........and he's only worried about competition...........

[Iliyah]

1. Not going to work with the SANE people . .

[pandr32]

2. +Oh really?

Who should we listen to then during this very real and deadly pandemic?
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[Rene]

25. Paul looks like he's really drinking a lor.

[pandr32]

33. He's a mess

Inside and out!

[IllinoisBirdWatcher]

3. Take Paul with a few pounds of salt. n/t

[niyad]

8. Can we just dump him in a salt mine instead?

[CrispyQ]

4. "we really need to have competition among the experts,"

Would that be like fair and balanced news reporting? And who gets to be judge in this expert competition? A politician like you, Paul? ~insert flip-the-bird smilie here

[niyad]

5. JFC, you revolting covidiot. Borrow a comb. And a razor. You look even uglier than you sound,

you jerk.

Somebody please tel me again what legitimate medical schol awarded him a degree?? This is, after all, a man who styled himself a deity- aqua Buddha, for those who might have missed that little tidbit.

[C_U_L8R]

6. Republicans think truth has two sides.

When it's really a choice between smart and stupid.

[MerryBlooms]

7. In contrast, randy paul has Never wanted what's best for our country.

paul's a libertarian hack and his opinion and advice should be completely disregarded.

[samsingh]

9. according to him, don't listen to experts but instead morons like repugs who may know nothing

[SWBTATTReg]

10. Anybody that supports the idiot in chief like paul does is an idiot. And what is the purpose of ...

being all tough and so forth, on Dr. Fauci? Look at who he has to work with, rump.

You couldn't ask for a more worthless and incompetent person to work with, than rump.

But, instead, paul the scumbag had to rattle his saber and sound tough. I guess that being one of the republican senators in Congress, who have literally done nothing, except sitting on their damn hands, are getting tired of being worthless.

[at140]

11. Are we still in danger of 2.2 million deaths in 2020 from covid-19

That was the figure I recall earlier from some of the models the experts were working on.

[SoonerPride]

19. Yes. We are. Those models were based on no mitigation efforts.

So basically what we are now going to experiment with over the next few months.

So yes, we could still see millions of deaths.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

30. Yes! It assumed no quarantining, etc.

Rand Paul using that number without context was very dishonest!

[bluestarone]

12. I still say

His neighbor had the best solution for this fucker!

[oasis]

18. I don't question his neighbor's motives.

[Coventina]

22. Clearly, his neighbor wanted what was best for this country.

[Stallion]

32. Some of these Neighbors are "good people"

[JHB]

13. Speaking of granular stuff, Paul can go pound sand.

[EleanorR]

14. Sen McCain on Sen. Paul: "The Senator from Kentucky is now working for Vladimir Putin."

No fan of McCain, but he had more courage in this moment than any current GOP senator.

[dalton99a]

24. +1. Rand Paul, like his father, is a Russian stooge

[dawg day]

15. A physician who discards the information from medical experts--

... is one I wouldn't listen to.

Rand Paul must be one bad doctor. He actually had Covid, and exposed his colleagues while he thought he had it.

And even after living through it, he has no care for everyone else who has it or might get it.

It is almost unbelievable that he can be so callous and cynical. And as for "libertarian", he and his Super-l'tarian father do not believe in liberty for WOMEN, who are, after all, half the population.

And no true libertarian would slavishly support Trump, who is so clearly against our liberties-- threatening to jail reporters comes to mind.

[uponit7771]

16. LOFL !!! Let listen to the people who caught CV19 and not the doctors. Stupid fucks listen to him

[Behind the Aegis]

17. Just goes to show, even with vasts amounts of education...

...one can still be a knuckle-dragging buffoon! The only "grains of salt" needed are when this idiot, and those like him, open their fool mouths. Lips moving? They are either lying or making shit up!

[EleanorR]

20. Paul as usual is ready to dish the trump/putin propaganda

Get people to doubt the numbers, doubt the experts, trust no one. It's straight out of putin's playbook.

[Chainfire]

21. Trust me, I am a Republican

Ignore the science.

[dalton99a]

23. It's a shame his anesthesiologist neighbor is not available

[0rganism]

26. "competition among the experts"

i really doubt he's talking peer review and research grant applications here

seems more like a call for marketing, advertising certain positions and their main proponents
which should fit nicely with POTUS' apparent strategy of a purely PR-based response to the pandemic
so Fox News and OAN will present their perspectives on "experts", the public will absorb and normalize the required viewpoint, and government will then act appropriately to carry out the grifty will of the thoroughly corrupted executive branch.

what could possibly go wrong?

[CTyankee]

27. Applying Republican ideology: competition in the market place is good!

So you have a choice in the competition of medical ideas, just like political ideas. What???

[Paladin]

28. Fuck off, "Doctor" LensCrafter. (nt)

[2naSalit]

29. Looks like he needs

to get his stupid, sorry ass kicked again and soon.

[BlueJac]

31. Just another idiot!

[lostnfound]

34. His eyes look like his soul was taken by a death-eater. Wtf.

[smirkymonkey]

35. It's really a crying shame that his neighbor never finished the job.

The guy is still my hero for giving it the old college try. Hope he's doing well and thinking about going for another round soon.

Rand is such a pointeless individual and a raging creep.

[Maru Kitteh]

36. Chinless hairy-lipped weasel looks like he was beaten with a

What did his neighbor beat him with again?



Should have finished the job.