Rand Paul: Seniors Should Be Served Meals by COVID-Survivors

[brooklynite]

Source: Daily Beast

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), Dr. Anthony Fauci’s most dedicated troll in Congress, took his skepticism of COVID-19 experts to the campaign trail on Sunday, telling a Virginia crowd matter-of-factly that cloth masks don’t work and defending President Trump’s repeated statements that the virus will simply go away.

“I’m not telling you not to wear a mask,” Paul said at a rally for Nick Freitas, a Republican candidate for Congress in central Virginia, which was streamed on Freitas’ Facebook page. “The cloth masks… I’m just telling you the truth, they don’t work. Ninety-seven percent of viruses go through a cloth mask.”

...snip...

The Kentucky senator also offered a vision of how the country might adapt to the virus: staffing restaurants and cruise ships with people who have already had COVID-19, arguing that their assumed immunity from the virus would make such situations far safer.

“If I owned a restaurant, I’d have a whole wing for senior citizens or for anybody who is worried about getting sick, and I would say, all my servers have already had it,” Paul told the crowd. “If I had a cruise ship... everybody would have had the infection that works on the boat.”

Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/rand-paul-seniors-should-be-served-meals-by-covid-survivors

[dawg day]

1. He's had it, Rand Paul.

So is he volunteering to serve seniors their meals?

[Iliyah]

2. I won't hold my .....

breath.

[deurbano]

19. Yeah, he should retire asap to devote himself to this noble cause.

[Initech]

37. If he hangs around Trump long enough...

[pwb]

3. He always thinks he is so clever?

He needs help.

[CatMor]

4. He's even more stupid than I already thought he was

he seems to have an IQ on par with trump. How can one state have two of the most despicable senators.

[pwb]

6. Could be Putin is in on that?

Easy state to manipulate.

[Harker]

24. It's not mathematically sound, but...

many states have two of the most despicable senators.

[CatMor]

30. You are right but Kentucky has the honor of ..

the most despicable one and that is McConnell.

[Harker]

33. Easily.

No argument there.

What an awful, sad person. Utterly despicable.

[csziggy]

56. Yeah, look at my state of Florida

Two despicable senators and a vile, disgusting, despicable governor.

[Harker]

58. You have my sympathies.

Here's to better days ahead.

[BKDem]

5. Looney Tunes. Our overlords are whack jobs.

[Blue Owl]

7. "Just That Simple" with your host Rand Paul

[sfstaxprep]

8. Don't Think I'll Ever Go To Kentucky Unless Forced To

They seem to elect Senators with either No Ethics or No Intelligence.

[Bayard]

10. But we have a great governor.

Don't judge the whole state by our loco senators.

[sfstaxprep]

12. Then Why?

How can the people in your state elect a perfectly Sane Governor, yet still elect a couple of HORRIBLE & CORRUPT TO THE CORE Senators, Year after Year after Year.

How come the race for Turtle is still a blowout? I don't get it.

It just does not compute at all.

[NorthOf270]

45. The previous Republican governor was so bad....

....they smartened up for once.

Doesn’t explain these two pieces of shit in the Senate.

[Bayard]

54. Habit and lack of voters

He's been there forever for several reasons. He's a known commodity, even if he sucks. The ads he's been running against Amy McGrath are in the same league as trump's lies--"She's just too liberal for KY." Even though she's been running some really good ones herself.

She hasn't gotten out around the state enough. I haven't heard that she's been in our neck of the woods in southern KY at all, or over on the western side of the state. Even though McConnell rarely leaves Louisville (fairly progressive) when he's around, people just don't know that much about her.

McConnell has a boatload of money. The rich white guys in cigar smokey rooms like their status quo.

Not enough people vote here, except in the major cities (which are also the college towns), of Louisville, Lexington, and Bowling Green. Rural attitudes are dreadfully uninformed, or obstinate. For instance, I had a concrete pad poured for a new garage last week. One of the guys was smoking, and trying to pass the time of day with me. I kept backing up from him, and finally said--I have asthma, I can't be around smokers. And that if I got Covid on top of it, I was a goner (didn't grab a mask because I thought I'd be far enough away outside). So then, the whole gang had to join in. "This virus will disappear once the election is over." "Yeah, it'll be just like the swine flu, and whatever that other one was. You never hear about those anymore." Even though it pained me greatly, I didn't say anything. I wanted my concrete work finished.

We definitely have a ways to go, but I find hope in the younger population that break with their parents prejudices. The ones that buy in to the deplorable mindset tend to be blue collar (not that there's anything wrong with that), and under-educated. They've never been anywhere else. My trumpian brother, who I still love dearly, is not going to change (he has a bunch of redeeming qualities, and we are the last 2 left of the family). But his daughter, my niece, went away to college, got her Masters degree in psychology, great job, is as liberal as her Aunt Bayard. We commiserate with each other.

[japple]

38. Kentucky is a beautiful state, just like Tennessee, Georgia and many other states in the US

that have idiot reps & senators. No reason to miss out on the beauty our country has to offer. There are many, many, liberals in all states of the US. There is even a conclave of dedicated, true-blue Democatic Party members in the 14th District of Georgia.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

9. Ignorant, callous Paul can't imagine all the other heavy care they need. . . . nt

[BlueIdaho]

11. Sounds like socialism to me Randy, what gives? nt.

[Cracklin Charlie]

13. Sounds like slavery.

If you survived, you’re now a food server on a cruise ship. Doesn’t matter what you did before catching covid.

ps...If randy Paul owned a restaurant, I wouldn’t go anywhere near it.

[Sherman A1]

14. He is such a

sniveling little twit.

[Voltaire2]

15. thus proving that a medical degree does not demonstrate that you are not an idiot.

[Brainfodder]

16. Yo neighbor!

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

17. That's stupid, because servers and cruise ship workers don't make enough to pay the medical bills

they'll incur from being treated as they suffer the disease. Your Supreme Court is eliminating the Affordable Care Act as soon as Moscow Mitch jams the crazy lady into the ninth SCOTUS chair, and anyone who tests positive is designated "pre-existing condition." Go back under your rock, loser.

There are also a ton of side effects even after you recover, including chronic fatigue.

[iluvtennis]

18. What a moron. nt

[paleotn]

20. Rand Paul should be served by his next door neighbor....

equipped with a Louisville Slugger.

[Gregory Peccary]

22. True, and now that Rand has had Covid......

.... it's safe to attack him in the front yard again.

[splat]

21. Can somebody address the substance of this idea? Will it work?

I don't care where good ideas come from.
I live across the street from the back of a nursing home (it was always my polling place till this year!) that lost a lot of people to Covid. Others survived it.

There's a group of marginally elderly people with amputation issues or surgery rehab or noplace else to go who hang out on a roofed, walled outdoor patio across the street. They play good classic rock and laugh a lot. They're loud. They have all survived Covid there.
My daughter asked why I didn't complain. I said if I were there I'd be right with them. I've lived here 30 years, and I hear my white-gloved, blue-haired aunts saying, "there but for the grace of God go I."

I have wondered if there's a role for post-Covid folks in specialized situations. I don't like that until you've had it you have to huddle in isolation like my huisband and I do. Two classes -- the fearful and the invulnerable -- are an ugly outcome. Maybe the protection an infection incident gives you is temporary.

So would anyone like to imagine with me how this sort of fact can be managed well for all of us?

[Withywindle]

27. There isn't even any guarantee that people who have had it are immune

There have been documented cases of re-infections. No one knows how long the period of immunity - if there is one! - lasts.

[demigoddess]

23. because he could catch it again and pass it along to the seniors.

Republican dream, right?

[Evolve Dammit]

25. What the fuck Randy? To Neighbor: Urgent. Take him out again. He's on the lunatic fringe...

[marybourg]

26. The loonies think the viruses float around naked

in the atmosphere, too small to be caught by the fibers of masks. They don’t know,or choose to ignore, the scientific fact that the viruses float not naked, but on droplets and aerosols that ARE mostly large enough to be trapped by the fibers.

[splat]

29. Thank you -- If I knew that I had forgotten it

I'm not a loonie but i haven't thought much about mask mechanics.

[The Magistrate]

32. Exactly, Ma'am

And in any case, any barrier is better than none at all.

[uncle ray]

43. and viral load is a concept lost on these morans.

[bucolic_frolic]

28. That's great but you'd only have half the customers because the rest would be deceased

So are you making an progress, bird brain man?

[Yeehah]

31. What is wrong with people of Kentucky

who vote for shitstains like this?

[Bayard]

55. See my post, above.

[niyad]

34. Oh dear. Self-styled "aqua buddha" forgets that he merely CALLED himself a god.

[Paladin]

35. He's slipping further and further over the edge.

What a worthless human being.

[BeckyDem]

36. Fucking piece of SHIT. Rand Paul needs to lose his seat, he is a disgrace to humanity.

[George II]

39. Hey Rand, I hear your neighbor wants to see you - run right over there now!

[keithbvadu2]

40. Starting with your senior relatives, Rand?

Starting with your senior relatives, Rand?

[SWBTATTReg]

41. Doesn't he get along w/ anybody? Neighbors are against him (or his mouth), and here he is,

calling on survivors of a deadly disease to work. What a troll. Why doesn't he crawl back under the bridge?

[tavernier]

42. Rand Paul should be served with a nice Chianti

[Progressive Jones]

44. Why hasn't this clown "disappeared" yet?

[BigmanPigman]

46. Well than why don't YOU make sure N95s are being made for everyone?!?

It has been 9 months dude, where are YOUR party's PPE plans???????????? I expect they are in the same place as your "GOP health care plan".....nowhere. They don't exist, only GOP hot air and BS is produced by that party.

[ProfessorGAC]

57. While A Fine Idea...

...his 97% number is total BS.
Hospital workers were wearing cloth masks for 8 decades prior to COVID.
If 97% of the time, the masks did next to nothing, hospital workers would have caught nearly every viral disease for 80 years! It would have become the most dangerous job in the world!
N-95 masks are better, but to suggest cloth is useless is blindingly stupid! So, is Paul.

[bluevoter4life]

47. How is it possible

That the two worst Senators come from the same state?

[58Sunliner]

48. Sick bastard. If I had a cruise ship I'd lose him far from shore.

[Rebl2]

49. Only problem

mr. rand, immunity only lasts about 3 months-maybe-from what I have read.

[DBoon]

50. maybe republicans should be required to bury those who die of Covid

The same as Germans were required to bury the dead from concentration camps by allied troops

[cayugafalls]

51. BSFC.

Bat Shit Fucking Crazy.

Rand Paul can eat dirt.

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

52. Rand Paul

a guy that probably got beat up a lot as a kid. Not because of bullies but because he's such an asshole...........

[orangecrush]

53. Whackjob Rand

[Greybnk48]

59. He's almost 58 himself!

I hope the neighbor beats the shit out of him again.