https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/543855-fauci-clashes-with-rand-paul-over-masks
"The nation's top infectious disease doctor Anthony Fauci on Thursday clashed with Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) over the need for people to continue wearing masks once they've already been infected with or vaccinated against COVID-19.
"You're telling everyone to wear a mask," Paul said. "If we're not spreading the infection, isn't it just theater? You have the vaccine and you're wearing two masks, isn't that theater?"
"Here we go again with the theater," an exasperated Fauci responded. "Let's get down to the facts."
Paul, who was infected with COVID-19 at the beginning of the pandemic last March, has said he is immune to future infection. As a result, he refuses to wear a mask in the Capitol and has declared he does not need to be vaccinated. "
The nation's top infectious disease doctor Anthony Fauci on Thursday clashed with Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) over the need for people to continue wearing masks once they've already been infected with or vaccinated against COVID-19.
"You're telling everyone to wear a mask," Paul said. "If we're not spreading the infection, isn't it just theater? You have the vaccine and you're wearing two masks, isn't that theater?"
"Here we go again with the theater," an exasperated Fauci responded. "Let's get down to the facts."
Paul, who was infected with COVID-19 at the beginning of the pandemic last March, has said he is immune to future infection. As a result, he refuses to wear a mask in the Capitol and has declared he does not need to be vaccinated.
Paul argued there are no studies that show significant reinfection among people who have recovered from the virus or after vaccination.
"I agree with you, that you very likely would have protection from wild type for at least six months if you're infected," Fauci said, but pointed out there is no protection from some of the more infectious variants, like the one one first found in South Africa. The variants are a "good reason for a mask."
"You're making policy based on conjecture!" Paul said, talking over Fauci and accusing him of wanting people to wear masks "for another couple of years."
"You've been vaccinated and you parade around in two masks for show," Paul continued. "If you already have immunity, you're wearing a mask to give comfort to others. You're not wearing a mask because of any science."
https://www.marketforum.com/forum/topic/63690/#66787
By metmike - March 17, 2021, 9:27 p.m.
New positive cases(dropped from 265K/day to 50K/day) and hospitalizations peaked in January. Why has it been so hard for them to tell us the truth about this!!!!
9%+ of the population has had verified COVID + many more never tested had it! 28%+ have been vaccinated with the 1st shot. 37%+ of the population, many that need it the most now have protection. The graphs have been telling us that we built up enough herd immunity to peak back in early January!
Why are they still pushing the almost worthless cloth masks instead of the ones that actually protect people, the N95 masks?
Buy and wear ONLY N95 masks if you have not been vaccinated. I had no problems after being vaccinated, my wife got pretty sick after the 2nd shot but bounced right back.
Find this data here: https://coronavirus.1point3acres.com/en
More of the junk "political" science and lack of truth:
Covering up massive COVID being spread from protests-8/8 update below
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Started by metmike - July 30, 2020, 7:28 p.m.
https://www.marketforum.com/forum/topic/57070/
Get N95 masks ASAP!
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Started by metmike - Dec. 21, 2020, 7:27 p.m.
https://www.marketforum.com/forum/topic/63115/
One of the great points that Paul stated is that Fauci is telling everybody they need to get vaccinated because vaccines cause immunity and protect them out of one side of his mouth and out of the other side is telling people that are vaccinated and that have already had the virus that they still need to wear the (almost worthless) cloth masks to protect other people.
Either one or the other is true.
If you are vaccinated or had the virus, it either protects you and its silly to keep wearing a mask or it doesn't protect you and you still need to wear a mask...........but for crying out loud, at least stop telling us to wear the cloth masks and use the science and tell people to wear the masks that actually work..........the N95 masks(if they have not been vaccinated or had COVID....the truth please)
This is what blows my mind the most about Fauci's response.
I have thought that all this time, that Fauci knows what Rand Paul is saying is true but wants people who can no longer get COVID to wear the (almost worthless) cloth masks anyway because:
A. To set a good example for the rest of the population, that is still vulnerable and
B. Because you can't verify who has had it or been vaccinated or not in public(those of us vaccinated do have vaccination cards that we should be able to show at the door of businesses that showed ok us not wearing masks)
but no, he actually makes up total, silly bs science on why even those vaccinated and who had it also need to continue to wear the almost worthless cloth masks.
This confirms very crystal clearly to me as a scientist, that views everything thru the eyes of science, that Fauci is absolutely not driven by communicating honest/authentic science as the main priority in his advice.
so proud of Rand Paul. As stated from the very beginning, Fauci is a bureaucrat plain and simple. An overpaid under worked bureaucrat who has with his advice caused untold pain in the last year. How many times did Trump say over and over "the cure cannot be worse than the disease" and Fauci went right ahead and caused trillions of business dollars lost, drug addictions and depression cases by the million, Kids have lost over year in class and not had the social interaction they need. On and on you could list the problems Fauci has caused all the while drawing over 400,000....lest we forget he also participated in the very beginning in Wuhan